Kayley and Cora continued to play with Rex and Rex is such a good sport with them (for the most part). They both like to play doctor with him. For the most part he had a blast playing with them and was laughing and cooing at them. There's proof of him smiling in the pics below.
Then both of the girls got a coupon for a ride on the carousel at the mall for their birthdays. The first one we used with their cousins earlier in the summer. The last one (Kayley's), she wanted to have her Daddy come with her as he had yet to come with them on the carousel. So we had to wait for a day that coordinated with his day off and her being finished with school. They were both so excited to ride with him. Rex even got to ride with them, but Mommy always has to sit and really concentrate on not getting sick on the carousel...I can ride roller coasters just fine, but for some reason this carousel gets me really dizzy!
We also found out that Parents as Teachers activities were still going on, even admist all the cut backs that have happened this year with the economy. The girls favorite activity is going to the gymnastics place Rebound where they get to play on all the gymnastic equipment. Here are my two monkeys swinging around. Rex also rolled over for the first time this month from tummy to back. This isn't a pic of him rolling over, I think he actually did it the week after this pic was taken, but he has done it a handful of times since then. He's been getting so big so fast!
I always have to get pics of Rex cuddling with Daddy. Sometimes it is rare that he actually wants to sit with him for a long period of time. He just likes his Mommy too much sometimes, but it is actually getting better.
We also went to Camdenton to visit Kyle, Cassie, and Alexa for Alexa's 2nd birthday party. Everyone from Nick's family was there except Shannon and John, who was sadly missed. It was great to see everyone and just visit. We had to make our trip short as Nick was on call on Sunday plus Kayley had her Primary Program, but it was a great visit. Here are some pics of the cousins playing together.
Then Saturday morning Kyle took all of us out on boat rides. The weather was really nice, just a bit windy...but what do you expect on a boat. Cora got up and drove the boat and loved it! Kayley was going to, but as she was getting in the seat Nick accidentally poked her eye so she got upset and then didn't want to drive the boat. But they both did enjoy the boat ride. It was fun to get all of us on the boat together as we are all just used to the jet ski that only fits two-three at a time.
Then that afternoon Alexa's party was at Miner Mike's. We have passed this building a million times when we lived in Columbia going to and from Willard, but we had never been there. It's a really fun place and I can see why it is Alexa's favorite place to go. It has an indoor roller coaster (which the girls were too scared to ride it because it was loud), bumper cars, ferris wheel, and tons of fun games, and then a huge tunnel fun for the kids. It took the girls a while to actually go into the tunnel because of the noise from the pretend guns that you shoot balls out of...if you haven't noticed our girls are scared of the slightest noise for some reason! But once we got both of them in there, they both had a blast. Cora kept going down the slide constantly, she even said, "It's so much fun, I can't stop!" Kayley had fun, but still wouldn't go near the pretend loud guns, so she didn't go down the slide. They both got lots of tickets to pick out prizes and were so excited to pick out their toys at the end. I wish I had had a camera to catch Cora's reaction when she figured out how much candy she could get. They had tootsie rolls for 1 ticket each and I asked her how many she wanted. She asked (hesitantly as if it was too many) if she could get 5, I told her she could and you would think the girl won the lottery! I'm not sure how many she ended up getting, but I know a ton of her tickets went towards candy!! Rex was a great trooper and was all smiles towards the end!! Or trying to be all smiles!
The girls still play with Rex as if he is a baby doll. This is what I found them doing the other day while I was in the kitchen, putting a diaper on him outside his clothes. Again he was just laughing, for the first part of it anyway...the picture says otherwise, but at this point he had seen me and wanted me to save him! 
We also went to the pumpkin patch with Ashlyn and Preston. Kayley's school actually had a field trip to a pumpkin patch, but had missed it. (story with this...) I was so nervous to let her go on the field trip because I wasn't able to go and was worried about stranger danger, etc and didn't know how many adults to kid ratio there would be...all these worries. I really wanted her to have fun and go, but couldn't bear her to go. Ironically (but fortunately for my worries) she ended up getting a fever on Saturday and had it up until Sunday evening. Well, school has a rule where you can't attend school until you have been fever free for 24 hours without medicine and that wasn't going to be until the day after the pumpkin patch. So she did actually miss her school field trip, but she was a trooper and told me she was completely fine with it because she knew she was going to get to go to the pumpkin patch with Ashlyn and Preston later in the week. So here are pics from when we went with them. Preston was Kayley's little shadow. As you can see in the pic on the upper right, he continues to block the sun out of Kayley's eyes while we were on the hayride. It was cute. Kayley is the only one that will allow Preston to wrestle and play rough with him. They all four had tons of fun playing with each other as always! Then afterward we went trick or treating with them at the Liberty Junior High School and they all got TONS of candy! I didn't get any pictures though sadly. 
Here are pictures of them before our trunk or treat for our ward. Kayley and Cora are both really into Toy Story right now. Ironically they both will watch the new Toy Story, but both say it is scary. But they love the 1st and 2nd ones. So, Kayley was Jesse this year, Cora was Woody, and Rex was "T-Rex". We also got to go trick or treating with Grandma in Willard on Saturday over Halloween weekend. We didn't have any fighting over them not being able to go trick or treating on Halloween itself either. We even ran into a bunch of trick or treaters on our way home from Willard on Sunday and they asked why we weren't trick or treating and we explained that was something we didn't do on Sunday and they were just fine with that. I was so proud of them...and that is why I tried to find many other activities that we could do before Halloween itself to take the place of trick or treating this year. 
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