Fall Break

This is the first year that Hayden has had a two week Fall Break. I loved it! I loved being home with him. I loved getting up late, cuddling on the couch, having him here to help me, playing the Ipad with him, watching movies, playing games and just chatting. He is so much fun to be with and I love his company.

He was able to do some fun things during this break. His best buddy Joey, friends since they were 3 years old spent a day with us. They played legos, swords, jumped on the tramp, battled, laughed, chatted and had the best time.

Brigham and Brooklyn were off the first week as Hayden and spent lots of time playing the Wii, legos and having fun.

Hayden loved that no homework meant more time with his dad.

Hayden snapped this of all three of us playing some seek and find game on the Ipad together.

Of course, we had to play Hayden's all time favorite game, Life. Anytime we ask him what he wants to do with us, he pulls out this game. Then he gets all upset if I don't have a son in the game. As if I can control it? Funny boy, he then spends the rest of the game asking if I am lonely without him.

Of course, Talmage was able to spend a lot of time over and Hayden even babysat him a couple of times for Jodi. He loved it. Of course, we were home to supervise but Hayden did a great job.

Gunter came over a couple of days and those boys played legos for hours on end. They built all kinds of creations. Suzi even took them to see Frankenweenie at Harkins Theater. Spoiled boys.

Hayden was content with or without friends over. He spent so much time in creating different lego masterpieces. He created many jets, helicopters, jet skis but his favorite was of course, the Batmobile.

I love how much Talmage loves being with us. He just fits in whether cuddling with Hayden, tickling Thomas or eating yogurt on the counter. I sure love all these boys.

More friends, more legos. This day, at one point, we had six different boys at our house all playing legos, jumping on the tramp and having Nerf wars. It was a tich bit noisy that day. But they are all good boys.

I love this next series with Hayden and his Grandma. He was telling her all about the snake and all the events she had missed while she was in Utah for a week. He really missed her and it was fun to watch their interaction together as he relayed all the events of the past week to her.

I love that the more he talks, the harder she laughs.

You can tell she adores this grandson of hers and he loves talking to her. Priceless to me.

My Dad and Bonnie stopped by and "Boo"'ed us. Hayden's favorite thing in the basket stuffed with goodies was the plastic fake hand. He has used it on everyone that comes over. He is such a tease. Dad and Bonnie had been out "boo"ing all of their grandkids. I think all of them utterly loved it.

This prompted us to whip together some "Boo" Baskets of our own. Hayden carefully chose which families we would boo and start the tradition in our neighborhood. He LOVED walking up to the door and running. In fact, he came back and collected all the stuff he had received and put it into another basket so we could do one more delivery.

Even with mom on the couch, we did all in our power to see that Hayden had a fun fall break. Boy is it lonely here with him at school during the day. I sure love him being home.