Wild Things...

Where the Wild Things Are has been a favorite in our house for a long long time. Daddy passed on his love of this classic book to Lennox. We were so excited when we found out about the movie coming out and of course Lennox was dying to see it. On Saturday we finally made it to the movie theater. Lennox thoroughly enjoyed the movie and he was sure to tell me that night how the book compared to the movie (mama had a proud teacher moment). As soon as the movie was over all Lennox could talk about was getting a Max costume. We had been looking at some online for Christmas and mama had shown some of them to Lennox. When we woke up Sunday Lennox begged and pleaded to go find a costume. We went to Toys'R'Us and looked while Lennox made out his Christmas wish list. Of course there was no costume to be found. But Lennox persisted. So mama relented and got the Max jammies she had hidden and gave Lennox an early Christmas gift. Lennox was so happy. From that point on we were not allowed to call him Lennox anymore, he was officially Max. He was a little perturbed that the jammies did not have whiskers, a tail, or buttons. But, he was super excited to be Max and called for lots of royal rumpuses that night. Lennox went to bed with the jammies on, but after two hours was still wide awake. He was so hot in his outfit. Luckily we convinced him to take it off finally by promising he could take it to school to wear after school when Den Den picked him up to play.

On Monday Lennox went over to Gran's house to play with Den after school. Mama asked her to stop at the costume store to see if she could find a tail for the Max jammies. The costume shop was closed so Den got creative and made a tail out of socks and made whiskers with Gran's mascara. He spent all day ordering wild rumpuses. On the way home my wild thing completely knocked out :-)

But, as soon as Daddy got home there were more rumpuses. And Daddy added a "bonfire" for the boys to circle. 

And then Lennox tried to scare the other wild thing in the house.  

I have to say that even though the constant changing into costumes gets to be a little much sometimes, I love my little boy's imagination. So happy I have a little boy who imagines himself in all kinds of little adventures. 

Halloween Night 2009

After a day of football watching, Astronaut Lennox was ready for some Trick-or-Treating fun! 

This year we went back to Oma and Opa's neighborhood for Trick-or-Treating. First Lennox hit Oma and Opa's house. They were surprised to see a little astronaut at their door.

Then we started our neighborhood rounds. Lennox's cousin Emma joined us. 

We hit the doors for two hours straight and Lennox made out like a bandit again. So much candy! And he was too tired after all that Trick-or-Treating to eat anything. Towards the end we were pushing him around in the stroller, right up to the doors, and then he would hop out to ring the doorbell -:-) Lennox sang "This is Halloween" from Nightmare Before Christmas all around Charter Point. And on Sunday, when mama tried to sing it in the car, I was quickly told that it was no longer Halloween and could not sing it. Guess we will be moving on to some Christmas songs now. Or continue singing "Party in the U.S.A." Our Toys'r'Us catalog came this weekend and Lennox is already planning his Christmas list. We are definitely moving into our favorite time of year around here!

Pumpkin Carving!

The Friday before Halloween daddy and Lennox went to a Halloween party at Karate. Lennox won the costume contest. He won a party for 20 people. So now we are having a Karate birthday party in June. 

The boys got home in the holiday spirit and wanted to carve the pumpkin. I had already gotten a Potato Head pumpkin head kit and was planning on just using that. But, the boys had other ideas. Lennox threw on my lion headband which was part of my costume for school that day. I was the Cowardly Lion. Lennox supervised while daddy designed the perfect face.

Then the carving began. My boys are so silly.

Lennox was all about sticking his hands into the pumpkin and helping us clean it out. 

Just as daddy began to cut the first eye, he sliced his finger open. So the carving continued with mama and Lennox while daddy bandaged up his hand. We did a pretty good job. I am not that great at carving, but each year I get better :-) Then Lennox decided we also needed the Potato Head face pieces. So we added those to the back and had a double sided decorated pumpkin :-)

Pumpkin Patch

This year found us back at the Ortega Methodist Pumpkin Patch, a tradition since Lennox was 4 months old. It was perfect fall weather. Lennox took the job of finding the perfect pumpkin very seriously, inspecting every one, climbing in and out of the pumpkins, and calling out to us. "This is the perfect one."

Finally Lennox found us the perfect one. He picked it and everything. Then he picked a small one for his bedroom. 

Spooktacular 2009

One of my favorite family traditions is our trip to the Jacksonville Zoo for Spooktacular. On October 24 we got all dressed up and got to the zoo early. We were some of the first people in the zoo. The mayor of Pumpkinville welcomed us. 

As usual we loved seeing all the carved pumpkins and hearing the Halloween music, and of course, Lennox loved the candy stops. So many people commented on Lennox's costume. 

They all loved it :-)

When we got to the dance area in the Kiddie Park, Lennox turned into a dancing fool again this year. He loves Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A." He climbed up on the animals and danced his little heart out. 

We left worn out and ready for Halloween week!

Disney in October

When Daddy finally got home from his almost month long business trip, we all headed down to Disney for our first trip in almost a year. We got new annual passes. Love Walt Disney World! 

We decided to go to Epcot first. Lennox wanted to ride Spaceship Earth and Nemo and all the other favorites. We ended up in Germany for lunch. Lennox loved the German band. 

After a hot day at Epcot we went back to hotel for a nap and returned to Magic Kingdom for the fireworks and light parade. That night it was open until 1 am. We were so excited.

We got a front row seat for the light parade and Lennox got to see Peter Pan up close!

We finally got back to the hotel a little after 1. We spent most of the night doing ride after ride and loving that we had no wait at all!

On Sunday we went to Hollywood Studios. Our hope was to go on the new Toy Story ride, but it was a two hour wait and the fast pass return time was 8 hours later. Crazy! So we went on the Backlot tour, visited some Monsters Inc. buddies and then the grand finale. Lennox is finally tall enough to go on the Star Wars ride. You can imagine how excited he was about it. 

It was so hot that weekend. Lennox loved cooling off in the Coca Cola mister! 

We are so glad to have our Disney passes back.