Hayden Age 4

Hayden at age 4.

Loves story time.  I have to tell a story about him and his friend Aiden and how they really are super heros in disguise.  He usually picks an Avenger.  They fight bad guys together.  Sometimes they are jedi's or teenage mutant ninja turtles.

Says "holy cockamoly" instead of guacamole.  He he.

Hates socks.  It is pure torture to put them on him. He screams they hurt, and refuses to wear them.  The other day we were putting them on and he refused and told me "they're freaking me out!"

For his birthday he wants a real iron man suit with blasters.  He made sure to emphasize that he did not want the play ones.  He wants the REAL ones.  Same with a spiderman web shooter.  He also wants a real chain saw with no cord and a real leaf blower with no cord. It may be a disappointing birthday.

Still calls Amelia "Mia".

Sometimes when I ask for a kiss, he asks me to kiss his back.  Weird boy.

Every night we have to shut his closet door.  He needs to hear it click shut.  That way he is safe from whatever is inside it!

Has discovered sponge bob much to our dismay.  But the worst is fairly odd parents.  It is banned in our house.

Likes to play video games with Mike.  He always asks "daddy can I play your stupid game".  He calls it that b/c I said that one time.  Oops

Hates wearing pants with buttons aka. jeans.  That is another fun thing to handle in the morning.

Loves teenage mutant ninja turtles.  His favorite is leonardo (because he is blue)

Loved his 5 guys hamburger the other day.  He wants to go on a date there and sit at the "high table".

Still gets foot cramps at night every so often.

Has had some behavior issues lately.  He will not back down.  No punishment has worked right now.  The other day I told him that he would not be getting his captain america shield that we bought.  He looked at me and said "mom, you're pissing me off!".  Ugh.

Likes the book "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly".  and curious george, batman books, and pretty much anything. I love that he wants me to read to him. 

A funny story about Hayden... My sister watches a boy that is now in kindergarten.  So 2 years older then Hayden.  His name is Aiden.  Aiden's mom was asking him about his day at school.  He told her how some girl was choking his friend.  So Aiden's mom asked him what he did.  Aiden said he tried to stop her but the girl started choking him.  Aiden's mom asked him what he did after that.  He said he tried to find a phone to call Hayden b/c he was the only kid he knew tough enough to fight this girl!!!

wants to take karate and swim lessons.

Some questions I asked him with his answers..
Favorite food: pierogis
favorite tv show:  teenage mutant ninja turtles, team umizoomi, max and ruby
favorite color:  blue
favorite animal:  giraffe
favorite movie:  incredibles
favorite friend:  regan
favorite toy:  loud fire truck

Soccer Banquet

Soccer season ended (we lost in a shoot out in the playoffs...it was the worst!).  We had the banquet at Nevillewood Country Club.  I love when we have it there because it is just down the road from us. So I can bring the kids and when they get too rowdy Mike can just take them home. 

So I got the kids all dressed up.  Hayden looked awesome in his shirt, tie and vest combo with his fedora hat.  He looks so gangster here (one parent kept calling him frank (sinatra))


Amelia had on a super cute dress but man her hair is in the worst stage right now.  It is starting to grow and it just looked awful. She has a mullet. She refused to keep her headband on.   But she still looked cute.


Amelia was a wild woman. She just wanted to run around and touch everything, go outside and see the water (on the golf course), find balloons, or hear her voice echo in the hall.  She has boundless energy.  It makes me super nervous for our plane ride in a few weeks.  Just me her and Hayden on the way down.  Ugh. 

Amelia loved the hot fudge covered oreo ice cream.  That made her even crazier. 


Hayden tried it and liked it.  He has never liked anything but plain vanilla.  He is getting adventerous;)

I tried to get a nice family picture.  Kids didn't cooperate too much...

 

 

It was a nice banquet.  I had to give a speech which I hate but it went well.  It was nice to see the girls again and I got a lot of nice compliments from the parents about how much their girls like playing and the good job I did with the team.

Phone photos

 It is nice to have phones that take pictures.  Our blackberry's don't take the best pictures but
they work for documentation purposes.  Nothing too exciting going on here right now.  But
here is our life the last few weeks in pictures...

The leaves have all fallen off of the trees.  Hayden had a blast playing in them at my mom's house.


Amelia likes to dress herself.  In this picture I call her a member of the red hat society!

The first weekend of every month Home Depot has kids projects.  I took Hayden.  He made
a turkey napkin holder and gave it to grandma.  He was so proud.  I asked him to wear the goggles because I thought it would be cute.  He looked at me and was totally annoyed and said "Mom, we are just using a screw driver".

Amelia is always up before Hayden.  She likes to pull a kitchen chair to the cabinet and climb
up to pick several boxes of cereal.  Then she wants a little of each in her bowl.  Gross.  She eats it though.  Must be the Erfort genes in her.

One day on our way home from Sunday dinner at Grandma's we saw this rainbow.  Which ended up being a double rainbow.  It was very pretty.  I wish i had my real camera that day.  Hayden was excited to see it and he took a few pictures too.

 The kids get very crazy before bed time.  You would never know that they are actually tired.  They get "slap happy".  This picture was taken right before they went to bed.  My crazy monkeys.  Amelia can hang like that forever.  She is very strong (she does not get that upper body strength from me!)

 Amelia was crazy one morning.  Super happy, but super crazy.  She kept looking at me and doing
this cheezy smile so I snapped a picture.  She had just put cereal in her hair (which she is getting more of finally)

 

Hayden got to enjoy playing on Bailey's computer with her.

 His favorite picture was the fire one of course.  Very super hero like!

 

Amelia threw a huge tantrum over a cup of milk.  I need a lock for the fridge.

 Sometimes the kids cuddle.  This was a rare moment that they both wanted to.  Of course Hayden
made the picture silly but it is still sweet.

 Sometimes kids are just weird.  Hayden put these puffy stickers all over himself one day.  Then whined when he wanted them off and it hurt.

 If Mike is making juice Amelia comes running in and drags a chair over and climbs up to help.
She loves making and drinking juice.  I LOVE her cheesy smile here.

 Mike is the worst at keeping track of his glasses.  We find them all in the couch all of the time (last week i found them on the ground on the driveway!).  When the kids find them they like to put them on.  Hayden looks so funny in them.  He reminded me of the boy from Jerry Maguire.

 

 

 Hayden also got to come with me when we took Regans senior pictures.  They had a race.  Hayden
was pushing to try to win.

 

 

 

Happy Halloween

Halloween was schedule during the "Mega storm".  I wasn't sure if we would get to actually go trick or treating so we took the kids to a few places before Halloween.

First we went Trunk or Treating in the chruch parking lot.  Hayden wore his Captain America costume and Amelia was a pirate.  The kids had fun. 


The weekend before Halloween we took the kids to Robinson Town center with their cousins to trick or treat around the stores.  They were all pirates.


Hayden looked great as Captain Hook.  (We even got him to wear socks!)  He enjoyed opening doors with his hook.


Amelia loved trick or treating.  She would run ahead and push to get to candy.  She would dive out of her stroller when we got to a new door.  She was crazy!

The kids already had plenty of candy but went around Glendale with the older cousins too. 
Hayden changed his mind 50x over which costume to wear and finally chose captain america. 

Amelia wore her rupunzel dress b/c her warm pj's fit underneath it.  She is our bald Rapunzel.  I couldn't get a good picture of her b/c she would not sit still. 

She absolutely LOVED trick or treating.  I have never seen her so happy, so wild, so excited.  She would run ahead to the house and say trick or treat and then grab candy and put it in her bag.  Then run to the next.  She sprinted across the street to get more candy.  She was crazy.  She lasted way longer then Hayden and Kennedy. 



The kids got tons of candy in Glendale.  Most people gave multiple pieces.  Amelia's favorite is lollipops but will take anything.  She goes to our food cabinet and yells treats.  Haydens favorites are just like Mommy... reese cups and kit kats (which we got tons of). 

 

 

So overall we had a great Halloween.  Stop by if you want some candy!!

 

 

 

MTV's Made

http://www.pointparknewsservice.com/2012/10/15/reality-show-made-turns-pittsburgh-jock-to-beauty-queen/

A former player of mine is featured on MTV's "Made".  She has such a good heart and was doing it to increase awareness for domestic violence (she lost a friend).  If you have time try to find it and watch it.  She is made into a beauty queen.  It already aired but will be replayed and eventually put online.  http://www.mtv.com/shows/made/series.jhtml