Trick or Treating: Thomaston Style

We brought the Zoo to Thomaston! Jake the tiger.

Walker the monkey.
My parents and the animals!

Can't get enough of this little monkey!

Checking out his tail!

Not a fan of trick or treating!

A happy little monkey after calling it a day!

Jake was a huge help handing out candy!

Since Tyson had to spend the weekend in Hattiesburg, MS with the Blazers, the boys and I headed to Thomaston to celebrate Halloween with my parents. We've had so much this weekend, but Trick or Treating was definitely the highlight!

Walker wasn't very fond of trick or treating. He is going through the whole "stranger anxiety" phase and screamed his head off whenever people approached him. We quickly learned to keep him back in the wagon so he could watch from a distance. ;)

Jake really enjoyed trick or treating and wasn't shy at all! He was so cute...he would walk up to the house and instead of saying "trick or treat," Jake would say "THANK YOU" before they even gave him candy! ;) So cute! Jake was also super cute giving out candy at my parents' house; in fact, I think he enjoyed that part the most. My mom said he would start yelling at people from the street, "come on" to come get some candy and then tell THEM "trick or treat" when they got to the door. So so cute! Such a fun age!

Happy Halloween! And Way to Go Blazers! We beat Southern Miss 50-49 in double overtime! Woo Hoo!

First Bath Together!

Love these two!

Walker isn't a big fan of Jake's singing!

My posts/pictures are gonna be a little scattered over the next few days; I'm playing catch-up from the tons of pictures I've taken this last week that I haven't had time to post.

Anyways, the boys had their first bath together yesterday at my parents' house. Jake has been so excited about the possibility, but I had to make sure Walker was stable enough to sit-up by himself without falling first. So far, so good! Walker did face dive into the bubbles tonight, though; I guess he was trying to eat them or something. It was pretty funny...he came up with his face completely covered in bubbles!

As you can tell by the pictures, Jake had a blast with his brother in the tub. He felt the need to serenade Walker the whole time! Hehehe! Jake also thought it was his job to bath Walker, which was fine until he decided to dump water over Walker's head. Walker is such a sport, though. Unfortunately, I think he's getting used to the harassment! ;)

Great-Grandparents!

The boys and I got to enjoy a visit today with my mom's parents. I wish I could have taken more pictures, but my eldest child wouldn't cooperate. Walker, on the other hand, was Mr. Photogenic as always. Those two boys are so so different! Anyways, we had a great time with MaMa and Granddaddy...I sure wish we could see them more often!

We love y'all, MaMa and Granddaddy! Thanks for coming to visit!

Pumpkin Carving

The boys and I carved our pumpkin today. Jake had originally picked out this awful wolf pattern (think circa 1980's fair picture) and was insistent that that is what our pumpkin would be, but I ended up carving the scaredy face instead while he was tracing the wolf! Ha! I'm a bad mom! Good thing he never even noticed after I finished!

Jake had so much fun carving the pumpkin. He wasn't too keen on cleaning out the guts of the pumpkin, but he did do a little towards the end. Of course, though, his favorite part was blowing out the candle while singing "Happy Birthday Baby Walker!" repeatedly! Walker of course had no idea what was going on, but he did enjoy sampling the pumpkin during picture-taking!

We hope everyone has a Happy and safe Halloween! We will be celebrating Saturday AND Sunday night, so I'll have lots of pictures next week!

Look Who's Crawling!

Ready...

set...GO!!

It ain't fast, and it ain't pretty, but the Walker-man is crawling! I really have no idea where it came from; he just kind of took off one day this week and has been getting better at it every day!

All I know is "game on!" I haven't been able to turn my head for a second since! Jake has been awesome about putting his toys up high and knowing which toys are "baby toys" and are safe to let Walker play with. I say that, but I also walked out of the room this week for literally 5 seconds (pre-crawling) to put a bottle up, and I walked back in to find that Jake had put a green mardi-gras necklace around Walker's neck! I almost passed out! Just when I thought I could trust Jake, I was quickly reminded that he's only 2 and doesn't know better.

I'm so proud of Jake, though. He just gets better and better with Walker everyday. Everyone has told me that it (i.e. sibling rivalry) starts getting worse when the 2nd one gets mobile, but so far, so good. I think Jake is actually excited that Walker can now actually "do something." Too cute. I PRAY it stays this way! Love these boys!

Check out this video below of Walker crawling:

"Future Man of Your Dreams"

The shirt says it all!

I have a feeling...
...I'm going to be beating the girls off with a stick one day!

UTEP

The boys were WAY more interested in watching warm-ups!

Tifton, Georgia representin'!

No, Jake will NOT smile on command!...
...but he will smile when he's being chased by cute girls!

Yep, he's quite the ladies' man these days!

Grandmama and Jake

Headin' to the locker room to celebrate!

This picture just trips me out!

UAB beat UTEP 21-6 today! Woo hoo! Way to go Blazers and Daddy! I think Grandmama might be our good luck charm!