Trevor's 18 month haircut!

Third haircut and counting!

 Before and after!

 Funny face!

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and finally... Halloween!

The day had finally come. Gavin has been asking about Halloween since mid-August. He even knew he wanted to be Super Mario. I made sure to buy his costume early knowing there was no way he'd dress up in a real pair of overalls with dreaded buttons! Finally the day was here. Gavin got to wear his costumer to preschool ALL DAY! His favorite part of school was decorating and eating his sugar cookie with icing and sprinkles!

I made sure to have dinner early since the trick-or-treaters start at 5:30 in the neighborhood. We successfully finished dinner and got Gavin back into his costume. Trevor hung out with me, he was semi-dressed as Mario's brother Luigi in green shirt and overalls but had a fever so didn't go house to house.

Uncle David and Amy arrived around 6:30 and met dad and Gavin on the street for trick-or-treating. Uncle David was dressed like Grandpa Marty in a mask that I'm pretty sure dates back to the early 80s. David wore dad's Donzi shirt and I gave him a box of Abco lightbulbs to complete the ensemble. He was just missing his flea market apron.

Joel, who has been growing his mop out since last August, was perfectly dressed in his 70s attire. He even wore the outfit to work that day, complete with gold necklace, poly pants and sweet white shoes!

I put on a cowboy hat at the urging of the neighbor while Trevor and I handed out Halloween pencils. The reaction of some kids was pretty funny - where's the candy and walking away before I could put the pencil into their loot bag were just a few! Trevor was an excellent helper and put pencils into bags with precision. I'm sure if it were candy it may have been a different story but he knew his job and did it very well!

At the end of the night, Trevor crashed out, Amy and David left and Gavin and I sat on the front porch handing out the last few pencils. Gavin insisted we sit there til the last pencil was gone. I bought 90 pencils and we had 4 left. It was time for bed so I convinced Gavin it was time to go inside. He had a great time and hit every house on our street that had a light on. Candy is quite the motivator!

Gavin went to bed holding his neon light wand!

 

Pumpkin Carving Party

  

Every year since the early 2000s I would go down to my friend Katie's house in Denver for a pre-Halloween pumpkin carving party. I'd join the then little kids and carve pumpkins. Those little kids now have their drivers licenses! I thought we'd start a tradition up north and invite a few little people to carve pumpkins! There were 7 little people and their parents and Uncle David and Amy! We set up the picnic table in the garage (although it was nice weather outside!) with a tarp under it and went to town. It was fun. The kids are a bit young to use sharp knives on their own so the parentals carved and the kids supervised! 

 

 

The Halloween Glasses

 

In my Halloween box, I keep all sorts of things. I have 2 pair of glasses that have been used for Harry Potter and Dumbledore in past years. I brought them out thinking one pair might work for Joel's 70s attire this year but instead the boys decided to use them. Gavin pulled them out and went over to Trevor and tried them on him. Trevor got a kick out of them as did Gavin. Here are a few shots of my funny boys!

Trevor and his favorite toys!

 

 

Trevor has two favorite toys - balls and balloons. We have more toy balls around the house than you can imagine - baseballs, footballs, soccer balls, basketballs, nerf balls, balls for the pool, exercise balls, you name it, we probably have it (Except for that spiked ball that Maria has)! We keep the big green ball down in the basement these days. Last week I took Trevor down and he decided it was time to for a ride in his fire truck. On one of our many loops around the basement he spotted the big green ball and insisted on touching every time we made another loop. When it was time to go back upstairs, Trevor ran over to the ball and started rolling it towards the stairs. He even tried to push it up the steps. At that point I figured, he is a Beam-child and very persistent so I'll give him a hand. The ball made it upstairs and got rolled around and around the house. It lasted upstairs for about a week before mom got tired of it being EVERYWHERE so it's back in the basement and Trevor hasn't been down there since!

Balloons aka "Boons" - Trevor spots them in books and can open a book to the exact page they're on. He sees hot air balloons in the morning when they're flying above Boulder and when we're at the grocery, he points to every balloon he sees. Some are even football shaped which makes them even cooler! Unfortunately helium doesn't last forever and the boys are a little rough on balloons around the house so after a few days they mysteriously vanish (aka put in the trash).

I'm not saying we need more balls or balloons in the house, just telling you how it is round here!

The little climber

In the past few weeks, Trevor has taken it up a notch. He has become a climber. He mastered the stairs months ago. Now it's time to climb on the furniture, the learning tower and anything else that looks like fair game. His first attempts usually end in a head bonk!

Gavin has had the Learning Tower to himself for about a year and a half. That has all changed. Trevor wanted up so mom and dad showed him how to get up and in without bonking his head. Now every time we turn around, he's in it. That means anything Gavin is working on is also fair game. Gavin likes to draw and color and trace letters with highlighters, markers and crayons. Now Trevor wants in on the action. Sometimes Gavin is willing to share his tower and his paper, other times, not so much. I think Trevor is learning his place in the world - tormenter of big brother! Little brother can be a stinker and he knows it - just check out the last photo!