I like it!

I just thought I would share a little something about Tatum. She hit the "terrific twos" about a month ago. She won't be two for 3 more months. Thankfully this time around we're a lot more laid back about her responses, than we were with Tayson, and try and find the fun in it because it is pretty funny. Tatum is so sweet and full of personality and shares her opinion strongly. She says, "no" to a lot of things and lately when she doesn't want something she says, "I like it" (instead of I don't like it). It's really funny because she's so flustered when she says it but we just have to laugh. She also says, "I like it" when she does like something just in a sweeter voice. Well, for some reason last night she didn't want to eat her dinner and she continued to say, "NO, Don't, I like it!!!" After Jay was finished with dinner he started to help her by scooping up the food for her and giving her bites. Well then she started saying "I like it" (in her sweet voice) and as she was chewing she was making mmmmmm sounds until she was finished. What a funny kid. Definitely a roller coaster of emotion but entertaining at least.

Halloween 2009

We had a fun Halloween this year but we really missed Jay (who was supposed to be Fred Flintstone), so it didn't feel quite complete. We had our Trunk-r-Treat on Friday. We decorated the van pretty scary (the pictures don't give it justice). I had some scary music playing and strobe lights. Too bad the fog machine didn't end up working because there wasn't enough output from my van or that would've been sweet. There was even a couple of kids who wouldn't come get candy from us because they were too scared. Our branch invited the Okinawan branch to the Trunk-r-Treat and they had a great time. That evening my friend and I went to the Haunted House and laughed and screamed a lot. It wasn't the scariest I've been to but I was impressed especially with the limited resources. Halloween isn't really celebrated in Japan, so there isn't a whole lot available off-base. Halloween morning we carved pumpkins at the Stokes Home. Her husband is gone right now she she invited several of us that were husbandless over for lunch and fun. Then we headed right over to The Cox home for a birthday party. From there we headed home and got ready for Trick-r-Treating. Then after that we went to the Narvaez home for a party. Needless to say, we were exhausted by the end of the night and Tatum did not want to wash her hair before bed but I kind of had to so she was screaming the whole time.

For some reason Tayson evaded getting any pictures on Halloween, so this is the day after.

He was our cool Bumblebee Transformer. Too bad he didn't want to be Bam Bam but his costume was pretty sweet.

Here's our little Pebbles. She didn't want her picture taken, so I had to catch her on the go. It's kind of funny how she was all about wanting to be in Tayson's picture but really didn't want anything to do with her own.

Here's Wilma. I don't know what's up with my pose but I thought I better add it so you could see the whole costume. Jay's sister Sarah Leigh was so awesome to make our Flintstones costumes and send Tayson his Bumblebee costume. She was very creative and everyone loved them.

Trick-r-Treating was fun. It was the first time for Tatum and she caught on fast. Even though it was raining, she was hard to keep up with. I'm surprised she didn't get tired. Tayson had a good time too and the rain didn't seem to slow him down either.

My sister, Jodi, told me how to make these fun cupcakes and I thought they turned out great (delicious too). Tayson took some to class and they really enjoyed them.