I ran across Dinovember last year, but didn’t do anything. This year, the dinosaurs had quite a fun November in our house. Here is what they were up to.

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The kids enjoyed it as well as the adults. PB even had suggestions for things the dinosaurs could do like pillow fighting and playing cars. It helped C when we woke up a bit grumpy to go find what fun things the dinosaurs were up to.

Babies are too unpredictable. I am uncomfortably pregnant. Both my other boys arrived before I reached 38 weeks, although one was induced, and I wasn’t certain on the other due date. I’m past 37 weeks, so now it is just waiting. I know my husband would love to be able to plan work off better if he actually knew when the baby was coming, but our baby will come just when he is ready. And really, I don’t know if I am.

Joe has been super busy with work. He took a promotion and will be the Rehab leader at one of the nursing homes. But he still has all his old responsibilities, and he has picked up more home health patients. Because of the extra work, we decided to buy an second car. It’s the first time we’ve had two cars in the 6.5 years we’ve been married. We bought an old truck that matched our small budget. (I really did not want to get into more debt.) I think Joe will enjoy not biking to work when it is snowing now.

We put up our Christmas tree and started listening to Christmas music. It’s not after Thanksgiving yet, but I wanted to get it done before baby came, and Christmas is less than a month away.

Here are the kids at the museum Grandma and daddy. I went Christmas shopping.

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Fall changed quickly from warm to cold. It meant a morning of frustration as I tried to figure out a good system to prevent the chicken water from icing over that did not involve lots of input from me. (Which, if you would like to know I used an aquarium heater in our existing nipple waterer that seems to be doing just great. Joe did have to take the thing apart so we could put it in the bottom section though.)

I miss being able to just send the boys outside, but I’m not minding the cold too much. I’ve got a nice sized baby belly to keep me warm. According to some friends, I look very cute too (I’m not sure about that–I’m more distracted by the fact that moving too often equals back pain).

The first snow came, and I was happy to find that I had adequate snow gear for the kids. They went out sledding and tromping around. PB also shoveled the walks, and didn’t do a bad job. I was grateful for the help.

Yesterday, PB went with my husband over to his parents to help move a few items. I stayed home to finish a book. When they got home, PB walked in extremely excited. he acted like he just won a free trip to Disneyland. “Mom, Little Ceasers opens in seven days!” He talked about it all night, and even made a countdown. So next week, we will be eating cheap pizza because that is the best kind of food when you are five.

Halloween was fun. I didn’t take any pictures of the boys though. PB decided he just wanted to be Batman before, using the same costumes we’ve now used for three years. I would occasionally mention another idea, I was more than willing to do something else, but he just wanted to be Batman again. The kids ended up with a ton of candy. We went to both Nursing homes were Joe works and Joe also took them around the block.

We went to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden last Saturday. I did get pictures there: so instead of Halloween pictures, enjoy the Dinosaurs. It is Dinovember after all.

We’ve had such a warm, fun fall this year. I’m still harvesting tomatoes (I’m actually tired of tomatoes though), and the weather is almost always perfect to go outside and play.

Decorating Halloween cookies at a friends house. They were quickly consumed after the picture.

Learning about spiders during school. I talked about how they used their web to catch and eat insects, using plastic insects.

The following pictures were from a trip to a pumpkin patch at a nursery down in Layton. It was a lot of waiting, but the pumpkins were large and free.

You got a bonus picture with baby in it too. (I’m usually the one taking pictures, so I don’t often get pictures of myself.) I’m anywhere from 5-8 weeks from having him, and we are all pretty excited.

PB had a birthday. He had been looking forward to it for months. The night before, Joe and I wrapped presents and put up balloons. It felt a lot like Christmas, and PB’s excitement had worn off on me too.

PB opened a present first thing and continued to open presents throughout the day.

We measure our kids on their birthday’s and mark it on our the wall.

This kid has grown! I have a hard time keeping him in pants that fit. (Mr. C wanted to get measured too.)

Opening more presents…I’ve never wanted to have extravagant birthday’s or Christmas, just a few presents. But it is too easy to keep finding fun toys or other things that I know PB will love. He usually ends up with a couple more presents than planned, although still not a huge amount. He had a present each from his parents and brother, and one extra. Plus some from friends and grandparents.

This drum was from Grandma. It’s loud, so we have to put a limit on when he can play it. Like not when Mommy is trying to sleeping because it will wake her up.

He blew out his candle way before the song ended. We had a lot of fun celebrating with friends and family.