Play

Emily amazes me sometimes. She LOVES to just be by herself sometimes and play. Lately she has been taking all her babies and singing to them one at a time and then putting them down for a nap. She goes all over the house in search of anything that will work as "covers". She uses dish cloths, lap pads, burp cloths, blankets . . . and my favorite, her oven mit for her kitchen (if you look closely the 3rd animal to the left has her oven mit):
The other day I came downstairs and she had taken all her princess dolls and covered them with some piano sheets she found in the piano chair:
I LOVE her imagination! She is so fun to watch. Speaking of princess dolls, her collection of dolls has come from gifts, but also from her earning stars for various things. Right now she is earning stars for staying in her bed until morning time. This girl was making us weary with her random times that she was coming to our room to crawl into our bed. . . sometimes it was 3:30 sometimes 4:00. Mostly she would make it to 5:30 to come to our bed. So I put a clock in her room and taught her to only look at the hour number. She isn't allowed to come to our room in the morning until it has a 6 or 7 on it. She has been doing much better. The other morning I heard her come to our room at 5:30 . . . but she looked at my clock and then went and got back in bed without saying anything so I was proud of her! Sometimes having a child that's not in a baby bed is worse than having a newborn waking you up to eat! This mama needs her sleep!

Fall Festival

Today we went to our first fall festival! We visited Emily's future school.

It was from 11 - 3 and we got there when it opened and stayed until they were calling out the last 10 minute warning for the rides. We met our friends Shannon, Kyle, and Sydnee:
They had more jump houses and slides here so Emily had a blast:

They had a cute little petting zoo. Abigail loved this part. She kept pointing at all the animals and jabbering away about them and then laughing and getting all excited:
Kyle and Emily discovered the game section where they give out candy. They played each game and at the end they started handing out handfuls each time to get rid of it all:

Emily even tried cotton candy for the first time:

Abigail took such a liking to Emily's balloon animal that I had to go back and get Emily a different one . . . Abigail wasn't letting go:
It was really cold outside but what a fun afternoon!

Being a Monkey

Today we met our friends Ashley, Korrigan, and Pierce at "that Monkey place" to play. We were supposed to meet at a park but it was wet and dreary outside. We've always gone here during birthday parties so I didn't realize today how pricey this place is . . . they sure do like their "jumpy toys" here. But Emily had fun . . . I'm just partial to the free parks we've enjoyed during the warmer months:

Abigail heard the word monkeys and decided to carry her banana with her all afternoon:
This is where Emily spent most of her afternoon:

We had fun guys! See ya soon!

Halloween!

On Saturday I got the girls ready to go out to a fall festival. Abigail went as a butterfly and Emily went as Aur@ra:
The girls played while I was getting the rest of the stuff ready to go:
We ate dinner at a friends house and then all went to a fall festival at a nearby church. When we got there it didn't look like much was going on so we drove to a couple of other activities near town . . . we got there too late for both so headed back to our original destination. It looked like it was in better swing this time around so we stayed and the kids had a fun time:
On our way around all the trunk or treating someone handed Abigail some candy and that entertained her the rest of the evening:
Emily had fun running around with Kyle and Sydnee. Their dad loves Batm@n so he chose their costumes this year:
Emily got a pumpkin mask to make at the festival so we made it this afternoon and she had Joe try it on:
This evening we went trick or treating around the neighborhood and Emily had a blast!

Emily enjoying all her loot:

Poor Abigail has a bad cough so we hope the festivities this weekend didn't make her worse. She was a trooper!

Let the Partying Begin!

We are so excited about this weekend! We have Halloween festivities going on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Yesterday we kicked off our activities with a party at Dawn's house. Dawn keeps the girls for me two days a week and they had a party yesterday. Here's a mask they made the day before:
Friday morning Abigail saw a dog on the TV and pointed to it and said, "Do . . . ra ra" which sounded like Dog and barking. . . now I know why. Dawn's dog Maggie sat right next to Abigail and she loved it:
I was also impressed with Emily getting on the trampoline. She used to only get on there by herself and would jump just a little bit, barely enough to make any movement. But yesterday they were all doing cannonballs together:

Waiting for snacks:

They had different activities to try out like painting pumpkins:
and face painting. Dawn's new assistant did the face painting:
Emily asked for a red cat:
I helped at the "pin the tail on the cat" station and finally they had a pinata with candy. Here's Dawn getting everyone in line to have a whack at the pinata:

Emily and Abigail had a fun afternoon!

Supporting our Team

I made these matching dresses for Emily and Abigail in orange and blue . . . to support our favorite team : )


Abigail had her 1 year shots on Monday so she has been a little cranky. So as you can see, she didn't really care for the photo shoot this morning:
I gave her some beads to play with which stopped the crying . . . but I couldn't get the girl to look at the camera : )
Emily liked her dress and has worn it all day at least!

Everything looks fine for Abigail's 1 year checkup. She is 29 inches long and 18 and 1/2 pounds. So she is in the 50 percentile for height and 30 percentile for her weight. She also cut her 5th tooth today!

Boo at the Zoo

On Saturday we went to Boo at the Zoo with my friend Shannon and her son Kyle and daughter Sydnee. The kids dressed up in their costumes and they had stations at the zoo to get candy:
The kids kept their costumes on for about 15 minutes : )

Abigail even got a bag of pretzels . . . and she also managed to lose her bow somewhere along the way so had her hair all in her face:
They also had a maze that Kyle and Emily walked thru:
Kyle was so sweet! He came up to Abigail several times during the day and kissed her on top of her head and said she was so cute.

That evening several of us girls went to dinner together and then headed to a coffee shop and sat and chatted until they closed at 11:30 : ) We had a great time together!