Here Comes Fall!

We went to a huge play structure one day... Anthony is kind of small for a bunch of the things, but he tried! He does enjoy the swing though! Alex never liked to swing.


Alex likes to SLIDE though!

We went to a fall party at the Lanphears. They had a bunch of pumpkins sitting there on their beach and the sun was setting... i just had to photograph them!



We are not sure what this is, but Alex came home from the party with blue hands! I think it was from the handles in the little paddle boat the kids were taking out around the pond... not sure!

Anthony bounced in the bounce house they had there for the kids... he's not very steady though.

Alex bounced too, although he had to bounce the the "big" kids!


The day before Alex's Birthday was such a nice day that we had to rake the leaves into a pile for the kids to play in! It was so much fun! Little Anthony was trying to run and copy his brother by falling into the pile... can you see him!!



Jerry was throwing leaves at them!





Then they had races... Alex won! Alex is a very fast runner! And he loves to run! He always wants to play "chase" he like Jerry to run after him and try to catch him. Anthony of course also enjoys it very much and laughs all the way!!!!

Then we tried to take a family picture... seriously... you can't trust that it will be focused if you have one of these boys do it. The pictures that Alex pushed the button for... well he moved the camera and so we were getting further and further off the picture! Alex and I were half cut off in the last one! hahaha!

then they decided to rake the tree itself. Since it is an Oak tree the leaves don't fall off until Spring... actually since we had a big wind storm here a couple weeks before, there were a lot more leaves on the ground than normal!

Anthony had to try the raking thing too.

2 More Stories.

Jerry has shown the boys some Karate stuff.... oh dear!!! So the boys are constantly trying out their moves on each other... they think Karate involves some form of contact and then falling to the ground and rolling around... of and of course all the grunting and "hi-yah-ing", they do this in the living room. I haven't taken any pictures yet, it looks ridiculous... I will try and get some... But it is hilarious... even Anthony thinks it is funny! However any other time Alex knocks him down is not funny and constitutes screaming and wailing because he is a victim! hahaha! So funny.

A few months ago... on Anthony's adoption day, (july 29) we had some funny things happen around here. One day Anthony was having his first rice-crispy treat and he was so tired that every time he would take a bite, his eyes would roll back in his head and his head would drop. It was so funny we got the video camera out... Aunt Bonnie was convinced that if we sent to to America's Funniest videos, we would win something, so we had to video the whole event... which took about 7 minutes! Anthony kept trying to eat that treat... It was torturing me... I wanted to just put him in bed. He was trying so hard to eat it! He finally dropped it in his lap, and just conked out on his high chair tray.

Then, going with funny things... Alex was going potty one day and came out of the bathroom with Anthony's little cushie toilet seat around his neck... we about died! GROOOOOSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! and what was he thinking? It barely fit down over his ears... we weren't quite sure how we were going to get it off!!! We thought we were going to have to use oil or something... again we stuck the video camera on the counter while we attempted to get it off. Then it got horrible... he was screaming and we were trying to pull it off. Anthony was trying to help Alex by pulling it back down... it was a mess! We felt bad for Alex. he was crying hard by the time we pried it off of his head! Oh dear... We can laugh now at it for sure!