Here we are...

In October, more than six months since we moved to Houston. Wow! I've put up my meager Halloween decor, and though it is not much, it still makes me so happy that this most wonderful time of the year is already upon us. Most of the little decorations that I have are kinda cheesy and maybe tacky, but in my mind that's the best kind of Halloween. I mean, this is a holiday where people let their kids dress in any crazy outfit they want and then go knock on all their friends' and strangers' doors begging for candy, right? So I figure tacky is just part of the whole experience.

But I really do love this time of year and enjoy the fact that there are actually people out and about in the neighborhood now that it's not so unbearable. In fact, just yesterday a lady from down the street was saying how much she enjoys this time of year because it's the one month between the "hot, hot and the cold, cold." Cold, cold? If I ever complain about cold weather while I'm here, someone please reach out and give me a good, hard slap!

My life is living proof that a whole lot of nothing really adds up to something because I have no idea where the last few weeks have gone! I've just been keeping up with Trevor and laughing at all the stuff he's been up to. Oh yes, and we can't forget the bazillions of shows and football gams that I'm now watching since they are back on. How great is this time of year? We're heading up to Fort Worth for the BYU/TCU game and just hoping that we can pull out a win! We'll be at the tailgate party to see cosmo and do all the fun pregame stuff. Trevor is working on the fight song and can at least give a mean Rah! Rah! Goooo Cougars! Any football game that he sees on TV is "BYU" or "Rah!Rah!" So we're training him up right.

Trevor is keeping me fully entertained and usualy in a good way. He's busy learning a lot of new words and running the carpet bare where he races back and forth. I ask him each night if he wants to sing I Am a Child of God or I Love to See the Temple, and he loves them both. He'll ask to sing "Chy Gog" or put his hands together to make a steeple for "Pemple." He has little actions that he does with this, and he sings some of the words (mostly the endings, you know?). He loves to listen to primary songs in the car and is learning some of them. If he hears a song he likes he will ask to hear it over and over again. I am still debating whether this is better than listening to him cry or throw a tantrum in the car.....

When he gets really excited about doing something he will just start saying all the names he knows starting with mama, dada. Then he launches into the names of whoever he thinks might be involved. He can almost say all his cousins' names (we're still working on Jaben, it's tough!) :-)

His obsession with trucks, trains, helicopters, airplanes, cars, etc is still going strong. I tried to teach him that he was driving his train on a choo-choo track. Now he insists that all trucks and trains are a "choo-choo truck." We also get a lot of planes flying over and he loves to go on walks to the park and watch for airplanes and helicopters. The bulk of my day is spent stalling another walk or going bye-bye in the car. He is always on the go, go, go.

The other day Trevor was playing with the ads in the newspaper and found a Toys R Us ad. As he browsed through, he found a Thomas train just like the one he has. He ran and got the train, then came and found me in the kitchen and dragged me over to see what he had found. Thomas! You can see in the picture he looks pretty proud.

The following pictures are after one crazy nap when he woke up with a serious mohawk. The pictures don't do it justice, but the smiley face is a good example of how Trevor wakes up about 99% of the time. He's a good sleeper and such a sweet boy when he wakes up. He goes 0-60 in about 10 seconds. Once he's up hes ready to go.

Move over Thomas... notice Trevor's new best friend Lightning McQueen, or as he would say "A-Queen."