The Ears

These Ears definitely deserve their own post. Dashell managed to pick out the single ugliest hat produced at Disneyland...a strange hybrid of Mater and Goofy with added Cars and Disneyland stickers on the mouse ears and lovely buck teeth up front. That is one classy boy! Somehow wearing the ugliest ears available only got him more attention and comments on what a cute boy he is...oh to be 2 and have terrible taste!

Disneyland

We went to California for Thanksgiving to spend some time with the Neibaur family. Of course we had to go to Disneyland 2 days, and I don't think the boys will ever be the same. And I'm not sure that's how we will ever spend Thanksgiving day again. Most of the pictures we took don't have any kids looking because they were way too excited about everything else they got to look at. I will say that the boys were at a great age to go. The magic was still very real for them and I still get to hear about what a hurry Mary Poppins was in when we saw her on Main Street and meeting Mickey and Woody.

Here are the older cousins waiting for "It's a Small World", a definite classic. I hadn't been to Disneyland in 15 years or so and I had never been around the holidays, so it was a surprise to find out how many rides they give Christmas themes during November and December...even the Haunted House was Nightmare Before Christmas and "It's a Small World" threw in a few Christmas carols and lots of Christmas trees.

Dashell was so funny about meeting Mickey Mouse. He was sooo excited and kept hugging him and giving him high 5s. It's a good thing he liked it as much as he did, because that was one deceptive line to meet him! I still have a few questions about the people who waited in the line to meet Mickey even though they didn't have kids.

They also got to see Woody and Jessie by chance when we were walking to meet up with everybody else, and it was definitely another highlight, although after Dash started to cry because he only got a hug from Jessie and not a hug from Woody, too.

Stratton tried to pick up pieces of the pirate treasure for a good 5 minutes. We had to literally tear him away from trying to find some treasure that would come loose for him to take home.

We promised the boys that they could get mouse ears at Disneyland, so Brigg took them while we were waiting for the parade on day and let them choose whatever pair they wanted, and this is what we ended up with.

Still Cute at 3 Months

Winter is finally here

We welcome all skiing companions.

Halloween

One small pirate, sword and all.

The return of the chicken.

The whole line up.

Paging Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

We have been listening to the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books in the car lately and the boys love them. Last week when Dashell was having a tantrum Stratton came to get me and said, " Mom, I think we need to send Dashell to Mrs. Piggle Wiggle." I would if I could some days, that's for sure! This is Stratton's owl punpkin that he created at preschool this year. I love the green wings and blue beak!

Don't Try and Boss THIS Kid Around....

I think that we just got a surefire sign that we have been encouraging potty training entirely too much for this 2 year old's taste. He has been walking around the house singing his very own song that goes like this...." I love diapers, I LOOOOVE diapers..." Maybe it's time to give it a rest for a couple weeks.