Happy Halloween!!!

While Eric held the fort down at home to give out candy to the trick-or-treaters, Owen and I met up with two other young families in our neighborhood to do a little trick-or-treating of our own! Owen followed his little friends from house to house collecting all sorts of candy for his pregnant Mommy! He yelled "trick or treat" and was very polite by saying "thank you" to each candy giver. Since Owen doesn't know what candy is at the age of two, it was easy to store the candy away in his pumpkin pail. Although I did point out a lollipop for him to take at one of the houses and I let him suck on that while we visited a few more houses. Owen and I had a great time and we were sorry to have Daddy miss it, but on Sunday we hope to go trick-or-treating with some other friends in their town, so Daddy will be able to see how well Owen does collecting more candy for Mommy! We hope everyone had a fun and safe Halloween!

SCHOOL PHOTOS ARE IN!

Owen did an unbelieveable job with getting his photos taken at school!  The company is called Teddy Bear Portraits and they print out the photos for you to see them prior to knowing if you will be purchasing any or not.  Well, when I saw these, there was no way I was letting these out of my sight!  We have 3 different poses for you to choose from - so let me know which one you want and we'll send you the photo!  First come, first serve as there are only 4 photos of each pose!  (Although we think you'll be happy with any one you get!)

Puppy Dog Tails

Today Owen and I got together with some friends to participate in the Halloween Parade in Winchester.  It was the first time he put on his costume - and he didn't fuss at all!  I was worried because the only other time I tried to get the costume on him, he didn't want anything to do with it!  He must've been feeling the spirit of Halloween!  And as you  can see - our little Owen is a cute little puppy!  You will have to wait until Halloween to see what Aiden will be...

Owen is REALLY 2!

Today Eric and I planned to take the day off to share Owen's Birthday with him, but since Eric's boss is every naughty word in the dictionary, and then some, he was unable to take the day off.  BUT - he was able to take a couple hours at lunch to meet up with me and Owen.  This morning I was looking up an indoor playground that we knew about and it just so happened they had a free "Under 2 Crew" playgroup at 10am till noon - and it was FREE!  The place was called Cowabunga's - and it's very similar to your Jump On In, but BETTER - 100 times better!  I think Owen really enjoyed it because there weren't any big kids running around taking over the place - in fact, we shared the whole facility with about 5 other moms and their little ones.  After spending a good hour and a half there, we hit up the 99 for lunch.  After Owen finished his lunch, 3 waiters came out with a small dish of ice cream with a candle and sang "Happy Birthday" to him!  He was quite the little character today - and I enjoyed spending the day with him.  We continued the birthday festivities after dinner with another rendition of "Happy Birthday", a cupcake with candle, and a couple of presents.  One of the presents was from "Mommy and Daddy" while the other one was from the Krajewski crew over in Japan.  We can't believe Owen is 2...

They made this crown for him at Daycare

Happy Birthday Owen!  Elmo Style...

On October 20th we celebrated Owen's 2nd Birthday!  When trying to think of a theme for his party, it was quite clear that an Elmo party would fit the bill.  There are few things our little guy is obsessed with, and Elmo is one of them!  We have DVR'd several Sesame Street episodes just so that we can have Elmo on hand 24/7.  Although it has become a little ridiculous that he wants us to fast forward through most of the Sesame Street episode just to get to the "Elmo's World" part!  Anyway, back to the party - we missed many of our family members who couldn't be there to celebrate but we still had Grandma and Pa, Grammie and Grampy, Auntie Therese, Uncle Dave and cousin Morgan with us.  We also had some great friends attend, with their great children!  Check out the photos of the great day we had!