OCTOBER UPDATE

I know what you all are thinking, Didn't we just have Christmas and New Years, and your posting October? Well I've been a little busy lately, so don't judge. I just needed to get these cute pictures from Halloween up and other happenings.

For Halloween Brystal was a witch. A cute witch of course.

Boston was a Dragon. He was so cute in this costume. I loved it.

This is my attempt to get them together. Good luck with Boston holding still. You get what you get with him.

A couple weeks later as we were packing up the house, I stepped out onto our front porch and found a big envelope from Fed Ex. Hmmmm, what's this I thought.......

10,000 DOLLARS!!! Well not quite 10,000, they took out taxes, but I'll take it.

It sure feels good to be holding that check.

Complete with a cheesy autograph from Tom Bergeron.

What's Boston up to? Oh nothing much, just getting cuter by the day. He gets into everything he is not supposed to. He keeps me on my toes. But how could you ever get mad at this face?

What's new with Brystal? Brystal got glasses! I started noticing one of her eyes turning in while looking at things up close. She has a crooked eye which the glasses will hopefully fix and make stronger over the next few years. Doesn't she look adorable in them? She is such a trooper, and has such an imagination. She loves to play princesses. She is my little princess.

BRYSTAL STARTS DANCE

Brystal started up baby Ballet in August. She is loving it and having a Blast!

She gets to dance with bears...

They also teach with musical instruments to help her learn rhythm...

They have a princess chair that they get to sit in after they finish walking across the balance beam. Notice how she is sitting with her legs crossed and her hands in her lap. She is learning to be a little lady.

Sometimes they get to wear cowgirl hats...

And "ride" across the balance beam...

She learns to point her toes...

And at the very end they choo choo their way across the room and get a cute little sticker for being so adorable. She is such a natural at everything in the class, she always listens (occasionally cries) and does so well at keeping her toes pointed and balance. She loves her class!!

SHAMU!!!!!!

Nate FINALLY had some time off so we took advantage of it and took a trip to Seaworld San Antonio!! Brystal was so excited to see the animals. We told her about the whales, and the dolphins, and the seals, and the sharks and the penguins. She couldn't wait!

First we stopped to see the penguins. They had a penguin out of the aquarium to show everyone. Brystal thought that was so cool, and as we left she turned and waved "goodbye penguin!!"

Boston and I waiting for SHAMU!! He was such a trooper and enjoyed the shows just as much as Brystal did.

And the moment we've all been waiting for. Brystal still talks about how the whales splashed everyone.

She liked pointing out all the whales as they would come out of the water.

Here is the Dolphin cove where we looked at the dolphins play with their toys.

The fish tank was nice and cool and a great break from the heat. We saw sharks and sting rays, and Brystal was looking everywhere for Dori. I don't think we found her.

Here is Brystal's signature wink!

Take 2

We ended the day at the splashpad. We forgot to bring swimsuits for the kids so me and Bos man watched while Brystal just went in with her clothes on. That's why we saved this for last.

She loved it and had the time of her life in there!

Up until she got shoved out of this tube to the left of the picture and landed on her face causing a major bump and skid mark on her forehead and under her nose and cut her lip open causing her to bleed profusely all over the place. And that was the end of Seaworld. She still talks to this day about how that girl pushed her at Seaworld and how that wasn't very nice. How traumatizing.

But we had a great time, and it wasn't traumatizing enough that Brystal didn't have a great time. She keeps reminding me that she had fun at Seaworld. We'll definitely be back later this year.

Instead of heading home, we went out to Austin to visit Nate's sister Karen and their family. We have lived in Austin for 3 summers before we had kids and we love it there. There is so much to do and so beautiful. We decided to take it easy and just go hang out by the lake. Boston took a little snooze under the tree with his bottle in his mouth.

The water definitely was too cold for swimming. This was as far as Brystal went in. But still a nice day to play in swimsuits.

I just love little bum cheeks.

Ohhhh baby!! That's my stud muffin husband! He's the one that keeps my heart beating fast.

Where have we seen this face before?

Daddy's got her starting young. She loves to do what daddy does. And he's hoping she'll really love sports. She was tossing the ball back and forth, and playing frisbee with everyone. She saw me taking her picture and wanted to take a picture herself...

Here is what she got.

At the end of the day, she passed out on Nate's lap. We had dinner with Karen's family and stayed the night, then headed home. We had a great trip. It was so good to get out together as a family.

RANDOM UPDATES

Boston is 7 months old now can you believe it? He is so adorable I just can't stand it sometimes.

He pretty much always has a smile on his face. Everyone comments on what a happy little guy he is.

Brystal is getting so funny and creative. She is starting to do "pretend" play, and it just blows my mind of some of the things she thinks of sometimes. She has finally figured out how to "drive" her car, before she just sat in it and opened and closed the door.

She loves to drive to the store to pick up "monkey snacks" aka fruit snacks.

And I love how she tried to fit her keys into the ignition.

Brystal as you know loves her Daddy, who hasn't been around alot lately due to his busy work schedule. The kids don't get to see much of him during the first 3 months of the year, but when he is home Brystal loves to read stories at bedtime with him.

And of course Boston has a smile on his face. He is starting to look alot like a little Nate at times.

Now that Boston can finally sit up, he can take baths with Brystal. Makes life alot easier on everybody! Especially mommy. Although Brystal still gets really nervous around that bunny towel, we have started to use the lizard towel instead which is much less scarier. ??

Brystal loves to dress up. She sometimes layers her dresses so that she has on 2 or 3 at a time. She is definitely a girly girl. Loves dresses and loves pink and loves to paint her nails and do her hair, and wear stick on earings, and bracelets... you get the picture. And everytime she does one of these things she says "just like mommy". She likes to pretend like she is Kacie when I am fixing her hair. I don't really get why she calls herself by my name instead of Mommy when she is getting dressed up. Oh well, I like it that she wants to be like me.

By the way Boston learned to crawl about a month ago! I was shocked because Brystal was a bump on a log til 9 months old. Boston mostly does the army crawl, but he can usually do a few "steps" on his knees before he resorts back to army crawling. And now he does things like this...

He gets up on his knees and plays with toys, or pushes buttons on the stereo.

He occasionally tries to get up the first stair.

Once again, always smiles for the camera.

I really wasn't expecting to have to baby proof the house for another couple of months, but I guess he is curious and ready to explore. This just means I have to keep my floors clean more often. Yea, more work for me. I am so excited at how fast this little guy is learning.