Christmas Tap

This fall Caylin began taking tap class (if you call, she took ballet last fall). Well, two weekends ago she performed in her first tap show. So, without further ado...

A boy and his train set

This one's for the grandparents!  Gavin is having lots of fun playing with his Chuggington Interactive Railway!

Our Lil G is Two Two

So,I'm  just realizing that I never did post pictures from Gavin's 2nd Birthday.  We didn't do anything too planned... just a few family gatherings.  I don't think it bothered him too much.  He had so much fun celebrating with everyone, once he caught on that "open presents" is a fun thing and that the "Happy Birthday Song" leads to cake.  :)    And, if you could tell by the title, there was a very prevalent around this birthday..  Trains.  More specifically, Chuggington (a show on Disney, originating from the UK, for those of you who are not familiar). 

The Monday after his birthday, Gavin went in for his 2 year wellness check. Like his big sis, Gavin is far from setting any sort of weight or height records.  He weighed in at about 26 lbs and about 34in, both of which are in the 20-something percentiles.  Which, is on the smaller size for his age, but is significantly bigger than Caylin was at age 2.

We're so happy and blessed to have a fun loving, happy and healthy little guy!  Below you can see some more pictures of Gavin's special day.

Chuggington

ugly doll (from big sis)

frosting gotee

all american 2 year old :)

Birthday cupcakes

Can you guess which one is for the birthday boy?

Fall Fun and Halloween Trick or Treating

Halloween!

As we did last year, our friends, The Binghams graciously allowed us to join in the festivities in their neighborhood.  We affectionately call it, Hallowings (as in chicken wings for dinner) at Bings.  And, the kids were much more into the excitement than last year.  Just that fact that Gavin wanted to wear his costume was a big start.  He only made it to one house for the trick-or-treating part.  He didn't seem to like the idea of having to put the candy in his bag.  Caylin, on the other hand, made it the length of a street block and back.  Here are some pictures of our little Halloweeners.

 Gavin as Brewster from Disney's Chuggington

Caylin as Rapunzel

Lydia (no, she's not ours, but she puts up with Caylin and Gavin quite well) as the Tiger

All three of the kids seemed to have more fun handing out candy to other kids than collecting some for themselves.  Such sweet giving children. :)

Fall Fun!

Earlier in October we took the kids to one of the local farm festivities.  They had tons of fun looking at the animals, playing on the rides and slides, and picking out pumpkins. 



Caylin, sitting on a GIANT pumpkin

Gavin's turn on the GIANT pumpkin

Crawling through the hay bails

taking a ride on the barrel train (Gavin's favorite)

Big slide, Caylin's turn

Gavin on the slide

Hi bunnies!

Beautiful bug!

It has been a very busy but fun fall, so far. We fully anticipate a busy 2nd half w/ Gavin's Birthday in a few days and a trip to PA for Thanksgiving. 

Strasburg Railroad Visit

Today, our last full day in PA, we took a trip with my Cousin Stacy and crew to Strasburg Railroad. this trip could could not have been more timely, as Gavin has been getting more an more into all things transportation. He was so excited to see the Doo Choos! Big sister, Caylin, had fun too. She loved spending times with her cousins as well as riding the train.

Here are some fun pictures from the day:

Dutch Wonderland

We decided a while back that this would be a great time to use some of our vacation time to spend extended time in PA visiting with my family and taking the kids to some of the fun attractions near by. Today the plan: Dutch Wonderland. We knew there was potential for major disaster, given the fact that they only opened up at 10 and Gavin usually goes down for a nap at 12-12:30. I'm happy to report, it was a relative success. We had some melting going on and were on our way home by 3. But, the kids were able to ride most of the rides that they were tall enough to ride and I think we were all ready to get out of the heat! Both Caylin and Gavin did not meet a ride they didn't like. In fact, the melt downs mentioned above occurred when Gavin had to leave the ride. However, he typically got over it when another ride came into view.

Here are some of our highlight pictures:

This is a copy of our "Souvenir Photo" from the Double Flume ride. Gavin's face is priceless! (easier to see in the actual copy)


Happy Dozer driver!


Bumper Cars


Riding the Panda's together!


Fun slide


More Fun Slide


Posing with THE Princess!


Merry go round fun!


Solo rider


Caylin and Gavin having the MOST FUN on the Wonder Whip!

A beautiful "new" bed for our beautiful big girl

Though this plan has been in the works for quite a while, Caylin did not know that she was getting a new bed until last night at gpa and gma's house.  We loaded up the day bed that her aunt Lisa used to have when we were visiting with Tim's gma who is in town from AZ.  Gpa and gma Brown got her the super cute bed spread and sham.

She was so excited when we set it up this morning!  Hopefully she wont be too excited to sleep tonight.

Birthday Girl

Caylin's 4th Birthday Fun!

Good morning, Birthday Bug!

or maybe we should call you Pirate Princess...

or Hello Kitty Princess...

or ready to ride!

Whatever we call you, we hope you have a wonderful birthday
and another healthy and happy year!

Here are more pictures of Caylin's birthday fun:

opening her new Hello Kitty bicycle

taking it for a spin

Watching the Mount Joy Memorial Parade with cousin Ariana

Hello Kitty Butterfly Birthday Ice Cream Cake (with rainbow squiggles on the side)

enjoying her cake

little brother approves too

Our BIG 4 year old girl!

What a fun birthday!