The real options

Thank you everyone for voting on what Ike should be for Halloween. But the truth of the matter is I don't have any of those costumes and at this point I'm not going to go out and get them. Especially since Ryan has informed me that all holidays are stupid and just a capitolistic ploy to make people spend money.
So below are the real options. Please take a moment to comment on the one you think he should wear. I'm honestly torn, I think they are all cute, but then I'm bias because of who's wearing them. Sorry about the bogus poll, I would love to dress Ike as Elvis, maybe next year.
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Newsies

The Inspiration
This one is thanks to Grandpa Dennis, he mentioned on Sunday that Ike should dress like a Newsie because of the grey hat he loves to wear. Good idea, plus I just happen to have this whole outfit, knickers even, go figure.

This one looks like he's dancing.

Vato

The Inspiration
Blame this one on my Southern California upbringing. The tear drop smudged a little but you get the idea.
He wasn't very happy about this outfit, but I think he looks so cute.

Run-DMC

The Inspiration
Obviously I don't have the right 'Bling' for him to wear yet, but I did find the Fadora today so I was pretty happy.

Ike Voted!

Have You?

Thanks Aunt Marlene

My Aunt Marlene is awesome. She sends Ike a card for Halloween, Christmas and his Birthday Plus a few other holidays. She also throws in a little sumthin' sumthin' which almost always ends up in Ike's piggy bank. The kid has more money than I do.

It's so nice that she is always thinking of Ike and sending him sweet little messages. We got some cute Halloween pics taken at Target that we'll have to send her as a thank you.

Snap to the beat

I discovered that Ike likes Adele, the singer. She was on SNL and he was watching intently and clapping when we watched it, no I didn't keep him up till midnight is was recorded. Ryan was watching it later with Ike and started dancing for Ike and snapping his fingers and Ike started doing it too. We played it for him again and caught him doing a few snaps.

Horsey Ride

Ike and I went to Thanksgiving Point again to see the animals. Well really to ride the horsey. Ike really enjoyed it this time. He even road the horse all by himself without me holding him.

Captain Third Eye

I forgot to post this from Jace's birthday party. It's a little disturbing, for me anyway.

I'm not a fan of guns, especially for my kid to play with, but boys will be boys, and I don't know how they innately know what to do.

It was a super hero party and Ike didn't fit in any of Jace's 100 costumes so instead he wore a pirate eye patch over his third eye and became Captain Third Eye, there's a whole back story but I won't go into all that.

Pumpkin Carving Time

It's that time of year!

Aunt Brittany was nice enough to have us over to carve pumpkins and make a mess in her house.

Ike sure loves his pumpkin, He's learned to give kisses, apparently indiscriminately.
Brittany has the coolest Halloween tree in her front room that Ike was fascinated with.

Now we all want cool Halloween trees now.

All the boys made cute pumpkins. Owen carved a black widow all by himself, amazing. Ok, Jace is the only one who actually carved it himself, and I think it's the cutest. The boys thought mine looked scary but I was going for it looking like Domo that Target is using to advertise their Holloween. And Christain got this cool 'light bright' kit that he got to hammer into his pumpkin.

Baseball

It's official, Ike loves baseball. Ryan got home and turned on the game and Ike got so excited. He gets his bat and starts swinging it, and even when he doesn't have the bat he takes his hands and does a swinging motion like in the video. It's gotten to the point where he's even taken hold of my hair with both hands and tried to swing it. On Sunday Grandpa Dennis was watching the Dodger game in the back bedroom and Ike kept disappearing to the back room, every time I'd go back there he's be standing there watching the game with grandpa. He already started throwing a ball before he was suppose to be able to and now he's swinging a bat like a pro. It's only a matter of time.
Sorry for the blurry picture and dark video.

An ode to Daisy

My good friend Sarah has a one eyed Pug named Daisy, who I was lucky enough to live with for a time. So when I saw this costume for Ike I had to put it on the short list for Halloween.
It's really cute and turns Ike into a big cuddly stuffed animal that can give you hugs and kisses. When I put it on Ike in the store he made his doggy noise, 'wuf wuf'.
I haven't decided for sure to keep it though only because I bought a Large at Target which is size 3-4T and it's still short in the torso for him. Ike barely fits in his 12 month clothes so there is something seriously off with this one. Also the zipper kind of sticks and a couple others at the store had broken zippers and snaps which makes me nervous.
But I had to get some pics, if nothing else to show Sarah the second cutest pug in town.

Animals at Thanksgiving Point

I forgot to post the pictures from when Emily and I went to Thanksgiving Point to see the animals. I would have gone earlier if I would have known it's only 3.50, although I really need to just buy a pass then I can go all I want.

I love this shot of Jace, I think just for the symmetry and lighting, not to mention the frog boots.
Ike wouldn't actually ride the horse by himself. I had to be right next to him with his arm wrapped around mine, but despite a little freak out right at first he did really well and actually kind of liked it.
The goats are fun too, they have the tiniest little pygmy baby goats, what are those called, who knows. Almost made me wish I would have gotten one for Ryan for Christmas last year, but not really. Ok does the top third of this picture remind anyone else of 'the emporors new grove'?
Here's Bucky the goat, I thought his smile was too cute.Ah, what you got there Jace? Quote of the day from Jace "It's so hot out here, makes me just want to go inside and milk a cow" out of context that is a very bizaare statement but funny just the same.

Little Bruiser

Ike face planted on the cement yesterday and got a little scaped up nose and forehead. Add a shaved head and an Addidas sweat suit and I wouldn't want to run into him in a back alley. Ryan thinks he looks like a Guido with this face. I agree.
Is he smiling cause he likes you or is he smiling because he's about to smash you with a baseball bat. This looks could go either way.
I keep thinking he looks French or Eastern European today, because of the movies La Haine and Everything is Illuminated, Random I know. He's cute no matter what.

Bizarre Child

I guess I'll take credit for this. I think I was kind of a bizarre kid too, coming up with weird things to entertain myself. Ike's been doing this all day today.

Ike sings Sigur Ros

Ryan and I were driving up the canyon to see the changing leaves listening to Sigur Ros and realized that Ike was in the back singing his heart out to it. He finally found some lyrics that he can relate to. If you are unfamiliar with Sigur Rose they sing in a made up language called Hopelandic. We should have taken Ike to the concert if we would have known how much he would have liked it and sung along.

This second video is short but it shows how he was following along with the music, if he wouldn't have coughed at the end it would have been perfect.