Thanksgiving

Chase is so close to walking. He stands alone and even picks up things off the floor while standing unassisted. He has no desire to walk without having a hold of something though. He hasn't been sleeping too great so I am hopeful another couple teeth will pop through and we can go back to the one week we slept all night! We did start night before last leaving his door pushed shut but not lached. It is hard for me cause I can't see the monitor from bed now but it is still on so probably a good step in the weining process for me. Anyway he did do better that first night, not so much last night. The night light in the hall is neccessary for Callie to use the bathroom but since he has become more mobil, he wakes up at night, stands up, holds on to the rail and bounces for all he is worth. He loves it and yells for us to come visit with him - cute but not a couple times a night. And I end up feeding him one of those times, even thought I am sure he doesn't actually need it, it is a quick way to put him back to bed.

Callie ran a fever last week from Wed evening to Sat morning so I stayed home and took her to the doctor on Thursday. She ran flu and strep tests and both were negative so she thought it was just something she had to wear out and we left with no meds. I was skeptical as she was complaining about her throat and her fevers were high. She didn't even seem sick when you could keep her fever down though and was quite disappointed to miss preschool Friday (having Grandma Linda come over to stay did help though). On the way home from the doctor I was on the phone and said that the doctor thought it was just a bug. From the back I hear Callie say "I DON'T have a BUG on me!"

We have so much to thank God for each day and so often we get too caught up in all the hectic trivial everyday things. I am trying to keep what is important in focus. As the busy holiday season starts with our first family thanksgiving in Stockton with Shannon's Dad's side of the family I hope I can keep that up! I am excited for the time off to be with the kids and to see family (and of corse some good shopping on Friday :-)

Halloween & Birthday!

We had a busy week last week. Shannon had P/T conferences on Tues and Thurs evenings and Thursday was watch week at dance class. I took Chase and he did great! At one point the teacher even said to the class to hop on the left foot to Callie's little brother and then switch to the right foot. I never had to take him out - too much to watch!
Wednesday night we carved a pumpkin. Callie drew herself on the pumpkin-whole body and very detailed and was so disappointed that I couldn't carve it out. We wiped that off and Shannon drew an example that he then wiped off for her to try again. She said she couldn't do triangles so she chose circles. The one thing she insisted on was that it had eyelashes...after I did the first big one she said that wasn't what she was imagining....I did better after that:-)

Friday Callie had her birthday and halloween parties at preschool. They dressed in their costumes for the whole time at preschool and we came to pick them up a little early to see them parade. They had songs to do too but the cold wind shorted the process! Hattie and Callie were both going to be witches - they are dressed a lot alike for us not knowing what the other was wearing!


Saturday we had Callie's birthday party at lunch time and then trick-or-treated in the evening. Callie was really into going door to door again this year. Chase slept in the car :-)

The party was care bears. Callie and I made the cake...the first cake mix exploded, luckily I had a second white cake mix. I ordered the top sheet off the internet from yummy edibles and I thought it turned out great. Callie had to add the red and green sprinkles but I figured it was her birthday so whatever!!!!


Callie did this with her costume and care bear while I was cooking for the party.


We had an incredibly had to break witch pinata - not any too good of pics of it. I was worried that each kid wouldn't get a turn before it broke.....hahaha....they had to have help finally getting it broke.


The witch and the giraffe.


Playing with new toys.....together?