The Jubilee of trees. I so look forword to it every year. And this year I was especially excited because Jude is old enough to get excited for Christmas. He is obsessed with snowmen, trees and trains and there were sure to be tons at the jubilee. I wasn't dissapointed. And neither was Jude, he had such a good time. We spent the first 10 minutes standing at the entrance which was a gaint castle tunnel. We had only seen about 3 trees when we ran into the Bowles. The boys were so excited to see eachother and just being around eachother upped the fun for them. We got to see so many coooool trees. There was a Harry Potter tree, a phantom of the opera tree, and all sorts of crazy artistic trees. The boys favorite was a tree that had a train going around the base. They sat at the base of it for 20 minutes just waiting for the train to come around then watching it go. Then waiting for it to come around and then watching it go. It was all they could do to not run in and grab it. We went to the kids zone and got to play with bells, and see santa and get our pictures in giant christmas lights. We got to see gingerbread houses that were so intricate. They had multiple floors, yards, interiors, lights and some even had stained glass windows. Then we went to the cake shop and got some yummy treats. We ate them while watching some dancers and Jude just couldn't resist the girls. He wanted to dance with them and kept creeping closer and closer to the stage until I had to go grab him. We had such a great time and it was a great starter to our Christmas season.

Here is Jude not being able to resist the dancers.

This is my own stupid fault. I know better but sometime things just happen. I was doing painting with Jude and I stepped up and walked away. I know it was dumb but it is what I did and then this is what happened with Jude.

I come around the corner to check on Jude and not only is he covered in paint but he has snagged some candy off the counter. I say "Jude what are you doing?!?!?" he turns around looks at me and with panic in his eyes, reaches out his hand and says "I was getting for you." I started laughing and laughing and laughing. I had to leave the room. It was straight out of a Bill Cosby sketch and was even funnier in real life. Cheeky little thing.

We were having a good time at our Costco trip. Jude was playing some drums.
Jude loves Mickey mouse and we found a huge bin and were letting the kids play with them but then we just tossed them right in. They had such a good time and were laughing it up.

Derek and I got invited to a murder mystery and we went all out. I was supposed to be a snobby French perfume lady and Derek was supposed to be a crashed british pilot. We had a really good time and I even figured out the murder!

WOOHOO! Smooch city!

Poor Jude. He is having a really rough time right now. He wants to be big and be done with nap time but sometimes he can't quite make it. We have been putting him in "quiet time" were he can read books in his room or watch a show. Something low key. I had set him up to watch a show on the computer and it was one of those days where he couldn't make it. Poor thing conked out right on the computer chair. I ended up moving him to the couch little cutey pie.

Random acts of mischeviousness. We were spending time at Tati's house and Andrea's bathroom had some bathroom crayons just lying around. We just couldn't resist. We decorated all her bathroom for her. First the tub, we drew a bunch of faces and eyeballs all aound with a big sign that said "We are watching you" Jude and ALice were helping as well.

Then Derek and I really wipped out our artistic skills and started decorating the mirror. We drew all sorts of "costumes" we had kittys, vikings, gentlemen, frankenstien, pirates, mad hatter, Harry potter, and all sorts of other things that we could "put on." It was so much fun!

This was supposed to be a Halloween activity but we ended up not having enough time so we did it a day or two after. We made slime. It is just glue, dye, and borx mixed with water and it creates a gacky, slimy, silly putty type substance. Both Ollie and Jude really had a good time.