Gun Control

I am beginning to wonder if I should initiate some gun control around our house. Noah is a bit obsessed with guns, swords or weapons of any kind really..but mostly guns. He has a little nerf gun that he loves to run around the house with and shoot innocent bystanders. He has trouble cocking the gun, so he runs up to me every few minutes and says, "cock it mom." Lovely huh. So the other day Noah was eating a banana that I had peeled about half way for him. When he ate it down to the peel and needed help peeling it the rest of the way, he handed it to me and said, "cock it mom." Hahahaha! I also caught him moaning in his sleep today at nap time saying, "cock it, cock it." Hmmm I'm thinking the gun situation is a little out of control.

Happy Halloween

So a few weeks ago Noah's grandma Mel bought him a really cute pug dog costume for Halloween. I tried to get him to try it on then, but he refused. I talked to him about Halloween and told him that you have to wear a costume to get candy. We even read Halloween books to help him get the idea. In the coming weeks we continued talking about the costume and I continued to try persuading him by telling him how "awesome" his dog costume was. Noah was not convinced and replied, "No it's not awesome mommy! I am mad at Halloween!" Thus began the stuggle with the dog costume. Needless to say, life is busy and I pushed the costume incident out of my mind and actually kept thinking that on Halloween Day with everyone in their costumes, Noah would be excited and put his dog costume on. Well no such luck. Noah ended up being an army guy, which to him was a way cooler idea than a puppy. Duh mom! I actually don't blame him for this. So here he is in his thrown together costume (two hours before we went trick or treating). He has my black eyeshadow on his face (improvising). He had some sweet boots for this costume, but boots were out of the question also. Such a two year old!

The day after Halloween and Noah is still enjoying wearing his army hat!