Ava's Birthday Party!

Ava was thrilled to spend her birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Adam and Jessalyn as well as Marianne were able to come. We let Ava go up into the tubes to play around. I don't know what it is called when you get claustraphobia for someone else but Amy and I had it! These tubes have entrances that are too small to let adults in (there are access areas that the employees can open if needed) and it made us worry that she would not be able to find her way out. We felt like Marlin on Finding Nemo, we just had to let her go and see how she fared on her own. She did fine, of course, with the help of an older boy who showed her the way down.

Koben is so funny. He does the army

crawl around the house and then when he passes the TV he will park just like this or he will lay on his arm and watch the tube for a while.

The Lion, the Witch, and the.........

I know it is little late for halloween pictures but we thought we would post these pictures of the kid's costumes. We took them to the mall to trick-or-treat because, well, we don't really have a neighborhood and the 99 cent store and the gas station weren't giving any candy out. It only took Ava a minute to figure out that the people hanging out in front of the stores were the ones giving out the candy. After that she was running from store to store!