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Wish List

Tuesday the Toys R Us Christmas catalogue showed up in the mail.  I gave Mike a marker and told him to circle all the toys he thought were cool - it bought me 20 minutes to cook dinner!  The downside is that he now thinks he "needs" every single toy in the catalogue.  Oh, and it was crazy hair day at school.  His hair isn't normally blue.

Peter Pan, Baseball, the Zoo and Running

See the title up there...yeah, that one.  Well that pretty much sums up our entire weekend.  Brad got called in early Saturday morning to operate so the boys and I (ok, just I) organized half of Ryan's closet.  The boys thought it was great fun because they got to play in the bathtub (without water) and jump on my bed.

After I finally convinced them to get off the bed we actually got out of our pajamas and headed out for the play Peter Pan.  Unfortunately it was LONG...2.5 hours long.  Which is asking A LOT from little kids, fortunately the boys both did great!

After we finally made it home that night we snuggled in (for at least 2.7 seconds) to watch the Cards and the Red Sox in the World Series.

Sunday morning we broke out all the warm clothes and headed to the Zoo where we pretended to be Spoooooky monsters;

 watched hippos fight (which was crazy);

 and measured up against some furry friends.  Ryan is approximately the size of a koala and mike is 1/2 way between a river otter and pygmy goat.

 Once we left the zoo, Brad and I settled in for a 6 mile run around Forest Park.  Ryan decided it was the perfect opportunity to take a little cat nap.

As I was cooking dinner that night the boys came clomping into the kitchen in Brad's shoes.  Mike proudly declared that he was daddy and Ryan was his friend Ryan (very creative).  He then proceeded to "go to work" and "talk on my phone."  Apparently after work "Daddy and his friend Ryan" went to the Cardinals game. 

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The Greatest Show on Earth, and other happenings last weekend

Even though it is completely out of order I'm going to start by talking about our trip to the circus, which happened Sunday afternoon.  It is out of order because I listed the circus first in the title and it feels wrong to talk about other stuff first.  I guess I could always go change the title, but then I would have to delete all of this and well...I don't want to.  So here is our out of order weekend:

On Sunday afternoon Mike, Ryan and I went to the circus (Brad was out of town).  I scored tickets from work (in the box nonetheless).  They loved it.  Mike couldn't sit still and danced most of the time.  Ryan LOVED the animals more than anything.

As a funny story.  Right as the tight-rope walkers were setting up for the stunt shown below, Mike looked over at me and said "Mom, I DO NOT think this is a good idea."

Before the circus on Saturday morning Brad left semi-bright on early with a group of friends for the Notre Dame - USC game in South Bend, which left the boys and I alone to our own devices.  I wasn't feeling great (yay for head colds) but decided to suck it up and get some exercise anyway.  "We" accomplished a chilly 4 mile run.

Saturday afternoon my sickness/tiredness caught up with me and that coupled with the boys indecisiveness about napping killed my idea of a trip to the zoo.  We hung out around the house and just played instead.

On Sunday, after the circus (see kind of confusing) we met Brad at home (yay he was back) and headed out to a pumpkin carving party.  Mike went for a traditional jack-o-lantern, while Brad opted for a more scary pumpkin, using the stem as a nose.

Eckerts - 2013 Edition

For some reason I didn't mention this when we went (probably because I forgot how to blog), so this is way past due, but here it is anyway.  For the fourth year in a row, we made our annual trek out to Eckert's Fun Farm.  The boys love this place.  This year (for whatever reason) we skipped the giant slide and the petting zoo, but took full advantage of the goats, jumping pillows, corn maze, carnival rides and apple picking.

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