Halloween at the Wheatons!

Halloween couldn't have come soon enough. I think Raegan was really ready to rebel and just wear her princess dress whenever she wanted! Nana had surgery earlier in the week, so Beth, Mike and I took the kids to see her so that she could see them all dressed up. Of course it was pretty much impossible to get a good picture of the three of them.

We had dinner at our house, but really it was just pretty much chaos! Before Bob could even get in the door, Raegan was screaming "Daddy's home! Let's go trick or treating!!" The neighbors were coming over to take pictures of the kids, and kids were already ringing the bell for candy! We had Mike, Beth, Caden and Great-Grandpa Dennis over to witness all of this. We're really hoping they will come over again!

Raegan did get to go trick-or-treating with us, but really wanted to go with her little friend Krista. When she did go with her, we didn't see them for a long time! We had bought candy for about 100 kids, went through all of that and had to dig into our mini-bags of popcorn!

Over all, it was a good night!

Halloween in the Village

Our friends, the Kaspereks and Randalls, invited us to go to Greenfield Village's Halloween event. Raegan loved this because she was able to wear her princess dress and hang out with Nathan. Definitely two of her favorite things to do. The weather wasn't bad, just a little misty but I think that added to all of the awesome decorations they had. There were a TON of lit, carved jack-o-lanterns lighting a path. Raegan ditched Bob, Gavin and I and hung out with Nathan and Myke. Every so often they would have these little "treat" stations for the kids. Raegan's favorite had to be a tie between the apple and the ghost beanie baby.

Mini-vacation up north

Bob has been traveling a lot the last couple of months. One of the conferences he attended was in Traverse City so we decided to make it a little family outing and take the kids up there. It was perfect color season!

We drove up late Wednesday morning and surprisingly, the trip went really well! I do attribute this to our new dual-screen DVD player. (Gavin does not watch this yet!!) Once we made it to the resort and got settled in, we took a walk around. We found the pool and of course Raegan wanted to head right in there! We had a bite to eat in one of the restaurants and went back to the condo to try to get the kids in bed on time.

On Thursday, we took Bob to the conference and went back to hang out in the condo. When Bob had a break, we ran back up to the main building and Raegan and I went swimming. She had a ball and did not want to leave the pool. We went back to the condo for a quick nap and dinner. We had made a reservation at the resort day care so that Bob and I could attend the McKenna party that night. It was really nice to get away and have some fun.

Friday, I took the kids shopping while Bob went to the last of his meetings. Then he took Raegan swimming and we all had a relaxing night.

Saturday morning, we packed the car and decided it was too nice to just jump in the car and drive home. We went downtown Traverse City, had lunch and shopped a little bit. Then we took the kids to the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes. Raegan thought that was great! She was singing the Wiggles song "Rollin' down the sand hillls" the whole time. Then we went into downtown Glen Arbor for a while.

The drive home was pretty uneventful, thankfully!

Caden's Here!!!

And a week old, but you all know that I am not the most timely person when it comes to updating our website.
Caden Michael
10-8-07
6:18 pm
7 lbs 8 oz
20 1/2 inches

Beth ended up with a c-section but seems to be doing really well now, despite the lack of sleep! Caden is just the most beautiful little guy! I took Raegan and Gavin down to meet him on Saturday. Raegan wanted to wake him up and hold him. Gavin had no idea what was going on, but I guess I didn't expect much from him. It will be great that he and Caden are so close in age.

Anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that Bob and I are an Aunt & Uncle!!

One, two, three

. like a bird I sing.

Raegan was walking around the house singing this not too long ago. Being a Tim McGraw fan, I instantly knew the song. She asks to listen to it everyday and has now almost mastered the whole song! Yesterday, I found out that the kids at daycare sing this to the cd while the older ones are in school.

She is just so cute singing it! I'll have to get Bob to capture this on video before she stops singing. Guess we'll have to enter her on American Idol: Toddler edition!

On the move . . .

Gavin has finally figured out the whole crawling thing! Our little baby is growing up so fast!

He mastered the art of sitting not too long ago. Then it was going into a sitting position from laying on his belly or back. Now this!

Although it's not a fast, graceful crawl yet, he is on all fours and can move when he wants to. If you put Cara's pink ball in front of Gavin, he is OFF!