Trick or Treating 2011

Better late than never, I seem to have gotten behind on my blogging lately.  I’ll blame it on a very cute peasant dress pattern…I’ll post pictures of that later, let’s just say that my girls will be precious and matching on Thanksgiving.

Ok back to Halloween, I chose the girls costume this year.  Mainly because this will probably be the last year that Lilly will just go with the flow and not demand to be a princess or Tigger.  I decided the girls would look really cute as Dr. Seuss’ Thing 1 and Thing 2.  Mike and I have been calling them that for a couple of months now and Lilly loves to read all of the Dr Seuss books.  She can almost recite all of Put me in the Zoo.  I’m very proud of myself for making their entire costume, the only thing I wasn’t able to do was decorate the wagon and that’s due to a procrastinating husband (whom I love dearly even if he does everything at the last minute!).   Take a look at my cute little things :)

Dress rehearsal, we were just checking to make sure everything fit the day before Halloween

 

Mimi came to our house to hand out candy while we went trick or treating.

 

Well it’s a cute picture of her side..I have no clue what she’s looking at

I know what your are thinking, “where’s the blue hair?”  Well this is the girly version of thing 1 and thing 2, plus there is no way I’m putting a wig on a 6 month old.  I doubt they make eatable wigs

Look at Raelynn looks up at Lilly, she adores her so much

 

My sweet kiddos

 

Girly Thing 1 with her bows and tutu

 

Mimi and sweet Raelynn aka Thing 2 (just at important as Thing 1, we just went in birth order)

What a sweet baby girl

 

Our family

 

This is how we trick or treat (the wagon kind of looks like a “big red wood box” right?)  Oh and of course Tigger came for the ride. Raelynn lasted a whole 20 minutes in the bumbo seat in the wagon before she cried asked us very nicely to be held.

The only picture I got of Lilly trick or treating..oops

 

We had a wonderful time trick or treating, Lilly got lots of candy Raelynn even got some too.  I had a lady ask me if the baby wanted some starbursts..haha, I have no clue what she was thinking Lilly hasn’t even had chewy candy like that and she’s two and a half, maybe she didn’t have kids!

Raelynn and her many faces

Raelynn is a funny funny baby, she makes me smile and laugh all the time.  I took a bunch of pictures of her in her swing the other day take a look..

   

Water Beads

I have been seeing a lot of posts on pinterest with sensory bottles, trays and other fun things for toddlers.  I ran across one with something called water beads and they looked like a lot of fun.  I should put a disclaimer here, I’m pretty sure there are water beads made especially for toddlers, but I used the beads from the floral section at Wal-mart. Yes they are a choking hazard, but I told Lilly not to put them in her mouth and sat with her while she was playing with them. 

 

Lilly playing with the beads about an hour after we put them in the water

Little hands

There are 4 beads in this little green bowl, I kept them separate to remind Lilly how little they were when we started.

It looks like pink water in the bowl until you put your hand in and find beads

 

The next day, Lilly was comparing the size of the beads compared to the day before

Look at how big they are!

I didn’t take any water out of the bowl, those beads absorbed all of it (about 2 quarts).

 

This was a very fun experiment, Lilly thought it was really neat to see how big they grew in a day.  I even caught myself playing with the beads a little while Lilly was at school :)

Pumpkin Patch

Last Friday me, Mike, the girls and Mike’s parents took a trip to Hammond to visit Ms. Heather’s Pumpkin Patch.  The last two years I brought Lilly to a pumpkin patch in Metairie so I could take some festive pictures of her (2009 and 2010), This year they were only open in the afternoon, aka naptime, so we decided to try out the pumpkin patch that all of our friends rave about.  We also combined it with some quality Amaw and Apaw time.  And now…the photobomb!  These are only picture from my camera, my MIL took tons of pictures too that I can’t wait to see.

Lilly and her pumpkin

I absolutely love this profile shot of Lilly, it shows her beautiful hair color as well as her crazy curls!

“Nook, Tigger’s eating at the pumpkin!” I love this kid

Pumpkin = ottoman in Raelynn’s eyes

She’s in the “I love my feet” stage

Lilly chasing Daddy

 

I found him!

 

Daddy was much braver than me..that thing would make me sick!

Daddy and Apaw hanging out with Raelynn

This is what Raelynn did for the majority of the trip

Oh the zipline…this made m very nervous

But Daddy was never far behind

He let go for a second, but stayed within arms reach

This was the second time, can you see the smile on Lilly’s face?

I sear I have 3 kids sometimes!

Amaw helped Lilly bounce.

[Insert picture from Amaw’s camera here]

I’m leaving a space for the picture that Apaw took of Mike and I acting like fools and bouncing on those red balls and laughing so hard we almost died!

Lilly picked out two very cute pumpkins

Then ran around some more

My baby pumpkin

She is so cute!