Curtis' 5th Birthday Party!

Curtis is FIVE! Wow. He is a sweet and funny guy that keeps us laughing. He and Wesley are best buddies. They can play together for an entire Saturday without any fighting or conflict, which is so amazing. That is not always the case, of course. :) Curtis is always watching Wesley to know what the "cool" thing to do is. I have a recent picture of Curtis watching Wesley as he does a thumbs up sign for the picture and in the next picture, Curtis has his thumb up as well. Any time John Mark or I leave the house while Wesley is at school, Curtis asks if we can just go get Wesley and bring him back home. They love to play with Legos and super hero figures mostly. When they play outside, they are usually taking on a lot of bad guys together. Curtis is also our little doorman. When anyone leaves the house, he rushes to the garage door saying, "Wait! Wait! First...!" and he kisses our hip or gives a hug before opening the door for us and then shuts it behind us. He also likes to let Angus out and feed him. 

For his birthday party, Curtis wanted a Batman theme. He had been asking when his birthday party was going to be since Wesley had his in August, so he was so excited when the day finally arrived. We had his party the Saturday before his birthday. We invited two families from church, and had 5 little guests. 

Wesley made an awesome welcome sign to hang on the front door.

Wesley also decorated a whole package of cups with Batman scenes. He
was with me when I bought the cups, and he asked if he could
decorate them all.  He did lots of pictures with robbers going
 to jail and Batman saving the day. They were so great.

Super hero poses

The guests' goody bags had all things Batman:
disc launchers, pencils, tattoos, and "magic towels"
that expand in water.

Couldn't get a real smile. 

Singing to Curtis

Curtis got a Lego set, some hero figures (including a Batman), some
games, and an umbrella.

Golly and Granddad came!

Misha and GinGin came, too!

Wesley geting to play with Daddy. So cute.

For his real birthday, we will bring a treat to his Pre-K class, and we are going to the afternoon showing of Big Hero 6. Curtis will get to pick where we eat, which I'm almost sure will be his favorite hamburger place.

We love our Curtis Teezer. He is a sweet blessing to our family.

Halloween 2014

Curtis got to dress up twice for Halloween this year: once for his Pre-K class party and then for the real deal on Halloween night. He needed to have a costume that would still allow him to easily go potty at school, so we went with a cowboy and re-used most of the stuff from Wesley's Woody costume a few years ago.

Cute cowboy.

John Mark went to help with the party since I was at work.

Praying before snack

We repeated last year's routine for Halloween. We started at our church's Trunk-or-Treat, then came back home to trick-or-treat around our block. We then came back to our house and handed out some of the candy the boys had acquired to the few kids that were still out.

My one handmade contribution this year was
Curtis' cape. Both costumes were hand-me-downs
from a friend.

Batman!

Ninja!

Trunk-or-Treat

Curtis was chatting it up with Batgirl (Marissa)
Hulk (Juan) and the Minion (Annette) were so cute.

Mr. Mike had a great fishing booth set up. Mrs. Dru was underneath
making sure they caught candy.

Chuck and Rolanda threw snowballs from the 'Frozen' booth.

Bethany (clown), Joshua (Jack Frost), Curtis, and Wesley

My dear friend Jordan

Eli as Luigi

One of the spookiest houses. Curtis took a lot of coaxing to get to the
door. They had spooky music/laughing playing.

Wesley preparing to hand out candy at the end
of the night.

Another fun Halloween! We love our church!

Wesley's Pumpkin Project

Each year, the librarian at Wesley's school has a Pumpkin Character Contest. The kids get to decorate pumpkins in line with a book character to enter the contest. This was Wesley's first year to enter, and he chose "Big Nate." He had the idea to use pipe cleaners for his sticky up hair and just wanted to paint his face and shirt. They are also supposed to submit a poem to tell about the character. Wesley loved getting to type his out all by himself!

Pumpkin Patch

The weekend before Halloween was pretty hot, and for some reason we chose that Saturday to drive to Flower Mound for a pumpkin patch experience. We chose this one because admission was just $5 per car and there is a new Penn Station nearby (my favorite place to eat in Kentucky). It was unseasonably warm and FULL of people, but I think the boys still had fun. They got to do a hay maze, bouncy houses, play on huge pumpkins, and enjoy the painted wooden characters placed around. 

Starting the maze

Brothers with Mario Brothers

Not sure what Wesley and Curtis are posing as

Curtis loves Batman. He was saying,
"I'm Batman" in his best deep Batman voice.

Wesley with Lego Robin

On top of the hay bale mountain.

Curtis' preferred position for going down slides
(insert crazy scream) 

Sweet Wesley outside of Penn Station.