Happy Halloween

We celebrated Halloween at home this year. Grammy, Papa, and Aunt Stacey came over to see our little pirate and to have some chili and a jack-o-lantern brownie I made.

















The Trick-or-Treat hours were 2-8 here (yes, 6 hours!) so we went out right at 2 for about an hour. We had the wagon, but Luke wanted to walk most of the time. He was so funny walking up to the houses. He would walk slow as molasses and then very quietly say "a treat" and then "thank u". He just kept looking inside his bucket, almost in disbelief and he told us he wanted more!

When we got back to our house, Luke got his sugar fix!













Then around dinner time, Luke had a sugar coma! The poor little guy was so exhausted - being a pirate is hard work (especially when there is no time for a nap!).



It was a great second Halloween with our little guy - he was the cutest little pirate I ever did see!

Pre-Halloween Festivities

We celebrated Halloween with the Zukowski's last Saturday. You may or may not know that Halloween is a BIG holiday in the Zuk household. A few years ago the house was decorated in a Pirates of the Caribbean theme so when they found out Luke was being a pirate this year, well, let's just say all of the decorations and costumes were pulled out of storage!







I believe they were both saying "Arrrrrr"


This was also the week of Halloween t-shirts. I don't know how it happens, but Luke seems to have anywhere from 3-5 Halloween shirts every year (and I am only responsible for buying one of them!).

Day 1


Day 2


Day 3


Friday afternoon was Luke's daycare Halloween party - there will be a separate post on that!

Last night we stayed in and carved our pumpkins. Luke wasn't a big fan of the 'guts' of the pumpkin at first, but then he started getting into it!









Finished products (Wally did the two on the ends and I did the ghost one in the middle - yes, I really did it - my first time doing an elaborate (for me) carving - not too bad!).
(Notice another Halloween shirt on Luke!).

Mom, what?

Dearest Luke,

While I love hearing you call out for me, especially in the morning, the transition from Mama to Mommy to MOM, has been far too quick. I mean, you are not even 2-years old yet. You are not exclusively calling me Mom yet, but I have been hearing it more and more. Maybe it is just a phase and you will go back to calling me Mama again. I can only hope.

That's all for now.

Love,

MAMA

Caught Reading

"Excuse me Mom, I'm trying to read!"






"Oh hey! You're still there!"




Ok, back to reading.

Wordless Wednesday

(Bathtime Cheeser)

Backyard Football Fun

Timeout on the field...


there's an airplane!

My How Things Have Changed

(left to right: Clark Happ, Connor Paulsrud, Brayden Goodbred, Luke Zukowski, Blake Goodbred holding CJ Callan)

Saturday night the Templeton's so kindly had our group of friends (+ kiddos) over to visit! It was the first time that we really were able to get all of the kids together - yes, there are 6 BOYS in the picture above (crazy, huh?)! They range in age from 3 years to 2 months. There was one point in the night where I was looking around and turned to Julie and said, "When did this happen?". It was so crazy, but fun to see all of these kids around. The conversations ranged from baby/kid stuff to the same ole inside jokes that go back years. I really treasure having this great group of friends and although it is hard to get everyone together being that we live all over and have our own crazy schedules, we will keep working to find a date that works for everyone and make sure the boys (and any future children) know each other and the great friends that their mommy and daddy have! So now, here are some more pictures from our fun night!



























My cookie monster!


(no, Clark isn't a ninja! He was dressed as a spider earlier in the day, hence the all black!)










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