Kiddie updates...

Matt & I haven't decided how we are going to handle halloween w/the kids. But for now, Austin just knows that we bought a bunch of candy to give away to other kids that were dressed silly. He had a blast. He was trying to give candy to everyone (every jogger & car that went by). As you can see, Justin was getting into the act as well. Both of them were waving boxes of nerds in the air like they were anticipating the candy buzz. Notice the large bowl FULL of candy. We were only able to get rid of half of it, and that was with Matt giving hand-fulls in the last 1/2hr.





















Justin is rolling all over the place to get to where he wants to go. He also gets on all 4's and rocks, but then ends up on his belly or back or on his behind. At church Wednesday night the ladies that watched him in nursery said he actually crawled some. I suppose I forgot to tell Justin he is only to have his "firsts" around mommy & daddy. Austin rolled a lot also. He never did the army crawl. Went from rocking on all 4's to crawling. Justin is a big solid food eater, but still predominantly a nurser, just as Austin was at this age.

As I was reading our women's bible study book Feminine Appeal, there was a part in the latest chapter I read where the writer remembered her child running around in circles in the kitchen, at age 4, singing "your the best mommy" over and over. It immediately reminded me of a few small things that Austin has said that I should be remembering and cherishing. Thursday, I was cleaning the kitchen and the floor. I stopped a couple of times to nurse the baby and give him a different piece of real-estate to hang out in. At one of the breaks I was sitting in the l.r. in the recliner and Austin came up to me and hugged me from the side and said "mommy, your the best cleaner." I told him how nice it was of him to say that to me, and I thanked him. (It's a good thing he's only 2 and doesn't really know what clean is.) Often he will come to me in the kitchen and hug my legs and say "mommy, I love you" or "I love you more."

Austin's funny saying of the week, "mommy, only girls have rest raps." He means bra straps.