Weekend before last the Stokes' came up and enjoyed a soccer game of Braden's and then we all went out to lunch and Halloween costume shopping. Beth brought her camera and took lots of pictures of all of the guys (including Gavin) being silly at the Halloween stores...except they all were deleted from her camera somehow. So, this past weekend when Braden and I went to Wal-Mart to find some Halloween goodies for his treat bags for the school "fall" party, he decided to try on a couple of masks and asked me to take a picture of him with my cell phone. So the pictures below are the masks he chose to model for you all, and the quality is well...bad...because they were taken with my cell phone and then e-mailed to my work.
When we were shopping for costumes, we went to two different stores. The first one was probably a bit too "grown-up" for the kiddos, and had some goolish stuff there, but they had fun looking around nonetheless. Braden found a costume - it was SpeedRacer of course, and Beth had picked out a cute little Devil costume for Gavin. Then when we went the the second Halloween store, we bought ANOTHER costume for each kiddo causing us to have to backtrack to the first store and return the first cosumes :) Braden saw the ScoobyDoo costume, had to try it on, and we all fell in love with it and liked it much better than SpeedRacer. Below is a picture (again with my phone since Beth lost the good copy on her camera - wink) of Braden in the store with the ScoobyDoo costume on. We will have better pictures of the costume come Halloween night as the kids get ready for trick-or-treating!
Braden's school collects these to raise money for his classroom, and he will get a special prize at the end of the year for collecting them and bringing them to his teacher. They are found on things like Ziploc products, Kleenex products (tissues, paper towels, toilet paper), certain cereals, Betty Crocker mixes, Green Giant products, Pillsbury products, Hefty trash bags etc. Send them all my way if your kids don't use them in their school.
Before I was a Mom
Before I was a Mom, I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby. I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous. I never thought about immunizations.
Before I was a Mom, I had never been puked on. Pooped on. Chewed on. Peed on. I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts. I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom, I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests. Or give shots. I never looked into teary eyes and cried. I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin. I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom, I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put her down. I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt. I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much. I never knew that I could love someone so much. I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom, I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body. I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby. I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child. I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
Before I was a Mom, I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay. I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom. I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much… before I was a Mom.
2 comments:
Aw, he's so cute!
Um, can you say enough that I lost the picture... ha.
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