It's been a while....

Hmmm.... what is new with the Potter clan?? Let's see... Kaylen has now been gone for 17 weeks and 4 days. It is going by pretty quick I suppose. The impending holidays will sure help! I wish he was here though. It has been 3 years since he was gone for the holidays...the last time he was in Great Lakes, IL at boot camp. The boys and I had Thanksgiving with just us this year, we were going to go to a friend/neighbor's house, but I decided [last minute] to do it at home. It turned out good... duh... I can cook!

Currently, Nixon is in trouble and exiled to his bed while Noah is sitting next to me here in the kitchen literally force feeding me Honeycomb cereal! I can't eat as fast as he is giving! Mom, I am sure you will remember a similar story... mine is just reversed! I keep telling him "thank you, I will get my own..." but that seems to be falling on deaf ears! He also is examining every piece before it goes into his mouth... occasionally he says "football" because he thinks it looks like one! He is a funny kid!

Back to the holidays... Nixon and Noah of course looked like rock stars...


They obviously can't help being so darn cute... look at me! Ha!! Anywho... I have spent the last few days doing the final touch ups on the Christmas decor! My tree has been up for weeks now and the outside was [for the most part] completed today! I am not done though... so no pictures!

Noah's vocabulary is slowly coming along... he cracks me up all the time! The other night at bath time, the boys were in the tub and I was in their room getting their pjs ready when I hear "mommy, Noah is falling out of the tub..." so I go in and I see Noah with his feet in the air above the water, high centered on the side of the tub and his hands on the floor saying "hewp me, hewp me!" It was FANTASTIC!! I got a good laugh out of it!

Halloween Pix

Yay! Halloween is OVER!!!

FINALLY! I am so glad that Halloween is now over! Nixon had a great time getting out there and trick-or-treating... Noah ended up in my nephew Wesley's stroller! Noah thought that he was supposed to go up to the people and take what he wanted... and then take some more! It was funny, no one said anything to him. When he realized that was not how it worked, he opted to just sit down on the side walk and go limp every time I tried to pick him up! Oh the character he is!

My brother and sister in law [Kyle and Alisha] along with my nephew Wesley joined us for the wonderful adventure that is trick-or-treating. Kyle was the Scarecrow from Batman, Alisha was a rocker from the 80s and Wesley was a sailor. We joined my friend and neighbor Tatjana and her boys: Teiler (Obi Won star wars clone wars) and Aiden (Iron Man) and set out around our complex. You have to have at least 2 kids to live here and there are over 600 units... do the math... there were children EVERYWHERE!!! I had to buy sooooo much candy! The only good (weird but good) thing is it is actually a law here that no one over 12 can trick or treat and you can only go between 5 and 8 pm. Otherwise it is a class 4 misdemeanour and yes... they do charge children! What the heck is that!??!?

So now, with Halloween out of the way, I can focus on Christmas and Noah's birthday (which IS Christmas!). Everyone knows how I love my Christmas!! So I am excited to get the ball rolling here... which is pretty much only decorating...don't worry that won't happen for a while! I am basically done with all the shopping! Yippee! Oh... and Kaylen can get gifts people!! His address is:

MA3 Potter, Kaylen C.
Sec Det 632
PSC 819 BOX 28
FPO AE 09645

For now this is all I have... enjoy.... pictures from Halloween will be along shortly!