**Macy's**

We love Macy's! The boys did a shoot for them about a month ago now. Bryan's will run in the President's Day Sale ad and Wesley's will be in the February 1 Day Sale. They both went last week for another audition and there were a TON of babies there. (there are not many retailers left hiring for child models right now) Bryan looked so cute in the outfit but was in a pretty ugly mood really didn't want to smile. I got one little smirk out of him. Wesley fitted 6 different outfits. Their agent called yesterday and they both booked their jobs! These will be for the Macy's Children's Easter Catalog and maybe part of the April 1 day Sale. I will find out more on the ad placement on their shoot date, next Tuesday the 30th. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Bryan will cooperate. He's been VERY camera shy the past month and it seems to be getting worse! Hopefully he will show them his stuff!

Aerials Christmas Show

Last night Wesley participated in his very first Christmas Show (first anything show) at his gymnastics center. There were about 100 girls and there were 7 boys that signed up for the show. Wesley and the boys did their tricks on the tumble track and some little tricks, somersaults and cartwheels on the floor. I was happy that he had a good time and didn't get stage fright or anything like that!

Marine World Thanksgiving/Christmas

Thanks to our wonderful neighbor we were able to go to the Marine World theme park last Friday evening. (she gave us free passes to get in and free parking passes!) Anyhow, it was the first night of their "Christmas themed" season and the kids were able to play in a small area of snow and go sledding down a very small, horribly constructed hill. It was still nice to be out at the park and around all of the Christmas lights an all. Wesley got to ride all of the big rides that he missed out on a couple of years ago because at that time he could only go on the tot rides. Poor Bryan was still sick so he stayed at grandma's house.

Bunchies of Huggies

I guess it has been over a month since I've updated our blog posting (sorry and thanks for the heads up Kay! LOL!) Wesley is finally getting better from his sickness and Bryan is just catching it. We're doing all we can to keep it at bay now.
Well, the only exciting new thing we did this past month was a quick turn around trip to Hollywood. Bryan had an audition for a national Huggies diapers commercial last week and we hopped on a plane stayed overnight and came back the next day. We were just going to fly out that morning and not stay in the hotel but the flight that got there at the time of his audition left at 8am and we would have had to have been up at 5:30am. Bryan likes to sleep in until about 8:30 so I figured it would be a waste of money to go down there if he was all cranky and fussy for the audition. Anyhow, we got there ok and I was told he did an "excellent job." This was his first audition without mommy in the room and he handled it like a pro (more than I can say for a few other babies that were there doing the "mommy pull" and scream!) He took the woman's hand and walked into the room and played with all the bubbles and fun stuff. I was so proud of him. Now, we're just doing the waiting game again...it's enough to make you go mad, or maybe just me! ;)

A Day Of Halloween Events!

It was a day of Halloween fun! This morning we went to the Annual Halloween parade at the Jelly Belly Factory. The kids got to walk through a small haunted area and collect goodies on their parade route through the factory. When they were done they entered a coloring contest, had faces painted and played games with Kelly the Clown. This year Wesley is "bumblebee" the transformer (he hates the mask!) and Bryan is a dalmation, not to be mistaken for a leopard. Wesley's buddy Brooke sported a Princess Jasmine costume and looked as cute as ever! They made quite a bunch and had a fun time today.

This evening we went to Sears to take our Halloween photos. They were running behind so our 5:30 appointment turned into a 6:30 appointment. Great fun keeping a 1 and 4 year old entertained and then to be happy and smiley for their portraits? They found some hotwheel cars on the floor and played with them. Bryan wouldn't put his down so we have his portraits with cars in them. You're probably wondering about the tucan costume. Well, Wesley's preschool required them to be a rainforest animal this year and grandma made him this costume so I figured a tucan would go better with a dalmation than a transformer. Thanks to grandma for making both of the boys' costumes this year!

Silveyville Pumpkin Patch

On Thursday we went to the Silveyville Pumpkin Patch up in Dixon (which happens to be a Christmas Tree Farm as well) with one of Wesley's classmates, Ethan. They constructed a huge Tee-Pee that had a dark hay maze with flashing monster eyes. They also had a bunch of hay bails in a rectangle which had a matress inside of it and the kids could bounce around on it. The kids had a good time running around the land as well as a good game of hide-and-go-seek in the thousands of Christmas Trees they had. Bryan's favorite was to pull around the pumpkin wagons. He's such a little worker bee!

Homemade Playdough

Wesley's been home from school all week sick with a cold. (it's already started!) Yesterday we were getting restless from being homebound so I decided that we would make homemade playdough from a recipe that my mom used to use when I was a kid. It literally takes 3 minutes to make it and we already had all of the ingredients at home. We were trying to make it purple (mixed blue and red) and it came out a funny greyish blue color. It's nice to play with right when it comes out of the pot b/c it's still warm. It's a lot more soft than the store brand! Here's the recipe if anyone's feeling creative! http://www.kinderplanet.com/playdo.htm