Halloween 2016!!

Halloween this year was AWESOME!!  Both kids had so much fun!!

Making spooky Halloween crafts!!

The kids cute bats and pumpkins!

Dress up day at Court's dance class!  I really liked my cute striped tights!

Mommy the witch and Courtney Princess Anna!

My cute Princess Anna!

Courtney and her dance class! Court loves ballet class - can you tell?!?

Making sugar cookies!

Courtney working hard with her ball of dough!

So cute!

Decorating sugar cookies!

Happy girl!

Ty is always very careful and precise.

Our awesome cookies!

Carving pumpkin time!  Courtney is always wearing crazy costumes - iron man and a piggy hat - why not?!

Courtney digging out the pumpkin guts!

Ty working on his carving.

Courtney and Daddy working hard.

Ty and his pumpkin!

Courtney and her cute ghost!

Daddy dressed up as smiley poo!  Courtney thought that was hilarious!

Courtney enjoying her mummy dog and bat sandwich.

Cute kids all dressed up for school!  (Court wasn't going to be left out!!)  Such a cute picture!  Ty looks a little stressed because he was worried that he wasn't still going to school.  My cute little monkey and Queen Elsa!  Ty loved his costume - so perfect for him!

My adorable Elsa!

Cute Elsa hair!

So pretty!

For dinner, Courtney and I made pumpkin pizzas!  Court loved helping with this!

Super cute!

All ready to go trick or treating!!  Court was so excited!

Trick or treating with Daddy!  The kids did great!  They loved every minute of it!

Even Tyson loved it!  He was smiling huge smiles the whole time and did great with going up to each house to get treats!  So proud of him and so glad he loved it!  We walked him until he was literally almost falling asleep while he was walking.

Our cute pumpkins and decorations!  I really like how my cute little ghost turned out!!

Court got these funny vampire teeth in her treat bag!  So funny!  Court could have trick or treated all night!  She couldn't get enough!  She was also equally as excited to hand out candy!  Such a happy, fun, excited little girl!

Courtney playing around in Ty's monkey costume! Cutie!

Tyson is 6!!

I can't believe that Tyson is 6!!  6 is so big!  Since starting school last winter, Ty has made some great progress with development.  With Ty, its very hard to see broad changes day to day.  His development is a roller coaster - so one day he will do something super amazing, but that will often come with very low dips in development as well.  Some weeks he will do awesome with potty training, other weeks he will refuse to even go and sit on the potty when asked.  It can be hard to ride that roller coaster with him sometimes.  Its hard to try and shut down the "oh, he is talking so good today, here we go!, he's going to talk now" part of me.  Cause with Courtney, when she does something she can now do that and just build on it - so its hard to see some areas of his development be so up and down and not get too overly excited or hopeful when they are up.  That being said - looking back on the last year, he has made some major progress and is doing so well!  He speech has improved!  He now uses people's names and can use short sentences - longer sentences if he has visual supports.  He plays well by himself and is taking a much greater interest in playing with Courtney and his friends at school.  His turn taking and rigidity is much improved - even if he is a bit upset about it, he is able to work through it at participate how we are asking him to.  His ability to follow directions - even just verbal ones - is much improved.  In gym class one day they were playing red light green light and walking like animals and Ty was fully participating all on his own!  None of his teachers were helping him or even near him (they were all helping the other kids) and Ty was looking at and looking for Teacher Stephanie and following all of her directions!!  They got it on video for me and it was unreal to see!  So amazing!  Ty is getting much better at participating and taking turns with craft projects such as drawing, play doh, cutting and coloring - this has taken a lot of work!!  And then some stuff he just picks up easier.  He got a bike from my parents for his birthday and he went from me having to seriously hold him up the entire ride to now riding and gliding all by himself!  He has a great excitement and willingness to try new things - which I absolutely love.  Ty has a wonderful love for life and truly enjoys the simple joys of life - watching the snow fall, running around in the leaves and snow, going for a bike ride, going skating.  Whatever adventure it might be, Ty is always excited and willing to try.  Ty has a great love for all animals.  Ty is a sweet boy who is always happy and full of joy and laughter.  I love this sweet boy!  I can't believe that you are already 6!  I'm looking forward to seeing all that you will accomplish in the year ahead!

Ty loves balloons so we got Ty a big bunch of balloons for his birthday party.  He was so excited about them!

Birthday balloons!!

Court was pretty excited too!

Opening presents!

Building lego with Daddy.

Me and my sweet boy.

Birthday cake time!

Ty loves to sing Happy Birthday and blow out the candles.

Trying out his new bike for the first time.  He loves his bike!!

Of course Courtney had to try it out too!

We still had a lot of snow on the day of Ty's birthday party so we went out and played in the snow.  Best day ever!!

My cute Courtney!

Rolling huge snowballs with Daddy!

Sitting on the giant chair!

More huge snowballs!

Cutie!

My happy boy!  

On Ty's real birthday and put a candle in one of Courtney's muffins and sang him Happy Birthday.  Happy boy!  Love you sweet boy!