Love this Boy!

You would never know it from these pictures, but this is the boy who was a terror at swim lessons. Apparently water hitting him directly in the face when he is not in a pool is ok though. 

Just love this funny boy and his "wacko faces" (that's one of them below).

Getting So Big

Just realized that these kiddos are getting big fast, and we haven't done a blog post since Christmas. Today it was so nice outside so we took our pale flesh out to get some current pictures. 

There she is, the sweet face, looking all innocent.



And there's the kraken face we know and love. Yes, we sometimes refer to our dear daughter with the name of a scary mythical beast who strikes fear in the hearts of mortals when enraged. If you lived here, you'd understand why. Oh how we love our grouchy-pants.

 On the run.











Big brother's such a good helper.

Having fun with mommy.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Christmastides at the Halverson house.

This looks like we are penning them in, but we took it off the tree, and they both decided it might be fun to go inside.

Mommy made us Christmas pjs.

Pengie pjs!

My new hippo hooded towel, so exciting!

Partners in Crime

These two are getting big enough to play together, and when they don't want the same toy, that means  a lot of time is spent getting into things.

Here they are chasing a cricket. If I was him I'd be terrified (mommy captured him and put him outside).






Not totally sure what they were doing here, but it seemed to be lots of fun. 

Possibly plotting more mischief?




Raiding the Christmas tree. Little stinkers. 

Climber

She's 11 months old folks, and if there's any doubt that this girl will turn her mommy's hair gray, this is what we found her doing after our backs were turned for maybe a minute.

Time for Trick or Treat

It's finally here, the day my son has been asking about multiple times a day for about a month now. So here's an idea of how we Halversons reveled in the festivities.


Serious contemplation of pumpkins prior to carving them up.



Pumpkin seeds are surprisingly exciting.

Here's the one he "caught". There may or may not have been a burning incident, so the pumpkins seeds are a little over-toasty this time around. Bryce still insisted on eating a whole bunch this morning, claiming they taste like coffee (which he's never had)




Ahhh, pumpkin's eating my hand!  3 year old boys...enough said.

Getting the very last ones out. 

Daddy decided to carve a fish for his pumpkin, so since daddy is Bryce's main hero, mommy got to make a fish for his pumpkin too. Mommy was also changing a diaper and making a delicious dinner of butternut squash soup at the same time, which explains why the parrot-lion-fish horror mommy carved looks a little odd. But a hammer & few toothpicks later, it became a poisonous puffer fish (another Bryceman fave) and he was back on board with the pumpkin carving awesomeness.

And here's mommy's pumpkin which perennially gets the short end of the stick after the other ones are done, while cleaning up, finding candles and getting into costumes.

(It's an octopus, following our sea creature theme, in case you couldn't guess. Not mommy's best work on the carving this year folks. If only mommy had that many arms....)

Below we have the pre-costume shot to memorialize the fact that we are all fed and breathing at this point of the evening just in case everything takes a decided turn for the worse. You never know with a 3 yr old and a 10 month old. In it you can see daddy's pumpkin which is a scary angler fish (like the deep ocean trench kind) He is missing a piece, so stayed tuned for a picture of the full effect.

Directly after we have a pretty good costume shot, all things considered (by all things, I mean that since the last shot Jocelyn jumped out of my arms and fell flat on her face while I was putting on her pants, so she has a bit of a goose egg).




We were able to recover and she did surprisingly well. (See facebook for action trick or treating shots). Both costumes were a hit with the neighbors, and J managed to keep her antenna on until the very end. Bryce did a good job knocking on doors this year, he even had a small lady pirate friend following us around for a while. (We have informed him that there will be no interest in lady pirates for at least another 25 years)

Loot!

Happening Now at the Halverson's

Busy creeping around with my walker.










Whoa!

Super intense working on cameras and laser guns. 

Daddy needs a haircut.

Jocelyn's first ride in the chariot, her helmet's a little big yet.






Where'd she go?