The Pumpkin Patch...Again...

The kids and I headed out this morning to a local pumpkin patch with some friends from church. Since we already had pumpkins at home, we didn't have to worry about finding any today and just had fun, got some great pictures, and even got to go on a hayride! We left the pumpkin patch and drove over to a local playground and let the kids play and had a picnic. The weather was so beautiful, it was cloudy and cool and a perfect fall day! We even had to break out the jackets to wear this morning! I think it's hilarious that they call these places down here pumpkin patches though, all they are are piles of pumpkins on crates or on the ground and you pick from that...I'm used to actual pumpkin patches where the pumpkins are on the vine and you pick from that and it's like a real farm...guess that's another thing about TX that I'll have to get used to, but I don't think the kids care, so I'll get over it! Anyway, happy early Halloween!!

Trunk of Treats

We had Trunk of Treats at church tonight so the kids and Brandon got all dressed up and we headed up to church to pass out candy and play with our friends. We decorated our trunk in a "Neverland" theme (the Peter Pan version of Neverland, hehe), and Brandon, a.k.a. Captain Hook, handed out candy while the kids and I walked around and "trick or treated". The weather was so beautiful, it was a little too sunny though so we felt like we were squinting the whole night, but it wasn't too hot and it wasn't chilly, and they had hot dogs and chips, a cake walk, a bounce house, a dunk tank, and cookie decorating station. Timothy had a blast, he was so excited! Charlotte had fun walking around, but she got tired and hungry so she got fussy (imagine that).

The kids were so cute though, here are some pictures. I tried to get pictures of Timothy with his friends, but it was hard to catch the kids running around...he was so excited to see Mr. and Mrs. Incredible, as well as the dentist from Nemo (complete with a real Nemo fish), he got a little scared of the ghost lady, and he loved the fishing car, he was so proud of the candy that he "caught".

Fall Fun

Timothy and I went to play outside today when Charlotte went down for her nap and had fun drawing spooky pictures on the driveway and running around in the beautiful weather. They said it was supposed to rain all day, but it's just been cloudy and windy and cool, so it was a perfect day to go outside!

Charlotte is doing much better, she ended up having the flu, so we had to start her on Tamiflu last week and she did just fine. She was better within a day or so, just fussy and not much of appetite. Today though, she's been a completely different child...happy and laughing and playing and back to the sweet little girl I remember!!

Over the weekend, we went over to Brandon's parents' house to celebrate his grandparent's birthdays. It was a fun weekend and the kids had a blast playing outside and enjoying the attention of everyone! Both kids enjoyed seeing all the animals, and they both liked petting and holding the squirrels! I wish I had taken more pictures, but like I said, Charlotte was pretty fussy the whole time.

Charlotte's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day/Week!

So Charlotte has been having some issues lately...she has a cold, and it's at the end of the cold which means she's coughing a lot and sounds like she's losing her voice. Thankfully, her nose isn't too stuffy or runny anymore, so maybe we're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Monday night she decided that she just didn't want to sleep, so I was up either rocking her or listening to her cry for three hours...she wasn't in pain or coughing or anything, she just didn't want to be alone and she didn't want to sleep. At one point, I was rocking her and she sat up and I rubbed her head and she just closed her eyes and started saying, "babababababa", it was cute, she was totally delirious!

Today she was fussy and on the way home from church this morning she just started screaming...so we came home and she got some water and that made her happy. Not too long after that, she was playing with a book and all of the sudden starting screaming bloody murder, but then she got over it and kept playing...probably half an hour later, I noticed blood on my hands...and then a little bit after that, blood on her hands...I checked her over and she had sliced her finger, I'm assuming on the book and was bleeding all over the place. I felt horrible, but she had been playing so nice and quiet that I didn't think anything was wrong! So she got a bandaid and cookie and after that she was ready for a nap! She wasn't too sure what to think about the bandaid though, it was cute, she just kept waving her hand around. I had to take some pictures to document her first big "owie".

Pumpkin Patch

So, we went to the pumpkin patch yesterday since the ones here in TX are only open on Saturdays and Sundays and yesterday was the only Saturday that we could go before Halloween! The good part is, the weather was beautiful and we had a lot of fun, the bad part is, right before we left, I went to take one last picture of the kids and my camera beeped and a message read "memory card error"...so we lost all of our pictures!!

We did have a lot of fun though, Timothy loved being out there and getting to see the cowboys and horses and pumpkins and animals. He got his face painted (a very manly blue and green octopus) and had fun jumping in the hay. Charlotte just wanted to walk everywhere and spent most of her time dancing to the music. I did have some really cute pictures, but they're gone now. We might try to go back later in the month, maybe a Sunday afternoon...so I can take pictures again!!

So, sorry for not having any pictures, but you'll just have to imagine how beautiful and fun it was for all of us!

Sneezy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc

That's pretty much what's been going on here lately! Timothy had a bad cough thing going on Tuesday and had to miss school, he's still coughing a lot and we're all sneezing pretty bad...he has been having a hard time adjusting to his newest inhaler so it's making him very NOT sleepy (like up till 2 a.m. last night!) but we're working on it...we saw the doctor yesterday and she said just keep up what we've been doing and hopefully it'll get better. I'm thinking about having him tested for allergies though.

He did get his flu shot yesterday though, thank goodness, and I called today and they have some more in, so we're taking Charlotte tomorrow to get her one too. Poor girl will have to get two since it'll be her first one, but that's ok! Anyway, here are some random pictures from lunch time yesterday!

Nothin Much

\That's all that's going on around here. We're officially in a fall routine and I love it. Timothy started at a Mother's Day Out program last month so he goes to "school" Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-2, Charlotte and I go to Ladies Bible class on Tuesday mornings and on Wednesdays the kids and I head back up to church to help bake desserts for our Wednesday night meals. I also decided now that Monday mornings we would go to the Library for story time so we're up and going pretty much every morning at the same time. The kids have adapted well to the schedule, Charlotte has dropped her morning nap, but her afternoon naps are usually about three hours long so I get a nice long break in the afternoons. We do have some fun stuff planned for this month now that Brandon is finished working over time. This weekend we're going to go pick out our pumpkins and next weekend we're going on a little road trip.

So here is what everyone has been up to lately - Brandon finished working over time last Wednesday and I can't even tell you how happy all of us are that he's done! He had a good year end though and even got an award from a general (I think it was a general) from D.C. this morning! Way to go hubby! I think he's pretty excited to have normal working hours now and have his Fridays off again though. He's been working really hard!

Timothy is officially potty trained. He does great during the day and doesn't really have accidents much at all anymore. He still wears a pull up for quiet time and bed time, but the other morning he woke up, ate breakfast and played for a bit and then went to the bathroom and his night time pull up was still completely dry! He still entertains us every day with silly songs and stories. I know I already posted about this on facebook, but the other day he sang "Blue Skies and Rainbows" and it went like this..."blue skies and rainbows and sun beans from Kevin are what I can see when my Lord is yelling at me". I laughed so hard! He's doing great at school though, his teacher said he's too smart for his own good, not sure if that was a compliment or not :) He still loves to draw and color though so I know that will keep him busy for me! He's really into Backyardigans now so we have to watch that every morning, it's pretty cute.

Charlotte is growing and growing so much. She's still not saying too many words. She's says mama and dada but I don't think she really knows what it means. She says "this" a lot though. Usually when she's showing you something. She loves to go find toys or books and bring them to you to share. She loves to read books and lately she likes to play with blocks, stacking them up and moving them from one bucket to another. She's still not really into dolls or girly toys, but it's getting better. She loves trying to climb and she loves walking on her own now.

Charlotte has had a constant runny nose since we got back from WA, but she's also cut a lot of new teeth, mostly molars. Timothy had a coughing-spitting-up-mucus episode a few weeks ago so I took back to his doctor and they started him on a new inhaler and increased dosages on his other medicines. He now takes on inhaler twice a day, a daily nose spray, Singulair every day, and he has a new inhaler to take when he has a bad coughing episode. Poor kid, but he's sleeping well and not coughing as bad now so I guess it's all working!

We're getting all geared up for Halloween, but I'll post about that later! Enjoy the pictures!