It's December Already

Geoff has taught Jack to root for football games. I think here he is saying "touchdown!"

And, m& ms are getting Jack on the potty before age 2! He has had some good success--for candy and here you can see how very proud he is!

New hats for everyone! Jackson has taken to stealing Daddy's hat whenever he can and wearing it while running away. We managed to capture this cute picture when he stopped for a second.

And look at our girl, growing so big. We did some Thanksgiving Day shopping at Old Navy and scored the kids some hats and gloves for $5.

Some kiddo updates in the month of November 2010 include Jack counting to TEN on his own (age: 23 months), saying at least 100+ words, jumping with both feet, and singing. Nora continues to amaze us all with sentences like "Daddy, wake up! You are not nocturnal!" and singing full length songs by heart, "reading" stories to us, and honing her Dinosaur imitations (she plays like a baby dinosaur almost everyday, can name dinos like Ankylosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and about 15 others by picture or features and can tell you whether they are herbivores, carnivores or omnivores.

Some Pictures From Last Month

Well, before Thanksgiving better post some Halloween pictures.


Costumes from left to right: Triceratops (aka "Chomp"), Tired Mom, Tired Dad, and Bumblebee (aka "BEE!").



Chomp, following Scooby Doo (aka Taryn) up some stairs.



A wondering bumblebee not aware of the vampire dog in the background.



Jack putting on chapstick.


Jack eating poisons nuts at my cousin Luke's wedding in September. Congrats Luke and April.

Dino World Part 2

Here are a few more pictures from Dinosaur World. It was really fun to see the dinosaurs in the "natural setting", like the triceratops with their babies and the brachiosaurs in the field.

This picture of Jack mugging me shows how tall some of the dinos were.

Along with the real life dinosaurs all the kids got to dig for real fossils. They got to sift through the sand for 15 minutes and fill up a cup and pick out their favorite 3 fossils. Nora found some cool ammonites and Jackson settled on some shark teeth.

Nora has gotten so interested in fossils from her dig and Dinosaur Train talking about them she has been looking for fossils in our back yard. She started looking at rocks around the yard that I've been ignoring for 7 years and found some real fossils of sea shells. We had a lot of fun trying to match them up and put them together.


As you leave Dino World of course there is a huge gift shop so we set each kid a limit and had them pick out what they wanted. This lead to a whole other dino world on the beds of our hotel room.