"Mommy I love my baby Luke so much"

"It's the circle of LIFE" ( Please sing the song in your head when you look at this picture )

SIMMBBBAAA.

( one of my favorite movies of all time )

It feels like yesterday that we were heading to our 20 week ultrasound to find out the gender of our second baby.

As soon as the ultrasound tech pulled up the computer screen and I saw his little face,

I saw "a little Ryan". I immediately knew for sure it was another boy.

The chin, eyes, nose, face shape, everything was screaming "Ryan."

Sure enough ANOTHER BOY.

Regardless of the fact that I had plenty of "boy clothes" at home that Ryan wore when he was little, we headed straight to baby gap to buy an outfit to celebrate.

( Because I have convinced my husband that shopping is a necessity when celebrating ;)

While looking at outfits at Baby Gap, this little cloud one-piece caught my eye.

It made me smile and I told Aaron "this is the one".
The "cool dude cloud outfit."

Fast forward to today… As I got it out for Luke to wear for the first time this morning, I had a flashback of the emotional high we were on that day imagining what it would feel like to add another BOY to the mix.
( and me feeling slightly scared and inadequate as a "boy mom"HA )

Now here we are, with our little Luke.
So happy he's here.

And gosh does this outfit describe Luke perfectly. Just a "chill, happy, content little babe."

So moral of the story.. Some outfits have a meaning behind them. Like this cool dude cloud outfit. ^ :)

Luuuuke!!! My heart is bursting.

For weeks leading up to Halloween, Ryan has been asking to wear his shark costume.
I would let him wear it for a morning here and there and then would make him take it off when we went to the grocery store ETC, and he would cry when he had to take it off. ( I have never seen a child love a costume so much in my life! HA )
However, I kept telling him that on Halloween he could wear it ALL DAY LONG and I wouldn't make him take it off.
So to my word, he woke up bright and early Halloween morning and his costume was on by 8 AM.

"Halloween is my favorite" - Ryan's quote of the day.

I mean really... candy and costumes?! What more could a toddler want!?
( HA my husband and I have been known to be Halloween Scrooge's in the past so this year we stepped up our game for Ry. What you won't do for your kids right?! ;)

I made Ryan THESE pumpkin pancakes for breakfast with added orange food coloring ;)
He was in heaven. He was so excited to have a "SPOOKY BREAKFAST" as he called it.

And not to forget our little Nemo.. who slept most of his first Halloween.

Ryan seriously scored on candy.

I may or may not have influenced him on candy decisions when he had the choice of what to choose.

The beauty of being a parent and eating your kids candy when they go to sleep HA ( you want to make sure they get your favorites! )

We had to keep stuffing candy in Luke's carseat to lighten Ryan's bucket because he kept complaining that it was "too heavy" HA ( rough life RY - I don't feel bad for you at all ;)