Evan's first bowl of cereal

Wow, time has been flying around our house lately! It seems like it was just yesterday that I had Evan yet it also seems like he has been with us forever.

Evan is growing, changing and doing something new everyday! He has 2 teeth - both on the bottom. Tonight, he tried rice cereal from a bowl for the first time.

The picture below is the very first bite....


He LOVED it!!! After a few bites he started opening his mouth for more! He even squealed at me when I stopped feeding him. It really was too cute!


He was one happy little boy after he got his tummy full of cereal!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a very healthy and Happy Thanksgiving!

P.S. I know I am very behind in my blogging....I promise to work on updating everything over this long holiday weekend! :-)

New Blog title...

Well how do you like the new name???

Ben and I were talking tonight about the blog. I really do love keeping it up. I think it is a great way to let family and friends know what the boys are doing and how they are growing. For me it is also a way to record these little stories and adventures the boys are having.

However The Mini Adventures of Kyle was really just for Kyle. This blog has been mostly all about him and how he is growing and that was what our world was completely about. Since August, our lives have changed- in the most wonderful way. I tried to add Evan's name to The Mini Adventures... but to me it still didn't fit.

So we decided on a new name - House of Boys...well that is EXACTLY what I have. A crazy, wild, yet remarkably wonderful house full of boys.

So we will move forward....with a house of boys and loving every minute of it! :-)

Kyle's first field trip!

Last Friday, Kyle had his very first field trip or I guess I should say he had his very first school bus ride! To be honest I think he was more excited about riding the school bus than going anywhere on a field trip.

Parents could not ride the bus with the kids but of course I had to jump on just for a few seconds to take this picture of Kyle. He looks SO happy and excited!

I followed right behind the bus to the park and I ran up and snapped this picture of Kyle getting off the school bus.


Once the kids got off of the school bus they could go to this big playground. Kyle immediately ran to this climbing wall. It took him a few times to master getting up it but once he did there was no stopping him!

There were these round pipe things at the playground that made the echoing noises when they yelled into it. Well Kyle was being silly and he put his entire face in the pipe and yelled.

Climbing up again...

And then he enjoyed sliding down....

Kyle had a GREAT first field trip and I am so glad that I got to go with him! :-)

The beginning of the Fall Festivals...

I love the Fall.... for a lot of reasons. The cooler weather...spending more time outside...its getting close to Christmas... and all the Fall Festivals! Now that Kyle is another year older and a "big kid" as he calls himself we are trying to take in all of the Fall Festivals around our home. I think I have one picked out every weekend until we go to Disney World and then that will be a whole week of festivals! :-)

Last weekend, we kicked off our Festival visits by going to Ottawa Farms. They had LOTS of activities for the kids and the best part they had the activities so spread out that it did not seem crowded at all.



First off we went to the Duck Races. Kyle "helped" his duck win the race. :-)

Then he got to ride the cow train....


The highlight of his trip was most definitely the inflatable slides! They had two and Kyle crawled up these probably 100 times EACH.


Then we all went on the hay ride! Evan looks like he is having a great time, doesn't he? He slept the majority of the time but I want him to look back and know that even though he was a baby and little we took him every where. Now I know there are some things he just can't attend but right now and (Thank you Dana for the Baby Bjorn!) Evan can go anywhere we go. :-)


The hayride took us out to the corn maze where yes we got LOST!! It really started getting to me when I could not hear the voices of the other corn maze visitors. Thankfully we made it out.... 45 minutes later!