Doggies

James: "Mommy, come see all of my doggies are on my bed. They are going to help clean up."

Me: "Will you help too, please?"

James: "Um, I am so busy putting my toys on my bed. So you will have to do it."

I love this boy :)

Halloween!

So we usually tend to be last-minute Halloween people. We LOVE making cool costumes and being creative, but it is usually at the last second that we finally decide what to be. Which is why we spent our ENTIRE Friday, in preparation for our ward trunk-or-treat, making THESE!

I guess it was worth it, because we won the prize for most creative costume!

James kind of wanted to be a train, one of his favorite things. So we decided to each be a different car of the train. He ended up being the caboose because one of his favorite books is The Little Red Caboose.

I think it's a pretty nice train...

Daddy was the engine. I thought it was fitting, him being the one in the family who takes us where we need to go and keeps us moving.

Of course, he wouldn't be able to go anywhere without a good coal car behind him ;)

And last (but definitely not least, as we learn in James' book) is the little red caboose. Which actually is quite big for a young kid to carry around all night... (don't mind the wheels that are falling off...)

He trick-or-treated without the caboose getting in the way ;)

Checking out the loot he got...

I love Halloween!

Trains

One of the absolute FAVORITE activities in our house is playing with trains. Even Mommy and Daddy have a fun time building cool train tracks. Notice this awesome double-decker track that I made.

And that cool tower behind James in this picture is the Alamo! He made it all by himself.

Zoo.

More fun times at the zoo with some of our new friends!

Letters

James loves learning about letters. We sometimes have what we like to call "Mommy Preschool" where we learn letters of the alphabet, sing songs and have lots of fun. I just love these pictures of James and his Daddy writing letters. Daddy taught him how to write a bunch of letters. In the 3rd picture you can see that he wrote all of the letters of his name!

Some new friends

A few weeks ago (yes, I am playing catch-up) we had a fun time having some new little buddies come over and play! We love being in an area and a ward with lots of young families, and James has met some nice new friends!

We played on the patio and blew bubbles...

...and acorns are always very entertaining.

We played the piano together (how cute are these photos??)

and read some books. Aren't friends fun?