Soren and Bodie are so lucky to have so many cousins their own age. We get together and it is crazy chaos of kids everywhere. They love it! But when they get together with the Petersons, it is a whole different type of fun—it is all about Soren and Bodie! They are the only kids and they eat up the attention! They are spoiled rotten and the center of it all—just how they like it!
The kids miss camp already (and we do too), so instead of camp, we did some camping in the bedroom. 
So that Halloween festivities have finally started. This is very exciting because that means we get to showcase our much anticipated eyeball costumes! Soren, for some unknown reason, always talks about eyeballs. So when he said he wanted to be an eyeball for Halloween, we were not surprised. Bodie originally said he wanted to be Spiderman (the same Spiderman costume that he can be seen wearing in about 50% of the pictures). We knew that if he saw Soren’s cool costume, he would want to be an eyeball too. So we decided to be proactive and gently suggest that they be a pair of eyes. Thankfully, our propaganda campaign was successful and we ended up with the cutest little pair of eyes you’ve ever seen!
While I do feel it is okay to toot my own horn here for the engineering genius that went into the costume. We certainly couldn’t have done it without the help of Grandma who did all of the sewing machine work! Thanks Grandma!
Kevin and I decided the only appropriate costumes for us would be to go as optometrists. So Ojos Locos Optometry was born;)
It is the 27th of October, we were all dressed up and already had places to go. First stop, the nursing home to visit Nana.
Next up the McGraw School Halloween Party where Soren was so excited to play with his friends.
Now a couple of days of rest before we gear up for the big day! Barring any Frankenstorms getting in our way!…
Boodle decided that he needed to take a short break from painting paper and beautify himself. He said, “What? That is what Devon and Kara do.”
Not only did Soren ask to write a birthday note for Amy’s 40th bday all on his own, he even came up with the hilarious joke on his own too:)
The kids have been exhausted, sick, and a bit wild since school started one month ago, so what better thing to do than have a sleep over (or two!)
The kids settled in each night and we in bed and asleep by 930. Not bad! We made the following rules: 1. No one was to leave their beds until it is light out. 2. If you wake up before the others, you are not to wake anyone else up, but quietly leave the room. 3. You may turn on the tv quietly in the morning without waking up any sleepers (us included!). The first night went well. The kids woke up around 6a and entertained themselves with our babysitter of choice until we woke up. The second sleep-over was a little more exciting. Around 2am, I woke up to hear the tv on downstairs. I went downstairs to find Nick, Tim, and Soren all watching tv. Nick said, “What? I thought I saw some light outside.”—ah yeah, those would be called stars;) While some of the stories differ, the five-year olds both reported that Nick woke them up to come down to watch tv. Oh Nick…
But nonetheless, they all went back to sleep without a fuss. And woke up puffy-eyed, dragging, but happy in the morning…
