A visit with Aunt Melissa

Tom's sister Melissa came out for a weekend visit from NY while Grandma was here as well! The boys LOVED having her!

Zac is showing off his reading skills

Aunt Melissa came with shark tattoos!
We all went out for hibachi one night with Laura
The boys both used their chopstix!

Halloween Fun

Scooping the guts which Zac is NOT a fan of!

Shadow the Halloween cat is appropriately right in the middle of the pumpkin carving action!
Lightning McQueen and Mario

Checking out their loot the next morning!

TX State Fair 2010

We made our annual trip to the State Fair this morning. Last year I remember wearing sweatshirts but not this year! It was about 80 degrees and beautiful! The boys enjoyed rides:
Cotton Candy

Corny Dogs

Standing next to Blue Thunder!

And Zac's favorite was the games! He won Pikachu and was SO thrilled!

Here they are going head to head in their Buffalo Bills jerseys which earned some questioning comments!

Mommy and Daddy were tired out and poor by the end!

Animals make me laugh

We put up the Halloween decorations and I thought it was cute that Shadow the 'black cat' liked the spider hanging above our table so much!

Gotta love the spunk of a kitten! Scaring a 75 pound Boxer away from his own food bowl!
And climbing right in...

I love Jake's look here: "A little help please!"

The boys LOVE Shadow!

Balloon Fest Plano 2010

Tom was out of town but I braved waking the boys up early and taking them down the Balloon Festival because they LOVE hot air balloons!

We watched the balloon glow first.

This was what Mommy would have liked to have been doing!

I sware they both make the goofiest faces whenever I ask them to pose for pics!

They both really liked the lady bug balloon

Big day

Zac lost his first tooth tonight! Funny story: He was eating an ice cream bar and didn't want any more cuz it was hurting his loose tooth. I told him to give it Daddy and checked out his tooth. He didn't want to try and pull it. He wanted to wait and just let it fall out while he slept! Ha ha ha! I suggested that he take another bite of the ice cream so he went over and asked Daddy for one more bite. He came back over to me chatting away and I heard Tom groan. He had taken another bite of the ice cream bar after Zac and bit down on his lost tooth which had come out in the ice cream! Zac didn't even know he had lost it!

He's pretty excited!
And we got a new addition to the family. We adopted a three month old kitten from Petsmart! Zac named him Shadow and I think the boys actually tired the kitten out playing!

Tyler's first day of Preschool

Tyler has been anxiously awaiting this day for two weeks now since he watched Zac go to school. Finally it was HIS first day of school!

For a comparison, here was Zac on his first day of preschool in 2007!

Both of my boys going to school!

Standing beside his cubby in the Minnows class!

Holding the fish with his picture on it!

Visit to Fire Safety Town

Zac had school so Grandma, Grandpa and I took Tyler to a nearby Fire Safety town. He LOVES fire trucks and ambulences.

He got to sit inside a truck

He saw a stuffed dalmation while we were walking around the little safety town
Then he got to meet the real Sparky!

Zac's first day of Kindergarten!

He was very excited all morning!

Posing with Tyler outside the school

Showing off his back pack. He did cry a little when we said good bye but hopefully he has a great day!

Who cares what's in the ice cream!

Tom gave the boys each a bowl of ice cream after dinner the other night. I had gotten a new flavor - mint brownie:

Tom was cleaning up some dishes and when he looked over at the boys, Tyler had a wash cloth in his ice cream dish. Tom asked him what he was doing. Tyler told him "I'm trying to clean up the poop" Concerned, Tom walked over and realized that Tyler thought the chunks of brownies were poop and was trying to 'clean' his ice cream! The funniest part to me though is that even believing that there was poop in it didn't stop him from eating the ice cream!