Mega Long Paris Post

I'm a good blogger and blogging twice in 2 days. We were in Paris for Halloween (as you saw in the last post) but it was also a weekend to celebrate. Most of you know, but in case you don't, my brothers had baby girls on THE SAME DAY! The babies were due a week a part, but Rach was late and Mo was early. Unfortunately it was before they both lived in Paris, so we were in Dallas AND Paris that day! CRAZY! The girls turned 2 on Oct. 24th and had their party last weekend. So, this post is mostly the birthday party and some other adventures in Paris. I will probably write too much, but at least there are a lot of pictures!



We drove in Thursday and went to Clay and Mo's. My mom is the cake queen and Maurine had scheduled her to come help her with Avery's cake. So, while we were there we had lots of fun. Mo took Avery and Kanyon for a ride in the wagon. Avery had been to a Halloween carnival earlier in the day, so her whiskers were still on!

That night, Rachel came out to the house to get mom's help for Roselyn's cake. Rosie and Kanyon were helping Clint find new boots on the Internet.

Friday, Rosie came out while her parents took Nolan to the Dr. We had lots of fun. I was happy because she found one of my favorite old baby dolls. While we were swinging outside, she wanted to make sure the baby could see the leaves falling. What an attentive mother she was being.

This was later in the day. Notice the germX in my dad's hand! 2 year olds = major germs.

Dad took klp and Rosie to pick tomatoes and Rosie ate them as soon as she picked them.

Dad watched klp so mom and I could run into town one afternoon and we came back to this. Dad had whistled him to sleep on the back porch.

We went out into the back pasture and helped (watched) Dad put up a tree stand. Kanyon just HAD to pet Max.

Thanks to Aunt Nancye, Kanyon had a cool Halloween shirt to wear. You can see by his face how thrilled he was for me to be taking his picture.

Mom took this while I was squeezing my little man. I think its funny.

Kanyon got restless being held, so I put him down. He was checking out all of his surroundings very carefully.

more exploring

Ok NOW for the birthday party! The girls had their party together and it was soo fun! It was a small family party...which meant that it wasn't that small, but only family was there, you know what I mean. The kicker was the entertainment. You can now add my brothers to the list of softy parents who spoil their kids and have ponies at their birthday parties! Well, actually, Clint's hygienist has a petting zoo business so she let them use one for the day. SOOO if you know the pony people that makes it more OK, right? The pony stayed in the dog pens til it was time to ride. Shoulda' got a picture of that. The birthday girls were SOOO excited to ride the horse. Their faces are FULL of smiles in this picture (I know you can't see it that well).

BUT you can see the faces on their Daddies!! Not sure who was getting a bigger kick out of this whole thing.

Here are the girls waving to their admirers (and yes, they're barefooted, that's how we do things).

Of course Kanyon got to ride and he really did love it! He rocked, grinned and laughed the whole time!

Uncle Clint making sure he knows the position for the bronc ride.

Kanyon is happy, but his unlces look even happier!

After the pony ride, Roselyn wanted to push Kanyon in the swing. She is so sweet, but we had a hard time keeping her from getting hit by it!

Avery the pyromaniac was THRILLED when they lit her candles!

Sweet Birthday Girls!

Avery was apparently NOT THRILLED with the way Roselyn was blowing out her candles.

Cousin Sierra came out of nowhere and blew out Avery's candle. No big deal, I think Avery was just a little stunned.

One more round for the birthday girls! Roselyn wants everyone to know that REAL cowgirls ride in high heels (and tutus)!!

Notice Clay is on the pony in the background. I guess he just couldn't resist.

Neither could Clint. Weirdos.

Nolan and Kanyon were partied out and needed some time to chill. Kanyon lovingly put his arm around Nolan like a big boy cousin should.

They had matching outfits thanks to Aunt Nancye! But, the sweetness was short lived. Kanyon was actually rather violent.

After a long day of partying and pony rides, Kanyon needed a bath! I LOVE his face in this picture!!!!!

And what it is about babies when they get out of the tub and you wrap them up???!!! I could just eat him up!!!!

Now we're back at home and klp has learned a new way to sit in his bouncy seat. He thinks he's so grown up.

Yesterday he woke up from his nap so I went to get him and this is what I saw. This is the first time (that I know of) that he's ever figured out how to sit up in his bed. It made me laugh when I walked in.

One more thing: People have mentioned how "old" Kanyon is looking lately...like a big boy.... Well, Tuesday night while we were in Dallas, Me, Kanyon, and Kasey were walking to the elevator and this lady asked if we wanted her to hold the elevator for us. We said sure...thanks. Then she said, "Well, you have a baby....or....a kinda toddler thingy." I think she meant something in between a baby and a toddler, but it made us laugh.

Halloween!

Before we get to Halloween, I have a few other pics. We had Kanyon's 18 month check up (finally) and everything was good. He weighed 19lbs. 13 oz. (almost 25th%) and was 31 1/2 in. (almost 40th%). He is still on preemie charts, so when he's 2 and they take him off the charts and on to a regular 2 year old chart, we'll be nowhere near "on the charts" but who cares about those dumb ol' charts anyways! He had gained 800 grams since his 15 month visit and that was good. These pictures are of him in the waiting room at the Dr. office. It was early morning, so he was kinda out of it and his hair was CRAZY!!!

I was trying to get a picture of him eating his therapy bench but he kept hearing my camera beep and he would turn and flash this smile....

Here's my little woodchuck:

Ok ok ok ok HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We started the festivities at our church Trunk or Treat Wednesday night:


Here he is... 8 time Olympic gold medalist MICHAEL PHELPS!!!!!!!!

Kory gets the credit for the Phelps idea, I just had to make it happen. Not too hard once we found the "speedo" swim diaper cover thing on Target clearance. We liked the idea because it will be funny to look back on because the Michael Phelps thing was such a big deal this year. Not to mention the fact that Kanyon "Phelps", like the real thing, has an unusually long torso and giant feet and hands.

Mindi took these pics and she had to be fast...we weren't in our Phelps git up for very long because it was a bit chilly outside. So, he showed off his costume to his friends and then we had a quick costume change. BUT we kept with the water theme...He was a little froggy. Thanks to some friends of ours who gave us their boys' clothes, we had this costume to keep him warm!


"Talk to the webbed hand, Cooper!"

Here's our little froggy boy.

Phelps showing off his historic 8th gold medal:

See, it wasn't THAT cold, he was all grins!

Kanyon and I headed to Paris for the weekend. We had Halloween fun and then Birthday fun (another post). We went to Clay and Maurine's for a great dinner and the best trick or treating neighborhood. Here are the Spencer Cousins:

Landry the mouse

Avery the cat and Roselyn the hare Avery got a little emotional when she realized how beautiful her costume was. It was just too much for her

Paw Paw and Phelps

Me and Clint with our little spooks

"Enough with this stupid hat mom"

Ok, here's the gang. Avery and Landry were A cat and a mouse. Roselyn and Nolan were the tortoise and the hare. Nolan's shell was a bike helmet that clint painted and strapped on him. Nice.

I feel like it will be at least 10 years before we can get them to quit picking at each other (Rosie and kanyon) and ALL look at the camera (like Avery)!!!

We had a great time with the cousins. The big girls are starting to "get it" so that was fun. Speaking of girls, they turned 2 and had a party to celebrate! I'll do that post later. klp and I are headed to Dallas for this week's OCH therapy.