Fall Photos

I realized I never posted these anywhere. We took some family photos and some pictures of the kids when we were in Utah this fall. They turned out about as I expected for a regular camera, no photography skills, and two crazy kids. I love the one of Trindon in the wagon. I had some Christmas photos taken of them a few weeks ago so hopefully they will turn out well and I can order some prints.

Trouble!

That’s trouble with a capital T. 

 

I’m not going for the puppy’s water mommy, just the food bowl. Ha, the other day he spilled the water all over the floor and was splashing around in it.

 

This Christmas tree sure is fun to play with!

Look at me standing up! I’m going to be walking before you know it!

Tis the Season!

We got the tree put up today! Leah had fun helping decorate and Trindon thinks the shiny ornaments are pretty fun. He keeps trying to get them in his mouth and Leah keeps saying she wants a candy cane. Putting the tree up made me think of when we put the tree up last year, we lived in Florida and I was pregnant with Trindon. We knew we would be moving soon, but we had no idea where.  Amazing how much can change in a year. It's so nice put a tree up in my own house again, I haven't done that since we left Louisiana.

After we got the tree put up I let the kids open a gift. I've decided to start a new tradition of letting them open new Christmas jammies the night we put up the tree. I know a lot of people do this on Christmas Eve, but if the jammies are Christmas themed I like the idea of being able to wear them all season long.  This was Trindon's first ever present to open. Of course he just chewed on it. In case your wondering why he's only wearing one sock - it's because he threw up on the other one.

Of course I had to get a picture of both kids in their new jammies in front of the tree (at least I tried). Phil told me I was trying to do the impossible.

Just a little blog FYI - You can click any picture in the blog to see it larger and it will bring up all the pictures in that post. Trindon has the cutest little smile in the top right photo here (just in case you need a better view of that cutie pie). Just hit Esc to go back.

Lots of Laughs!

I actually missed the best shot of Trindon doing this, but you get the idea. He thinks smashing his nose against the side of this is the funniest thing ever.

Trindon loved the Cozy Coupe he even figured out how to put his feet down and push himself backward....

 

and then this happened.

He pushed back further than his little legs could keep up with. Poor baby....but it looks a lot worse than it actually was, it happened so slowly he really didn't get hurt.

These are some of my favorites. These were taken at the same time as the video I posted on YouTube. I love how Trindon is looking at her, he loves it when she plays with him!

 

Leah's room is finally painted!

Several months ago we were really excited about getting some of the house repainted. We started upstairs with the bonus room, then the office, the dining room and then......we kind of lost steam. Leah's room was the last room on the list, but we knew it would be hard to get it done because we would normally paint after the kids would go to sleep at night. That meant finding somewhere else for her to sleep, which could mean DISASTER.  Neither of us really wanted to deal with Leah on anything less than a full night of sleep so we kept putting it off. Not to mention the fact that her room has like 12' ceilings and we had to paint the ceiling too. I had finally had enough and decided last weekend was the weekend no matter what! Phil was not too pleased and pretty much pouted all weekend, but we got it done! (Don't ask Phil about when he spilled paint all over the floor.) Leah attempted to sleep on her mattress upstairs, but ended up in bed with us on Friday night, Phil slept with her on Saturday night, and she made it all night upstairs on Sunday night. Now she keeps asking to go sleep upstairs.

Homestead Resort Tea Room Cream is a much more appropriate color for a little girl than Studio Taupe. It looks so cute with her furniture and bedding. Now I just need to get curtains and decorations. She loves it and keeps talking about her yellow and white (the ceiling) room.

Will Grunt for Food!

Trindon has really taken to the solids. He always has to be eating if we are eating. In this video he had just had a bottle and a jar of food, but still needed several snacks while Leah and I ate dinner. I swear the kid would find a way to eat a cheeseburger if I gave it to him! 

Leah got her first haircut!

We decided it was finally time for a trim. At first she really didn't want to go to the salon, but a promise of a treat from her Halloween bucket convinced her to go and sit very still throughout the cut. Really I think she just liked looking at herself in the mirror!

Halloween Fun!

As you can see from these cute pictures the kids looked adorable in their costumes. When Trindon first saw Leah decked out in her bee costume he busted up laughing. He just kept laughing at her like she was the funniest thing he had ever seen. Our power went out just as I got the kids dressed and ready to Skype with Grandma. The Skype session didn't happen and we had to hurry and get our trick-or-treating in before it got dark because most of the neighborhood was without power.

We met up with Hadley and Melissa from next door so we could all trick-or-treat together. Melissa had the perfect backdrop for pictures.

We had a blast trick-or-treating and the kids got lots of candy. Our power was still out when we got done and Daddy has just gotten home so we decided to go to Chili's and grab some dinner. Leah loved getting to go out in her costume. Trindon decided to spill Phil's entire drink on him, the table, and the diaper bag so dining out was a fun experience as usual.

Leah wanted to take her Halloween bucket and treats to bed with her. She didn't sleep very well last night I think she must have been dreaming about "chocy".