Foose Ball

We have a USC Trojan football player in the making. Braeden made an interception in his football game on Saturday! He was super cute about it! (I personally was looking over at my sister Kara when it happened, but I hear it was amazing!) The coach's wife got a picture of it, and I will need to snatch a copy of it. He was so close to getting the touchdown when the other team grabbed his flag. But he was as happy as a fat girl eating sugar when he caught the interception!! 

GO BRAEDEN & CADEN!!

And Braeden takes this game very serious, he never lets his eyes off that ball!

LOVE THIS KID!!!

Ca-Cub

I love this little guy!! He is such a stud. He calls himself Ca-Cub. So we all call him that now. He is soooo much fun when his brother and sister are at school. I love his personality.... and boy does he have one! 

He never stops moving. He is always on the go. He LOVES kisses. It's what gets his mind off the sadness of going to bed. All we have to say to him is, "Go give Braeden and Elli a kiss." And he is off running to find them to give them kisses. Then he runs to bed himself. He is now sleeping in a toddler bed and loves it!! 

I love it when someone sneezes because Caleb will say, "Bless you!" EVERYTIME! He'll say it when I forget to or if I hear someone sneeze, but something else is on my mind and I don't think to say it. All of a sudden I'll hear Caleb say, "Bless you."  Today when he sneezed, he said, "Bless you, dank you!" Because he always hears us say thank you after that. I couldn't stop laughing!!

2 weeks ago we started potty training him and I don't have to buy diapers for a while now!!!! Woot Woot! He ran around naked for the first 2 days and it just came to him. Now he tries to squeeze anything out just so he can get a treat. It's so funny!!

I just had to give a shout out to my favorite Ca-Cub!!  I love his cuteness and am enjoying every little thing about him! Even the annoying parts. It's a good thing he is so DAMN cute!! And yes, I said that... I'm a mom, I'm allowed!

HedBanz

My kids want this game for Christmas. It looks like a fun game.

But I guess I don't need to buy it for them..... Elli made her own game.

 She made this and came to me and put one on my head and said, "Let's play Hedbanz" Her first question to me was, "Am I a ballerina?" Hmmmmm, that's exactly what she was. But she made me ask a million questions for me to figure out what I was. I love it because she even drew pictures. Funny Girl!!

Her first tooth... GONE

I'm not sure who allowed this, but Elli lost her first tooth. It's really kind of cute.... as of now. But now she is going to have these huge, big teeth grow in and her cute little smile won't be the same. I'm not too fond of how fast these kids are growing.

But Elli couldn't wait for the tooth fairy to come and wrote her a note that she lost her tooth and asked her what she was gonna get for it. Well, the Tooth Fairy almost forgot, but remembered in the knick of time to leave $2 under Elli's pillow. Elli asked her dad if he put the money under her pillow.  Ha Ha!!  But how could Dad take the Tooth Fairy's job away from her. I love how they believe the silliest things!

Halloween Party

Grandma & Grandpa Harper throw a super fun Halloween party for the grandkids every year and the kids had a TON of fun!!

Here they are. The boys who aren't dressed up came as girls and didn't want to wear lipstick or a dress anymore, so they changed... pretty fast.

The Baker clan..... with Dorothy, Captain, and the little Baker boy!

It's never a Harper party without a piñata.

All the kids getting settled in for the sleep over

And finally..... peace!!

Why are sleeping kids so cute??

The morning after.....

These 2 little girls LOVE drawing together.

I found these little guys outside playing together.  

Then we had to rush off to Caden & Braeden's football game. Elli held Cash for a little bit. And Crew.... well, we never know what Crew is doing!

Thanks G & G for a fantastic party!! The kids LOVED IT!! And we can't wait for next year's party!! ☺

Halloween

Is Halloween REALLY over?? It didn't even seem like Halloween to me. It seems that once Halloween comes, Thanksgiving and Christmas fly by. I love this time of year!!

Braeden & Elli's school had a Halloween parade. Elli did her little like this the whole time. How do I know that?? Well, I started watching the parade where it started and she was waving then..... then I decided to go to the end and watch them again and I noticed her still waving. You could tell that Elli felt pretty this day. She LOVED her Dorothy costume!!

Then we have Captain Smith (the captain from the ship Titanic) Braeden picked this costume. He has gotten into Titanic and learning how it sank and everything.... funny kid. But I was worried he would have to choose something else because I couldn't even find this costume on eBay. But we lucked out because there it was at Target!! You should have seen how excited he was to find it!!

Elli's class.

This is Elli's friend Trystan. Elli has grown attached to him and even Trystan told his mom that he is going to marry Elli someday. I love how Elli has a way of making everyone feel loved. She's amazing that way!

Here's the clan.... 

We have Dorothy, Captain Smith & our Little Baker 

Mark and I went to a party Friday night and had to come up with a homemade costume. We decided to go with Where's Waldo and Wenda!  That is duct tape for the red stripes. 

I love Halloween!!

Where's Waldo Pumpkin

My kids begged and begged for us to decorate a pumpkin for their school contest. I gave in and this is what we came up with. It had to be a character from a book. Since Mark and I were dressing up as Waldo and Wenda for Halloween, I already had the hat. And yes, the shirt is made up of a white shirt and red duct tape. 

Braeden was POSITIVE we would get 1st place. But they had some pretty cool pumpkins in there. The Despicable Me pumpkin won. It was really cute!!