Halloween Parties

We had 3 Halloween parties to go to on Friday and Saturday.  Tyson loved them all because that meant he got to dress up as Mickey Mouse all 3 times.  He loves his costume.  Andrew was an adorable dragon.  He was the sweetest dragon there has ever been :)

On Friday Tyson had his preschool program.  I kept asking him the last few weeks if he was going to sing songs at the school Halloween party.  He kept telling me no, but I knew that wasn’t true.  Brian had this whole week off of work (the 2nd week of his paternity leave) and he was able to come.  We had our video camera ready and Tyson did not sing one single bit.  He did the clapping motion on one song, that’s it.  I was a bit sad but this weekend he has been singing me one whole song from the program.  I’m not sure if his costume was in the way, especially the gloves, and felt like he couldn’t do it.  Perhaps he was overwhelmed with all the parents in the stands to look at?  He did start waving to people in the audience at the end.  That was pretty funny.  Anyway, we are proud of him and love how much he enjoys preschool.  After the program they had a blow up slide, and games to play for candy.  Here are a few pictures from that.

Waiting for the program to start.

 

Some games…

  

He is sad in this picture because he tried to climb through the “O'” in the sign and I yelled at him :/  I guess he thought it was another activity.  Anyway, here he is.

 

Then later in the afternoon we ended to Brian’s work Halloween party.  It was cute and Tyson liked it but I think he was overwhelmed with everything.  People in crazy costumes, dark rooms, etc.  He did enjoy getting the candy though.

These two pictures make me laugh.  I love the Mickey ears. 

All dressed up and ready for Daddy’s work!

 

Then on Saturday we headed back to Cornbelly’s but with Joe and Heather for a few hours.

Don’t be fooled by this picture.  He went into the mini maze with Dallin laughing but he came out following Dallin crying.  He got scared and Dallin went in to go get him and lead him out.  Dallin is almost an entire year younger than Tyson :) 

Saturday night we had our ward Halloween Party.  I love our ward.  I love how everyone likes to participate.  Most families dressed up (including adults).  The dinner was super yum and then the kids went around “trick or treating”. 

 

Mickey Mouse, BYU Ballerina and a Dragon.  Looked more like I was in sweats but it was fun to be me 7 years ago!

Tyson was so sad when it was over.  Here he is pouting.  I think it is so funny how he hung his pumpkin bucket.

I think that is all we will do for Halloween this year.  We feel like Tyson has gotten enough candy and our neighborhood doesn’t really do trick or treating.

Carving Pumpkins

We can be pretty lame sometimes.  For 2 years (2008 and 2010) we have gone to a pumpkin patch and got pumpkins to carve.  We never got around to carving so I said I’d use the pumpkins for something else.  Well, that never happened either.  This year Brian was bound and determined to make it happen.  I am so glad he took the reins to get it done.  We never got to the pumpkin patch but the grocery store worked fine this year.  I actually have never carved a pumpkin completely by myself.  I think the first time was in college for an FHE activity.  Anyway, Brian carved Tyson’s and his and I did mine and Andrew’s.  Tyson was really excited until he saw the insides of the pumpkins and chickened out.  He ran to the couch and watched from there.  When Brian almost finished doing his own pumpkin Tyson finally warmed up to it all.  Silly kid.  Here are our finished products.  We’re pretty proud of ourselves :)

 

Andrew’s silly eyes, Tyson’s bat, Ashley’s ghost and Brian’s skull

Cornbellys

I got a Season Pass to Cornbelly’s off of Groupon earlier in the month.  We finally made it out and had a wonderfully FREEZING but FUN time.  It was fun for Brian to come along this year.  I can’t believe how cold it was.  We had the kids dressed up warm enough but Brian and I were pretty cold.  I was grateful to have Andrew in the carrier on me.  He helped keep me warm.  We got hot chocolate there (it came with the passes) and Tyson was begging for some and we tried to explain that it was hot and he does not like hot things or warm for that matter.  He wouldn’t let it go so Brian let him try it.  He spit it out so fast and then screamed.  We felt bad but he didn’t understand it and we knew that it wasn’t dangerously hot.  Once it cooled off and was barely warm we tried to give it to him and of course he profusely refused. 

He loved all of the wooden play gyms.  There was a sign that said the are for sale at the end of the season.  There were some really cool ones.  Made me wish that A) We had tons of money to buy one and B) Had a giant backyard for it. 

They had some really fun bike/car races, a giant hay stack with slides, a cow train, a giant pillow jump and much more!

These horse race bean bag things were pretty funny to watch.  Watch Tyson in this video!

Hilariously-adorable Tyson cheese-er face!

This little guy could never be a monster :)

Cheering dad on!

We are for sure headed back tomorrow!

Andrew is crawling?! Kind of ;)

He is so funny.  I didn’t even realize he was ‘crawling’ until Brian told me to watch.  I had in my mind that crawling isn’t until they are up on their hands and knees but Andrew certainly makes his way around doing his army-type crawl.  He is so cheerful.  We sure do love him.

Watch this video of him ‘crawling’.

Here is another video but of Andrew in his Jump-a-roo.  He loves this thing and so do I.  He can be in it for well over an hour and it makes him nice and tired so he takes fabulous naps.  If you want a good laugh watch this.

And just for memories here is Tyson pretending to be on America’s Funniest Home Videos.  We were watching it one Sunday and he thought it was hilarious and wanted to be just like the people on the show.  He kept calling it Funny Commercial!  Mom, make sure Dad sees this video :)

Hee Haws

Tyson had his first field trip with his preschool on the 10th of October and it was at Hee Haw Farm.  It was cute and he had a lot of fun!  We went earlier in the year but now that he is a little older he seemed to enjoy it even more :)

He got to feed the goat (is that a goat?) a piece of pumpkin but Tyson freaked out and and dropped it right in front of him. 

Hayride

Corn maze…I decided I do not like corn mazes.  We were blindly following the group and I just don’t like not knowing where we are going.

Pumpkin patch.  I made Tyson pick the smallest pumpkin he could find because I was not going to be carrying it around for the next hour.  Sometimes I am not a nice mom.

Petting the cow

 

The kids really love this…

 

He still loves preschool so much.  What a great outlet for him.