October and November Update

Life has been really busy with my two kiddies. It seemed like Paige slept ALL the time the first few months of her life which made the adjustment to 2 kids manageable. Paige is now 5-months-old and no longer wants to spend her days and nights sleeping. She is really alert and active just like her brother was at her age. At 5 months, she can already roll from front to back and back to front, raise up on her chest, grab toys and bring them to her mouth and sit up by herself. She is very interested in what we are doing and if you are not paying attention for 1 second, she snatches whatever you have away from you. She also throws a fit if you ever try and take anything away from her. She already has such personality and we are loving every minute with her. 

A lot has happened since my last post so this is going to be another long one. I've also posted some random photos for the grandparents. 

In October the Galaxy hosted a Meet and Greet for the season ticket holders. We were able to go and watch the team practice and meet and get autographs from a few of the players. We didn't get to meet Beckham but we did get to meet Donovan, Franklin and Saunders. 

Here is Beckam at the practice

Here is Paul enjoying the practice

Here is Paul hitting on Miss Galaxy

Here is Sean Franklin signing Paul's soccer ball

Here is Donovan signing the ball.

This is what happens to Paige when I leave her alone with her brother for a few minutes. 

This year was Paul's first time carving pumpkins. We didn't trust Paul to even be close to a knife last year and this year he was old enough to hold one with his dad. He really enjoyed pulling out the guts and lighting a candle in them afterwards. Dad ended up carving both pumpkins while I was holding Paige. 

Here is Paul pulling out the guts. 

Here is Paul putting the lid back on the pumpkin.

Here are both of the pumpkins. I think the first one is supposed to look Asian. Hopefully, it's not supposed to look like me.

Here is Paige as a pea pod on Halloween night.

Paul as a handy man.

Here is our family on Halloween night.

We had a very close family friend visit us and we thought it would be fun to take him to The Getty. We got off the tram and walked up the steps to the museum. The steps look like the one pictured below. If you know Little Paul, you know that he never pays attention to where he is walking/running. He is always looking elsewhere. Well on this particular day, he was not paying attention while walking up these stairs and fell in the water. He got everything wet. It was cold outside so we had to take all his clothes off and wrap him in Paige's blanket and our friend's jacket. We had just gotten there so my husband carried him back to the car and went in search of some new clothes. I guess people look at you weird if you walk into a store with a naked kid wrapped in a blanket trying to get away from you. I think people thought he had abducted an Asian kid.

Here is the water he fell into.

Here is Paul wrapped up in a blanket and jacket.

Here is a picture of our cute girl at the park.

And here is our cute son at the park.

Paige at 4 months

We made a trip to St. George for Thanksgiving this year to spend with Paul's parents. We were supposed to be in Michigan for Thanksgiving but since we were there in September it was too expensive to fly back a couple months later. Here are some cute pictures of Paul at the park. He really loved these statues of little kids.

Paul kissing a girl.

Here is Paul sticking his fingers in this little boy's ears. 

Here he is hugging another boy.

For Thanksgiving Day, we flew to Provo in Grandpa's plane. Paul, of course, loved this. We spent Thanksgiving with my husband's Grandma as well as many Aunts, Uncles and Cousins. I think there were 26 of us in total.

Here is Paul on the plane.

Here is Paul as copilot.

Here is Paul flying the plane.

Here is Paul in front of Grandpa's plane.

Here is our family in front of Great Grandma's house.

Here is Paul eating his Thanksgiving meal. I think he ate for about 10 minutes before he ran downstairs to play with the toys and his second cousins. 

Here is Paul pigging out on candy while his dad is making his gingerbread train. Paul rarely gets candy but when he does, he takes full advantage. He pounded it. Even after the houses were all done and the candy was put away, if I couldn't find him anywhere I would find him picking candy off the finished houses. 

Here is my house. 

Here is Paul's train.

Here is mom and Paige.

Here is Paige with her cousin, Jane. 

Playing downstairs.

Our last day in St. George, we decided to give Paul a haircut since his hair was starting to look like he was wearing a helmet. It ended up looking shorter than I thought it would be but we still think he looks really cute. Here is my little Buddha.

Here is Paul enjoying a Jamba Juice at the park.

Here is Paige on her first swing ride. She really loved it.

Here is Paige at 5-months-old. How cute is she? Seriously, I can't get over it. 

Lots of traveling

It's been awhile since I last posted so just as a warning this one is going to be a doozie. 

For those of you that have multiple kids, you know that getting out the door isn't always the easiest. Well, on this particular day, it took me forever to get everyone ready to leave the house.  Finally, when everyone's shoes were on and Paige was in her car seat, I noticed that my car keys were not in the usual location. I searched for a half an hour for them and kept asking Paul if he knew where they were. I was about to give up and look for the spare keys when I walked by Paul's toy car and saw this. 

They were in the ignition of his car. Silly boy.

Lil Paul loves tools and spends a lot of the day "working" and "fixing things". If you ask him what he is doing he says "I'm working." Here he is doing some "work".

Here is a picture of cute little Paige. She is smiling so much these days.

We decided to bless Paige in St. George with her cousin that was born only 4 days earlier than her. My parents flew in from Michigan and we had a big get together for this special occasion. Here is a picture of Paige in her blessing dress. She looked so beautiful. It was especially special because both Paul and Grandpa Proctor were blessed in this dress. 

Here is Paige and Jane.

Here is a picture of all the cousins. There are 7 in total. 

Here is a picture of everyone. 

While in St. George, Grandpa Proctor was kind enough to take all the kids flying in his private plane. The kids loved it. Here is a picture of the kids in front of the plane. If you notice, Little Paul is hanging on one of the propellors of the plane. This is typical Paul. Gotta love it. 

Here is the pilot with the kids.

Here are the kids waiting to take off. 

One of our favorite spots are these sand dunes in St. George. We made another visit while we were there. 

Before we dropped Grandma and Grandpa Park off at the airport in Las Vegas, we made a visit to the Aquarium at Mandalay Bay. 

Here is Paul walking with Grandma and Grandpa.

Here they are again.

After we got back from St. George, we flew to Michigan for a week. One of my best friends from high school tied the knot and got married. It was really fun to be a part of the wedding. It was also an added bonus to get to spend some more time with Grandma and Grandpa Park.

Here is Paul at the Detroit airport. He was really excited to get off the plane.

Here is Paige getting ready to go to bed.

We went to the Michigan State Fair one of the days.

We also visited an Apple Orchard and picked some apples. 

Here is a picture of the beautiful bride. 

Here is Grandpa and Paige.

We left for Hawaii the day after we got back from Michigan. We spent a week in Oahu. 

We saw a lady letting people take pictures with her birds. We went over to show Lil Paul and she had them get on Paul's shoulders. She asked if we wanted her to take a picture and we said sure thinking this lady was really nice. Then she charged us $10. 

Paige hanging out in my luggage.

Sea Life Park

Hanauma Bay

Shave Ice!

Turtle Beach

Shark's Cove

Pearl Harbor

We made a day trip to Disneyland when we got back from Hawaii.

Here is Paige with a couple of new arrivals.  I like these pictures because she looks so huge compared to her new friends.

Here are my two cuties. 
Here is Paige hanging out in her bumbo.

We had a fun time traveling but it is also nice to be back home.