The Days of our Lives: It's Fall!

Just a few photos and videos of the kids. Also here is an update of some random stuff with us as well:

Well, the big news is that we are FINALLY closing on the house we've been waiting on for the last 4 months!! We are so excited to finally be moving into a larger space that is OURS and of course that means Jersey gets to come home to us!!!!!!! We close on Friday and are only going to be living in the condo until the end of the month. Bittersweet really, because we will miss the beach being in our backyard. Seth was just down there tonight fishing. Oh well, we are still excited!!!
Kole: he turned three and turned into a child with his own mind. One of his favorite things to say lately is, "I don't waaaaaant toooooo." He has a hard time listening and has been getting in trouble for it and ended up getting all of his trains taken away and packed up in a box until we move. Yes, it was harsh but I had totally had it and that was my breaking point. It was not a pretty sight, that's for sure. But, he's been finding other things to do and other toys to play with instead. Not the worst thing in the world. He is loving preschool and looks forward to it every week. He comes up with new things to say all the time. This past week it was knock-knock jokes. Apparently his teacher was doing the jokes at school this week. Otherwise he's repeating lots of things he hears from me and mostly he directs it at Sydney. Like tonight he was picking up and putting back all of the alphabet magnets on the front door and Sydney was pulling them off. I heard him say, "Sydney, no! Sydney I'm in charge, go pick up toys! Listen to me, I'm in charge Sydney, go pick up toys!" Oh boy.... He is still totally observant and still has that memory like a steel trap :)
Sydney: she is slowly growing.....she's almost into 12 month clothes! She runs around the house like a mad woman and always has something in her hand. Mostly it's her Woody doll (I think it's Kole's really) or a toy wrench from the tool bench. She LOVES dogs these days (although the pigs are still close to her heart) and barks when she sees them. No joke, the other night she was sleeping and I was still up and she was barking in her sleep! She is saying lots of words (and sounds) these days: please, thank you, cracker, cookie, fish, more, oink, woof, meow, baa, neigh, princess (seriously!), nana, papa, mama, dad, kole, jersey (that's super new!), Sydney, Thomas, Elmo, Poo, toot-toot (ha!), and ball. Now, these don't ALL sound like they should but I can understand what she is asking for. Her voice is just the sweetest thing you've ever heard!! She loves to play with the letter and animal magnets on the front door. She and Kole will usually play that together and it's pretty cute. It's called Fridge Phonics and Fridge Farm. However, I have magnets ALL. OVER. THE. HOUSE. and it drives me nuts. If they didn't play that toy every single day, it would be gone. She adores goldfish crackers and she loves to ham it up for strangers while we are out in public :)
Me: involved with MOPS and loving the great women I'm meeting. Getting involved in Kole's preschool and helped at the preschool garage sale last weekend. Looking forward to having places to put all of our crap and at the same time, weed some of it out as well!
Seth: working hard. working hard. working hard.
That's about it, I'll continue to upload pics and vids for you. Hopefully the next batch will include photos of our new house :)

Sydney watching Spooky Buddies with Kole (a Halloween dog movie)

"Reading" a Veggie Tales book and then just Sydney babble which is music to my ears

The kids are SO sick of being inside the house!!! Both were sick AND we had horrible rain and wind last weekend that kept us in most of the time. PLUS we had a big leak by the sliding glass door that kept them away from part of the living room.

Watching Spooky Buddies with her own buddy, Woody.

Kole is helping to make muffins! He loved helping!

Corn maze at the Fall Harvest Festival in Viera on Saturday. It was PERFECT weather! Warm but breezy with some clouds so the sun wasn't so offensive while we were outside. Fun things for the kids (mainly Kole) to do. We'll probably do more of these ;) (Seth HATES doing stuff like this. He can be a party pooper sometimes, it's FUN!)

Bounce house which is a struggle for Kole. He likes it and wants to go in but once he's there he doesn't want to fall down and is constantly asking for help. He refused to go down the big slide.

I forgot to mention that Sydney is LOVING pumpkins lately and can say that word too! Kole got to draw on and decorate a pumpkin but gave Sydney a plain one. She was totally excited!!