...then he made a "cookie phone" and called Grandma Rainey. 
The boys worked hard to rake up leaves in our new tree-filled yard. Luckily they had rakes to lean on ocassionally.
Payoff!
Bean was working hard too. 
Can you see yellow leaves on Ikey's head?
Of course we rode the train at the zoo...
I am obviously a jack-o-lantern. Bean is warm, and Ikey is Cowboy Woody.
TB was a really good sport and dressed up like Cowboy Woody too.
Beanie dressed up like a duck for our outing to Gardner Village.
Two monkey cousins!
Ikey was a monkey again at Red Butte Garden After Dark.
TB and Ikey launched our family's lantern on the pond at the garden.
My first try at face painting! Ikey was appropriately admiring.
TB and Ikey decorated this jack-o-lantern while Beanie and I cuddled to stay warm.
This is the view today...
This is a very pretty little girl who really does smile sometimes. 
This is a cute little boy who wouldn't give up on the "walk around the lake" even though it was raining and snowing. 
How lucky are we to have two good views and two good babies?
Bean Jovie is six months old! She is such an angel and we all love her so much. 
To celebrate her big day, we let Ikey hold her for the first time. She's big and tough now, but I was still nervous. 
The last six months flew by because we sold our house, Beansie arrived, we moved, bought a house and moved again, and Ikey learned to talk. He is so funny. Ask him what he wants for dinner, for dessert, for jammies, he says, "Meatballs!" and laughs. He's mostly a parrot, but he comes up with some wacky things on his own sometimes. He puts things on his head and calls it a hat. This is a "snack hat". 
He randomly says "Stop it. You're driving me crazy nuts." He has memorized two Halloween books and repeats them for us and also when he's in his crib getting ready for naptime. I told him that we were going to have dinner in the fire pit and he said, "Eat rocks?" He tried to hand me a heavy turtle toy and said "This is a cute guy. He's gorgeous." Ikey's always thinking of a joke. Stacking up cups is funny!
TB was moving his big TV into the living room and Ikey said, "Dad's big fancy TV. It's HUGE."
On Beansie Baby's birthday, he said, "Don't need nap. Need train." He's a little obsessed with trains so we play with trains and ride trains and read train books every day. No one tell him about Thomas the Train. I don't want to open that can of worms. We have a lot of fun together. We go on all the field trips we can think of!
Pretty little princess Jovie "Bean" Burrows
What a good cheerer and cheerful guy!
So cuddly!
