Pumpkin Carving

Nothing like carving pumpkins on Halloween in your pajama top and underwear! We finally carved our pumpkins before lunch today, and Madison really enjoyed it (so did Daddy)! We had quite the day! After an unsuccessful napping attempt, we went to Viking Village Grocery store for our Halloween picture and went on a horse-drawn carriage ride. From there, we met up with the Preschool Pumpkin parade downtown and then some friends came over to trick or treat

with us. After they left, we went to our neighbors Halloween party. They had a pinata and Tim took them on a "spooky ride." Some of the Dad's came out of the bushes to scare them. Madison kept wanted to go for another ride, she loved it so much! Jesse dressed up as Dracula, and the girls weren't scared of him at all. I had a black widow spider costume on (it didn't show that much leg when I was standing up)! We lit our pumpkins at dawn. Jesse's was a scooby-doo pattern! We had such a great day!

Trick or Treat at the SCHCC

We came back on Sunday from Milwaukee, and went right to the Health Care Center for trick or treating. We had just gotten a lady bug costume from Katie, so we used that one on Macy. She looked like she was going to fly away!!!! The girls had fun, and I think all the elderly people were impressed by Madison's manners! Macy got a kick out of the candy, and kept putting her hands in for more. I also put a picture of them in their (kind of) matching halloween shirts. Macy's said, "Just say BOO!" and Madison's said, "Witch and famous."

Halloween party

My brother and sister-in-law had an open house/Halloween Party. There were tons of kids there, and the girls had a blast. It was so much fun looking at the other costumes and getting in the Halloween spirit! There has always been a pumpkin display in WFB, and we took Madison there after the party. The first set of pumpkins I went to look at had a K loves J on it! I thought that was pretty cool. Macy wore her 50's dress, and Madison was Cinderella.

More Pumpkin Patch

My Dad came up for the weekend and we took the girls to the pumpkin patch. Bumpa had a great time, and the girls loved having him with us. Jesse put together Madison's video, but I wanted to share some other pictures from the day.

Madison at the Pumpkin Patch

New bed

Madison has great napping days, and then she will refuse to fall asleep. Well, I refused to let her come back down until she napped. We didn't hear from her for awhile and knew that she was finally asleep...we didn't realized she had fallen asleep in the middle of the stairs!

Cottage cheese, please!

Macy loves cottage cheese, just like her big sis. We usually feed her out of convenience, and not wanting too big of a mess. We also realize that we need to let her start eating by herself...or trying to! She took the first spoonful really well, and then started to dip the wrong side in. I posted some after pics, where there was more cottage cheese on Macy, then in her mouth!

Words

Macy loves to repeat words that you say. Here are some of her favorites...

Macy's First Music Video

Macy's First Birthday

Jesse went to a conference today and learned some new things. The following video is his first creation at animoto.com. Enjoy!

Another shoe lover! (blow kisses)

We are going to go bankrupt buying shoes for our girls through the years! Maddie has always been into shoes, trying them on, walking around in them, and Macy started now, too! She put my flip-flop on and started running! How funny. I also downloaded a video of Macy blowing kisses. It is sideways and dark(sorry), but at the end you can hear how she sounds when blowing kisses. I practiced with her the other night, and Robin said she was blowing kisses to everyone yesterday when leaving Pizza Hut. It was so nice to be home today, after being gone the last four weekends. We got sooooooo much stuff done around the house. Tomorrow we are off to the Kalahari to play with some friends at the waterpark. Have a great week everyone!

So cute!

The girls were lounging in their jammies the other morning, drinking their milk, eating cereal and watching Winnie the Pooh! How cute!

Jared!

On Thursday, Jared (from the Subway commercials) came to one of my schools. It is this big entourage with Tony Stewart's subway race car, too! Jared was very nice, and even looked trimmer in real life! He had his size 60 fat jeans with him, and talked for about 15 minutes on making healthy choices. I hope the kids heard him say too much video game playing over the years! I got to climb in the race car, too! What a fun day. Look for him at the Badger game tonight!

Reunion!

We spent last weekend in Milwaukee for a wedding. When we left Sunday morning, we couldn't find Macy's tiger blanket. We searched everywhere in the car, and even went back to my parent's apartment for the second time, and could not find it anywhere! That night, my dad happened to look in one of the toy boxes, and it was buried under some toys. I was so upset because I had thought to look in one of the other toy boxes, but not that one in particular! Anyways, my mom sent in back in the mail, and we just got it today. THANK GOODNESS!!!! Macy has had a rough couple days of sleeping. She did fine last night, but than napped very poorly today. We're hoping that getting the blanket back will be the cure! The way she looked when she got it back was priceless. I stopped filming after a bit, but she carried on like that for some time. In fact, I don't think she will let go of her blanket today!!! Thanks Bumpa for finding it, and Nana for sending it!

Frog

We were outside the other day, and Jesse found a baby frog on the driveway. Madison loved it! She followed it around for awhile, and then decided to hold it. She was very gentle, and did a nice job. Before our walk, she brought it to the flower bed to let it go, and found a gigantic frog!!! We're guessing it was the Mommy or Daddy. The picture doesn't show it well, but it is the bigger than her hand! We also included a picture of our two little trees getting toilet papered! Last week was homecoming, and that's all you see for the week! Madison kept noticing all the toilet paper!