Halloween at Houston Oaks

Oh what a fun Halloween we had! We started the festivities at Meme and Papa's house. Once we got there and changed into our costumes ( a small delay because we forgot a certain sidekicks cape at home!) we were headed off to the golf club for the party.
Once we got there and checked out all the cool Halloween decorations Nathan made his way over to paint yet another pumpkin. What can I say the kid loves his pumpkins, this was his sixth one in the last two weeks. If we keep this up we can open our own pumpkin patch :)
As he was letting his pumpkin dry they called everyone over for a cake walk! I have never heard of such a thing but it seems I was the only one. The line filled up quick and Nathan didnt make it in for the first walk around. Aunt "Khaki" wiggled him in for the second round and as soon as Kyle said to me " What if he wins?" they stopped and called out number one. Take a wild guess who was standing on number one?????? NATHAN!!!! He got to pick out a cake from the whole table full of sweet goodies. We looked and looked and looked and found................. A PUMPKIN CAKE! Perfect. He let his daddy help him carry it and sit it on the table . He just couldnt resist and started eating the chocolate chip face piece by piece.
We talked him into leaving the cake in safe hands and going down the huge blow up slide they had. After some fun times with his cape flapping in the wind we rode the Hay ride. Nolan go to get in on that and had a blast! He was laughing and jumping up and down the whole time. They had some hot dogs and hamburgers so we decided it was time to eat. Nathan never eats hotdogs but decided that Batman eats them. Sure enough he ate the whole thing! We talked Meme into riding the hayride with us and went another round. After the hay ride we tried to hang around to see who won the costume contest but we ran out of time and had to get home for the real trick or treating! Kyle said in his head the boys won so I will take that ! :)

Harvest Day Parade.

Last week was Harvest Day at Nathan's School. They do a little parade to start of the fun with all the different classes dressed up in their costumes they make. Nathan's class was dressed as the cutest pumpkins ever. It was perfect because Nathan loves looking for pumpkins and ghosts around this time of year!
During the parade Nathan was in the middle of his two best buds at school , Lance and Hogan. Mrs. Eddy has told me that have a little gang and watch out for each other. I love it . It was never as obvious as it was Thursday .
After the parade they got to go back to the schools pumpkin patch and pick out a special pumpkin that they got to paint and bring home. Nathan also brought home a fun bag of goodies from his teachers. What a fun day. Sometimes I wish I went to his school .
P.S. I did notice that Nathan's hat has the pumpkins standing on their side while everyone else's are flat. If you ask Nathan why he says " Thats how we do that" ha haha ah

Party time

This last weekend was our friend Brady's 4th Birthday. What a birthday it was! His mommy is about as good as it gets when it comes to parties and this one was all pirate! When we arrived Nathan got a pirate patch for his eye, a sash, pirate hat and of course a pirate sword! These guys ran around non stop having a blast the whole time. They made pirate hooks for their hands and telescopes to look for land. There was even a real pirate there!!!! Pirate Steve led all the kids on a scavenger hunt to find the " buried treasure". Nathan and Nolan came home with all kinds of pirate treasure including some fancy pirate beads he has been wearing around with his eye patch. We hope Brady had a great day , I know we sure did!

Halloween Party!

Last week we had some of our awesome friends over for a Halloween Party. Everyone came dressed in their adorable little costumes and ready for some Halloween fun.
We have such sweet friends and Nathan loves when we are able to play with them. He had been telling me for days who was coming and what they were going to be dressed up as.
Nathan had school that morning so it worked out perfectly. I had time to get the goodies ready and Nathan had something to take his mind off the countdown to the party.
Nathan was so excited when his friends started showing up. Nolan found his buddy Aidan right away and didn't stray to far away all day.
Allison' s mommy brought yummy cookies for us to decorate. She had the whole set up complete with icing and Halloween sprinkles. What Fun!!!!
Brady and Cash's mommy brought pumpkins for everyone to color and take home. The pumpkins were by far the best I have ever seen. We have some budding artists around here :)
We also had yummy snacks that included "boogers on a stick" and "Monster Toes". When I tried to get Nathan to eat one he said " No Mommy , I do not want a booger on stick........" haha ha ha. I told him over and over it was not a real booger but vanilla on a pretzel. Later that night I tried again and got the same response. No boogers for Nathan.
It was so much fun and the kids were absolutely adorable in their costumes. We are so lucky to have such sweet friends to "party" with.

Pumpkin Patch Time

It was such a beautiful day today so we decided to load up and head on out to the Pumpkin patch! What a fun day we had. Nathan and Nolan played around in the pumpkins. Nolan decided he did not like pumpkins as much as his brother Nathan does. Some of the fun stuff we got to do included riding a pony, riding a train all around the "ranch", finding our way through a hay maze, and of course Nathan found the putt putt course that was off towards the back of the ranch. We also spent time checking out all the fun animals around the farm. On the way out Nathan got to pick out his own pumpkin to take home. He picked out the perfect pumpkin and carried it all the way back to the car. I think we will be making a mini Jack O Lantern out of it this week :)

Nolan update

What Nolan has been up to lately?


He is crawling all over the place! He loves to follow Nathan around all day. He blabbers to everyone and says “dah dah” all day long. He has eight teeth in his mouth with more are coming in as we speak. He stands up and walks all along tables and couches. He has a sweet and funny little personality that we are finally getting to see since he has been a lot healthier lately! He is so fun to talk to and play with . My favorite little thing he does right now is crinkling his little nose when he laughs. I just want to eat him up when he does it. The last little milestone is that he will wave back to you . Now dont get me wrong , he doesnt have the parade wave going on or anything but it is definitely a wave of some sorts! ah ah ah.
We go for our 8 month check up at the end of the month so we will see what we are measuring in at .

Oh and we have our Halloween costumes.............. Batman and Robin. Oh I cant wait!

Pumpkin Painting!

We decided since it has been so yucky lately that we would have our own pumpkin patch fun day today at home. Our friends Brady and Cash came over to start off the fall season by painting some pumpkins with us! What fun! This was Cash's' first pumpkin painting and I am pretty sure he loved it. Nathan and Brady are veterans at this . They were very serious and sure of what they wanted their pumpkins to look like. Nathan started out with a face that quickly turned into a swirl of colors.
After the pumpkins were painted we sat them out to dry so we could play . I have to say Nolan had perfect timing with the nap today. He feel asleep right before painting and woke up in plenty of time to play with everyone.
We had lots of fun playing grocery store, cars, space shuttle , and our new Dr Seuss game! .
I think this is the official Schomburg beginning to fall ! YAY!!!! Let the cool weather begin...........