Avengers Assemble!

Captain America, Ironman, and Batman have teamed up again to fight crime, and go trick or treating!

 What an awesome superhero pair!  These two have amazing teamwork!

bwahaha! Batman is not sure about this whole flying thing!

We've been counting down the days to go trick or treating!  We love Halloween and are so excited for all our Halloween celebrations this week!

 Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!

Tanner is 3!

The week of Tanner's birthday I was in charge of his craft group, so we just turned it into a big birthday party!

The theme:  Mickey Mouse!  Tanner loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and I thought this would be a perfect age to have a Mickey Mouse party.  Toodles even came!  We would have the kids shout "Oh Toodles" and then they got to pick a Mickey Mouse character and play that game.  

 First pick:  Goofy Bingo (aka Halloween Bingo) this game even though very simple was still over their heads.  Oh well, they liked the spinner.  Next Up: Donald and we played duck duck goose.

 Minnie: Pin the bow on Minnie.  Kids seemed to like this one as long as they weren't blindfolded.

 Daisy: Bubbles!

 Pluto: Coloring and Playdough this was the biggest hit.  Everyone loved the play-dough

Then our last pick "we've picked all our mouska tools say Super Cheers!" was Mickey Mouse: Pinata time!  The kids thought it was fun hitting it around but they didn't "get" it.  Tanner was the only one that was trying to break it open, because we've done them lots before.  Oh well.  When I finally did break it and they saw all the candy they got super excited.

 Tanner loved having all of his friends come over to our house to play.  We had a great time!

 On his actual birthday we went out for pizza and bowling!  

Then came home for cake & presents!

 He's a happy boy!

he won't let this present out of his sight!  Even while napping.

Happy birthday big boy!  We sure do love you!

Updates

Brad:  The weather has been wonderful lately so he has tuned up his bike and taken it back on the road.  He signed up to do a 62 mile race through his company that was supposed to be last weekend, but got cancelled due to the weather.  He bikes about 50 miles each weekend (his legs are mighty sexy)

Me: Keeping busy being a mom! Put on a birthday party for Tanner this week (post coming soon), working on finishing another quilt, doing my church calling, and planning a couple parties (going away and baby shower) Plus I made a new Halloween craft.  I loved how it turned out! And Carson loves updating the chalkboard each day.

Carson:  Doing so well in school!  I'm amazed at how fast he is learning.  He is already reading a lot of sight words and learning how to spell.  He comes home singing lots of songs.  Always gets a sticker for good behavior and treats from the treasure chest.  He already has a girl from our neighborhood/church/school that has a crush on him and wants to marry him.  They are good friends and I love that Carson plays with both boys and girls.  According to her Carson is going to be a doctor and she's going to be a nurse (so cute!) I asked Carson about it and he just shrugged and said he's too young to get married!  Thats right!

Carson got the sportsmanship medal in soccer this weekend!  Both him and his friend Cannon won it. He was so proud!  As was his mom and dad.

He also had his primary program today and did an excellent job on his part.  They wrote their own parts.  His class was asked to talk about their mom and dad and this was Carson's line "they give me cookies, lunch, and cereal".  It was a darling program, but with almost 200 kids it went rather long...

(the boys before the primary program)

Tanner:  I feel as if Tanner has just blossomed!  With Carson in school, lots of one on one time with me, preschool, and speech therapy; it has been so fun to watch him grow.  He is talking so much more and becoming his own person vs. Carson's shadow.

Tanner speech therapy ended this week since he turns 3 on Monday.  It was sad to say goodbye to Ms. Willow.  Tanner has loved having someone to play with and she loved learning all about superheros!

Last weekend our family made its very first trip to Urgent Care.  Tanner woke up from his nap with a horrible rash, and not knowing where it came from we took in to make sure it wasn't anything serious.  The doctor said it was just an allergic reaction to something.  The allergic reaction isn't a serious one and really just made him itchy.  The rash went away fairly quickly, but came back the next day!  The only two things connecting the two (that I could think of) was that he ate graham crackers, but who's heard of a graham cracker allergy?  Strange.  However after giving him some more graham crackers to prove that was what he was allergic to, he didn't have a reaction.  So now we are have no idea what it could be, and will have to just wait till another reaction to figure it out.

Tanner is also becoming quite the protecter of Logan.  If another kid even thinks of looking at Logan Tanner snaps at them and says "Logan MY baby!"

Logan: He's my little accessory, as a neighbor from the bus stop said.  He comes with me wherever I go.  He's pretty popular with all the young girls at the bus stop wanting to give him hugs and kisses.

He is a drooly little thing and loves shoving his hands, fists, fingers, and thumbs into his mouth.  He is also becoming quiet talkative and cooing more and more.  I love hearing him!

If we have a quiet moment Logan loves nursing in my bed.  My absolute favorite thing he has been doing lately (that just melts my heart), is when he is crying (or screaming in some cases) we'll climb into my bed and start getting in the feeding position.  He'll immediately stop crying and look me in the eyes and gives me the biggest smile before he starts chowing down.  I feel as if its his way of thanking me.  I can also tell when he is done eating too, because he stops and just starts cooing at me.  Its precious and I just love him!

So thats the Clark family update so far.  We've got lots going on the next two weeks with Tanners birthday and Halloween celebrations.  So let the holiday season begin!

Big Boy Tanner

Tanner is in the process of potty training!  I knew with him it might take awhile because he was scared of the toilet, but we buckled down and sat on the toilet for 45 min and he went!  After getting over his initial fear he has done great!  He has only had one accident the past few days, but we have still yet to go number 2.  He has gotten smart about that and will go in the mornings when he still has his diaper on.  Hopefully the more he goes pee the easier he'll fell about going number 2.  

Once he covers his chart (which he already has done a row!) he can get a toy.  He has his eye on a bat-mobile... Next up on our journey, public restrooms!  Wish us luck!

Soccer

We put Carson in soccer!   He was so excited!

 Tanner had to do what his big brother was doing when I was taking pictures.  I think we'll sign him up in the spring as well.  He didn't make the age cut this time (needs to be 3).  I think Tanner will love it just as much as his brother!

 Carson absolutely loves it!  I think everyones favorite part is practice, because everyone gets a chance to kick the ball in the goal.  He has a half hour practice right before a half hour game.  Its perfect for this age.

 The game is really cute!  All the little kids running after the ball! Half of them with no clue what they are doing, but they are just really excited to be playing.  During the second game of the season (as of this post Carson has only had two games so far) he scored a GOAL!  It was for the other team, but we were all so proud and everyone told him what a good job he did.  I liked that no one made him feel bad.  He was so proud of himself and gets super excited to play.

 Carson's cheering section!   

And thus our life of sports has begun.  I can officially be called a soccer mom and I'm proud of it!

Logan: 3 Months

Gaaahh!  Isn't he so beautiful?!  I love it when he falls asleep in my arms. I just stare at him and am so overcome with love for him.  He just melts me!

His cry still sounds raspy, almost as if he lost his voice.  He also is quite the mover. He doesn't like sitting still for too long and is always moving those arms and legs.  No surprise since he was like that when he was inside me!

Tanner's speech therapist said that at Logan's age the sound they prefer the most out of all the sounds is listening to people talk.  Which is true for Logan.  He LOVEs it when we talk to him.  He also started laughing a few weeks ago and is very ticklish, especially under his arms.  His laugh is the best sound in the entire world.