My dear friend Mary started the weekly picture tradition for my kids. When each of my kids was born she sent them a stuffed animal and note cards with week1 - week 52 written on them. I took pictures of them each weekly and put them in a little photo album. Ethan and Morgan love to look at their books of when they were babies. It has proven to be a good way to make sure I take regular pictures of the kids, especially the twins. I'm going to try to take yearly pictures of the kids with their animals as long as they'll let me. we finally got around to taking EJ and Mo's pictures a couple weeks ago. A few months late, but better than never!

Yep, that's about as still as I can get this little girl to sit these days.

Ethan's preschool class went on a field trip to the pumpkin patch. I found babysitters for the other three so I was able to go along with him. It was fun to watch him interact with his classmates. Although I wasn't paying very close attention to what group we were in and we ended up in a group with only one boy, the rest were girls....oops!

Hudson loves to smile and interact with anyone who will take the time to chat with him. Here he is giving daddy one of his adorable smiles. Brooklyn likes to smile as well, but she really likes to talk to us. One of these days we'll have to get a video of her chatting.

Hudson and Brooklyn had their two month check up this past week. They are growing well and look "perfect" as the doctor said. But then we already knew that:) They each had to get 3 shots which is never fun. Here are their stats:

Hudson:

11 lbs 10.1 oz

23 3/4 in

head 16 1/4 in

Brooklyn:

11 lbs 2.7 oz

24 in

head 16 in

For Halloween this year we hung out at my parents house so that we didn't have to hand out candy at our house. Ethan was an army guy and Morgan was a nurse. My mom and I took Ethan, Morgan and Annika around to a few houses by them. Ethan was of course very timid at first, but the girls jumped right in. After a couple houses Ethan warmed up and didn't want to stop trick or treating. The got a lot of candy, most of which found its way to daddy's "prize stash" at school. It was fun to watch them get into knocking on doors, ringing the bells and saying trick or treat. All three were good about saying thank you. Annika even signed "I love you" to several people.

A day we've been waiting for.... Hudson is finally enjoying his baths. He screamed bloody murder during his baths for the first 9 weeks of his life. He screamed every time we changed his diaper for the first 5 weeks. The kid just doesn't like to be naked.