Garrett's turning into a little athlete himself. He's already figuring out how to catch. I love his first try when he misses and he yells "almost". Then he gets distracted by the Bobcat stickers on the back of my phone.
Between growing and being able to jump better, Bryant can now dunk on his basketball hoop...
In my post yesterday, I said that Garrett had to get stitches. You'd be surprised after watching the video that he didn't get stitches that night too...
Bryant loves to set up ninja courses and Garrett loves to climb, so he kept climbing across our bar chairs and jumping into the bean bag.
Garrett figured out how to turn on the music system upstairs and he loves to dance, so he turns it on any chance he can get. He paused from dancing this night for a quick picture.
Bryant and I were making banana bread and we didn't get our batter cleaned up right away. Garrett seized the opportunity to lick the bowl and spatula.
It was Red Ribbon Week at school towards the end of October and the kids got to dress up for each day of the week. One of the days was crazy hair and crazy sock day...
Grandma Susie made some festive Halloween cookies...Garrett preferred the frosting.
We got tickets to another Bobcat football game - it was a gorgeous weekend!
Garrett thought the hats on the band players were hilarious.
They opened up the field after the game and the kids loved running around on the turf. Garrett would run into the end zone and jump and land on his butt. Both kids did so good sitting and watching the game - they deserved to run around and burn lots of energy on the field!
The next day, we carved our pumpkins. We gave the boys a couple options for designs and Garrett picked Elmo and Bryant picked the dinosaur from Toy Story.
Then the boys got to paint the smaller pumpkins, although Garrett preferred eating the paint and rubbing it all over his hands rather than painting the pumpkin.
After the paint dried, they got to decorate the pumpkins.
For Halloween, the boys got to come trick-or-treating at my office. As shown in my post yesterday, Bryant picked Optimus Prime. We had the absolute cutest airplane costume for Garrett because he loves all things trains and airplanes, but he did not like wearing the costume. Our second option was ninjago because he sometimes wore the mask (as seen in yesterday's post), but he wouldn't wear that either. So we went with the tried and true that worked for Bryant at that age, and Garrett was our little lumberjack.
It was incredibly windy on Halloween, so Trav chauffeured us around the neighborhood.
Bryant's strap on his bag broke because he got so much candy. This was the haul just from our neighborhood.
After the windy night, the snow came, so we made the best of it last weekend and went sledding. Garrett really didn't want to get his snow pants and boots on, but once he got outside, he had a blast!
Being the good brother that he is, Bryant taught Garrett to eat snow...
...and throw snowballs at Dad.
So...now for the stitches. We got a call that Garrett split his ear open at daycare and needed stitches, so we had the pleasure of spending 5 hours waiting in the ER to get it fixed.
He didn't really get lunch and didn't get his nap at his normal time, so when we finally got to see the doctor, Garrett had enough and finally fell asleep.
He had to get 4 stitches in his ear. It was ridiculously hard to watch, but he's such a tough kid. The doctor commented on how much of a fighter he was, and I told him that he didn't have a choice because he was the second kid. I worried at how he would sleep last night and he slept awesome - actually better than most other nights! If you didn't see the stitches or the red ear, you would have no idea that we spent half the day yesterday in the ER. He's acting like the same ol' Garrett. When he got out of bed this morning, he was walking and just fell on the tile and bonked his head and got a big bruise on his forehead. Such a clumsy phase, or maybe just that boys will be boys:)
