october fun!

we've been having a lot of fun at the pumpkin patches and halloween stuff this month. this is the first year that we've really been able to enjoy the fun that october has to offer. cole has always been pretty cautious when it comes to going on rides but he's really coming out of his shell now. and stella has no fear - she'll do anything.

i took stella to the del mar pumpkin station to meet up with her little friend ava. she is seriously fearless! she loved this swing. there was no one there that morning so the guy running the ride let her stay on until i told him to stop. she was on there forever!

 

then we went to another pumpkin patch in san marcos...

big slide!

this is the first ride that cole has ever gone on by himself! 3 and a half...finally! stella beat him by about a week ;)

there were only rides for big kids at this pumpkin patch so while cole rode the rides, stella cruised the pumpkins eating snacks.

gourds!



i guess she can't read yet...

we went to brick or treat at legoland and made it to the fireworks at 9pm!...barely...

frozen yogurt break!

today we went back to the del mar pumpkin station. we met up with cole's friend from school, aj...

cole and aj going down the big slide!

cole is usually scared of animals but today he wasn't!

 

best swing in the world! they get to go fast and i don't have to push :)

cole and aj on the train

 

i still can't believe he went on this one cuz it went so fast!

 

they were so cute and having so much fun on this ride together :)

 

 

a preview of their halloween costumes cuz i might not ever get them on these kids again...

 

stella the dragon

cole the knight

cole and stella... 10 months later :)

so cole and stella are a little older now ;) cole is almost 3 1/2 and stella is 18 months. a lot has been going on in the last 10 months or so...
 
cole is potty trained now (since june) and started preschool at the end of august and loves it. i thought he might have a hard time adjusting to a new room, new teachers, and new kids - but it turns out that he adapts pretty easily when he's having fun. he did 3 weeks of soccer camp during the summer through his school and just started their fall camp a couple weeks ago. 


cole painting on first day of school

hanging out in his new big classroom with new friends. for the first couple of weeks he kept telling me his classroom was too big since it's probably 3-4 times bigger than his toddler classroom.

we've been doing lots of fun stuff while he's not at school....the life of a 3 year old...




cole at legoland

cole with tutu being an "egg" at the hardrock cafe in hollywood. tutu took us to see cole's first movie in a theater - planes! 



backyard fun with stella

museum of making music - playing an electric guitar - those things are heavy! 

...a ukulele

... and the drums!

stella is turning out to be one tough cookie with the contant beating she gets from cole. she's been walking since 10 months and has been on the go ever since. she's also my little climber. at 15 months she started pulling the bathroom drawers out and using them as stairs. and last night she was jumping from the ottomon to the rocking chair over and over again before bedtime!! she is definitely the little dare devil. she's also the good eater and will eat almost anything in front of her... including paper, sand, dirt, plants, crayons, lint...anything and everything! she's finally started talking the last month or two and has several words in her vocabulary: mama, dada, bubbles!, thank you, more, paw patrol (latest nick jr show). she does talk a lot, we just don't understand what she's saying :)

some recent pics of stella...

on the train at the carlsbad outlets



backyard balloon fun

cooking!

having a serious phone conversation

after a yummy mud snack