Halloween Festivities

We pretended to have a picnic together. 

Any time these two play nicely together, it's required to take a picture.

video - Who knew that Maxwell had such skills?  He's either going to be a master swordsman or a guy who goes clubbing quite frequently... (maybe also a fire dancer??)

Emmalyn had her 18 month check up.  I can't believe she's this old!

Here is her questionnaire

The visit with the doctor went fine.  He thinks shes gaining weight too fast so suggested that I move to 1% milk instead of whole milk now.

Here's Emmalyn's Stats:

Weight: 21 lbs 11 oz (37th percentile)

Height: 30.3 inches (8th percentile) - still going up!

Head: 18.3 in (54th percentile)

After her appointment, I took her out to chik-fil-a for breakfast.  I can't remember ever taking her out to eat, just the two of us, before.

All ready for Halloween!

We were able to catch up with my dear friend (and old boss) Colleen, who was in town for meetings at corporate).  We went to cheesecake factory and enjoyed our visit!

Max's Halloween shirt

Me, as a pirate, and Donna as a witch at work

The kids came up and trick-or-treated again this year.  Maxwell wanted to be a cowboy at Momma's work (he is going to be a pirate for Halloween along with Emmalyn and I).

We ran into our new CEO who enjoyed engaging with my kids

She quickly caught on to the gig

Group shot

That night we had the carnival at Max's school.  He was again a cowboy. - - Here he is going to go through the ring of "fire".

Miss Cynthia helping Emmalyn play a game

Photo booth

They had a henna artist there so Max and I both got our first henna tattoo.  It was really cool!

What it look liked while it dried

What it looked like after.  Max's tattoo said his name.

A quick break between visitors

It's been a busy 3 weeks of October but our fun month of visitors isn't over yet!  We had a couple quiet days alone before our house was filled with family again.  You would think that at this point it would be great having our space to ourselves again but instead I just couldn't wait for our house to be filled up again.

love those cuddles

Just keep on smilin'

Max wrote this note to give to his dad to tell him where I was taking Maxwell for lunch... "We are getting Mcdonalds now. To Dad".

Playing at the park

Painting his pumpkin

This little stinker reached into her diaper and played with her poop during her nap.  So that bought her a trip straight to the bathtub.

Emmalyn is now 18 months old!!!  Emmalyn will say "excuse me" when either you or her burp or fart.  She is starting to say "poopy" when she's poopy.  She is talking a ton.  She did really great navigating the little steps at dads without sitting down.  She loves her brother and wants to be by him.  She loves puppies and will make dog, cat, and monkey sounds.  She tries to count but doesn't have it down yet.  She is now noticing letters and will point to them (not correctly) and say A, O, B Y. Etc.  She loves to sing..."Row, Row, Row your Boat" is her favorite and she will demand that both Peter and I sing with her in the car,.  She will say "momma" until I start singing and "daddy" until he starts singing too.  Her hair is a mess.  She's getting better at a spoon.  The few days that I was away from Emmalyn in Vegas, I still pumped.  I got one  oz of milk between a couple pumpings and that was soooo frustrating.  I think I'm done pumping.  I've passed the point that I stopped nursing with Maxwell and that makes me happy.  We'll see...