A month (and then some) in the life (v2014.24)

Obviously, this isn't just a week -- it's more like a month...  I have photos on here from the beginning of October... Womp womp...

Mommy & Finn selfie

Finn got a gift from the binky fairy, which surprised even me! 

Seems the neighbor girls are also in good with the binky fairy...

Pre-crawling around the library

This is what my kid does at a playdate in the library.  Screw playing with the other kids -- she just sits in a little chair her size and pulls out book after book.

Trying to catch leaves that were starting to fall in the yard

Yummy sqaghetti squash stuffed with ricotta and meat.

Same day that he started crawling -- this is about as long as he can stand by himself before he falls.

Somebody wasn't happy that he was a lobster for Boo at the Zoo

And someone else was very pleased with her kitty-cat self

Lobster selfie

Kitty cat selfie

Hanging out at the library

He fell asleep all by himself one morning -- just like this (and then never again).

Tired boy

We hit up the Children's Museum one morning.  She got to "drive" a bus.

She and her little partner in crime also demolished the grocery store that they had set up.

They also climbed up quite high (too high for my liking).

Dorothy and Toto

My darling Toto

Ruff ruff!

"There's no place like home..."

Petting her puppy

Fly, my pretties, fly!

First they took off my legs and threw them over there!  Then they took off my chest and threw them over there!

Halloween crafts that got mailed out to some family (made by Finn).

Mimi had a cookie-decorating kit mailed to our house.  This is the result of Finn decorating cookies.

Chilling with pumpkin ale and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

Our jack o'lantern this year.

For her gymnastics class, she got to wear a costume.  She was "Super girl" and Daddy was on the floor with her so I took take some videos.

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Getting our Trick or Treat game faces on with a little Taylor

Someone was tuckered OUT when we got back home (and he didn't even go trick or treating)!

Our neighbor Bob dancing with the family to the soundtrack of the evening.

Her serious face...

The perspective of a lollypop

Doesn't she look like such a big girl?  No longer a baby anymore.

Yes, that is a box in his mouth -- his hands were full!

My little bag boy

This is how we roll on a Sunday shopping trip -- ruby slipper seriously do go with green yoga pants.

Bedhead for the ages!  This is honestly how she woke up.

Brother is trying to rock his own bedhead.

His reaction to seeing his first snowfall.

I've got a snow-dog on my hands.  He LOVES LOVES LOVES the snow.

We ended up getting about 4 inches in our first snow storm which happened in the middle of November!!!

This is us today.  Someone is a sick little dude.  Boo...

Pumpkin patch -- Ohio style

In our last "catch up" post, we hit the local pumpkin patch.  Our tradition (at least for the last three years) has been to go to a specific local pumpkin patch the weekend before Halloween.  It's not a large pumpkin patch, which is usually great for photos as we are normally the only ones there when it opens on Sunday morning.  After the pumpkin patch, we go to Squire's Castle which is a great park that has an old "castle" on it.  I'll brief everyone next week about how we are all doing.  So for now, enjoy the last of autumn as Christmas is right around the corner.

Funny story about our beautiful girl?  She was wearing a swimsuit that morning over her clothes (i.e. a pair of my undies) and I asked her to take them off.  We hurried out the door and as we were leaving the pumpkin patch, I noticed a pop of yellow lace around the back of her neck.  I pulled a little and realized that she still had her "swimsuit" on!!!!  The whole time at the pumpkin patch, she was wearing a yellow lace pair of my undies underneath her cape.  I took photo proof of that as well -- but decided against posting that.  Ha!

As we were walking out the door, E saw this photo on our frig.  It is our first pumpkin patch photo with Finn.  He realized that he wore the EXACT same outfit.  Now we have photo proof.

 

Happy Halloween!!! (the costume edition)

Happy Halloween from Dorothy Gale, Toto, and the Flying Munk-y!  I'm doing things a little backwards and putting up our trick or treating before I put up our pumpkin patch photos (which should be going up in a day or two).  But the costumes turned out fantastic and I just couldn't contain myself!

I made Munk's costume entirely (but bought the wings, of course).  He wasn't exactly thrilled to be wearing it.

Fish as Toto was the cutest thing ever!  He was really good about the costume and wore it with no fusses (until trick or treating, of course).

I made our wagon into Toto's basket, using cardboard and a roll of brown craft paper.  Unfortunately, it started raining 30 minutes before trick or treating, so the basket was a no-go.

Finn was Dorothy and LOVED it.  She had a petticoat on underneath her dress to make her skirt poofy (I think that was her favorite part - that and the shoes).

Here are a couple of photos from a Halloween party that we went to where E, Finn & Fish dressed up like 50's kids.

Our photos for trick or treating were really pushing my camera to the limits.  Despite the brightness outside, it was NOT bright outside.  My ISO was jacked up and my aperture wide open, which led to a lot of noise.  But when you have an infant who doesn't want to "sit and stay", a toddler who is more interested in showing off and doesn't want to "sit and stay" and a dog who is trying to attack his wings on his back and doesn't want to "sit and stay" -- this is as good as it gets.   

Don't worry -- she wore a coat.  I only took photos at our neighbor's house and we took her coat off for the photos.

Fish only went to one other house with it.  With the rain, me trying to carry her bucket, Fish, and an umbrella and the fact that he weighs a TON, my arm was sore by the time we walked back to the house to drop him off with Daddy.  But Finn had a great time trick or treating.  No complaints from her in the rain and even when her hands were getting cold and we were heading back to the house.  You would think that she was going to get candy for it or something...