Brigham's Black Eye

We're not sure how it happened, Jaaromy was right next to him and I was just down the stairs. He fell and started crying really loud like it hurt. There wasn't a big crash so it didn't sound like it should have hurt that bad. I hurried and did the mom thing and held him until he was happy again. I didn't even realize it was that bad until I noticed he was bleeding and the spot right around the cut was really swollen. The swelling went down and it stopped bleeding but by the next morning it had turned dark around almost his whole eye. Today it's even darker so I figured I'd take a picture to show everyone.

Poor Brigham! We figure he must have hit the edge of the chair when he fell.

Our Growing Family

I don't how many of you know this but Jaaromy and I have been considering international adoption for several years now. With our fourth and probably last baby coming soon,(hopefully, I'm not pregnant yet) we thought we should get more aggressive with earning and saving money so we will be able to do it in a few years. International adoption can be very expensive but both of us feel like it is the right path for us and our family.
It is for this reason that I have set up a link to Amazon.com on the right just below my profile. If you click on the link and make a purchase we will get a small commission on the sale. I'm not saying you HAVE to buy anything, but if you are going to anyway why not help us out in the process. Christmas is coming and it sure would be nice to not have to go out to all the busy stores. (hint, hint)
If there are any online stores that any of you like to order from, let me know and I'll see if I can get a link to those as well. Amazon.com is my favorite because you can get just about anything from them.
I hope you can support us in this way, thanks for listening.

Update: I fixed it so there's a nice big banner ad on the right. I tried to do it earlier but it wouldn't work. Turns out it was because I had Adblock on. My brilliant husband figured that one out for me. Thanks, Sweetie! Anyway, so now I have the banner ad plus I kept the Text Only link just in case anyone else has Adblock on.

Halloween

Here are some pictures of our Halloween activities.


It's a tradition of ours to let the boys pick out little pumpkins at the beginning of October and then paint them about a week before Halloween. I was a little behind this year and we didn't pain them until the 28th.


Brigham kept eating the paint so I had to separate him from the pumpkin.


The boys were excited to put them on the porch.


Our little family of pumpkins! Mine is the big one on the left and Jaaromy's Quasimodo pumpkin is on the right. The little pumpkins from L to R are Nathaniel's, Jonathan's, then Brigham's.


The costumes turned out pretty well, I think. I was way behind on getting them done. I had to order the overalls online and pay extra shipping so they'd be here in time. I found the pattern for the hats online too and it was super easy.
Nathaniel had a hard time at school during the parade because he was so popular. People kept saying "Hi Mario!" He doesn't like the attention. Jonathan would call him Mario too at home. It was very cute. Jonathan loved his costume so much he wore it all day on Friday and slept in the hat last night. He was disappointed that Nathaniel didn't want to wear his costume all the time. I'm glad they turned out.


I just wasn't in to the costumes this year. Luckily Jonathan's dalmatian costume from three years ago still fit within reason. This is the best picture we have and he's not even wearing the hood with the ears. Maybe we'll have to take another one.

It was a good Halloween. Since we live so close we were able to Trick-or-Treat at both Grandma's houses. Then Jaaromy took the boys around our neighborhood a little too. We had so many Trick-or-Treaters, it was great. At our apartment we didn't get very many at all so it was a lot of fun. I actually ran out of candy, that's never happened before! Next year I'll have to buy two bags.