Halloween.Football.Birthday.Outfits.

It's been far too long since I have updated. I swear, I think only a week has gone by and I look at the calendar and it's been an entire month!
Lots has happened since I blogged last, including real Halloween and Jack's 2nd birthday! Wahoo!
So I guess I'll just start at the very beginning (a very good place to start)...
Halloween.

For Halloween we went to Mt. Pleasant to go trick-or-treating with the Stinsons. Jack was unbelievably excited. When we pulled up in the driveway, I couldn't get him out of the car seat fast enough, and he immediately ran up to the door to give hugs to his bestie, Cara.

Jack was an AWESOME trick-or-treater. He would run up to the doors and knock all by himself then shout "Treat-Treat!" (he didn't give them the option of giving him a trick). Then after he got his candy, he would point to Cara and Hannah's baskets and make sure they got treats, too (he was very concerned about this lol). When he was satisfied, he'd say "thank you!" and shout "Bye-Bye!" all the way down the driveway.

Apparently trick-or-treating made quite the impression on him because the next night when we got home from work/daycare, Jack ran to his room to get his monkey costume and started trying to put it on. When I asked what he was doing he said "Treat-Treat!" I think he thought we were going to do it all over again!

Football.

Now if you are wondering what is going on in this photo, at first glance you are probably unaware of just how awesome it is. While the screen looks like it's blank, (due to taking a picture of a picture) what he is actually watching is the Packers v. Jets game. You see, we were visiting Ron and Glo and in the living room, Josh and Ron were watching the Lions game. So, Jack took it upon himself to go into the kids room and turn on the little tv and pull up a chair to watch the Packers game. On my honor, he did it all by himself. We were all in the living room and all of a sudden we heard noise coming from the kids room and I said, "Is Jack watching the Packers by himself in there?!" and sure enough, I walked in him cheering away. Now how awesome is that?!

My pride grew when we were watching football the following weekend and when Green Bay scored their first touchdown, he threw his arms in the air and shouted "YAY!"




Birthday.

Jack's birthday was a huge success. We think everyone had a really great time. We know Jack did. He was so excited to have this many people come over to see him that for a while all he did was scream and run around in circles.

 

One of his gifts was a tea/dishes set from Papa and "ma" Martin. I know, it seems like an odd thing to get a boy, but whatever. He likes that kind of stuff :) Here he is having a Tea Party with Buzz, Woody, Mouse, Pooh and Woof-Woof.

It was ridiculously cute. He made sure each one had a cup, plate, and fork, and he'd continuously keep pouring them more to drink. He'd take a break only to pretend to take a drink himself, or take a bite of cake and say "Mmmmm!"

Outfits.

Jack has been a big helper in the mornings when it comes to picking out what he wants to wear. Frequently he does a great job and wants to wear something like this:

Other times, he gets a little more... creative...

It's worth to note that BOTH times, Jack asked me to take his picture. What a ham.

Of course Jack is still obsessed with Toy Story (we've watched TS3 5 times this week), Pooh, and BobBob.
He is also now obsessed with watching video clips on YouTube of the songs in movies such as The Lion King. Just what we need. Someone else in our family fighting to get on the internet. Haha.

I'm sure there's more, but I'm pooped.
I need to keep more on top of this so I don't have to commit so much time to writing each entry!