Be Good For Goodness Sake

As you can probably tell by the title of this post the thing occupying most of my thoughts these days is Christmas!  I am so pumped this year and I cannot wait to celebrate it with my family and to see Eli's face on Christmas morning.  I hope he will be as excited as I am expecting him to be.  The house is all decorated and ready to go and the presents have all been purchased, now it is just a waiting game.  Luckily, the weather here has been beautiful so the days seem to be passing fairly quickly.  It has been a bit cold but the colder days usually mean clear skies and I'll take that over rain any day.

Out in the sun

My Gryffindor kid

What? No rain!

Simon seems to be getting bigger all the time... if that's even possible.  In the last little while he has learned how to blow raspberries and so most of the time he looks like this...

 For some reason my kids don't think that I am funny at all.  It was the same way when Eli was little.  I guess that they see my lame face all day long and get pretty bored of it, and then Bruce walks in the door and it's the most amazing thing that has ever happened to them.  Try as I might I cannot get Simon to laugh for me and basically all Bruce has to do is smile at him and he cracks up. He's pretty adorable.

Only 23 days until our Edmonton trip!

Octoblur

Whoa! Where did the time go? October was such an amazing and busy month that I know I will end up leaving a ton of details out of this post.  I will try to keep it to the biggest events so that I don't yammer on about nothing. At the beginning of the month Ashley came to have a visit and we celebrated her birthday! I always feel bad that we can't offer our visitors a real room but we still had a great time and I hope she enjoyed her birthday even though she had to sleep on the couch.
This month was also Eli's third birthday!  I cannot believe that my little guy is three years old.  Every day he gets cuter and crazier in equal measure.  I can only hope that I will be able to continue to keep up with him.  He enjoyed his birthday very much and I have to say that once you become a mom there is more joy in seeing your children happy than anything else.

Presents!

Batman ice cream cake! Made by Daddy

Eli had also been looking forward to Halloween for such a long time.  He knew exactly who he wanted to be and I have to say that he played the role pretty well.

When I asked him to make a Batman face...

POW!

BAM!

Showing his muscles

The Justice League!

Apparently Eli is heavier than Bruce anticipated

Eli, Simon and I also got to go to Edmonton for a full week! It was amazing but as always it felt very short.  It was so nice to see everyone and Eli had a blast playing with his cousins.  I am always so sad to leave and Eli is still asking me when we get to go again.  I hope it is very soon because the Christmas season is coming and I would love for Eli to have the Larsen Christmas experience... and of course it isn't Christmas without family.

Hanging out with Grandma

Almsot 4 months!

Well there is a brief synopsis of our October. It is a little rushed and lazy but Simon doesn't like to go to bed until somewhere between midnight and 1 a.m. so I have to do this quick during this naps! I'm trying to fix that nasty habit this week... wish me luck!