Halloween 2017

We are Things 1-10.  Halloween 2017 was our best year.  We had our ghoulish feast the night prior, so I wasn't rushed to feed us.  Our costumes were so easy to assemble and don.  I thought that I was a bit of a cop out early in the evening.  Then as we walked down the streets of the parade, we received several positive comments.  A group of 10 dressed alike will probably stand out in any crowd.  How blessed and proud I felt to be Thing 2, the mother of all Things.

 These four Things are too old/too young to trick or treat.  They walked in the street while the Things 6-9 went up to the doors.  Molly ate and loved an apple the entire hour.  I have to remember that for years to come.

 We stopped by our Babcock Grandparents for a special bag of treats.

 Off to the stake center for the carnival and trunk-or-treating.  I ate a hotdog this year -- the first time I can remember.  It was good.  I mean, I really enjoyed it.  Weird. 

 Home again and the loot was bountiful.

 Maddie, Eddie and Ryan combined their candy into one large leaf collecting bucket.

 Eddie's blue hair.

October's End

Every Monday I hold Webelos.  It's a big deal.  We made stomp rockets this week to finish our Engineer pin.

 Andy found a new and special spaghetti talent.

 I made a million cookies.  I ate a million cookies.

 The weather is still so warm. Molly and Ryan are usually super happy to wait outside for the school kids to come home.

 Molly and Ryan joined me in a Halloween party.  I was a mamacita.  Molly was a kitty.  Ryan was Dash.

 Maddie and Nick received awards for attendance and good grades.

 Friday night we hosted a huge adult halloween party.  I have no pictures......
Sunday morning we played games.  We are so happy together.

 Monday night we held our ghoulish feast.  I thought the hotdog mummies were especially clever.

 I also dipped caramel apples for the ladies at the office.

Mid-October

Molly's #1

Molly is very big today.  She slept 12 hours in her bed.  I walked into the nursery and found her standing up in her bed watching her two big brothers play kindle.

 I pulled them all into bed with me and we spent the best moments of the morning laughing and giggling together.

 I made pumpkin pancakes for breakfast.  She mostly loved the whipped cream and tried to pick it up with her fingers.  I piled it high on her plate.

 The afternoon was spent doing errands and cleaning the house and yard.  I bought her a helium birthday balloon and she carried grocery shopping.  We even ran into Dr. Reed (my OB that delivered her).

Grandma and Grandpa B. came for dinner and cake.  She gladly accepted help unwrapping her packages.

 Cuban black bean soup and corn bread as the perfect feast for this little lady.

 When it was time for her cake, she didn't want anything to do with it.  I think we'll try again tomorrow.

 Finally, a long bath with her new toys from Grandma B. finished off her day (but not without warm milk and lullabies).

Last night we spent the evening taking family pictures.  Our nice photographer knew that it was Molly's birthday today, so she edited a few and sent me some.  I think they are really fun.

I want to bullet just a few of Molly's tricks. 

• When I give her a kleenex, she blows her nose and wipes it.
• She knows how to pant like a dog when asked.
• She knows how to blow her candle out at the end of "Happy Birthday."
• I often find her in the giraffe bathroom eating toothpaste and toothbrushes.
• She loves shaking the laundry as I fold.
• She climbs on the dishwasher lid when it is open.
• She waves bye to the kids and Austin every morning.
• "Mom!" when she is tired or sad and lonely.
• "Dad, Dad, Dad" when she is happy and sees him at church.
• She holds her spoon in one hand and eats with the other.

How blessed my life has been this year loving and kissing my baby girl.  She is happy and kind, and my mother heart is ever enlarged because she apart of our family.

After Tans

I bought this little mamacita dress in Mexico.  I wanted to wear it to church, but I didn't.  Instead, a wore a fitted dress and a woman questioned, "I hate to be nosey, but are you expecting?"  Forty too many cookies in Mexico, I guess.

 Meg took this photo.

 Eddie took this one.

 I took these.

We all look so tan.  I had to capture it.  Family pictures are this Friday, I hope we're not peeling!