Trick Or Treat!!!

Who else is ready for Christmas?!?!? :-D When Spirit 105.3 was playing Christmas music yesterday, I was definitely wanting to tear down all our Halloween stuff and throw up our Christmas decorations! But OK, I guess I'll blog about Trick or Treating now...

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The kids have been talking about when "Silly Uncle Ron" is going to come over in his costume, and as always, they stared :-) Jacob kept pointing out everything, "I like this...I like that...I like your stick..." And Juliana just kept staring. None of our kids got scared this year though, progress!

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We trick or treated around the neighborhood, Jenna got to do two houses, and we walked her around with the other kids a little bit more until I headed back home to hand out candy and let her get out of her SUPER WARM costume.

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Which leads me to my next point, what great weather we had!!! After it had been raining all day (waiting for the school bus was tons of fun earlier that day), and the forecast shows quite a bit of rain over the next 10 days, so we were pleasantly surprised to not deal with ANY rain that night! It wasn't even cold, how wonderful is that?!?
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As always, it was quite entertaining walking through the streets with a GIANT KISS character. Tons of...shall I say "that generation" (aka: parents) shout across the streets "YOUR COSTUME ROCKS!" "THAT'S AWESOME!!!" and my favorite, "I have GOT to get a picture taken with you, my buddy is the biggest KISS fan, he's gonna love this!" (4 times...)

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Their last trick or treating of the night, OUR HOUSE! They got a little more candy to put in their buckets, then straight to the floor to count their candy and pick out what to eat. I found it quite funny that AGAIN Juliana chose to first eat a red lollipop - SAME AS LAST YEAR!!!

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They were a bit hyped up on candy, so they toned it down a bit by watching Beauty & The Beast while we visited with Ron's son & girlfriend. Then all the kids went down for bed and us adults hung out for a while and chit chatted...I love that... :-)

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A Successful Halloween! Now on to Thanksgiving and Christmas, WAHOO!!!

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More Halloween Fun!

Tonight we went to a Halloween Carnival at Tahoma High School. The kids had SO much fun playing all the carnival games! They had putt putt golf, bowling, fishing, duck fishing, lots of basketball, lasso the bull, cake walk, all kinds of fun stuff!

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This also gave us a great chance to take their Halloween Costume pictures before we left as we had a little extra time. I'm really happy with how they turned out, the kids being so darn cute sure helps ;-D And yes, I will most definitely be doing something with that "flying" picture...more to come!
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Party On!

Jacob got invited to a classmate's Halloween Party and he had SO much fun! It turns out this classmate, Jordan, is a GIRL! (it starts) ;-) (we always think of those named "Jordan" as being a boy as our nephew's name is Jordan) Matt actually realized this when he called to RSVP, and said "Our son got an invitation to your son's Halloween party, and..." "...actually, Jordan is a girl..." He wanted to crawl in a hole at that point... ANYWHO, moving forward :-) Jordan was VERY excited to see Jacob when he arrived at the party today, she grabbed his hand and drug him into the party! They got to make various crafts, jump on the trampoline, chase their dogs around the yard, and eat MANY snacks and candy. The rooms were decorated with tons of balloons and Halloween decorations. The only thing that Jacob was bummed about was that Juliana and Mommy couldn't come (only Matt and Jacob went). It's neat watching Jacob grow, adapt and make friends. He sure is growing up!

On a different note, we had ordered a Little Mermaid costume for Juliana on Ebay a couple weeks back, and that JUST fell through on Friday (now that most the good costumes are gone!). So Mommy went back out last night to find her something else, and found a super cute Supergirl costume. I called Matt and had him look it up online, show Juliana, and she loved it, so in my cart it went :-) She looks SO cute in it! (you'll notice Jordan has the same costume in the above picture) I must say, Halloween sure is a fun holiday when you have little kids!!! :-) I can't wait for Trick-Or-Treating next week!!!

The Ultimate Test

Juliana had the ultimate test today... She wouldn't have Emma in dance class today, Juliana's stronghold! I've been antsy to see how she'd do, and I am PROUD to say that she did GREAT! She was talking about Emma on the drive to dance class, but I never said a word about Emma not being there today. When it was time for class to start, she just walked right in and got in line! She followed instructions, danced and giggled, it was super cute. At one point the instructor said "It's time to put our boogie shoes on!" (figuratively speaking) and Juliana laughed and looked at the girl next to her - "BOOTY SHOES!!! HA HA HA HA!!!" :-D Anywho, Jenna slept through almost the entire class, it was SO nice to just stand there and watch. But did I get any video? NO! Jen & I normally get tricky and as the last child is walking into class, we prop the door open with a doorstop. But today the teacher was the last one to go into class and she closed the door behind her :-( So I had to watch through the viewing window, which doesn't really allow for video taking. Juliana LOVES watching the videos throughout the week, I swear that's helping her do better with participating each week! And Matt loves watching the videos to see his daughter dance. So I think I'll have to email the teacher and see if she'd be OK with us keeping the door open from time to time for that purpose. I don't know if I have enough gusto for that though...may have to have Jen do that... ;-D

Earlier this morning Juliana came around the corner saying that she broke her leg. Well that was obviously not the case so Mommy didn't come running :-) But she quickly took off upstairs, came back down and said "I all better now!" She had put two Lion King band-aids on her knees. She's a good boo-boo fixer, and with Disney band-aids no less, THAT'S MY GIRL!

Baby Jenna has made some big progress over the last couple days as well! She is spitting up substantially less all of a sudden (I have only had to use a burpcloth while giving her a bottle...because she apparently has a hole in her lip...and that's IT!!!), and she's starting to sit up! We have to put something behind her as she flings herself back sometimes, but for the most part she's sitting up really well! That keeps her content for quite some time, just sitting up while reaching for toys. We're moving forward! Now if only we could get her on a schedule... (I know, Erin, you think I'm insane for wanting a schedule!) ;-)

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Jacob has AGAIN chosen a Transformer costume for Halloween this year! We have shown him endless costumes to see if he may be interested in anything else, but for MONTHS he has been set on being a Transformer. So while at Wal-Mart, I said "Hey look Jacob, there's a Transformer costume!" "Oh cool! Bumblebee!" "Do you want this one?" "No, the red one." I had seen the Optimis Prime further back but didn't show it to him to see if maybe he'd want to at least be a DIFFERENT Transformer this year, but no, it HAS to be Optimis Prime. At least the costume is changed up this year and includes a mask :-) Anywho, that was a couple weeks ago, and he just tried it on for the first time today...he still has it on...an hour later :-)

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