October

I went back to work in the middle of this month. It was SO hard to go back to work after I got four weeks of just simply spending time with my boys. KB continued to go to daycare while I stayed home with Patrick, we had to pay for it after all. KB LOVES going to "school" and tells me about it almost everyday. Almost everyday he also says he misses Papai. We do too bud. KB didn't pay much attention to PK for September, but this month, he really did start bonding with him here and there. He tries to help with the binky and gives him hugs.
 

 I love how they love each other.

 

Patrick really started being more vocal this month and eyes really opened up a lot too. We've been amazed at how blue his eyes have been compared to KB when he was born. Unfortunately all the pictures make his eyes just seem like a dark color.

 We have not had any additional testing yet for hearing as we had to wait to schedule it for November. This will not be a fun test to prepare for. In order to do this BAER (or ABR) test unsedated, I need to keep Patrick awake and hungry for at least 2-4 hours before the test. Any new mother knows that a crying and hungry newborn is hard to deal with.

My brother and his wife came with their three kids to do some visiting with us and other friends. It was SO good to see them! They were also kind enough to watch our two boys while Bryan and I had a date night to see Les Miserables at the Kennedy Center. We got tickets for that night specifically to see it subtitled. This meant we got to sit near the orchestra pit, and someone had reserved ASL interpreters for that night as well. All I can say is that it was the MOST amazing date I have ever been on. I have fallen in love with the musical, and just cannot get over how amazing it was.

 However, I did love Halloween this year. KB is still very much into Toy Story, and he recovered from a week long virus just in time for us to go trick or treating. We really didn't know that many people in the ward, so I sent out a general e-mail to the ward asking if we could join anyone. A lot of people responded, and we ended up going with Denver, a boy who is just a few months younger than KB. He went as Yoda and was really cute too. We actually ended up trick or treating for a lot longer than I had planned. That doesn't matter though, we had a lot of fun.