Jayden slept through his first Thanksgiving dinner but enjoyed his dinner afterwards… Nathan made sure to feed him a turkey and veggie flavored baby food because everyone should have turkey on Thanksgiving! What a good Daddy!
Of course we had to participate in Black Friday but the only big store in Nathan’s home town is Wal-mart so we didn’t have a whole lot of options. Nathan waited in line for two hours and was able to get an Xbox and Kinect. I was in charge of getting the games for the Kinect. They had games that were regularly $49 for only $15! I Iooove me a good deal! I was right up in the front and I got my hands on a copy of Dance Central and turned to leave and this guy… who had not even been waiting in line… ran up and tried to pull it out of my hands. I held on tighter (I wasn’t going to give up that easily!) but he pulled really hard and yanked me to the ground and made off with my game! I can’t believe some people! I saw him later and I said “You STOLE my game!” but he just pretended to be deaf… I was SO mad! It ruined the whole Black Friday experience for me… but I’m pretty sure it won’t stop me from going again next year… I will just be more cautious! The next day the flu started running rampant through the house and one by one we became infected… even those brave enough to visit were unlucky enough to catch it! The kids broke in the new furniture… leather was a good choice! Despite the plague we managed to have a good time spending quality time with family!
He is also making funny little faces all the time. He does this fake cheesy smile where he grins as big as he can and squints his eyes. He also clenches is gums together so tight that he shakes... then laughs because he knows it's funny... or maybe because we are laughing as him! He is such a silly little boy and we love him so much!
Conner dressed up as a cute little Elmo… although it was hard to tell what he was because he wasn’t a big fan of wearing his hood.
Conner was really concerned that Nathan wasn’t wearing a costume. “Where’s Daddy’s costume? What Daddy gonna be?” Nathan told him “I’m going to be a Daddy.” Conner wasn't too impressed with his creativity. We had a ton of fun at the party and Conner was thrilled about all the candy he got. But he wasn't too happy about Jayden checking out his goodies.
The bishop gave out apples and after only eating two pieces of candy Conner chose to eat his apple. I can’t get him to eat more than two bites of apple on a regular day let alone on a day when he has a bucket of candy in front of him!
On Saturday morning we dressed the kids up and went to a little carnival at the community college. They had a lot of games that Conner had a ton of fun playing. Although we realized that we need to work with him on his throwing skills… he would stand six inches from what he was trying to hit and still miss! At the bean bag game he walked all the way up to the hole and stuck the bean bag in rather than attempting to throw! After the carnival we went over to Main Street where you could trick or treat at the businesses. Conner has an obsession with picking up leaves (ever since we collected them on a nature walk) and I think he ended up with as many leaves in his bucket as he did candy!
If the person who answered the door was wearing a scary costume Conner would come grab my hand and make me go with him to get his candy. At most of the doors Conner would keep standing on the doorstep after he got his candy awkwardly staring until the person gave him another piece of candy, shut the door, or I went up to get him. We weren’t planning on staying out too long because Conner already had a ton of candy and it was really cold but the kids were having so much fun that we kept going until us parents were too cold! 
Here he is with his hard earned loot!
In the spirit of the season we got a couple of pumpkins to carve. Conner requested that Nathan carve a spider in his and of course he did... being the nice Daddy that he is. When I asked Conner to stick his hand into the pumpkin he told me “I can’t Mom, it too scary. Monsters in there.” (Apparantly monsters are out to get us...)
I have told Conner lots of times that if he doesn’t hurry and pick up his toys that they will get vacuumed up… and it works about half of the time! Today when I got out the vacuum he yells “Oh no my colored pencils!” and hurries and picks them up. Jayden was still lying on the living room floor and Conner yells “Mommy don’t vacuum up baby Jayden!” I tell him “He better hurry and move out of the way so he doesn’t get vacuumed up huh?” At that Conner got really upset and told me “Mommy put Jayden on the couch! Don’t vacuum him up!” and tries as hard as he can to pick Jayden up. When he couldn’t lift him he almost started crying. I told him “Mommy is just being silly. I would never vacuum Jayden up, I love him too much.” With tears in his eyes he says “Mommy bein silly!” and starts laughing like he knew it was a joke all along! I love that he was so concerned about his little brother! I guess I can see why Conner thought that Jayden was too cute to vacuum up! :)
Conner building his “alphabet temple.” He was so proud of it and was so excited to show it to his Daddy. 
I wanted to take a picture of Jason and Laura jumping on the bridge but after three tries this is the most Jason got off of the bridge.. a whole inch! 
