Happy Halloween

Sorry, I haven't been blogging very well lately! I will try to do better in the coming months!

Our Halloween season this year is actually a kind of funny story... Vanessa is going to be 3 next week, so she is just getting the whole Halloween thing. I asked her a few weeks ago what she wanted to be. She told me Santa Claus, I said "you can't be Santa for Halloween, what else would you like to be?" She thought for a minute and said "a snowman". I said, ok, if you can't be anything christmas what would you want to be, of course then I got "Santa" again. There is no negotiating with a 2 yr old. Then last week I decided it was getting too close and we had to figure out something. She was going to be an angel, but I thought the costume I had would be too cold. Little did I know it was going to be 70 degrees! So, we brought it up again and she said a pirate. I'm thinking great! She can even take that with her on our cruise in 2 weeks and it would be cute! Then we went shopping... she thought a pirate was a skeleton. I couldn't find a skeleton costume in her size anywhere. She wanted NOTHING to do with any of the pirate costumes. Luckily we found a very soft (velour) toddler witch costume that she fell in love with. She has no idea she is a witch, she just likes that it is soft and has a hat. We went to zoo boo last weekend and put her little monkey back pack on her and she was the wicked witch of the west with her flying monkey.

The night before Halloween we carved our pumpkins. Vanessa did not like cleaning them, but enjoyed watching me carve them and helping paint them with glitter glue.

Halloween morning... when I woke Nessa up for school I told her "Happy Halloween". She spent the rest of the morning saying "Happy Birthday" and singing the Happy Birthday song. Of course she did have some idea of the holiday because she told Brian as we were leaving for work/school she was going to go "tricking" tonight.

Trick or Treating tonight went better than I ever would have expected. She started right at 6pm and she "tricked" for 2 straight hours and now has more candy than any 3 year old could eat in 2 years! She was also the loudest kid on the block, starting at the end of the driveways and shouting "Trick or Treat" all the way to the door. My favorite is when she rang a neighbors door bell and yelled. "Come in!"

Happy Halloween!

Summer's end

Hello Everyone,

I can't beleive it is Labor Day already. This summer was gone too quickly. Kid's are going back to school and days will start cooling down soon. The past 3 months Nessa has changed from my baby to a little girl. She's very independant and wants to do everything for herself and by herself. Everything is "my turn", and "no mommy, I do it". We have a cheer we say on the way to "school" everyday, it goes "Good Girl. No hitting people. Potty on the Potty and Nap at Naptime. Yay" She is doing such a good job with potty training. Luckily she was one of those kids who just one day said, no more diapers. We have had very few accidents, mostly just because she waits too long to go and one time at Adam and Katie's she forgot to pull her pants down first. Oops! She is getting very tall and as you can see in this picture has some really big hair. She is ready to start her dance classes again this week. I hope Miss Ashley can convince her she needs to wear only one pair of shoes at a time!!!

This weekend we took an impromtu trip up to Ft. Wayne and to the Lake. She had a lot of fun helping Grandma water her garden.

Then we spent the day at the Lake with Grandpa. Brian, Adam, Grandpa and Alaina took in the pier, but we had a little blow up row boat that Nessa and Alaina could row around in. Cami and Nessa didn't really care for the water, but Alaina spent most of the day swimming and surfing on the pier as they brought the pieces in.

On the way home Vanessa was so worn out. We had Barbie Nutcracker (the only movie she will watch right now) on the DVD player and at on point I turned around and she was literally holding her eyes open she was so tired.