What a Week!

It has been bonkers around here! Illness and milestones as far as the eye can see! Since last Thursday, we have had:

1 3-hour sinus surgery (Anthony)
2 sinus infections (Meg and Cody)
1 case of whooping cough (Jacks)
1 orthodontic appliance, with the added fun of head gear, acquired (Jacks)
1 family member learning how to tie his shoes (ALSO Jacks)
1 family member learning how to WALK!!!!!!!!!!! (Go Luke, Go!!)

And the number of us looking forward to a hopefully healthier and happier (though those milestones sure made us smile and cheer!) weekend, complete with birthday cake...5. :)

Make Me Super

This is a fun way to spend a lazy Sunday morning! Paste a picture of your child's head into Kodak's "Make Me Super" website and instantly turn him into a 70's era superhero. Groovy!

Click on each of the boys' names to see their rockin' videos. The site only has a certain list of names, so Jackson had to be "Jack" and Cody got to be "SuperDUDE," which of course he thought was awesome.

(Be forewarned, they're all the same save for the name and face! Regardless, the boys were entranced for hours by this.)

Cody

JacksonLuke

Birthday Portraits Preview!

A fellow "BoyMom" and fantastic photographer, Susie, took some pictures of both Cody and Luke this weekend, to mark their upcoming birthdays.

Take a look at her blog for a few more. She shared these as a "sneak peek" and should have the rest to me at the end of next week. Stay tuned! :)

http://adorablephotography.com/Blog/

Cody takes Jasper for a Ride

Pumpkins!

As you can see, Cody wasn't feeling terribly cooperative today. More on the winking, later. :)

Haunted House Cookies

We got this kit at Michael's last week, and decided to give making a gingerbread Haunted House a try. The boys loved making one last Christmas, and we even did one at Easter, too. So I figured we could handle it.

WRONG.

The icing wouldn't stick, the cookies needed to be held together for an hour to dry (ha! you try telling a 4 and a 6 year-old to wait an hour), and Cody ate half the gumdrops before we even started. :)

So, we decided to just decorate the cookies. And we had so much fun!

Both boys made pumpkin patches (good thing I'd happened to pick up a bag of those mellowcreme pumpkins at Target the other day!), and Jacks made a monster bowling alley.

They were creative and giggling, and it was a great afternoon.

Below, the artistes with their masterpieces!

Separated at Birth

Left: Cody, hair by Daddy (he went to school this way)
Right: Bello the Clown