November Beginnings

I didn't know my niece Eva was also going to be wearing a jungle-themed Halloween costume this year. Roar!!! Too cute to be very scary, though.

She also called me up on Friday for a little chat. Love to see the monkey chairs getting good use. Also fun to see my brother being a Daddy. It looks like he has mastered the monkey chair feed.

I love seeing her big smiles!


I dressed up a few of the Halloween photos with some digital paper from Jessica Sprague. A couple of years ago I took quite a few of her Photoshop classes. I really liked them.


Whenever we would go out to eat with MY Grandpa Starrs, he would bee-line it to the soup and salad bar and collect a few bags of Club crackers before we could even tell the hostess the number of guests in our party. Once we sat down at our table, he would enjoy his pre-meal snack. I sent my brother the following picture of Reid enjoying some Club crackers. David reminded me that Grandpa would usually tuck away one of the packets of crackers in his front shirt pocket and tell us they were for the birds at home. Sure enough, once we arrived home, he would deliver the crackers to the bird house. He had a great laugh, ha-HAAAA, and every once in a while my dad laughing at the boys sounds like my grandpa's laugh.


I think this was the first time they had these types of crackers. Their favorite part was breaking them in half. Lots of giggling during this meal. As you can imagine, lots a crumbs for Mama to sweep up afterward.

Tonight my parents and I took the boys to a diner called Gunther Toody's. It has a great noisy atmosphere to keep the boys occupied and help to hide their pterodactyl calls. (I also considered making pterodactyl costumes for the boys for Halloween, but decided Monkey costumes would ultimately be easier and more fitting.)


At one point, the wait staff sang to a boy who was celebrating his 16th birthday. Aiden was entertained and Reid was utterly perplexed.


The boys did great. They loved the mac and cheese and bites of my Chocolate malt.




A few videos.
The boys love to go outside and sprint for the door every chance they can get. I need to buys them snow pants and boots, so they can keep playing in some of the colder weather.

Reid running.


Aiden running.


I found this one on my cell phone when I transferred all that data over. One year ago on Halloween day.