halloween costumes

It was fun making them!

And yes I did have a 24hour non slumber party

with myself as I finished the dress part of

for Alice.

The only improvement from last year was that

i took a 3 hour nap from 5:40am to 8 something

surprisingly i didn't hit a wall until 3 that afternoon.

I don't think I'll do it again. Its just not fun to have your bum

go numb from sitting and my eyes went blurry and my head a little fuzzy :)

I was pretty excited that Armanie wanted to go to the fabric store with me this time

she picked out the color and remembered that the bow was black.

Sweet little Minion

The neighborhood kids at the library's storytime.

My little nephew is on the far right

This was what she chose to sleep in.

Rocco has been climbing a lot and

for 2 seconds of unsupervised

time this is where we found him

with his hands in hot salsa.

he actually tried to dig in for seconds

but for the sake of repercussions on the

tail end we stopped him

Results from her first real choice

Scenario: She had a choice of what to wear

to her final game of soccer.

She chose the skirt.

Gets to the soccer field and begins

to pout because she wanted pants.

Then screams and refuses to play soccer

when I offer to take her home she hustles

back on the field later to come back wanting

to wear pants.

I think this was a very successful lesson. She now

thinks somewhat about which clothes are fitting for

which activies and a part of me wishes she would have made

a better choice because whines pretty darn good.

Armanie convinced the neighborhood

boys they needed their toes painted...with water that is

I haven't been baby hungry at all! I mean At ALL!

But I watched 2, 5 month olds (on different days) and

my children are so sweet to the little littles. Rocco loves it

He cuddles next to them and gives them toys. This picture was not

staged, except the prompt to say 'cheese' which Rocco delivered.

I love having babes in my home, at least I know now that my children

love them too!!