Halloween

For a fun week-before-Halloween dinner I made stuffed bell peppers and carved little faces into each one. I only made three peppers because I knew the kids would only eat the filling, but Leif really wanted a pepper on his plate. I ended up eating it, but he enjoyed eating the filling out of it.

 The trunk-or-treat at church happened last weekend. It was quite small compared to ones we have gone to in the past, but our ward here is quite a bit smaller than in other areas we have lived.

 The kids loved carving pumpkins this year. I had to do much of the pumpkin gutting, but Asher and Leif carved their faces all by themselves this year.

 I carved Heidi's pumpkin for her after she showed me the face she wanted on it by making it herself. After I was done, she took the little knife and stabbed little holes all over the pumpkin just to feel like she was doing it herself.

 Here the kids are with their pumpkins.

 I didn't get any great photos with all the kids in their costumes. As you can see Heidi was Little Red Riding Hood (the only costume I made this year), Trevor was the "big, bad wolf", Asher was Iron Man, and Leif was a tiger (a costume I made a couple years ago for Asher)

 And here's a single of Heidi since she was blurred in the last one

Here are the kids with their stash of goodies. Trevor loved all the crinkley packages and the kids loved eating whatever they wanted for awhile. You might think from looking at the candy that Snickers don't exist here in Canada- they do, I just stole them all ;) The kids got tons of chips and pretzel bags, I guess that's a big thing here.

29 Months

This little girl is quite the handful! She is into everything, is constantly taking her clothes off, loves to climb all over the place, but is so sweet. We went to the zoo yesterday with a friend and her daughter (whom Heidi just calls "my friend"), so although I didn't do any special photos of just Heidi, I did get some of her with her brothers looking at the animals.

10 months

 This sweet little guy is now 10 months old. He is crawling all over the place and is into everything! A few weeks ago, Heidi was frantically calling for me and when I went to see what she wanted, I found her standing by Trevor as he threw things from the bathroom garbage can into the toilet. Luckily, he wasn't playing in the water himself, though. He has tried to go up the stairs several times, so I told the boys to be sure to watch him if he gets close to them. One day Leif told me that we don't need to worry about Trevor on the stairs because he is really good at going up them- that's exactly the problem, Buddy :)
Trevor has continued his pattern of going to bed late (I've finally given up on trying to put him to bed early even though I can tell he is super tired and just let him stay up until around 8:30) and waking up late, which is pretty nice. He also usually consolidates all his daytime sleeping into one long nap which, if I'm careful, I can get him to take at the same time Heidi takes her after-lunch nap. He is such a cheerful little guy most of the time, especially if mom is holding him.
Trevor loves to eat! He has come to expect that if he is sitting in his high chair, he'd better be eating something. He loves to snack on cheerios when I don't really have anything else for him, but he's more interested in what everyone else is having. He's also started a nasty little habit of biting me several times a day. He usually just leans over and bites my shoulder, arm, or neck. I know I've encouraged it either by yelping in alarm when he does it or laughing at him, but I'm trying to keep a serious face and firmly tell him no, so hopefully that dies out soon. It really does hurt, so it's got to stop.
We are trying to teach Trevor some sign language (although Asher is really the only kid I had much success with-its hard to remember with all the other things going on), but he does have one real word down- Dad! He says it all the time in the evenings when Austin is home. He gets very excited and claps his hands- its so cute.
Trevor loves to clap and give high-fives. He is adored and well taken care of by all his siblings!

 And here's a bonus photo of Heidi, just because she had to have her picture take too :)