We had a great Halloween weekend. (Luke is Batman but didn't have his cape or mask on in this picture - but my other ones are blurry- sad!). Friday we went to our small Magnolia village trick-or-treat event. We trick or treated a few stores and then had pizza with our friends Jeanne and Rich and their kids. After that we carved our pumpkin patch pumpkin into an awesome house. Bennett was so cute. As soon as Kurt carved the top off the pumpkin, Bennett turned it into a shape sorter toy and kept trying to fit the top back on. He also loved "helping" take the pumpkin guts out. 
On Saturday we were invited to our friend's Nicole and James' house (close to us)for dinner and trick-or-treating. Both boys did such a great job trick-or-treating. At the first house the lady gave out full size candy bars and gave 2 to Bennett "because he was so cute". He had a big bag of M&Ms in one had and a Three Musketeers in the other. It was adorable. (And he did NOT want to put them in his pail!) Luke was awesome. He did a great job walking to each house and walking up the stairs. He would take one piece of candy (or maybe 2). Both boys tried to walk into almost every house but that was just cute, not annoying. We had so much fun (even Kurt said "this is so fun!"). For all those Republicans, we trick-or-treated Ron Reagan Jr's house. Who knew he lived so close! He was out front lighting the 10 or so pumpkins he carved. We talked about how we both disagree with our parents politics. Kidding about that last part (although we could have!).
Lots of developments going on here! Bennett has been running all over the place and climbing on EVERYTHING he can. He is 'shooting' baskets with Daddy and throwing a ball. The most exciting thing that he started at the beginning of October was to point. He points at everything now and I get so excited each time! He points in the super cute "hey look at that" way at planes in the ski, animals at the farm or his brother coming up the walk from the bus. It is so fun to see and I appreciate each and every point since it is such a great communicative developmental area! Woo hoo! Pointing at planes is his favorite. He points when he hears it and then we search the sky to find it. Both Kurt and I have noticed that he points and then we have to concentrate to hear the plane. He has great ears! He also has an obsession with shoes! He loves his shoes, my shoes, Luke's shoes, Kurt's shoes (which are a bit hard to carry).
Luke is still loving his school. He jumps up and down when the bus comes. His speech therapist emailed today to say that he did an awesome job discriminating between 2 PECS today. (See previous post about his therapy). I am considering getting him involved in some type of swim lesson (eventually!). He LOVES the bathtub. He gets so relaxed. He lays flat on this back and the water just covers his ears. I think he would lay there until the water got cold if I let him. It is sweet how happy he is there.
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