Hair cuts and Halloween!

Hair Cut for the Sweet Bitty..
 

No hair cut for this guy but everyone needs their picture taken especially when you are this darn cute! (Biased again...Sorry!)

Goofy Big Boy Sporting his new cut.

Pre-Trick or Treating

Halloween will hopefully be a bit more "fun" next year.  This year was cold and rainy.  That did not stop us.  Aidan had a blast and Daniel was good.   Poor Logan was so confused.  To him it was an entire night of Good Bye's.  He was hysterical and gagging.  So much stress for the Sweet Bitty.  We finally got home and Logan relaxed with a book on the recliner.  Of course trick or treating was still going on.  Every door bell ring brought back the hysterics.  It ended at 8p and we turned off the porch light, closed the door but kept our little Halloween lights on.  Everyone was in bed and Logan was very content.  (His bed is his "safe place".)  Sure enough someone who doesn't live in our neighborhood took the Halloween lights as a sign of "RING OUR DOORBELL!"  Poor Logan fell apart again.  We handed them candy (we were in our PJ's by then) and unplugged the lights.  Whew.
Definitely a different experience than last year where Logan had a blast running around.  Definitely a memorable one and to make sure we have extra hands to help out next year..just in case.
Luckily, Aidan and Daniel had fun and Logan has no hard feelings toward his chocolate.  :)

Family Fun Night

Thanks to our awesome Coordinator at our local CDSA we got to have a fantastic night!

One of the Children's museum offers every so often "Family Fun Night" and it is geared towards Special Needs Kids.  The lights are lower, it's not as loud and they also have a movie playing at their theater that is lower volume.  

The Boys had a blast.  It was a Halloween event so Kids were to wear their costumes.  Logan had a hard time transitioning from the activities until he realized it all was fun and that there was more than train tables there.  

It made for a bit later night but they had fun and it was totally worth it.  

A Picture to Smile At

Every wonder where the food you thought you ate went?

A One Size Fits All Post

We had Family over just for fun tonight. Andrew and his Dad worked hard to getting the playset together. OK...rebuilding the "free" set we got that wasn't it as good as shape as the previous owner said. Oh well, we are making it ours now and making sure it will be the best for the Kids! It was a good excuse to have everyone over.
 
 Here is Daniel at the end of the evening looking super cute in Grandpa's hat!

 

Here is how Aidan finished the night. We were getting everyone in line to go up to bed and he did not stay awake to get upstairs on his own.

Daniel was extremely cute this morning eating a few Cheerios.  

Adorable even with shiny snot on his upper lip!

I am not sure if this picture or the one below quite does the situation justice.
Logan's hair was wet..VERY WET.  Since Logan and us have quite a communication gap we cannot ask him what happened.  We need the voice of someone who hopefully witnessed what happened.
Aidan likes to comb and brush hair.  He had a desire to work with Logan. He informed us that he sprayed Logan's hair with the detangling spray we have while Logan watched TV.
Silly Boys!  

Field Trip

On Friday Aidan's class had a field trip to a local pumpkin patch.
My Mom took the day off of work to help so I could take all The Boys.  My Sister's oldest two were off of school so they joined her too!  What a great morning with family and preschool friends!  Aidan was ecstatic!  We started the morning looking at the Farmer's cows, a hayride, snack, playtime and pumpkin picking!  
Logan actually played with Garreth and Ansley today!  They chased each other through a haystack maze.  Logan really enjoys a good game of chase.  (This is a true first of him actually interacting with him on his own!)
Logan really enjoys this farm because of the vast space to run.
Daniel spent the morning snoozing on Grandma.  He did not make it past the hayride.
It was a good morning and we finished up with a wonderful Chic Fila lunch.  Chic Fila at lunchtime is crazy as is and add 6 kids and 3 adults...it is nothing but fun!
Thanks Mom!

Trying to find the time...

I keep meaning to make an update in detail about what is happening around our house.  Time is just a very hard thing to find around here..kind of like Andrew's iPod right now.  

I have some videos and pictures that are really cute (yes, I am biased.) and will post them soon enough.  

Aidan is loving school just as much if not more than last year.  I have a meeting scheduled with his teacher to discuss some of his sensory issues that are flaring up recently.  The stress around here has been pretty intense in the last few months and it is taking its toll on Aidan.  He is also very frustrated with his Little Brothers and their frustrations.  Most can figure he is not a happy camper about the amount of crying/yelling they produce.  Overall he is doing better and we are more than ever trying to make sure he has some good one on one time.  

Logan is making leaps and bounds.  He has many more words.  We still have minimal communication with him but hearing more words come is FANTASTIC!  Most of the words are phrases he has heard before and rarely do anything with the situation or are helpful in anyways.  However, if you find he wants apple juice, we have more of a chance of getting him to try to repeat it!  This really is big news!  Oh and yesterday he stopped by the garage door opener and said, "push it!"  This is AWESOME!  He is also babbling "Mamamamama" and is a bit more clingy if he thinks I am going to leave. His babbling of Mama is imitative of  Daniel's babbling BUT it is being directed at me so, he knows what it means.  It is a tad overwhelming but overjoys me tremendously!  Our Logan is now 2.5 years old.  OH MY!  We had the local CDSA come out and evaluate him to see if he would qualify for some at home services to lessen the crazy of our weekly appointments.  Our experience with them has been fantastic.  

His eligibility evaluation was a bit of a shock for us.  We heard nothing we did not already "know" (ie: parental instinct) but  were hoping to hear it down the road. (For the selfish reasons of our ability to process and accept.) They spent over 3 hours in our home to observe, test and listen to our report of Logan and his doings.  They left that evening and  Logan was diagnosed as  autistic.  (I will post more specifically on this soon and what our end of Oct looks like.)

Daniel is moving around like a wild man lately!  He is 10 MONTHS OLD TODAY!!!  (how did we get here?!)  He is walking!!  OK, not like the other Boys.  But he can get himself across a room with walking.  He realizes that he covers ground much faster with crawling and resorts to that.  The other day he also was standing and bent at the hips to pick up a toy and stood again!  Oh yes and as of this past week he now has 4 teeth!  All bottom teeth..we really are thinking he is part bull dog!  

More fun posts coming soon!!   

Confession Time

I always mean to make this blog post, just somehow never manage to get around to it.  

I have a confession to make...

I am a blog hopper. 

I just can't help it.  

I read someones blog and read their blog rolls.  If I see a blog title that looks interesting or a post title that sounds interesting..I check it out. 

I then do it again from that blog and so on.
Sometimes I have no idea how I managed to get to where I am.  

Anyways, there is my confession.  

Anyone else subject to blog hopping?!

 I always think...I could comment on this blog but then again, the person may think.."Who is that?!  I don't know them!"