Building Frosty the Snowman

Last Saturday it snowed a little bit, so we decided that Sunday was the perfect day to build a snowman. Since I am still on bed rest, I just went outside, sat down and watched.
It was so cute to watch Ron and Lucas make Frosty come to life. Lucas is very obsessed with Frosty right now and even has a little stuffed one that he carries around and sleeps with. Once Frosty was finished, Lucas kept talking to him and telling him to talk back. I guess that it is true in the cartoon, that once he gets his hat, he talks to the kids.

This is the first of many snowmen that we will build this winter. Maybe next time I will be able to help a little bit.

Halloween Fun

Our Halloween was wonderful. This year Lucas was an Alpine Boy. He was the cutest little yodeler that I have ever met.
Some of Ron's family came over for chili. The party got moved to our house because I was still on bed rest. We ate yummy chili, cornbread, rootbeer and apple crisp. After the meal, the cousins went trick-or-treating. They were having a lot of fun until Lucas fell on a porch stair and did a number to his cheek. Poor little guy! His cheek immediately bruised and scabbed up.
When he got home, we dressed him in his skeleton jammies that glow in the dark. He was so exhausted and fell asleep on our bed while attempting to watch Halloween Mickey.

What a wonderful holiday. The magic of Halloween really comes back when you have kids to share it with!

Carving Pumpkins

The day before Halloween we decided to carve our pumpkins. We had never done this with Lucas before, so it was a great start to our family tradition.
Lucas loved watching mommy and daddy scoop out the guts and carve the pumpkins. He was so funny. When Ron was poking his pumpkin pattern, Lucas kept saying, "Say owie pumpkin." He was convinced that Ron was hurting the pumpkin. Ron's pumpkin didn't turn out, so he threw it away. We ended up with the two that I had carved. Lucas was so happy that the pumpkins had turned into jack-o-lanterns and his was a smiley pumpkin.

We ended the evening with roasting some yummy pumpkin seeds. What a fun evening! (Especially since it was something I could be involved in, even being on bed rest!)

Let's Bowl, Let's Bowl, Let's Rock-n-Roll!

Lucas got to go bowling for the very first time on October 28 for his cousin Brady's birthday party. Because of still being on bed rest, I couldn't go. Ron took Lucas and the camera and brought back some great pictures.

He has been to the bowling alley on Friday nights several times to see my mom and dad bowling on their league. He has always wanted to go and talks about it a lot.
First they went to Rock Creek Pizza for some yummy food, then went to Willow Creek Country Club for some bowling. Lucas had a blast rolling his ball down the lane and cheering, even in too big of shoes. Ron informed me that they had to press reset several times because his ball got stuck from going so slow. They came home with a lot of stories about the night.

Happy 4th Birthday Brady! Sorry we missed getting a picture of you. Thanks for the invite to your fun party.

Picking Pumpkins

Ron and my cousin Karlee took Lucas to the Pumpkin Patch a few weeks before Halloween. They had so much fun.

Have I mentioned... I am currently on bed rest and have been since October 12? I have a hemorrhage in one of my placentas and I have to stay down so that it can heal. I haven't been able to go anywhere. So, Ron has been super dad with taking Lucas fun places, doing all the housework and taking care of us both. Thanks for being the best Ron! We just want to get these babies here and born safely.
He loved finding the perfect pumpkins.
After picking out his pumpkins, he had a lot of fun playing around at the patch.

I am sad that I couldn't go, but at least I get all the cute pictures. Thanks Karlee for being a great stand in mom and wife. :)