Sad Pirate at school.jpg
Sad Pirate at school.jpg 2008-04-11

Sad Pirate at school 2.jpg
Sad Pirate at school 2.jpg 2008-04-11

Happy Pirate in a parade.jpg
Happy Pirate in a parade.jpg 2008-04-11

Parade.jpg
Parade.jpg 2008-04-11

Gavin watching the parade.jpg
Gavin watching the parade.jpg 2008-04-11

Carter's pumpkin.jpg
Carter's pumpkin.jpg 2008-04-12

Carving pumpkins.jpg
Carving pumpkins.jpg 2008-04-12

Carving pumpkins 2.jpg
Carving pumpkins 2.jpg 2008-04-12

Carving pumpkins 3.jpg
Carving pumpkins 3.jpg 2008-04-12

Carving pumpkins 4.jpg
Carving pumpkins 4.jpg 2008-04-12

Carving pumpkins 5.jpg
Carving pumpkins 5.jpg 2008-04-12

Trick-or-Treating.jpg
Trick-or-Treating.jpg 2008-04-14

Trick-or-Treating 2.jpg
Trick-or-Treating 2.jpg 2008-04-14

Visiting Morgan's house.jpg
Visiting Morgan's house.jpg 2008-04-14

Trick-or-Treating 3.jpg
Trick-or-Treating 3.jpg 2008-04-14

Bob the Builder.jpg
Bob the Builder.jpg 2008-04-14

Carter and Gavin's pumpkins.jpg
Carter and Gavin's pumpkins.jpg 2008-04-14

Daddy's pumpkin.jpg
Daddy's pumpkin.jpg 2008-04-14

Gavin enjoying his loot.jpg
Gavin enjoying his loot.jpg 2008-04-14

Playing with sticks.jpg
Playing with sticks.jpg 2008-04-04

Carter sliding.jpg
Carter sliding.jpg 2008-04-04

Dreidels.jpg
Dreidels.jpg 2008-04-04

Gavin's stick.jpg
Gavin's stick.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks.jpg
Haystacks.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks 2.jpg
Haystacks 2.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks 3.jpg
Haystacks 3.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks 4.jpg
Haystacks 4.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks 5.jpg
Haystacks 5.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks 6.jpg
Haystacks 6.jpg 2008-04-04

Haystacks 7.jpg
Haystacks 7.jpg 2008-04-04

Painting pumpkins.jpg
Painting pumpkins.jpg 2008-04-04

8 Week Ultrasound.jpg
8 Week Ultrasound.jpg 2009-10-29

Tractor.jpg
Tractor.jpg 2008-03-31

Carter.jpg
Carter.jpg 2008-03-31

Carter 2.jpg
Carter 2.jpg 2008-03-31

Cutie Gavin.jpg
Cutie Gavin.jpg 2008-03-31

Mommy and Gavin.jpg
Mommy and Gavin.jpg 2008-03-31

Our pumpkins.jpg
Our pumpkins.jpg 2008-03-31

The boys.jpg
The boys.jpg 2008-03-31

The boys 2.jpg
The boys 2.jpg 2008-03-31

Taking turns.jpg
Taking turns.jpg 2008-03-26

Boys.jpg
Boys.jpg 2008-03-26

Bubbles.jpg
Bubbles.jpg 2008-03-26

Bubbles 2.jpg
Bubbles 2.jpg 2008-03-26

Bubbles on the belly.jpg
Bubbles on the belly.jpg 2008-03-26

Carter.jpg
Carter.jpg 2008-03-26

Carter on moonbounce.jpg
Carter on moonbounce.jpg 2008-03-26

Gavin.jpg
Gavin.jpg 2008-03-26

Gavin on moonbounce.jpg
Gavin on moonbounce.jpg 2008-03-26

Tasting.jpg
Tasting.jpg 2008-03-21

Chocolate milk.jpg
Chocolate milk.jpg 2008-03-21

Decorating donuts.jpg
Decorating donuts.jpg 2008-03-21

Fractured Prune Tour.jpg
Fractured Prune Tour.jpg 2008-03-21

Fractured Prune Tour 2.jpg
Fractured Prune Tour 2.jpg 2008-03-21

Fractured Prune Tour 3.jpg
Fractured Prune Tour 3.jpg 2008-03-21

Mommy and Gavin sliding 2.jpg
Mommy and Gavin sliding 2.jpg 2008-03-13

Carter sliding.jpg
Carter sliding.jpg 2008-03-13

Carter sliding 2.jpg
Carter sliding 2.jpg 2008-03-13

Gavin.jpg
Gavin.jpg 2008-03-13

Looking at chickens.jpg
Looking at chickens.jpg 2008-03-13

Mommy and Gavin sliding.jpg
Mommy and Gavin sliding.jpg 2008-03-13

Gavin serving himself breakfast.jpg
Gavin serving himself breakfast.jpg 2008-03-31

Gavin at the playground.jpg
Gavin at the playground.jpg 2008-03-12

We are happy to announce that Baby #3 is due on June 10, 2010 (although with our track record, it will likely be a week after that!).  We just had the first ultrasound at 8 weeks and everything looks right on track.  Baby #3 is proving its worth in this family already by making Mommy way more sick then the boys did.  Although, it is much harder for Mommy to take a nap on the playroom floor this time around with a very active Gavin constantly jumping on her! :)

Well, after a very busy summer that seemed to go by way too fast, Carter headed off to his first day of preschool.  He was a little nervous, but generally pretty excited, and quite frequently made a point of saying how "Gavin can't go to school because babies don't go poo-poo in the potty."  Poor Gavin, he is very sad that he can't join Carter each day when he gets dropped off. 

 

Gavin is still adjusting to spending time with just Mommy and has started to go through some major Separation Anxiety/Stranger Anxiety.  Without his security blanket of Carter around he seems pretty lonely (however, he is definitely taking advantage of free time to play with the trains without Carter pounding on him!).

 

Carter has had a couple very good days and a couple not-so-good days, but he is still gladly returning each day which is a good thing for him.  He has also started showing much more indepence with using the potty and dressing himself, so school already seems to be having a good influence.

 

Carter is very excited that the weather is starting to cool down because that means that Cox Farms FINALLY opened!  He has been waiting for this day since February (literally, he asks Mommy every single day if it is open yet).  The boys had a blast there and we will have to visit some other farms during the season too.  They went out shopping this weekend for their Halloween costumes (Captain Hook for Carter and Bob the Builder for Gavin) and have a blast looking at all of the "spooky" Halloween decorations in the store.  They get a kick out of watching the monsters rip their heads off and other gruesome decorations (gotta love boys!).

We've been so busy this summer and it is hard to believe that we are almost into mid-August!  Mommy and the boys have been keeping busy with loads of daytime activities including block parties, pool playdates, Rocknoceros and a puppet show at Wolf Trap Children's Theater, a firetruck demo, a frozen custard shop tour, playing in fountains, and lots more playdates! 

 

The boys got their first taste of a water park this season at the Reston Water Mine and both boys had to be forced by Mommy and Daddy to leave after they played so long that their lips turned blue and they were shaking.  Gavin went down one of the slides the wrong way and twisted both of his ankles, but that didn't stop him from playing because he discovered that Mommy and Daddy would carry him over to each of the slides, so he continued to go up and down many more times!

 

After many, many long months of hard labor, Super Daddy has finally finished building our deck.  It has already been broken in with 2 parties and the slide off of the back is a big hit.  Pictures of this will be posted soon.  Thanks Daddy!!!

After a healthy dinner of soda, juice and fondant icing, Carter was running around with a 5 year old boy who taught him how to catch "glowbugs" for the first time!  Even though Carter wouldn't touch any of them himself (surprised?), he had a blast running around near the vineyards and finding them.

Apparently Gavin didn't get the memo that the terrible twos don't start until AT LEAST 18 months.  Now that he is 1 year old and has learned to communicate what he wants/likes/dislikes, he will go into full on temper tantrum mode (including laying on the ground while kicking and screaming) at any moment.  I would say he learned this from his older brother, but even Carter never performed this classic of a temper tantrum.

Carter and Gavin Dancing.MOV

We often have dance parties after dinner these days.  Notice how Gavin stops at one point to "shoot, shoot" the camera.  Thanks to big brother Carter for teaching that trick! (along with all the upside down tricks that Gavin tries to imitate:))