Christmas is coming!

Woot woot!  Christmas is coming.  The Artinghelli household has their Christmas Tree and decorations up!

We took the boys for our annual Christmas pictures and let me tell you, BUST!  For starters it was hot as hell in there.  John David wasn't having it and Austin was just interested in everything but taking pictures.  Typical of a 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 year old, however, I expected more out of the photographer.  From experience, when you get those cutsie pie pictures, they look so cute and look like their were all nice and calm from the pictures, when in fact, for my family, it's pure chaos!  However, with all of that chaos, we can get cute pictures.  This time, not so much.  Thank goodness that I purchased the membership, otherwise we would have paid a fortune for nothing.  I left with nothing.  I thought the photographer could have done a better job or at least tried a little harder, I could have left with at least one good picture.  Sigh.... I guess I'll have to play photographer at home. 

We had a great time putting up our Christmas tree.  Morgan, Austin and John David took care of the bottom of the tree and Kevin and I took care of the top of the tree.  So far they don't care too much about the tree, ornaments are still on it!

This Sunday we are going to Breakfast with Santa at Brookfield Zoo with my work.  Hopefully the boys enjoy Santa and aren't too scared.  My guess, Austin will love him and John David will scream his little heart out.

November update

Has it really been a few weeks since I posted.  I've been crazy busy at work, so by the time I get home, I just want to veg!

Boys are great!  Growing like weeds!  They are so much fun!

John David is obsessed with the balls.  He loves throwing them and running after then, I swear a ball can keep that kid busy for hours!  Woot Woot!  Austin loves to watch cartoons, John David, not so much.  Last night, Kevin had the Michigan basketball game on and John David was glued to the TV!, What?!?!  So it looks like Kevin has a sports watching partner!  John David is recovering from 2 ear infections and teething woes!  He is taking it like a champ, but boy, that has to be painful. I think he has 10 teeth now!  10 teeth in 4 months, OUCH!  He has learned the wonderful art of climbing.  He can get on the chair and if we aren't quick enough, he will be on the table!  The good news, he can get down!  For a while there, he was stuck.

I can't believe how much Austin is talking!  You can actually have conversations with him!  On the flip side, he is taking everything in, the good, the bad and the ugly.  Over the weekend, he was going to watch a movie with grandma, he brought lovie up with him.  He told Lovie to "Sit down", not 3 seconds later, he said "Sit Down, Now!"  Hmmm, I think he's modeling me, hmmmm is this good?  Hey, at least he understands!  We took him over the weekend to find his snow boots.  He was in love with his Spider-man boots from last year and he has been having a hard time with JD getting his hand me downs, so I wanted to get him all excited about picking out new snow boots so when it's time, he will be fine with it all.  He picked out Cars snow boots!  And they light up!  Both kids have light up boots, we will be lighting up the town!  He had too much shopping fun, since he passed out in the cart.  We were shopping, he was talking, next thing, he has his head down, I thought he was just being funny, nope he fell asleep!  Too stinkin cute!

Kevin is on his own at work, no more having to go with someone.  I'm so proud of him and he's doing a fantastic job!   Michigan is doing great!  He was able to go to a Michigan bar last weekend to enjoy the game!  He brought the boys home little footballs and they love them.  Both of them keep asking for their footballs!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and I'm so looking forward to the feast!  I can't wait for the Mashed Potatoes, one of my all time favs!  I'm looking forward to the weekend, I have things planned every day, so that makes it more fun!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Halloween Fun!

Let's see, it's been awhile.  We've been busy busy busy bees!  Last weekend we partook in pumpkin carving and boy was it a blast!  Kevin started off only wanting to take pictures but once he got started he was so into it!  I think he had the most fun.  Austin loved the goop.  And he loved taking the seeds and putting them in the strainer.  He kept saying "give me"  hmmm wonder where he learned that from.    John David, I don't think, knew what was going on.  He was sitting in his hi chair watching.  He would take seeds and try to eat them and kept picking up the top of his pumpkin. 




Getting the goop out!



Daddy and Austin with their masterpiece.





JD with his pumpkin



Come on Mom and Dad, let's go!

Halloween was a blast!  I wasn't into Halloween too much prior to having the boys, but I think I was just so excited for them. We were only going to go up the block and back, but since we were having so much fun we decided to go around the block.  Next year I'm sure we'll be ready for a longer route but this was really their first time so we wanted to take it slow.  We went to like 2 houses with Austin last year.

Trick or Treat

Austin was a natural trick or treater!  He would run to the house, cutting through the yard (who taught him that), ring the door bell, hold out his bag or take 1 or 2 or 3-4 pieces of candy (we need to work on that).   He even knew the drill if they weren't home, wait 10 seconds and then he'd babble something to us like they aren't home and proceed to the next house.





Superman!

JD was close behind.  He was a bit more shy and would want to be held while getting the candy.  He loved going up the the houses after he figured out what was going on.  He wouldn't let go of the bag.  They were getting a litle cranky so we thought we skip some houses.  Austin was not up for that.  He was "yelling" at us that we missed the house and run up.  So of course we would go, one house we tried to tell them they weren't home, but he wasn't having it.


We got home and rang grandmas doorbell!  We had to bribe them with candy to eat dinner.  They ate their dinner and each got one piece of candy.  Austin loved when the doorbell rang, he would run to the door to see the costumes. He repeated everything I saw, oooohhh, ahhhh, happy halloween,  thank you, you're welcome.  That kid, too stinkin cute.



 




Halloween was so much fun that I can't WAIT for Christmas!