Halloween

Is it really November already?  Crazy!  Since the last blog post, we put an offer on a house!  It's in Sunbury, about 20 minutes from where we are now (if you take back roads), or about 10 minutes further up I-71.  We're excited!  The current owners counter offered and then so did we...and they accepted!  We are still working out the final details and will close at the end of this month.  We will get possession of the house mid-December.  That's all I'll write for the time being...don't want to jinx anything!

 Our 5 Month cutie!  He's getting to be such a big boy!  He still really has no interest in rolling over and HATES being on his belly.  He just started blowing raspberries and it's so easy to make him laugh!  We have his 6 month doctors appointment later this month; I'm curious to see how much he weighs.  He's already wearing 9 month sized clothes because he's so long!

Cadence was more interested in carving pumpkins this year.  In hindsight, we would've had her draw a face on the pumpkin and we would've carved it for her, but she just watched for a little while.  She was totally grossed out by the seeds and wanted no part in helping clean them out!

Even "Brudder" was part of the festivities.

Danny carved an elephant for Cadence...she was a big fan.

Halloween outfits from Mamaw and Papaw!

For about 2 months leading up to Halloween, Cadence wanted to be Fiona from Shrek.  Then she changed her mind and wanted to be Sofia the First.  I felt it was more fitting since she pretty much lives in her tiara and tutus.

Duh, Colin was an elephant for Halloween.  I think he wore the costume for about 5 minutes.  He was so sleepy and hungry when he got home from daycare that he had a bottle and went to bed!  The costume was a little big, but cute nonetheless!

We had another dreary Halloween...at least it wasn't too chilly!  We hit up about 7 houses and Cadence was done.  Since the street wasn't too busy with trick-or-treaters, the houses we went to unloaded all of their candy to Cadence!  She had a lot of fun!

Taking inventory with Daddy

Cafeteria Carousel Horse

I think I've mentioned it before that Cadence is a little OCD when it comes to the carousel horse in the cafeteria at school.  9 times out of 10, we HAVE to stop by and see the horse before we leave school.  I originally blamed my mom for this, not knowing that it was OK for kids to sit on it.  I was told that one of Cadence's favorite past teachers let her do it one day.  Now it's pretty much a necessity.  Enjoy the montage of carousel horse pictures collected by my mom and me!

 

Apple Picking

So, we were supposed to go to the Circleville Pumpkin Show today...totally bummed about the rain.  We were very depressed about missing pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin chili, pumpkin pizza, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin fudge...oh the list goes on.  Since we didn't do that today, I have some time to update the blog.  Right now, Dad and Danny are watching the the Ohio State / Iowa game and Mom and Cadence are watching The Little Mermaid...I'm kind of watching both.  Colin is napping.  Tomorrow we are going to check out a house on 1.5 acres with a fenced in yard and a pool!  There's also a 1.5 acre lot for sale next door.  We shall see!  We are also going to talk to Schumacher homes at noon.  We still haven't completely decided on what we'd like to do!

Halloween is less than 2 weeks away.  Cadence is going to be Sofia the First and Colin is going to be an elephant (of course!).  I'm hoping the weather will cooperate and will be nicer than it is today!  A couple of weeks ago we met Danny's family at Lynd's for some apple picking!  We had a lot going on that day with house stuff, so we didn't get to spend as much time as we would have liked.  It also started down-pouring...at least we got a ton of apples!

Little Miss Diva

It was seriously like a movie where 2 people run to each other in slow motion...they are so cute!

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Happy about her candy

Happy about an apple falling on the floor

Colin ~ 4 1/2 months

Cadence ~ 5 months

We started rice cereal with Colin last week!  He did a pretty good job!  It will be interesting to see how he does with baby food!  He's already getting so big.  He's not even 5 months old yet and almost outgrowing his 6 month old sized clothes.  I think Cadence at this age was still easily fitting in her 3 month old sized clothes!  Colin can also roll-over from his belly to his back...not consistently though.  We're working on it!

Little stinker!