Halloween!

Just in case my kids don't make it to your house to trick or treat, here's a shot at their adorable costumes and faces.

Snowy day

Here's what we woke up to today. Anna was immediately ready to jump in the snow, but I convinced her to at least eat breakfast first. After breakfast we tracked down all the snow gear and suited up. Eliza still needs gloves and Anna still needs boots but at least we took an inventory. Eliza didn't last too long but Anna was dying to throw snowballs. She helped our neighbor clean off his car (?) and she ran back to the house, ecstatic, saying, "he said we could have all his snow from his yard!" she insisted on a broom to accomplish this, so I opened the garage and she marched back out to move all his snow into our yard.
Luckily the snow was all gone by noon, it was a good trial run for winter.

Halloween candy house 2012

Here's the first look at our candy house this year. Anna is still putting the finishing touches on as I type this. While Eliza is spilling the last of the Reese's pieces all over the table.

the back angle 

she got so messy from the black frosting

front view

I broke down and bought a kit this year, so much easier than cooking our own. But I did trace all the shapes so we could bake it again next year. This Wilton kit was pretty intense, we had to mix the frosting - black and gray - and they included 2 piping bags. It was easy to put together and held strong during our decoration marathon.

Calvin 2 months, Eliza 2 years

We went to the Dr. yesterday for Calvin and Eliza's well checkups. It was exhausting, Eliza hates the doctor so I was mostly wrestling her the whole time.

Calvin weighs in at 11 lbs and 22 inches. pretty average, they said. He seems so big, I think this little afghan must be shrinking. He has outgrown all his newborn clothes, is sleeping well at night and eats great. I am getting a little desperate for a daytime nap schedule though.

I don't have any cute pictures of Eliza but I want to put up her stats. She is in the 1% for height 30.5 inches, and 16% for weight 24 lbs, this makes her BMI (which they start tracking when they turn 2) at like 87%. She is sturdy.

Rainy Day Walk

It is a rainy Friday today, we are already on our second movie. And I'm ok with that.

After lunch I sent Anna next door to drop off a sweet, she said she would stay out and play in the rain for a while, I said that would be fine with me. So she suited up with her leopard rain jacket, her red umbrella, and flip-flops and headed out.

About 20 minutes later she rang the doorbell to come inside. She was put out because the wind had turned her umbrella inside out and she couldn't fix it. The second thing she said, somewhat annoyed, was that someone had stopped to take her picture. That made me laugh. So if you see a picture of her in her rain gear on the internet, send me the link.

Driving

As I drove up to Sugar House tonight to meet a friend, and as my children were generally making a ruckus in the back of the car, the DJ on the radio reported that drivers with young children in their car are 8x more distracted than drivers on a cell phone.

8 TIMES

So if you are one of those proponents of getting rid of cell phones in cars. Please ban my children from being in my car while you are at it.

Testing, testing.

So I just downloaded the blogger app. It doesn't have great reviews but it's free and it might allow me to put pictures up from my iPod so I don't have to upload them, then post them. But so far I am having trouble navigating the app. So this is a test run.
Hopefully their upgrades will be swift and mighty

Eliza turns 2

This girl turned two yesterday. She's pretty cute. This is her post-birthday-nap hair, which is nice. She is eating her post-birthday-nap marshmallow, and wishing I wasn't shoving a camera in her face.

This shows her birthday pedicure. Orange and pink.

Pink birthday cake. That's what she asked for, except that for any and all colors she says "blu", but we're very confident that she wanted pink.

"I want presents! I want presents!"

Once again, the grandparents came through, she got a dollhouse, which she and Anna can't leave alone and a Radio Flyer Walker Wagon, which I might get pictures of if I ever assemble it, and a baby doll. I got her the popup toy pictured, which she picked out at the store, then I hid it for 3 days and she had forgotten all about it! I also made some blocks, which were promptly ignored. Thank you Pinterest.

Very excited about the candles...

...but legitimately confused about blowing them out, so sister jumped in to handle the situation.

CAKE! 

Then, of course, this picture again.

Progress

Progression is happiness. Is that what they say?

3 days 

10 days

1 month

 Today, 7 weeks

Happiness.