Monday, December 1, 2014

In one morning...

We had knives, forks, spoons, and cheerios put in the milk (thanks to Ryan)


Raspberry vinaigrette spilled on the floor (thanks to William)

(And Ryan)


After lunch I went to the bathroom and came out to find...

William eating right out of the yogurt container

Steven climbing the fridge to get some candy corn

Spencer and Max finding what they can on the kitchen floor

Ryan jumping everywhere with a Spiderman Pez

Christopher playing quietly with himself (he was my favorite today)

Then after getting these two a snack and a quick picture with Steven

I looked over to find these two digging into the yogurt again...




And that my friends, is why during quiet time I snuck two "Elfie Treat" donutes.

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

All Things Halloween

Before I get into the actual day of Halloween let me start off with the annual Balls Family Pumpkin Patch Party. (I just put a name to that and it's long but amazing).

We added a cousin into our amazing double stroller that apparently fits 5 now...

...and then 6!




Ryan's cute in the background along with other cousins,
but this girl to the left with a shirt full of corn kernels cracks me up






It should probably be remembered that Jack (in the orange) was bit by a goose in this little zoo

Pumpkin Carving




These are as good as we can get with four crazy boys






Zombie Steven going to school

William wanted a picture too

I wanted to see if their costumes from last year still fit.
Thing 1 and Thing 2 are as cute as ever!

Steven's Halloween Parade


After we went to Steven's school we went to the park to play

No pictures please!


Halloween Night
(A zombie, a superman, 2 batmans, and 2 pirates)











I stayed home with the youngest 4 while Jacob and his brother Andy took the big boys trick or treating to more than our immediate neighbors.
Ryan


William and Ryan had candy non stop from about 6:30 to 8, when we made them go to bed.  (that was the only way to get them to stop eating!).  When there pumpkin was getting too low they'd sneak over to our big bowl of candy and grab a handful or two while I wasn't looking.


William




These happy boys were good to stay out with us to pass out candy
Once the big boys came back Steven informed me he wasn't done yet and wanted me to take him to more houses.  We went down a few streets nearby where everyone gave Steven handfuls of candy to share with his younger brothers.  His pumpkin was practically filled to the top by the time we came home.  

My two Batmen