Weekend Update

We had such a busy and fun weekend! Scott and I spent all day friday at the park and playing at home. Saturday went headed to the zoo and then picked up Mimi for a sleepover. Today Mimi and mommy shopped ALL DAY (being pregnant I now understand the term "shop til you drop") while Scott and Daddy played and watched movies (Frank stopped by last night and left Scott "how the grinch stole Christmas"). Tonight we tried to get some smiles in front of the tree for a Christmas picture (really squeakin' in under the wire I know...we will see if I can get er done. If I make it this year I will be ordering from inkoehtdesign on etsy.com, if not this year then next year cutest cards ever, maybe next year I won't be such a slacker)

Love weekends, love the holiday season, LOVE THESE BOYS OF MINE!

Awesome Hair Award

After wrestling with Charlie and getting licked in the head Scott gets these two awesome hair wings on each side!

Eggrolls!!!

Scott and I had a super fun day hanging with A & Z. We played hard in the morning and decided to order lunch in (actually Andy I decided on the phone the night before). The two mamas-to-be (yep - we get to prego together again) had a mad craving for some thai iced tea so our decision to have thai food was made easy. When ordering we voted to definitely order larges, thinking they would be maybe as a tall as a venti starbucks iced tea at the biggest. Turns out: thai iced tea big gulps...I still have half in my refrigerator.

So after the kiddos had some to eat we gave them each an egg roll...half for eating purposes and half for their (and as it turns out our) entertainment.

Love how they are looking at each other...."hey friend, did we score or what?"

Diggin' in

Scott's expression is hysterical here:

Mmmmm Eggrolls...

Then ZoZo decided to take it down corn on the cob style!

Eggrolls are a hit with S & Z!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree...

"I love to play with your ornaments!"

We decorated the tree a few days ago and Scott had a great time. He helped carefully hang some ornaments himself only to remove them moments later to play with. It is truly far too tempting for toddlers to leave ornaments on a tree. I mean its basically a tree full of smallish toys made just for them! We mostly left off the breakables, the few we put on are at the very top. The bottom of the tree has lots of soft ornaments and ones that Scott is allowed to take off and play with. We have had a few casualties but nothing some glue won't fix. Scott especially likes a wooden nutcracker ornament whom he calls "crackers"!

As you can see decorated only lasted so long then Scott just set up some ornaments to play with. The candy canes are plastic by the way - I do not let him just have 10 unwrapped candy canes to run around the house with.

We also retired the angel from the top of the tree for the year. She's pretty heavy and any movement of the tree (i.e. Scott pulling an ornament, or several, off) causes her to come crashing down. I'm on the hunt for another, lighter tree topper!

A visit from Frank...

Christmas is in full swing at the Campbell house. The tree is up (not decorated yet...tonight I hope!) and the rest of the indoor decor is up too.

Scott was visited by his Christmas elf for the first time this year last night. His Christmas elf, as it turns out is the son of my Christmas elf from growing up, who has since retired, and the brother of Parker J.'s Christmas elf. Franklin, Scott's elf, left a long note to Scott about who he was and how he has been watching Scott be such a good boy (and of course reporting back to Santa). Scott was especially good over this Thanksgiving break, he learned a lot and shared well with all of his friends, and it did not go unnoticed. Yesterday in fact Scott played so nicely at Ryker's house with Daddy, Ryker, Maddox and Beau while mommy and Andy had a girl's day out (it was SPECTACULAR, great company, great food, great shopping!!!) so Franklin figured it would be the perfect night for his first visit. He left Scott his very own Christmas Nativity Scene. Scott has been very interested in all of our Christmas decorations this and has done a wonderful job of playing carefully with them (only one minor Santa hat snafu on an ornament) so the elves figured it was high time Scott have a decoration of his own...not to mention Mommy is not putting out her nativity this year due to its breakable nature, sentimental value and lack of free out of reach surface area.

Scott got up this morning and found his nativity first thing (before breakfast....if you know Scott you know we do NOTHING before breakfast....he asks for "nack" the moment I get him from his crib). Mimi and Papa were spending the night so Scott shared his find with Mimi this morning.

It was a hit! Scott especially loved the animals and baby Jesus (whom he calls baby and if he gives it to you he expects you to rock him in your hands) he also learned to say "Mary".

Please note Scott's snowmen friend to the right. The moment he came inside for decorating Scott has carried him around the house everywhere he goes. If Scott ends up in a room without him he says "oh, where man?" The snowman even spent the night in Scott's room last night.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was full of friends, fun and food at the Campbell house. Mimi and Papa, Matt, Hilary and Jay, and Beau, Alexis, Ryker and Maddox came over for a Thanksgiving feast and LOTS of playing! We started the day in the "cave". Mimi and Papa just got new appliances at their house so they brought the washer/dryer box to play in....it was hours of fun (still is). Scott insisted Mimi or Papa be in the cave with him at all times. The picture above Hilary was lifting up a blanket covering the entrance to surprise the boys...they laughed harder each time! It was hilarious!

When Ryker got there it made for even more fun. The 3 oldest boys had a great time and got along really well. Ryker is such a good example for the littler boys....which is a good thing because there are even more little boys on the way.

I have zero pictures of the dinner portion of the evening...it was delicious chaos! After dinner was cleaned up we had pie and ice cream (with some gluten and dairy free choices too!). Ryker helped me serve everyone...he was such a wonderful helper....so careful and didn't spill a drop, but had he spilled it would have been ok because we had more than enough pie : )

Some of the guests enjoying desert and company.

Scott had some bites of ice cream and a little bit of whip cream too...he was delighted...

Mimi is always willing to give another bite!!!

So after pie and ice cream for all it was time to work off that energy. These 3 boys went absolutely wild...and surprisingly: no major injuries were sustained!

Baby dog pile on Uncle Beau!

The whole time we watched the boys run around, jump off of things, wrestle etc. I kept thinking to myself that this is only with 3 of them. Maddox was too little to join in the action this year and by next year Scott's little brother will be on the scene. Not to mention Hilary's sis in law is having a boy and so are our good friends Adam and Crystal. I'm really trying to encourage someone to build a foam pit with padded walls in their backyard or garage so we have a safe place for them all to be boys!

We had a wonderful time with our family and friends - we are so thankful for you, and for everyone we didn't get to spend the day with!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Playdough!!!!

Wednesday we made our very first batch of play dough. SUCCESS!!! It turned out great (my first time making it since I helped my mom make it 20 something years ago) and Scott loved it!

We made "tootles" (turtles) and "roars" (dinosaurs) and Scott wanted each of them to wear a hat. My sculpting skills are not as great as my play dough making skills, but Scott was able to recognize what I made so that's the important part right?

It was so much fun, I'm sure we will be getting out daily from here on out!