Trash Talkin' Beau

As most of you know, we are very competitive.  As a result, we rarely let our kids win at games.  They must beat us fair and square.  Which, by the way, I believe Candyland is somehow rigged as the kids always win.  And I mean always.  

Anyway, we (Joel and I) are having the same problem with Wii Sports.  We just can't seem to beat Beau.  And he's even become quite the trash talker.  

So we handled this losing problem as any mature adult would handle this sort of thing.  We bought another game we can beat him at and stopped playing Wii Sports with him.  Unfortunately, he's getting pretty good at the newer games as well.  I guess we're just too old to keep up with a 4 yr. old.

Wii remote in hand, talking trash.

 Beau's score and my score (Suzy).  I couldn't beat him at tennis so I stopped playing and moved on to bowling.

As you can see...I didn't do much better at bowling.

Lodi Playdate

A number of my Lodi friends got together for a play date with our kids.  Thankfully the Penners were kind enough to open up their home to the madness.  Between my 9 girlfriends we have 15 kids between us (so far).  So as you can image our playdates are insane.  This particular day we were missing a few little ones and added Kylie.

Crawling Machine

In early October, Noah started crawling.  He took off and there's no holding him back.  This has proven to be quite a problem for Beau and Bella as now he messes with their stuff.  Beau now has to lock himself in his room while playing with his cars and movies on the laptop have to take place during Noah's naps.

But from my perspective, I LOVE IT!  He no longer sits and cries waiting for me to pick him up and move him, but he now goes wherever he likes.

(video) Noah on the move!

Yum Bread

I spent the day going to doctor appointments and I was starving.  So I did what any normal person would do.  I bought a loaf of bread and ate half of it.  Totally normal right?

October Kids

So many little things happen throughout the day and it's not really worth it's own post, so here's are some random October happenings.

 Bella was so tired she fell asleep while eating.  Veggie straw in one hand.

Bella: Look, Noah has the backpack.

Beau: NO, he's gonna throw up on it.

Me:  No he won't

2 seconds later...

Joel's Photo Stream

Joel and I share our photo share account.  This allows me to see all the pics he takes.  Most of them are work related or of the kids, which you've seen.  But here are a few hidden gems from the last 6 months and a peek in his brain.  I think we can assume he likes music, drinks, sports, nature and food.

Melissa's Birthday

This year we celebrated Melissa's birthday at my mom's house with the book club ladies.  What's better than cake and friends?  I'll tell you... maybe a cake with real candles!  Poor Mel had to settle for a match as her candle.  Sorry Mel, we'll do better next year.

Happy Birthday Aunt Mel!