Little Boy Language

I love listening to the boys.

It's so fun to watch them learn

about everyday life

and the terms that go with it.

For example,

for dinner today, we had

Turkey Popeye

And counted to

ithinidy

and before bed, read from the

Doctor and Covenants.

Love it!!

Old Man Zach

I walked into the playroom this morning

to find Zach coloring with the markers

and his face decorated...

I said

"Zach, why did you color your face like that?"

His reply:

"Because I wanted to be an old man!"

I guess being only 5 just isn't working for him...

Three Months Old

Three months has passed now

since we had our sweet Oliver.

It's amazing to think it's already been that long

yet it's been such a short amount of time.

He has turned into quite the smiler

and he loves to "talk"

His most favorite place to be is on his changing table.

He can be crying inconsolably,

but the minute you put him on the table and remove his pants,

he's all smiles.

He is the squirmiest child ever

and never holds still.

We have to keep an eye on him on the changing table

or he will push himself back with his feet

and scoot himself off the table.

He's getting better at night.

He was waking up again -

more out of habit than real hunger.

But a night in dad's arms broke the habit

and we're back to sleeping all night.

(YIPPEE!!)

Although during the day

he prefers to sleep in our arms

or sometimes in the swing.

He's such a sweet baby.

Snow!!

We woke up to an inch or two of snow on Friday.

The boys were so excited to play in it,

they didn't even wait to get dressed.

They just put on their coats, gloves and hats

over their pajamas

and proceeded to throw snowballs

at anything that moved.

Porter spent an hour outside

with his friends after school playing in it.

The funny thing is,

we can't get the boys to play outside

when it's nice and sunny.

But add a little snow

(and chilly temps)

and they don't even have to be asked -

they are out the door.

Hopefully next time we'll get enough for a decent snowman.

On another note,

Porter and I got up at 2:00 a.m. this morning,

got bundled up in our

long-johns

sweaters

scarves

coats

hats

gloves

boots

blankets

and popcorn heating pads

and sat outside

for a bit over an hour

to watch the Leonid meteor shower.

We saw about a dozen;

but I think enjoyed looking

at all the beautiful stars even more.

There are some perks to living in a little town...

Seriously...

Could you resist those cheeks??

Such a Sucker

Let me begin this post with this disclaimer:

I really don't like cats.

We get a few cats that roam around our neighborhood

and when this one came by our house

looking for a little love

I couldn't help but be nice.

She is so cute.

But then she hung around

and I couldn't help but be a little nicer.

I started to feel bad for her

given it is quite chilly outside.

I put out some water for her

and even bought a bag of cat food.

Yes,

I even found her a box with a blanket

for her to sleep in.

I think she's adopted us

and we "adopted" her.

She stays outside

(we aren't allowed to have pets in our rental home)

And she greets us at the door everytime it opens.

She's very friendly and the kids love her.

Such a sucker...

Confession

I have been on a real freezing meals kick lately

and one of my favorite things to freeze

is chocolate chip cookie dough.

I make a batch,

form them into balls,

the freeze them.

When you want a cookie,

Just take some out and bake them

no thawing;

and they bake up so nice and soft.

PERFECT

But I have found

that the frozed balls of dough

make wonderful treats as well.

I made a batch to freeze a couple weeks ago.

and that bag of cookie balls is so tempting

who wants to wait for the oven to heat up

and for them to bake.

So everytime I needed a "treat"

and yummy cookie dough ball would do

sometimes two, maybe three...

So here's my confession:

I ate the whole batch!!

never baked one...

and I know no one else ate them

(for I try to be sneaky when I do

in fear that the others will find out about

my yummy goodness -

then I would have to share!)

As I ate the last one,

I felt a twinge of guilt

along with a bit of sadness

because they were gone...

I think it's time to make a new batch...

Guess What?!?!?

Oliver slept through the night!!

WOOO HOOOO!!!

Halloween Pics

We had a great Halloween here in the Hunt household.

The boys were able to dress up on Friday for school;

however, it was for a vocabulary parade.

They had to think of a vocabulary word

and dress up as such

with the word and definition on the costume.

Some were quite clever;

most were just the kids in their costumes

with a proper word and definition.

Then Friday evening we made eyeball cookies

and carved the pumpkins.

The boys each had their own pumpkins and desired designs -

and as always, it ended up with the boys watching a movie

while Rhett and I were busy creating and carving such designs.

The pumpkins did turn out pretty cool though.

Porter carved a little pumpkin at school earlier in the week;

Rhett did a dinosaur one,

and I carved Zach's little pumpkin,

Andrew's doggy pumpkin

and an Aggie football helmet (Porter's desired design).

Halloween lunch was apple teeth and mummy dogs,

and mummy ham and cheese sandwich for dinner

with beetle wings (chips)

and frankenstein fingers (carrots) for dinner.

We then got the boys in their costumes

and went out the door.

They have a big carnival at the Community Center

with games and things for the kids,

so we headed that way,

then stopped at the ward party on the way home.

Rhett took the boys trick-or-treating afterwards;

they came home with some full size candy bars and cans of soda!

Needless to say, we had a great halloween... hence the many pictures...