Halloween!

As we go to bed tonight

, Grandma is singing Ryker to bed and Grandpa is telling AJ stories while he lays in bed. These kids are so lucky!!!  Favorites of the night:

blinking lights for AJ and Ryk (kudos de Russ and Grandma)

, the boys really getting into Halloween, AJ and grandpa sitting outside waiting to handout candy to trick'or'treaters

, and Grandma and Dempsey playing hide and seek!

What great times! I'm so pooped!

Feeling pretty darn lucky,

Momma

Brothers

Aj was reading the letters to Ryker.

 They got dressed up to go to Pumpkin Patch!

They have cool hair together:):)

Love,

Momma

The last pump,

It's the end of the era of the pump, and I feel fineeeeeee!!

So far to celebrate I've bought a hoodie that doesn't have A zipper, taken down the paper that covers my window at work, and after one last rinse I hope to never wash pump parts again!!!! Yahooo!!!  So if I calculate it all out, with all 3 kids, I'm left with the following: 27 months of pumping, 1620 times that I've pumped, spent 16,200 minutes/270 hours/11 whole freaking days pumping. I've cleaned pump parts more that I've can count. I've lugged 2 bags back and forth on the daily. I haven't been able to plan an outting that involved more that 4 hours away without bringing a darn pump.

To say I'm excited about this new freedom would be an understatement. I am weaned of the pump, and in the next few weeks I'll be weaned of Dempsey. Crazy. A little sad. A little freaking exciting!

But adiossssss pump.

Love, pumped momma

She took her first step!!!!

Wowiwwowow I!!!!!!

Yay! So did it! I witnessed it! Wow!!!!

Our last little did it!!!

Proud,

Momma

Soccer

This season soccer has gone a bit rough for AJ. Socially he has done great adjusting to a new coach and a new team. He listens pretty well and has taken to his new teammates. Often he ends up getting into some fake punching/wrestling matches that leaves both of them on the ground and unaware of the thing called soccer that is going on around them. 

In the games, AJ pretty much avoids anything that could cause him to touch another player. He has this saunter run thing that he'll do, while he watches us on the sideline. He has zero interest to "score a goal", that's a lie, he maybe has a teeny tiny interest.  The last couple games have been rather painful, for me especially. He asked the coach to be taken out because he "was getting sweaty". I about died. I have actually had to give myself a timeout because I was getting so irritated, especially when he started walking on the field during the game, when he came and went from the field, and seemed to not listen to his coach at all. 

The latest game we were traveling in the van and AJ got quieter and quieter. When we arrived at the soccer fields he refused to get out of the van. "I don't want to play soccer!" I knew this was coming. And to he honest I couldn't blame him. The kid is intuitive, and had to know everyone, himself included, was over this soccer thing. I convinced him to come out by saying..he didn't have to play but he was going to go cheer him team on. It was the slowest walk ever to the field and he avoided any contact with his team. Luckily his coach is awesome and convinced him to come warmup. I was prepared for him to bench himself the whole game. But I swear it, the kid went out and had his best game yet this season. I cheered the whole time, recognizing all the things he was doing. He got the cofidense and actually got in there and kicked the ball hard! I've got some work to do in the being supportive parent arena, but man it felt good last weekend. I could tell we both got our confidence back in our skills-AJ in soccer and me in being a mom that AJ actually wants at his game.

Love,

Momma