Halloween!

October 31, 2009

Here are some pictures of the girls trick or treating around a nearby neighborhood. Adelynne was impatient going house to house, they just weren't close enough together (like the dorms were). Amy LOVED the different decorations. She would have just stared at them all night if we had let her. That is what she is doing in the picture below.

Best picture of the night-I'd love to learn how to edit this picture.

And finally, after visiting for 3 weeks, and on her last day with us, I finally capture a picture with Gramma! We are so glad she was with us!

Adelynne's Halloween preschool party

October 30, 2009

Adelynne had a Halloween party at her preschool on Friday and when she got there, her teacher, Miss Lori, was dressed as Cruella D'ville. Pretty awesome! When I went to pick her up, I snapped a picture of them.

pre-Halloween trick-or-treating

October 29, 2009

We did some trick or treating at the dorms again this year. It is a great place to take the girls for some candy, plus it is fun to hear the college girls ooh and aww over your cute kids! We also went with Molly and her mom Kim. We intended to go to two buildings, but the girls were ready to be done before we finished the one. Amy was yelling at us on the second to last floor, "I want to go home!" Unfortunately we started out on the boy floors, and the boys don't participate nearly as much as the girl floors do. Understandable. But the girls had a nice haul from 16 floors of dorms. Here they are ready to get some candy! Oh, and by this time, Amy was ready to wear her dragon costume. Although she was commonly mistaken for a boy dressed as a dinosaur/alligator. That seems to be Amy's lot in life no matter what she wears.

sisters

pretty Molly-she's such a good friend!

cute wings

oh, and Amy wanted to wear wings to be a "fairy dragon."

We love trick or treating at the dorms! And it was especially fun this year to have my mom, gramma, along with us. She always comes to visit us this time of year, but has always gone home before Halloween, so it was special to have her here for the holiday.

pre-Halloween

October 29, 2009

Amy has been participating in a joy-school that I am doing with three other friends. We had a little Halloween party for the kids on Thursday. They of course wore costumes. My mom made Adelynne's fairy costume, which turned out great. And when I asked Amy what she wanted to be, a fairy or a dragon, she picked dragon. Typical Amy. So we borrowed a costume from a friend, but when Thursday morning rolled around, Amy decided she wanted to be a princess (dressed in pink and a skirt, just like her sister). Typical Amy. So I of course let Amy dress in whatever she wanted. Thus she is wearing a stained leotard and a big pink slip that the girls wear as a skirt. (It twirls great-see previous post of Adelynne dancing).

Angel Molly

I love Amy in this picture! She is so proud of her "costume."

Our other friends are Ben (lion), Evan (in the back hiding), Molly, and little sister to Evan, Kiah (skunk).

Just had to throw Ben's roaring lion face.

Muddy Buddies

October 26, 2009

When the weather is nice, I like to sit outside and let the girls run around and play. We are often joined by our neighbor, Dylan while I talk with his mom, Sarah. (Actually I should say that we often join them). These kids love playing in the mud, but when mud isn't present, they make it by getting cups of water from inside Dylan's house. This is the end result of an evening of making mud.

Adelynne gave herself a mud mustache. You don't have to tell me who it resembles.

Dylan liked the mustache look so he gave himself one too-now he really looks like his dad!

And Amy too, of course. Mustache's always seem to be a group thing.

BATH TIME!

Eww gross! Pumpkin guts.

October 25, 2009

We only got around to carving one pumpkin despite the fact that we bought 3 of them. Oh well, I can still do post-Halloween carving, right? Here are the girls participating in the event of cleaning out the pumpkin. Their faces are hilarious and priceless. Adelynne still didn't want to touch the insides, or have them come any where near her. And though Amy's face may have a look of disgust portrayed, she was more than happy to stick her hand in the pumpkin and help out. Funny girls.

I never took a picture of the finished product, I carved a cat, from a stencil. It was cool, but nothing unique. We had to leave the pumpkin inside because here in Indiana the squirrels and rabbits eat pumpkins that get left outside at our apartments. So unfortunately being inside the warm apartment meant that the pumpkin wilted quickly and didn't even last until Halloween.

A new friend

October 2, 2009

We have a new friend around our little apartment these days. Her name is Sylvia, and my girls adore her. Sylvia is around 14 months old, and just as sweet and good as a baby ought to be. This was on her first day with us at our apartment: Amy is watching a movie, and Sylvia is angelically exploring Amy's face. Amy really didn't mind one bit that Sylvia was climbing on top of her or poking her face.

Amy has picked up on one of my bad habits, eating peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I didn't catch it on film, but Sylvia really wanted some peanut butter too and eventually shoved her hand in the jar to accommodate her needs.

And you may have noticed, that with the coming in of Amy's hair, it is coming with curls. They are very loose curls, and I haven't found the right product that will allow them to stay in all day, but they sure are adorable when they are wet!

Two Bums

September 27, 2009

On this Sunday morning, Adelynne asked me to do her hair in a special way. She asked if I could put it up in "two bums."

My beautiful girl

It sure is fun to hear children say words. The "n" sound is one of those letters that is hard to say, unless the word "no" is involved.

Purple Day

September 25, 2009

Our neighbor Dylan got to hang out with us one Friday and it happened to be purple day at preschool that day. Dylan and Adelynne go to the same preschool, but they are in different classes. But sometimes they get to play together and they love it! Here are the kids on their way to school.

Later in the day the kids were playing dress-up. Dylan was a superhero, and Adelynne a fairy princess.

I just love Dylan's face in these pictures. If you notice, Adelynne does this head tilt pose. When I told her to stop, she explained to me that it was her "cute face" or something like that. No idea where she learned that.

A Halloween Memory

Today is a special day, not just because it is Halloween, but because it is the anniversary of my first date with Dustin. Eight years ago, I had gone to flirt and visit with Dustin in his dorm room. We were chatting about who knows what, when Dustin asked me if I wanted to go to a movie with him. He took me to see "The Others." I am not a fan of scary movies, but I was more than willing to go with Dustin, and the bonus was the opportunity to snuggle up during the more terrifying parts of the movie. Afterwards, we went to Wendy's for a bite to eat. We sat talking and eating enjoying each other's company. At one point, Dustin reached across the table and using a napkin, wiped a glop of mayonnaise off my cheek. I was completely embarrassed, but my heart was also racing from the gentle gesture. It was only the first of many more dates with my wonderful man, but it is one of the most memorable. Its funny to express gratitude for blessings on Halloween, but I am so grateful that Dustin is a part of my life, the man that I can spend the rest of my mortal life with through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the beautiful. And more importantly I am grateful that he is the companion I will be with through eternity.

Happy Halloween!

A night with Daddy

I was gone one evening and this is what Dustin did with the girls while I was out: you can't tell, but Dustin dressed up as a prince because Adelynne insists that someone be the prince.

And Adelynne danced

And Amy was cute

1st Day of Preschool

Obviously the first day of preschool was quite some time ago, but here are the pictures! Adelynne LOVES going to preschool, and I love that she loves it too. Adelynne is making friends and enjoys playing with them at school. One day we were driving home and Adelynne saw one a child from her class and exclaimed, "Mommy, that's one of my preschool cousins!" Every time she comes home from school she gives us a description of what she did, she is quite verbal about it, which is great. She draws and makes all sorts of pictures. I am so glad she is in preschool. This was the outfit she chose for her first day of school.

Our friend Dylan goes to the same school, but he's in a different class. However during outside play they get to hang out together. I am told that Dylan is always asking for Addy. So here's Dylan on the first day of school too.

During the first week of taking Adelynne to preschool, Amy had a very difficult time. She wanted to stay so badly, and she still does. But she is used to the routine now of dropping Adelynne off and then going home to watch a movie that she picks out. (Usually big sister dominates the movie choosing).