Update!

A few days ago we gave Jaylen a piece of candy. Aaron asked Jaylen, "What do you say?" Jaylen just stared at him. He asked again, "What do you say Jaylen?" Jaylen enthusiastically responded, "TRICK OR TREAT!" We both busted up laughing. Well, I guess he's right, we did teach him that.

Jaylen is hilarious about his new play friend, Julie. Julie has a little sister Tess that is his age and Julie is 3. (The same "honeys" from a previous post). Jaylen will say Julie's name throughout the day and is always super excited to see her. Its pretty cute.

Jaylen's new code phrase for telling us he really, really wants to use the vacuum is "You want to use it?" He says it over and over again with the cutest eyes to get me to bring out the vacuum.

What a crazy week. Last Tuesday morning I jumped in our car to head to train, and I realized that our car had been broken into. Our glove box was crow-bared open, papers everywhere, all the consoles were open and stuff was everywhere. My heart sank as soon as a realized what had happened. I was running late, and I knew that nothing of real value was in the car, so I figured I'd hurry to work and figure out what was taken later. I went to put my key in the car and there was no ignition. Just a bunch of wire, and metal deep down in the hole. What an awful, awful feeling. So I made an auto burglary/vandalism report with the police. They took my owner's manual, my scriptures (D&C) on CD and my sunglasses. I hope they get good use out of my scripture CDs, jerks. Our car is at the body shop now. They said whoever broke into it was very, very close to getting away with my car- the battery was dead because they got it running but couldn't turn the engine over. Who does this type of thing to someone else? We got the estimate to fix it yesterday- $1500, they have to put in a whole new dashboard. Thank goodness for insurance (although we still lose out a $500 deductible dang it) and hopefully this idiot will learn his lesson- and SOON. So frustrating!

Nap time silliness

This boy can make me go absolutely nuts one minute, then totally melt my heart the next. Children are crazy like that. Here is one of the best times I look forward to. His nap time and bedtime have turned into the best times I enjoy lately. He repeats "Night, Night" and "Love you" over and over till he falls asleep in his crib. Its so so sweet. We love that he's picked up how to say, "love you" this past week too. And the fact that its followed by peace and quiet is great too! :)

MESS

Jaylen, Jaylen, Jaylen. This boy is going to turn me into a saint with all the patience I'm learning with him. I was making dinner, didn't hear him after seeing him 5-10 minutes ago, went to look for him, only to find toilet paper all over the place, his clothes off, in the bathtub, toilet opened, towel on the floor. This is the response he gave to why this happened. He knows how to say something is a "No, no, no" but getting him to not do it again is a whole different struggle.

Halloween night

To finish off our fun Halloween, we took Jaylen trick-or-treating in a nearby neighborhood and at a couple clients' houses. Jaylen quickly got the "Trick-or-Treat" idea down as soon as he realized he got candy when he said it. Even now, when he's looking for candy he'll come up to me and say, "trick-or-treat!" expecting candy to arrive out of thin air. Its pretty funny. We then went down to our awesome friends, the Collins house, to do some fun trick-or-treating and eat. What could be better?!

Emily, Jaylen, Zoe, Sarah and Ellie

Jaylen knocking on doors (He loved doing this!)

We have SO much candy its ridiculous!!!

Football player

Okay, okay. Maybe I had a little TOO much fun this Halloween, but Jaylen is too fun to dress up. He went to childcare in the morning as a football player.

He kept laughing at himself in the mirror, pointing to his shirt saying, "Football! Football!" It was adorable.

Zoo Boo

Still trying to figure out if this was a good or bad experience. The zoo was insanely packed and lines were everywhere. So it took awhile to get anywhere, but at the time, there were tons of cute, clever costumes. I think we'll pass it off as a success!

This picture should be last, oh well, but this is our sleepy chicken after the zoo.

Twins, gosh they look so similar!

Jaylen loved running around in this little wooded area/barn. Everyone was laughing as they walked by- he looked perfectly suited for the backdrop in his chicken costume.




Jaylen loves running around, which is exactly what he did the whole time.

We ran into this little boy in the park, and they were laughing at each other. I love how kids make friends and communicate at this age.

Watching the Polar Bears.



A couple little clips of Jaylen running around at the zoo.