Just a Couple of the Kids

Circus

Nathan and I had some much-needed mommy/son time (without the little guy) at the circus! Nathan was wide-eyed and stunned the entire time, but LOVED it. We learned a few things...

#1 - The boy loves his cotton candy. It was his first time, and he was in heaven holding onto that huge ball of sticky sugar.

#2 - Nathan is not a fan of "clown humor." The clowns would be doing their act, bumping into each other, falling, mumbling clown talk, etc. Every other kid in the place was laughing histerically. Nathan just sat there with this disturbed expression and kept asking me, "What are they saying???"

#3 - Circus Vargas is NOT the circus I remember going to as a kid. We were prepared to see the lions and elephants. Well, Circus Vargas only has... dogs and cats. NO kidding. But I think my kid was as excited to see the poor cat go through the hoop as he would have been with a lion.

Here are a few pictures...

Halloween

A week late, but I still wanted to post some picts of the kids. They had sooo much fun this year. Nathan went as Buzz Lightyear, who is his hero and the topic of every other conversation in our house. Keaton went as a giraffe, and was the cutest little giraffe I have ever seen. :)

Before we left the house, we carved a pumpkin and Nathan decorated a haunted gingerbread house. Nana and Papa brought it, and it was pretty neat. Here he is with his masterpiece.


Nathan was a bit spooked at first while he was trick or treating, but he got comfortable pretty quickly, and by the end had a bag full of candy as payoff. It took quite along time to go a block, because in between each house, he would inspect his candy and negotiate with me about whether he could eat yet another piece. Keaton was happy just riding along in his car, with a big sucker in his mouth. We actually didn't hear a peep from him the entire time. Thank you, Tootsie Pop! (I swear this was his first real candy... er, aside from the "incident" a while back.)



Then when we got home from trick-or-treating, our friends Tim and Kate came by with the coolest thing I have ever seen. Tim is this amazing artist, and he CARVED a Nathan-stein jack-o-lantern! It was unreal - looked just like him, with bolts in his neck. Pretty cool...