Here’s a snippet from a car ride conversation (or should I say debate?) last night:

Ethan: The moon is out. But where is the moon?
Lucas: Moon sleeping, o-tay?
Ethan: No it’s not sleeping! The moon is out.
Lucas: Eet-an, moon taking a nap, o-tay?

Our car ride conversations are always entertaining!

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Just posting a little video… maybe we’ll post more in the future… stay tuned.

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Lucas’ birthday is today but we celebrated on Saturday. It was a fun day with family! Thanks to everyone who was able to come help us celebrate the life of our little guy. We appreciate you and are blessed by your love.

Lucas has been a true joy. It’s been fun having another boy in the house. We’ve seen many similarities between Ethan and Lucas but also so many differences. The boys get along so well, for the most part, and we look forward to see their relationship grow and change.

Here are some pictures of his big day… he was a real trooper and I think he really enjoyed all the attention being on him!

Lucas’ 2nd cousin’s: Luke & Blake

Yay!  Lucas loves to clap… so cute.

New bouncy toy

The birthday boy!

Ethan’s new toy… the box!

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We spent this Thanksgiving in Detroit with Kevin’s family. It was a little different b/c Kevin’s sister’s family didn’t come (we missed you guys)… Ethan didn’t know what to do without his cousins to play with. But it was still a very nice visit. Kevin’s aunt and uncle from GA were in town so that was great to be able to visit with them! Ethan took a special liking to his second cousin, Andrew.

Lucas enjoyed his first Thanksgiving dinner and Ethan could have cared less…. someday he’ll love it.

We came home on Friday to celebrate my Mom’s birthday at a local restaurant. And on Saturday we got most of our Christmas decorations up…. despite both Kevin and me feeling a bit under the weather. All in all it was a great weekend spent with family.

I was having a little fun with Ethan’s hair.

Our little contortionist

The Grandma’s

Ethan & Andrew

PawPaw & Lucas

Lucas had a little fun with his bottle

Happy Birthday Mom!

Our lovely fake tree. Ethan was a great helper!

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We had the pleasure of having the Chumley family come visit us this past week. What a treat! Josh and Jo are friends from college… Jo and I spent a semester in Cambridge, England together and we were in each others weddings. They live in Arizona now so we don’t get to see each other much. Last time we saw each other was at our wedding almost 5 years ago!!! Way too long! They have family in TN so they took a little detour and flew to Detroit to visit some friends in Michigan and then us for a few days and then off to TN for Thanksgiving. Do we feel special or what. They have 2 adorable little boys, Jack & Jonas. Jack and Ethan are only a month apart so they had a great time playing together. Jonas is 18 months and just loved to explore everything… soon Lucas will be the same way. It was so nice to visit, catch up and live life together for a few days. Our daily routines are about the same…. kids, kids, kids. Kevin had a work retreat he had to be at Wednesday - Friday so he wasn’t home to visit until Friday night. Jo and I did get to have a little girls night out on Thursday though… after we put the kids to bed, Josh stayed home while we could go out… another nice treat.

Friday night we went to the Toledo Zoo’s Lights Before Christmas, which the kids really enjoyed. Saturday was a Holiday Parade downtown Bowling Green and then the BIG OSU vs. Michigan game… GO BUCKS! It was a cold couple of days so they got their taste of Ohio cold weather and I’m sure that was enough for them. It was a very nice visit and hopefully it won’t be another 5 years before we see each other again! Thanks for coming out guys! We love you!

Our boys, Ethan & Jack

Jack… what a cutie

Sweet Jonas

My boys

Ethan & Jack loved to draw on the easel

The babies

Jonas loved to carry around this little chair and sit down whenever he felt like it… so cute

At the Lights Before Christmas

Us Moms

The big boys watching the dancing lights

A little Cider and Cloves by the campfire

Baby Lucas at the Holiday Parade

Jo and the boys at the Holiday Parade

Kevin’s first year to experience BG’s parade

Bye friends, thanks for visiting!

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We have lots of leaves in our back yard! And most of the trees aren’t even bare yet! Having kids to play in the leaves make raking them much more enjoyable. Ethan has had a great time running and jumping in the piles and throwing them all over the place. Lucas, on the other hand, is deathly afraid of them! I plopped him in the big pile, he was ok for about 30 seconds, Ethan started throwing leaves at him and it was all over! He screams his head off if a leaf even comes close to him. Poor kid.

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This year we decided to stick around our neighborhood and trick or treat…. even though our neighborhood is small we thought it would be a good idea to see what it’s like on Halloween… see how many trick or treaters are out and how many houses actually participate. Well, lets just say, it’s probably good Ethan is little and couldn’t be too disappointed at the lack of trick or treaters out and about. It was a beautiful night for a walk though and some houses did have their lights on. Our first clue should have been, when the first house told Ethan to take as much candy as he wanted! I think his bucket was 1/4 full after the first house! I don’t think we saw any other little kids out. Eh, oh well, it was still tons of fun watching Ethan go to the door and try to yell “Trick or Treat”. He especially loved it when he would get suckers!

It was a fun Halloween and Lucas did great too… he loves going for rides in the wagon.

Happy Halloween.

Our Pea Pod & Turtle

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