Booooing..........

I have to first thank Allyson Lee for introducing us to the boo basket. My kids have had the time of their life with this boooing stuff.

Friday night was so fun.... we made spooky halloween cupcakes- eyeball ice cubes, spooky decorations for the house and silly lips- we were ready!! The Hardee's came over for pizza and friday night movie night... while they were here we got booed... Now that was so exciting....

The next night was our turn... We all dressed in black,,, Ava drew a map to our neighbors house (got to have a map), we had our plan and we were off.. only problem... our neighbors were outside at their fire pit... so we had to really sneak- we ran home as fast as we could and waited... then we went to the road and watched- they happened to walk to the front of the house and saw their basket... we heard them screaming and yelling- their dad read the letter very dramatically- it was so funny....

Last night we did our other neighbor and Daddy came along.... it was so fun! I just love this idea!

M&M's and the Potty don't mix!

Cullen has shown a big interest in going #2 in the potty- so I got a bag of M&M's to give him a treat when he goes potty- I did this with Ava and Ethan and they liked it and it worked. I don't know why I did this with Cullen b/c he is going to the potty on his own (not every time but every other day) but I thought a treat would be good-

So today after his #2 and we sang our song and clapped our hands I opened the bag of m&m's and gave him a few-

#1 mistake: don't let him see where you hide the m&m's

#2 mistake: don't leave him in the bathroom with the hidden m&m's

I go downstairs to throw away his diaper and I come back to find this....................

he used his potty to store all the m&m's he dumped out-

cullen, cullen, cullen ......... what am I going to do with you?

million dollar question........

Will Cullen sleep in his new bed? or on the floor at the door?

is that soap? oh NO it's not.....

Ava wanted Cullen to take a bath with her the other night. They were playing and all the sudden i hear her screaming- "I THOUGHT IT WAS THE SOAP, YUCK IT'S STICKY!!!!!" I ran in the bathroom and Mrs. dramatic Ava was out of the tub and Cullen was in the tub standing up laughing.... She was acting so crazy he thought she was funny. She was trying to find the bar of soap and picked up something that was not soap... Cullen had stickied in the tub.... He has been stinking in the potty but I guess that day he had not quite finished!

needless to say, Cullen is no longer allowed in Ava's bathroom-

new sleeping arrangements

I originally was going to do a post on how I am so, so sad because we took down Cullen's crib. He has started to jump out of it/fall out of it- I was going to talk about reconsidering baby #4..... and then this happened...........

Cullen does NOT like the idea is crib is gone.... He is sleeping on a mattress on the floor right now until we can get a bed. He will not stay on the mattress- and he can open his door so I put up a gate that he can not get over but he can still see and hear which makes him madder! So last night he decides he has had it, he gets everything he can pick up and throws it over the gate, he even gets naked and throws his clothes and diaper over. He was in some sort of rage- Have you heard the phrase "Let them cry it out". Well that does not apply to my child he will cry for hours - I finally rocked him to sleep and laid him on his mattress and at 12 he woke up- then again at 3 then again at 5.... I am trying to be consistant but the life is being sucked out of me very, very slowly.... So let's talk baby #4!

what's going on at plaza de luke......

Ava is back in school and happy as can be...so is Ethan! He loves her but now he is the boss!

Ethan started tennis lessons and he loves it. Cullen loves it too b/c he gets to run after the balls.

Cullen has so many favorite things right now, first cats! He loves cats, if he sees one he meows, if we are in the store and he sees cat food he meows, if you say cat he meows, I got him a cat that walks and meows and he sleeps with it. I asked Nathan if I should get Cullen a cat pillow pet for his b-day and he said "I don't think so." So I guess a Lion will have to do. Cullen still loves balls, baseball, basketball, football any ball- now his new thing is to get naked and sit on the potty. Which is a good thing until the song comes on and tells him to "get the toilet paper" and he gets the toilet paper again and again and again..... He did go #1 and #2 last night on the potty and I was so excited--- let's see if that happens again...

Soccer starts this week for Ethan and Ava... 2 nights a week plus Ethan's tennis and he starts his Art class...

we have one more trip to the beach and our summer will offically be over- this summer went by so fast- we did some fun things but we had a lot of sadness.

Fall is just around the corner and things are getting busy for us....but no complaining here!

where is the best place to hide a butter bean?

I'll give you one guess...... in your nose...
Mommy and daddy will never find it there-
Cullen has been sticking his finger in his nose for about a week now. I guess it is fun or he likes to get a reaction from me and Nathan..

Well last night he was sticking his finger up his nose and we kept saying "Stop Cullen"...
After bath Ava and Cullen were playing while I cleaned up dinner and I came upstairs and noticed Ava had a flashlight and toilet paper. She said "Mommy something is in Cullen's nose and I tried to get him to blow but he would not" I looked up his nose and it looked like a big slimy biggie, but once I put the light up there I could tell it was NOT a biggie.
I called Nathan b/c he is in charge of removing splinters and ticks so I thought this is a job for daddy plus Cullen listens to him. Cullen layed on the bed and Nathan saw that it was green, probably a butter bean. He told Cullen to lay still and he did. Nathan got the tweezers and very very carefully pulled out the Biggest Butter bean. No wonder he kept putting his finger up his nose.