I Heart Mrs Prindable's

Candy covered ball of deliciousness

My in-laws introduced us to Mrs Prindable's a couple of years ago and it has quickly become an obsession.  They sell amazing apples drenched in caramel and then topped with any kind of chocolate you can think of.  I had to ban myself from ordering them for us, but if we happen to get them as a gift it's fair game!  So I was super excited when a box of four minis arrived on our doorstep for Halloween.  Thanks G and Pops!!!  It definitely takes the sting out of being too old to trick-or-treat!  Here's a link to their website if you need a treat for yourself!  Mrs Prindable's

Monkey Is 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Breakfast of champions!  Passing up Belgian waffles for yogurt, applesauce and capri sun.

Wilson Fire House

Monkey hearts cupcakes!  Well, the icing at least.

Monkey turned the big 0-2 on the 4th!  He started his special day with a homemade breakfast of Belgian waffles and whipped cream, of which M ate none.  Apparently, he's more of a L'eggo man.  I thoroughly enjoyed them, though.  Then we took him to the playroom to show him his big gift.  After his teachers told me his favorite toy at school is the dollhouse, I researched boy houses and found him the cutest Fire Station.  It took H and I a couple of hours to put together, but I think it was worth it!  I have to say the biggest hit of the day were the Mylar balloons I had waiting for him at home after school.  M seriously cleaned up in the gift department this year, but I think the balloons were his absolute fav.  We had G, Pops, Aunt S and Gaga A over for his favorite meal of tacos, black beans, rice and cupcakes.  Yum!!
On Saturday we had a birthday party with all of M's (ok, really my) friends at the place where M and I take gymnastics class.  M loved all of the attention at both parties and had a bit of a hard time coming off of the birthday and sugar high once it was all over.  Luckily Christmas is right around the corner!

Monkey in his natural habitat - the gym!  He found a stuffed chihuaha that he called "Pea" and carried around the whole party.

Monkey plates and napkins

Sad Monkey!  Started crying during Happy Birthday song.



Can't be bothered to pose...



Pulling a Britney

Usually Britney Spears is not my go to parenting role model, but I was a little desperate today.  After rushing in to pick Monkey up from school five minutes late (shopping emergency), dragging him to the car and wrestling him into the car seat I realized too late that he had no water in his sippy cup.  This probably sounds like a small problem, but M will cry the entire way home if he doesn't have his after school drink.  I weighed my options, unhook him and pray for his cooperation (yeah right), leave him buckled in the car and run back to the water fountain (too afraid of child services) or give him the only fluids I had available, my watered down diet coke.  What would Britney do?  Yes, I gave my almost two year old diet coke in a sippy cup today...  Sure, it's not Mountain Dew, but still not one of my prouder moments.

Happy Halloween!!!

 



Monkey in his stroller at Boo Ha Ha

At the neighbor's visiting their pumpkins

We had the best Halloween!  This was really the first year that Monkey 'got' the concept.  Last year we had his birthday party on Halloween, and I think he was just a little overwhelmed by the whole thing.  This year I tried to prepare him a little better.  We read every Halloween book I could find, watched the Halloween episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse about a million times and talked about dressing up and trick-or-treating for the whole month of October.  We went also went to the Whiteside Carnival and Boo Ha Ha as dry runs for the big day.  So needless to say, I was pretty much over Halloween by the time it got here.  But luckily M was not sick of it!  My friend A invited us to her mom's house to get all the kids together before the dads took them trick-or-treating in the neighborhood.  M was very excited to see A's daughter dressed as Mickey Mouse.  After tugging on her ears and poking the belly of her costume, he spent the rest of his time chasing her around and 'talking' to A's mom's dogs.  Very exciting!  Finally, the dads took all of the little ones out to collect their treats.  Hubby said M was a trooper but finally just pooped out.  M started sitting down in the grass and eventually laying down for a rest in between houses.  He did admirably for his first time out, though! 





Heading out to trick-or-treat with dad



Sleepy Monkey going home













Brownie's

Hubby, Monkey and I made the most wonderful discovery - Brownie's!!  Apparently this is a Tulsa institution, but it took us a whole nine months of living here before we ventured in.  It looks a little, how shall I put this nicely, unkempt from the outside.  But we were feeling quite adventurous after our trip to the Whiteside Halloween Carnival, and a little desperate for somewhere close and quick since it was already past bedtime, so we thought we would give it a shot.  Boy, am I glad we did!  For starters, we had the nicest waiter ever.  The menu only has about five items on it, but he went to great lengths to make sure we were well informed before we all ordered, you guessed it, cheeseburgers.  We also tried the fries, coleslaw and chili, of which Monkey was a super fan!  Luckily the food was served fast because we were only there about twenty minutes before M reached his breaking point and we had to go home to put him down.  Before leaving H and I got a slice of the banana cream pie to go and enjoyed it while catching up on DVR after M was in bed.  The perfect end to a perfect night!