Thursday's "Day off":

We decided to FINALLY move Noah over from his "nursery" room into the spare bedroom/office room. He's really outgrown his crib a while ago, but we couldn't decide what step was next...get a big boy bed for him? Make the crib into a twin bed? Plus it seemed like such a big job---relocated all my office and craft stuff. But after just a few short hours, we LOVE the outcome. And wonder WHY IN THE WOLRD didn't we do this a LONG time ago?!?! The little bedroom Noah has had since his birth makes a great, little office. That small space doesn't really take pix well, but here's the bigger of the two rooms, Noah's...

BEFORE...as Noah HELPS Dad put the crib back together as a daybed. . .Noah LOVES to use a screwdriver and hammer! I think he's gonna be a little carpenter or builder or something...

and AFTER...

We still have a few things to put up on the walls, but we like it. And so does Little Man. He jumps up and down on his bed just like he always has, but now he can launch himself out onto the floor. Great. It's also nice to get a few of his toys out of the family room, and give him a space of his own to actually play in. We tried to have N sleep in his new bed last night....and he did, until he woke up with a soaked diaper/bed. And then it was back to the futon/couch for a little while...

Trick or Treat Times Two

Noah really enjoyed the Halloween festivities this year.....a.k.a. the candy part of it;-D
Last year at this time he was only (almost) 8 months old and had to be carried the whole night...this year he was a jumpin and runnin little man. We went with a pretty simple--and cheap--costume that we already had---he was a little "baller" with an old school kind of basketball jersey on...but without the basketball, he kinda looked like an American Gladiator. Whatever. Like he could care.
Here's a few pix from first, our church's Trunk N Treat night,

which we held on WEDNESDAY---great idea by the way---gives kids more than one day to dress up and being BEFORE Halloween you still get all the excitement---we had 250 people show up, which we were not expecting, since we had just done our big block party 3 weeks ago. I ended up helping throw it together the 2 days before the event, and somehow, it turned out great still.

Then, a few pix from last night. (I couldn't get a good pix of the kids together. Then my batteries died...again. Uggg...)

We were invited along with most of the couples from our small group to the Wilgeroth's. It was a fun night of chili/soup, trick-or-treating with 4 little ones, and then gal talk inside/guy talk on the porch. There was a nice cool crispness to the air. I have to admit that trick-or-treating WORE ME OUT---I don't remember the last time I actually went door to door for candy. 4 kiddos is not easy even for the 8 adults who walked with them! It took a while for Noah to get the hang of it----he wanted to eat the candy at every single house, not put it in his bucket. It was really nice to have Alex and Avary to go with. Maybe one day we'll have cousins to go with. We got back after only being gone an hour and I thought for sure it was like 10:30. Nope, only 8:45.
Oh goodness.
Hope you all had a safe and fun Trickertreating experience also. Post pix!