These days!

Clement the Pumpkin! Very fitting, literally:')

Cyprian the baseball player! See how excited he is to go trick or treating!

The whole entourage!

Cyprian loved Mommy's homemade cat ears.

Halloween was fun! Cyprian got to go trick or treating for the first time. He was dressed as a baseball player and Clement made a perfect pumpkin. Cyprian loved getting candy and only got really scared at a house that had a huge scary display in the yard and were playing eerie music. I think the most scary was that there was a person dressed as a gorilla. Cyprian refused to get out of the stroller. They were so nice they came out and gave him a treat anyway. We did not go to many houses because I did not want Cyprian to have to much candy. He gets three pieces maximum throughout the day. It is a great incentive with encouraging him to go potty.

All souls day my great uncle died. I think that it is a good day to die. We are keeping him and the family in our intentions when we pray the family rosary at night.

Yesterday was one of those days where I didn't know if it could possible get worse, and yes it can get worse! Starting out in the morning, Cyprian had several bathroom accidents. Clement was being really clinging, so I was holding him while I was transferring a pork roast and trimmings from a pan into a pyrex bowl to freeze. I had just got the last little bit into the bowl when Clement grabbed the bowl and it went flying, shattering in to a million pieces and spilling pork roast everywhere. Man, I was really annoyed Franz was still here but about to leave for school and work. I handed off Clement to him and started the long process of cleaning up glass, sweeping, moping, vacuuming the floor. Franz had to leave so he put Clement in the playpen. So I had to listening to a very unhappy baby while cleaning up a mess. Thankfully Cyprian was out back in the yard picking me flowers. When he came in I was about done with super cleaning everything. He presented me a bouquet of weeds, which were beautiful. I didn't hold it against him that he wasn't dry. Then shortly after that I discovered Cyprian decide his bed sheets are great for drawing on with crayon. I found chalk on the bottom of the piano seat, I happened to see this while rescuing a toy from Clement. There was also crayon on the tile floor and door windows. There were several good points in the day, I just seemed to be really irritable. I think it has something to do with the weather change. Cyprian and Clement were pretty good while I did grocery shopping at two stores. After lunch Cyprian said he did not want to take a nap but I said he had to have quiet time anyway. I was in our room nursing Clement and I could hear Cyprian kicking the wall and talking. About ten minutes later it was silent, I went and checked and he was out. Clement and I went out and I hung laundry while swinging the little guy in the swing on the clothes line. Then we fed and watered the chickens and sat in the grass watching them for awhile. Clement was sleepy so I brought him and laid him down, he fell asleep. It was kinda of dreary yesterday afternoon. They took nice naps and when they work up I had Cyprian help me make supper. Franz was home at this time and working in our room. After a nice supper the boys decided to act crazy, like monkeys. Cyprian was a climbing monkey, who kept climbing on the back of the couch sliding or jumping precariously to edge, Clement was a clingy monkey  who attached himself to me. I was the jumping screaming monkey who was at my wits end, trying to clean up the house. Thankfully like I said there were good points. Daddy (Franz) finished working and came out and took Cyprian outside to go lock up the chickens and Augustine. I had Clement while daddy got Cyprian ready for bed. We then had our family rosary in Cyprian's room, and I could literally feel the stress of the day draining away. All is well that ends well. To top off the end Clement slept the whole night! Yes, thank you God! It felt like a reward for persevering

Now today is cold we will see what it holds for the Klein household........