Cute Cookies and More

 My Mom gifted me a Halloween Craft book a few years ago... I was hesitant to keep it, knowing it would be a few years before my children would even be old enough to complete any of the crafty projects, so I tucked it away in one of our many Halloween boxes in the garage.  Well, when I was decorating our house for the upcoming holiday Caitlyn found the book and she picked out this cookie project.  The book was geared for children and had illustrations of what the cookies might look like in the end... and I kid you not... she decorated all of the above cookies. (okay, I decorated one of the cookies... but she did the rest). She took her time looked at the example pictures and copied them perfectly.  I might have adjusted an eye or two just to straighten them out... but she is quite the little cookie decorator.  I couldn't help but take a picture of each and every one of them.  Afterwards, we carved out our pumpkins, sorted through to gather seeds, cleaned and baked them.  Although it was my weekend to work, we accomplished a lot.  Sunday, we packaged up our cookies and delivered them to our neighbors before we headed to Sunday dinner.

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You might be asking yourself... where are the pictures of Ashton decorating cookies and carving the pumpkins?!?! Well, he actually chose not to participate in this fun filled family event as he chose to simply run around diaper less in and out of the bathroom... where he went number one and number two!  I almost hate to brag because I know we're FAR from being potty trained ( I know this because I am overhead paged EVERY SINGLE TIME I try to go to the gym because he has poopy pants{yep, they don't change diapers in the kids zone}), but he has gone potty at least once in the tiny toilet each day since he started and he's pooped 2 and 1/3 times (the first time he went 1/3 of it made it into the toilet, 1/3 of it on the seat, and 1/3 of it on the ground beside the toilet... so it totally still makes the count). 

Enough toilet talk from me today... Ashton will LOVE me for this post... I KNOW it!  I should inform you that the above picture is just a re-enactment, usually he sits the other way. Another quick update on our family... both my children are teething. Yes, faithful blog followers you read that correctly, Caitlyn is also getting her last two 2-year molars at age 38 months.  I thought that maybe we were through the thick of it and skipped the ibuprofen after baths last night and at about 1230am Caitlyn entered our bed and then at 1am Ashton joined us for a short hour.  It was the first time we had four of us in the bed since Ashton was a couple months and was still nursing. 

Needless to say... Ash has gotta be tired at work today cause I know I am!

Tired or not... we have an eventful next couple of days. 

Coffee is a MUST right now and probably will be throughout this weekend.

Today Caitlyn has her Halloween party at preschool, the kids get to meet their new per diem babysitter, and we have dinner planned (and more Halloween activities) with the Johnson's.  Tomorrow, we have the Halloween carnival at church where Caitlyn and Ashton's mom has volunteered at one of the booths, Saturday Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl will be making an appearance at a Halloween party, and Sunday... dinner and trick or treating with the Newgards!

Rocktober ending with a bang!

1 and a half!

Sweet Son.

You truly are sweet.

You melt my heart each and every time you say my name, 'Mumma'.  You can say more words than I can count and are still signing. Your baby voice is like music to my ears.  You love waffles and spaghetti and yogurt, and well... this list could go on and on.  You love to climb, I actually took a short break from typing this post cause your Dad asked me to come and check you out... You were standing on his head trying to pull yourself up to a window.  In just the past 3 weeks you've gotten 3 molars and 1 front tooth (for a total tooth count of 10).

You love to dance, your style is with your hands in the air with your feet moving as fast as they can go... usually while your sister twirls around and around you.  You are precious when you are sleepy: You drag around a blanket and when you're super sleepy you have one in each hand (picture Linus from the Peanuts characters).  You know almost all of your body parts.  The way you make your eyes smile when you say cheese is so darn cute too.  You love your sister and she tells me about 30 times a day that you are her best friend. The below picture is compliments of her... she loves to take your picture as much as you love to say cheese.  Once again 18 months have come and gone so incredibly fast.

 Thank-you, son, for being just one more light in my life.

I love you to pieces and always will.

1st Field Trip

Caitlyn experienced her first field trip to the Thomasson Family Farm.  It was so exciting being able to chaperone her and all the other preschoolers and pre-k kiddos.  Gram and Auntie also came along which made my job that much easier. I was really able to enjoy watching as Caitlyn played. I learned that Caitlyn is actually quite the little listener at school.   

Caitlyn played in a hay maze, sat at a long table and ate an icecream treat, played in a lot of corn kernels, went down a ton of slides, blew many bubbles, pet a miniature horse, a 26 year old donkey, and a rabbit, milked a pretend cow, took a hay ride, picked out her perfect pumpkin, and obviously had a wonderful time.

Thanks Gram and Auntie for coming along!

Spaghetti

One of his faves.

Oh, I just couldn't pass up the cute photo op.

A Fall Fave

 I had the weekend off and the weather was too perfect,

so we ventured to the pumpkin patch. 

 Caitlyn loved showing off for the camera.

She picked out her pumpkin all by herself this year. If it were up to her she would have picked them all.  To my surprise, she picked up some of the largest pumpkins there... In her attempt to pick up them all, she broke the stems off of a few too many pumpkins (which also meant she was breaking rule #6 at the pumpkin patch: no breaking off the stems).

Ashton enjoyed running up and down the rows of pumpkins. And to keep to our theme... he also enjoyed climbing up and over and on and around the pumpkins: breaking rule #4 at the pumkin patch: no climbing on the pumpkins.

79 pounds of pumpkin later,

we all headed home for a nap.

I have so missed our weekends together as a family.