Halloween

Ok, here's some Halloween pics. They are all out of order, cuz I didn't have time to organize them. We had a very eventful halloween. I was an elephant, my sis was a lion and cousin sophie was a ladybug. We were our own little circus. First, the night before we carved the pumpkins with Auntie Shosh and Grandma. Then on halloween we got all dressed up and went into Santa Cruz for trick or treating for the very first time. Both sets of grandparents were there and helped us walk for an hour and a half up to doors to get candy. Then we headed over the the Harvest Festival at church and played games. We had wayyyyyyy to much candy that night and were bouncing off the walls until 11:00pm! This year we got to where our costumes 3 times during halloween week: story time at the library, friday playgroup, and halloween night! Mom bought them like 2 months ago and they were already getting small on us as you can see my wedgie in the pic below:

Grandma had foot surgery and had a cast. She gave us lots of rides on her really fun scooter!

Dad's masterpieces: Bob and Larry (from Veggie Tales) all lit up

We got to sleep with them in our room as night lights for a few nights. A little Heyman family tradition.

At the Harvest Festival

I wasn't too happy in this pic for some reason. I think all that candy was getting to me.

The Puffers family picture. Hopefully this can be an annual event now! :)

This is James from church and his son, Dane. Both Dane and Faylen (the 2 lions) won the baby costume contest. (Little John also won the little kid costume contest!)


Grandpa and a Lion golfing. Where's Faylen???
Oh, there she is!

Carving the Pumpkins!
Faylen was very into getting slimy!


AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Working diligently

This year I just played with the innards instead of eating them, like I did last year. What was I thinking?!?!?!?

too much fun!

Look, daddy is holding Tina Turner's hand while trick or treating!

almost the whole gang trick or treating Pumpkin Fight!!!!!

Puffers' Progress

This is officially the first of many Puffers' Progress Posts to come. These posts will consist of quick updates on physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth and achievements of my sister and I. These posts are most certainly not to brag, but instead so that you can keep up with us and mostly so that I can record our progress for our mom, so she doesn't have to keep a baby book. ;) She likes to keep record of when we learn to do what so she can go back in years to come and reminisce. She's so sentimental that way. So here's our latest stats:

JOHN

AGE: 2 1/2 years

FAVORITE COLOR: ORANGE!

PHYSICAL STATS: tall and strong. just over 3 feet tall!

FAVORITE FOOD/SNACK: baby carrots dipped in ketsup and anything chocolate

FAVORITE TOY: My new train table and trains

THINGS I SAY and DO: "I wanna go home" (I say this when I've been in the car all day) Pretty much anything I say I just repeat myself over and over and over again until someone acknowledges me. I love to take pictures with mommy's camera. I am very protective over my sister. I like to teach my sister how to do things. I like to make her laugh.

SONGS I CAN SING MOST THE WORDS TO: "Itsy Bitsy Spider", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", "Barney Theme Song", "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes", "ABC's", "The Ants go Marching", and lots more. My sis and I like singing to country music in the car.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: I now sleep in a big boy toddler bed. (as of a couple months a go) No more baby crib! I learned how to ride my tricycle.

Faylen

AGE: 1 1/2 yrs

PHYSICAL STATS: 95th percentile for height, lots of teeth--13! (2 molars)

FAVORITE FOOD/SNACK: Anything. she still eats twice as much as her brother. She usually polishes off his plate when he's done. :)

FAVORITE TOY: new baby doll and baby stroller. she pushes her baby in the stroller through the house for hours. She loves her baby and takes very good care of it and holds it perfectly like a natural mom. It's so fun to see her nurturing motherly instincts. She also loves to read books to herself.

THINGS I SAY: "mine", "I want this", "I love you", "apple juice", "I want my baby", "I don't know!". She can repeat almost anything you ask her to, she just has to be in the talking mood. She really has almost skipped the stage of saying single words and pointing out things to speaking in complete sentences. Almost everything she says is in a sentence. Her verbal skills are really amazing recently.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS: No more binkie!!!!! Mom finally gave up looking for them a couple months ago. It drove her nuts climbing behind the crib in the middle of the night to find the missing binkie so she cut Faylen off cold turkey!

MY NEWEST TALENT: climbing and dancing. You tell me to shake my booty and I'll do exactly that!

THINGS I LEARNED: how to put puzzles together. Point to my eyes, nose, ears, and mouth when asked to.

FUNNY THINGS I DO: I ride my little tikes car in the back yard and say, "I go work".

Puffers at the Pumpkin Patch '09

We had a fun day at the pumpkin patch with Uncle Jason, Auntie Rachel and Baby Sophia who just moved up here near us. It's so nice to know we can hang out whenever we want to and don't have to drive halfway down CA to do it!

The biggest pumpkin I've ever seen

Daddy wheeled us around in the Barrell as we picked out pumpkins. Corn is my favorite food in the whole world and I couldn't understand why this corn was so hard to eat. Faylen and Sophia: the cutest cousins in the world!

Sophie sleeping on her daddy
The fam on the Hay ride. It was really beautiful with thousands of Marigold flowers.

Chillin on the haystacks

Watching the pumpkin weighing contest

Us in our overalls

I got to go on a train ride!!!!

Look at these giant pumpkins! The biggest was 1,500lbs!

3 Munchkins for just $1...What a great deal!!

These pumpkins were perfect for sissy, since her nick name is Sugar Pie. Mommy even calls her Sugar Pumpkin Pie all the time.

Swimming in Pumpkins

Sissy found the best pumpkin. I named it Larry cuz it looks

just like Larry the cucumber from Veggie Tales

There were scarecrows everywhere!

A Special Visit

Auntie Natasha and Uncle Dan (Dad's half sister and brother in law) came all the way down from Washington to visit us. It was the first time Faylen had met them. Thanks for traveling all that way! We hope to see you again soon!

Faylen and Natasha

Natasha and Uncle Dan

Don't Grandma and Colleen look like sisters here?

Another trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium

We are trying to go as much as possible before our year pass runs out.

Look! Dory! Dory! Dory!

Nuggles, Nuggles, and more Nuggles! (snuggles)

Uncle Jason stayed with us for a couple weeks. We got lots of nuggles.

Getting a nuggle while watching a movie. Quite a comfy pillow I might add. :)

A Day at the Park with My friend Nessa

Sugar loves to paint and draw

Nessa's baby sister, Kaylee

Disneyland 2009

We took a trip to LA for one short fun filled weekend. We got to stay with Grandma and Grandpa Heyman, Shosh and Josh. It was the first time we'd been back there since I was 1 month old. We got to go swimming and relax by the pool for the day. Then we headed to Encinitas where we celebrated Aunt Sandi's 60th surprise Bday party dinner. She was soooo surprised. Uncle Ryan did a great job planning such a big party. Then the next morning we headed to Disneyland to continue celebrating for Sandi's bday. We arrived at 9am and didn't leave till 12:30am. That's 17 hours!!!!! We went on TONS of rides, watched the fireworks show and Fantasmic, and Grandma Jill spoiled us with gifts and toys from Disneyland. We were soooo tired that we barely made it back to the car by the end of the day.
It was a fun and exhausting trip. Mom and Dad say that we probly won't be back to Disneyland for a while. I think they got their fill, and I think the fact that this is the only year both Faylen and I get in free has something to do with it. ;)

Happy Bday Sandi!

Faylen and I enthralled with the Star Wars show during lunch:

Fireworks at Disneyland (sorry it's a little dark)

It's A Small World After All (and it's almost midnight)

Faylen chowing down in the high chair that was mom's when she was a little girl.

Faylen and Josh.....2 peas in a pod.
G-ma Susan refinished this old play rocking cradle that Granpa Jim made for mommy when she was a little girl. Now it's been passed down to Faylen. It's just perfect for her little baby dolls she's obsessed with. They kept joking about how after grandma had 3 boys she was so excited to have my mom so she could do girly things like play dolls. Apparently mom just used the cradle grandpa made to store and rock footballs. Mom never quite understood the whole baby doll thing. It took her forever to realize she needed to buy one for Faylen. Now Faylen has never been more content.

Click here to see the video of Faylen just after she opened her present of twin dolls and a double stroller from grandma Susan. It's pretty darn cute to see her instant natural instincts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw3SxkrK0ho

My new Nemo shirt and my new sword Grandma Jill got me at Disneyland.

Me in my nerdy swim suit. I feel like a geeky European or something, but when I wear it I can swim all around the pool all by myself! I love it! I'm helping grandpa put together my new T-Ball set he got me.

Getting a little taste of mommy's life


Love and miss you all!

Li'l John