Happy Halloween!

 

It was loads of ooegy gooey pumpkin carving fun at our family's annual Halloween Party. More pictures to follow soon. Have a fun Halloween everyone!!!

Helping Mom

Just a few finishing touches on Foofa and Mr. Rock and the costumes will be finished! Here's some picture of my awesome helpers yesterday.

 

Lily did not want batting stuffed into her shirt when I was trying on the fit of her costume, but she sure had fun playing in the fluff! Mike's pumpkin helped me to check the shape without having to completely fill the shirt with stuffing while Lily was napping. I didn't get the shape just the way I wanted it, but she looked so hilariously cute walking around in it last night it doesn't really matter - I am not disappointed! I just hope she'll keep her hat on because it's my favorite part. Can't wait to get dressed up for Halloween!

The accessories!

We're getting closer to ready for Halloween! I mimicked foofa land in photoshop to make this treat bag for Lily to carry trunk or treating, which by the way is the awesomest idea for little kids with short legs! It is much easier to walk car to car in a parking lot than house to house with a toddler in tow. Score! Candy for the parents with the cute kid that many years sooner - it's not like she really needs it at 15 months old! But I digress...  

Here is the treat bag. The super best part is now I can just photoshop a photo of Lily in her costume into this lovely background quick as a wink! You know I will do it. I love messing around with photoshop.

Bet you can't wait to see Lily in her costume! Neither can I - gotta get back to sewing it.

Dandelion

Growing up

Well Lily had her 15 month checkup and is growing up, but not out. She is a skinny little thing - though the doctor said 'she wore it well'. I guess that means she doesn't look like a stick. She seems perfectly healthy to us, and smart too - so I shouldn't worry. She has only been sick once and got over it quick. But I am her mom and a worrier, so it's hard to help. Anyone have suggestions for getting your kid to eat? Meal plans? schedules? anything? Feeding this girl is my least favorite thing right now - not that I don't feed her, I just come away from it frustrated and not knowing what different to do.

On another note this girl is getting cuter everyday. And coming out with words that make us say - where did you learn that! No, not cuss words... The other day, for instance, Mike was downstairs with her and getting ready to write a check when she pops out with "checkbook." I am sure she has not had much experience around checkbooks, and Mike wasn't telling her about what he was doing. He was stunned, and so was I when told, but not doubting - this girls can answer about most common animals and the sounds they make and name all the parts of the face including tongue and teeth. It is amazing to me to see this tiny person walking around and doing all these incredible things - wish I could learn as fast as a kid!

The last couple of times we have gone to the park Lily suddenly loves the swings! She was so not into them before - preferring the slide and tossing bark or just watching the other kids. Now she almost cries when we take her out - and we let her swing for quite some time! Here are some pictures from our phone that we took the other day.

 

Bates Nut Pumpkin Picking

  We spent a couple of hours at Bates Nut Farm Saturday. Man it was hot! We shoulda woulda coulda gone to the beach! We had a good time though and kept to the shade as much as we could. Here's a bunch of photos of the day!    
  I put ponytails in Lily's hair while she was watching TV, this was her reaction we she saw herself in the mirror later. 

She got over it.

 

Cute pigtail pictures

 

 

 

 

 

  Lily napped in the car on the drive to Bates Nut Farm. When we plopped her down next to a sea of pumpkins I think she felt a little overwhelmed! What alien planet is this? It's so fun and funny to see kids experience things for the first time.

 

I thought that little face was so cute!

Here's some pictures of us fogies too...

 

  

 

 

Farmer Mike

and the Pumpkin heads 

 

 

  It was a fun outing! We sure are glad to have this little pumpkin in our family. Life is certainly sweeter and tangier with Lily in it. 

Later:
  Actually maybe we shouldn't have tried going to the beach. We ended up turning around when we saw this:

  

  Weird how the weather can be so different from Carlsbad to San Marcos! We probably could have done it had we started sooner. Bummer...but still I love California - awesome weather for the month of October - no fear of snow on Halloween! A coat just ruins a costume - I've so been there :)

Last Halloween

It's so fun looking back to last year at this time! I can't wait to carve pumpkins at our family party this year now that Lily is big enough to take out the pumpkin goop, well at least participate and enjoy it a little more than before. She's walking and talking now anyway. But wasn't she so small and adorable last year as a little pumpkin!

 

I love this little scared face...v v v...like: 'I don't know about this!?'

My family has a tradition of sticking babies inside pumpkins around Halloween. We'll see how it goes this year - we'll have to let Lily cozy up to the pumpkin first and see how she likes it. I don't want to make her afraid of pumpkins just to get a picture of her crying inside one. She's hasn't really been scared of anything else I've expected her to be wary of yet, so I'm crossing my fingers!  

Happy October folks!

Fall at Last

So the weather has finally gotten cooler and it really feels like fall - it's actually raining as I type! Time to pull out the long pants and sweaters. I love sweaters on little kids. Lily looked so cute in her little sweater and jeans the other day I took tons of pictures. I love the little sassy attitude in this first one.

Our baby is growing up so fast, but it's funny that we actually bought that sweater for Lily last winter and it still fits her! Look at that munchkin. I want to call her my little babushka or something Russian when I look at these pictures, but I don't know where I got that from. She does make me think of my grandmother, but my family is mostly from Denmark. (Probably got it from television.)

 

Here are some more photos and one with our little family in front of a spectacular rainbow that was by our house the other day. Did I tell you we've been having lovely weather? I don't remember having seen a rainbow ever the whole time I've lived in California and now I've seen 2 or 3 in the last couple of weeks. I'm taking it as an omen of good things to come.

 

So Serious

There is nothing cuter in the world to me right now than my little daughter getting my attention, looking me straight in the eye, and saying, "Mum" in the most serious voice like - we need to talk now, Mom! Such a cutie. She never does get into the discussion, it's just "Mum, ...Mum".