Carlisle is Lovely This Time of Year.....

It's two days before Halloween and this is our house:

I'm not sure, but I think this is unseasonably cold even by Pennsylvania standards.  Our jack-o'lantern doesn't seem to be minding the weather though.......

 Well, instead of pouting, we decided to make the best of it!  Cold air is good for croupy coughs right?

Just Like Dad

Every time we go outside to play in the backyard we have to do a quick clean up.  This time Henry decided he wanted to help too, so he grabbed a shovel out of the sandbox and went to work!  I'm pretty sure he had no idea what he and dad were actually doing!  Don't worry, no babies actually came into contact with anything unsanitary during the taking of these pictures......

It's so sweet how the boys want to be just like their daddy!  And I know Chris can't wait until he can officially turn over this particular chore to the boys for real!

A Day at the Park Cuteness

You can just see Henry's little wheels turning.....how can I get past mom and take a quick swim with those ducks?  

David's New Twist on an Old Favorite

David literally spent three hours yesterday asking me to sing the Winnie the Pooh song simply to have the opportunity to interrupt me and sub in the word "poop" for "Pooh." He couldn't stop laughing. I thought we had at least two more years before the potty humor started. I don't know where this came from--he certainly doesn't hear poop jokes from me! Somehow he just knows that poop is hilarious. It must be an innate part of being a boy :)

Marbles are Not for Eating....

I saw this marble run at a used furniture store in North Carolina and thought the $20 price tag was a little steep.  Lucky for us, Grandma Reintjes in her infinite wisdom knew better!  Who doesn't love marbles?  Who doesn't love to watch marbles roll down a track at top speeds?  Who doesn't love that clicking noise they make as they bang into each other?  Not my boys, that's for sure!  I don't know what I was thinking, trying to leave the store without this thing!  After all it meets all of my dream toy criteria--it's made of wood, it's simple, and it doesn't beep, blink, whistle or make cat noises at me (oh you kitty keyboard how I despise your incessant meowing)!

This is David's favorite toy right now and the first thing I hear once Henry lays down for his morning nap is David asking to play marbles.  And the fun doesn't stop with just the marble run :)  David likes to sort the different colored marbles in muffin tins (I promise all I did was give him the muffin tin and he decided to color sort!).  This easily keeps him busy for an hour which is no small feat!  While he was occupied here I was able to get ready, clean the kitchen and the bathroom!

Of course like pretty much every activity we do, it always seems to end up as a wild game of "avalanche"....oh well.......

Henry loves the marble run too, and it is really cute to watch him focus all of his attention on getting the marbles into the top of the track and then stopping them halfway down.  Of course he requires a tad more supervision than David.......

If he would just stop trying to eat the marbles he might be able to play longer than fifteen minutes without losing his marble privileges......