Halloween - the evening

And then we roll into the evening. Big big props to the Paulson 5 for bringing the full family in tow to come celebrate Halloween/my bday with us! Thank you Paulsons! Wow...I can no longer complain about trying to get Max out to any event after that.

Henry and Max were matching pirates and I made the radio flyer into a pirate ship for them to ride around in. Charlotte & Ruby donned the CUTEST hallo-headbands from "Crafty Jan" and rode in the stroller.

What a great night, I can not wait to do this again next year :)

Vampy pumpkins

Our carved pumpkins

Tank's costume...hee hee

Max & Henry ready to trick-or-treat

Charlotte & Ruby...SO CUTE!!! 

The pirates in their ship

All the boys

Oh yes Brett DID roll up on the lawn..had to! It was a pirate set up! 

Surrender it!!! (this house kinda had a creepy lady...like for real creepy, not just Halloween creepy)

Angie gets the boys in action

Arrghhh - Max spots the treasure and Hank says "You sure?"

End of the night, let's throw candy around!

A knife in the bday cake for Halloween, perfect!

Thanks to the hubs for getting me awesome tix to Cirque for my bday which we'll be seeing tomorrow afternoon! :)

Halloween - the afternoon

After stopping by work, I dropped off Max with his nanny Paola and her son Ayrton (Cooper tagged along too!). They took him over to the Stanford mall to check out the giant pumpkins and hang out with everyone else in costume. Wow, they really did it up and put me to shame (first year in a long time I have not dressed up).

Max looks like he had a great time and the fun continued!

Max wanders around

Cooper, Paola, & Max

Max & Ayrton

Paola & Max 

Max the pirate checks out the rough waters

Halloween - the morning

I do love Halloween. How fun to get dressed up, stay up late, and collect candy...and then to have a bday too? Great stuff.

I had the day off, but I stopped by work so Max could show off his costume. He LOVED it there! He was having a ball running around the cubes and offices. He did take a spill when he went full-speed into an office window (oops!) but when we were all laughing, so was he.

Tough pirate

Happy pirate 

Hat-hair pirate

Thanks for the pics Wente!

The real gym - Little Gym

Saturday morning we found ourselves at the Little Gym. Max had a blast at this indoor playground. He didn't really participate in the structured "circle time" but he came back when it was time to run in circles - go figure! Should the times work out, we may be coming back.

Gym practice

Last week we turned the couch into a jungle gym for Max to get him ready for his trip to the Little Gym. Here some videos of him having fun with it.

Friday at the park

Wow, what a fun-filled weekend we had this past week. Let's start off with Friday night when Max was a but squirrelly so we took him to a local park to get his ya-ya's out.

Ready to climb the stairs

And then back down again

This is a great game...up & down the stairs 

Mama and Max

Daddy playing w/Max on the sand table

Well hello lil' one

This past weekend we finally got to meet lil' Albert Wehrman! Our friends Lisa & Tom had him on September 1st, but have been very busy with the lil' guy. We all headed over to their place and while Max showed Tom & Lisa what would eventually need to be child-proofed, we got to dote on Albert for a bit.

Look at those cheeks...can you not DIE? What a beautiful family they make!

Tom, Albert, & Lisa

Stompin' around stanford

Last weekend my parents and my sis came to visit and we decided to walk around the Stanford campus to let Max get his ya-ya's out before lunch. Not only am I reminded how pretty this portion of the campus was, but it is always great to see Max spend time with his grandma, grandpa, and auntie!

Pops & Moms in front of the church 

Max on the go

"What's up statue?"

Mom & Auntie Nga watch Max run around

Max LOVES his Grandpa 

More running around

Pumpkin Patchin'

A couple weeks back we visited the pumpkin patch with Max. We decided on a local family farm (Webb Ranch in Portola Valley) instead of trying to deal with the Half Moon Bay madness that happens around this time of year.

It was so fun to see Max so into it. He insisted on walking from the car all the way down the hill and into the patch by himself (no hand holding by Mom). Once he got there, he was amazed by the selection and prices...ok that was me. Really, we got about 5-6 pumpkins total and we paid $22! Awesome. Best part of all was to see how quickly Max caught on to picking out pumpkins (going for alot of big ones) and putting them in a wheel barrel. I can't wait to see how he reacts to trick-or-treating :)

Max poses on a hay stack

Daddy & Max on the hay truck

Max picks his first pumpkin

Leon paying close attention to fantasy football Max

Max & Daddy

More pumpkin pickin'

Two Sweet

You know, I been dying to tell you about these two, but I wanted their folks to be able to tell ya' first.

We are more than ecstatic to announce the arrival of our dear friends the Paulson's baby girls...yep twins! Congrats Angie, Brett, & Big Bro Henry!

Ruby Genevieve Paulson
October 7th   10:01 pm   6 lbs 3 oz   19.75 in

Charlotte Piper Paulson 
October 7th   10:07 pm   5 lbs 15 oz   18.5 in

Ruby & Charlotte

Ruby

Charlotte

Me visiting@ the hospital...they were so tiny & cute!

Very proud about using a spoon