camera came home in time for some halloween shots. too bad they were all at dark! 🙂

we had a great time. love our neighborhood. love seeing kids from the school. love that it’s not too crowded. love that caleb was ahead of us all and just going at it. what a riot. one house made him come back and cry and that made my mommy heart break. remembering he IS only 4 and that his little mind is still so innocent. cameron did the bigger pumpkin, caleb the smaller. how cool is that bat pumpkin?! so proud of that guy! and that ‘wanna-be-scary-but-so-still-so-cute-face’ on caleb’s! 🙂 haha!

and kira was at her dad’s but here she is before she left:

we’re at the age where most of the girl’s costumes are soooo dark and gothic-y and ‘wanna-be-sexy’. so we dug through her closet and found this old dress that used to be my sister in law’s when she was little. not sure what you call this. but it is my dream time period for girls. when they cooked and helped out at the house and wore respectable things outside. lol. 🙂

it’s a girl!!!!! (we think!) 🙂

the doctor completely shocked chris and I by telling us we are having  a girl. we totally thought it  was a boy! unfortunately, the  umbilical cord was in the way of a perfect view, so next month, we will have another peek! (so glad we get so many ultrasounds, with all the other kids, i got only ONE each!) but she did say she was 90% sure, so i guess we will go with that! i was a little hesitant to start telling people it is a girl, in case it’s not, but oh well!- chris said it would make a funny story. 🙂

heard about  this store  from a mag that jennifer garner was in. it said she loved the cord skirt so much she bought one of each color. ha! wouldn’t that be nice! love seeing cute pregnant things. just thought i would share that with all you pregnant people out there.

also, please send good cooperative vibes on friday morning, will ya- we are going to have an ultrasound. REALLY hope we find out what the little munchkin is! it is SO hard being patient. 🙂

are new again. LOVE it when that happens!!!!!! caleb rediscovered cam’s LeapPad from a few years back.
(resorting to online photos, sorry.) 🙂

he has recently been playing with it for like 2 hours at a time. (love that!) totally gonna stock up on more books for christmas! if you don’t have one of these yet- and they have so many newer products too- GET ONE! 🙂
they even have headphones for long car drives! 🙂
and a halloween funny from caleb:
"Mom, you can be Pocahontas for Halloween since you are already brown!" according to him, i am the only ‘brown’ one in the family- everyone else is peach. haha–lol!!!!!! he fails to remember that Pocahontas is nice and trim and slim, and does not have a big ol’ belly. 🙂

my man is home! 🙂 🙂 🙂 we missed him. we waters can only be apart from each other for so long before going completely nuts. so he went on a boy’s weekend (5days! long weekend!) to watch the Notre Dame game and then a Monday Night Football game. old buddies from 4th grade… nice to reconnect and just hang with people who could appreciate the college football hall of fame. i know i wouldn’t. lol.

chris was the little photojournalist too- he got such cool shots. 🙂 who would think a guy would take over 200 pictures at a football game? lol!
but the bad news, something funky happened to those little pins where my memory card goes into. so it’s in the shop for 7-10 business days. that means no halloween pictures this year. 😦 good thing the boys are going to be the same things they were last year. sigh, oh well. if you know my husband, you know he is so easy to forgive. the little charmer. 🙂

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i have been sick. my hubby has been out of town. (waaaaaaaaah!) it was just me and the boys this past weekend. i mostly laid on the couch and slept while the boys did who knows what. lol. they were really good most of the time. at some random times, they would totally bounce off the walls. maybe it was because i had kept them inside all weekend. maybe it was because they had resorted to eating peanut butter out of the jar because i couldn’t get up to make them something. lol- ok that only happened a few times. my sweet father in law had us over for steaks saturday night, thank God for that meal. 🙂 anyways, so of course the boys were rugrats, fighting every now and then.. being totally, incredibly loud at times..etc, etc. but then–as i hop online to check my email, cam comes to me, ‘come here, mom’. he takes me by the hand to the kids’ room, to my bedroom and the downstairs area. they picked up all the toys. they made my bed. they cleaned off the dining table. they folded the blankets and fluffed the pillows on the couch. it was beautiful. i was speechless. what did i do to deserve these lovebugs? i totally smile and laugh as cam says, "let’s try and keep it like this, ok?"