Happy Halloween

I have had a great Halloween. This year I dressed up as The Lorax and Granny made my costume for me. I LOVED it!

Over the weekend Mom and Dad took me to Harpers so I could go to the kid's Halloween party there.

Yesterday I had a Halloween party at school. We had a carnival where we played games like bean bag toss and bowling and won prizes. After that we had a costume parade where our parents could come see us in our costumes. We each had an instrument we used and said, "Happy Halloween!" as we paraded around outside.  

This morning when I woke up Mommy made my jack-o-lantern pancake for breakfast. We are making that a tradition - second year in a row. :) For dinner we had jack-o-lantern pizza and then Daddy and I went trick-or-treating while Mommy and Blythe stayed home. It was a little too cold for Blythe and Mommy isn't ready to walk that much yet. Dad and I went with Jesse, Christine, Parker and Bella. I got a lot of candy!
After we went in our neighborhood we and the Holtans went to Dan and MaryKay's house and played for awhile.

Mommy and I (well really just Mommy) carved a Lightning McQueen pumpkin for me. I thought it should have a "95" on it but I still liked it.



 All in all it was a great Halloween!

I kept saying 'it's so fun to trick or treat." All day I was so excited to go out and trick or treat. Fun, fun day!!!


Granny and I in my costume.

Blythe, Me and Marlie on Halloween

Me and Blythe before I went out trick or treating. 

Me and Parker

Blythe, Me, Parker and Bella

Granny was at our house on Halloween!! 

Back to School

I had a little fall break from school which happened to fall over the time my baby sister was born. We had our field trip on Tuesday but today was my first day back at school. I took a picture of me holding Blythe to show my classmates and I took little Hershey candy bars that mom made a label for announcing I'm a big brother. I also got an award from my teacher for being the best big brother! It was a fun first day back.

I'm a Big Brother!!

I've been waiting and waiting and the day finally came - Wednesday, October 10, 2012 I became a big brother to Blythe Marie. I was a little cautious around her at first, but interested to meet her.

Tuesday Grandma Dahlstrom came to our house and spent the night. When I woke up Wednesday morning Mom and Dad had already left to go to the hospital. They had to be there by 6:30 in the morning. That's early! Mom was scheduled to have her surgery at 8:30 but I guess she had to wait a little longer because there was another baby that needed to be born right away. It was only about a half hour though so at 9:22 a.m. my baby sister was born.

I got to go meet her around 11:30. Grandma took me there and Grandpa and Grandma Cota and Granny all came too. Mom and Dad let me go in the room and meet Blythe first. After I got to meet her then my grandparents came in and I got to introduce her to them and tell them her name. I had known her name for a couple months and kept it a secret that whole time. If anyone would ask I would tell them, "It's a SURPRISE!!"

After our first visit we headed back home and came back later when Grandpa Dahlstrom and Uncle Brent, Aunt Kari and Reese came.

The next day Grandpa and Grandma Cota came back to our house to stay with me. I got to visit Mom, Dad and Blythe a couple times a day while they were at the hospital and Dad came home a couple times. Friday night he even came home to do our bedtime routine. :)

We're all working on getting into a new normal around our house but so far it seems to be alright. My little sister hasn't changed things too much - yet. :) Mom and Dad say I'm doing a good job at being a big brother. I think I'm pretty good at it too.

I need it quiet!

Today Mom was watching a video online and I said, "What is that
song?" Mom said "Oh it's a video I'm watching." As I was playing with
my race cars I said, "I need it quiet so I can work here."  :)

Hot Air Balloon

It's not uncommon to see hot air balloons flying over our house. During the summer we see them several times a week. But tonight there were a couple of them launching just down the street from our house. Dad and I got to watch one take off from there not too long ago too but tonight Mom and I went down to watch with Parker, Christine and Bella. It's pretty neat to watch the fire go and make them go up, up, up.

Gamer

I've been talking about and eyeing the Cars 2 Xbox game every store I see it in. Dad surprised me over the weekend with it and I LOVE it! I can play it all by myself. Mom thought the control would be too big for my little hands but I have it all figured out and I think I'm pretty big stuff.  :) Yesterday morning after breakfast I said to Dad, "I'm thinking about something. It starts with C.....then an A - R - S a 2, X - b - o - x." He and Mom thought I was pretty funny.

My Favorite Place

Lately my favorite place to be is riding around on Dad's shoulders. Mom snapped our picture the other morning while I was up there just because I spend so much time up there.