Weekend update

Yesterday we went Halloween shopping for the second time. We went looking for costumes for the boys first on Thursday evening but Chris and the boys had so much fun running around the store looking at everything except for the costumes that we didn't get any. I felt really bad for the people who had to clean up after us. We were there with friends and their two children so between the eight of us we pulled quite a bit of stuff off the shelves. Alex was especially happy when we said we were going to the Halloween store. This is his and Zachary's first Halloween with us and I know they have no idea what's going on but we want to make it fun. We let Alex pick out his own costume and he chose to be a doctor - "Dr. Alex" as he called himself. We tried to get Zachary to pick one and we did actually try on a Spiderman costume but he wouldn't wear the headpiece and really couldn't have cared less about the whole thing. Since he didn't care we decided to get him a cheaper costume and he's going to be a pirate. I had really wanted them to be something that they knew what it was but that just wasn't going to happen. He will be really cute though - they both will.

Chris decided that he needed to mow the grass after the boys woke up from their nap. The boys were so bummed that they couldn't play outside while daddy was out there. I opened the windows so they could see daddy mowing and they watched him the whole time and waved and called out hi to him when he went by. Zachary also drug his toy lawnmower around the house while Chris was mowing the yard.

This morning we loaded up the boys and headed out of town. Today was my parents church's annual festival. Both yesterday and this morning when I told the boys that we were going to Mimi and Papa's church for a party Alex said "Hallelujah?". I think he was calling the church hallelujah but I'm not sure. Since our church doesn't really use that word heavily I'm don't know how he associated the two. We do have a kids cd that we listen to in the car that plays Michael Row Your Boat Ashore so I know he's heard hallelujah in that recently. (He sings along too, it's so cute.) The boys had a great time at their first church picnic playing all the games. Zachary's favorite by far was the "choo choo train" which was actually a riding lawnmower pulling cars made out of barrels.This picture is not the cutest but it was a hot and sunny day. Zachary had to have ridden it five or six times, usually without Alex. Alex's favorite thing was the baseball stand. He was even allowed to stand really close to the bottles but still couldn't knock them all down. That didn't matter though, he always got a prize.

All in all from our day we are the proud owners of 3 stuffed animals, 1 kite, 1 kids board game, 1 plastic horse, 1 keychain with a flashlight, 1 keychain with a rubber chicken, 1 hackey sack baseball, 1 beaded necklace, 1 plastic hand clapper, 1 toy car, 1 toy airplane, 1 inflatable beach ball, and lots of candy. Aren't we lucky?