Happy Halloween!

Julia is one tired strawberry. After we took her to the neighbors, I put on her pjs and was holding her in my arms. She was smiling at me and sticking out her tongue, then just closed her eyes and fell asleep. I didn't know a baby could be this easy!

Grant ran as fast as he could from one house to the next.

Here he is checking out his loot.

I love this picture of Julia - she smiles and coos all the time. She is such a happy little girl!

Also, Darci and Todd had their baby on Halloween - a little boy named Ryan Scott. He was 9 pounds, 2 ounces and 20.5 inches. I just saw some pictures and he is one cute baby! Although he doesn't look much like a newborn, that's for sure! The Shoemakers are all doing well.

The Great Pumpkin

Dad helped me carve a pumpkin with Grant today. To anyone else attempting this, I suggest buying the $4 carving kit at Wal-Mart - it made it so easy! Grant likes his pumpkin, in fact he put his face next to it and said "I love you, Pumpkin".

Costume party

Grant had his costume party at preschool today, it was so cute to see all the kids in their costumes. There were games and of course cookies at the end. Mom, Dad, Julia and I got to see the little parade of all the kids too. Here is his class.
The kids must have felt like movie stars with all the moms snapping pictures!

Grant and his teacher, Mrs. Houlton.

Grant and his Mama :)

Decisions, decisions!

Our monkey boy.

It's a bird, it's a plane...

It has been so beautiful the past few days, so Grant and I have been playing outside. He wore his Superman costume the other day and had me chasing him around the yard. I'm sure a few people who drove by thought I was crazy, as I was holding onto his cape chasing him in circles. Oh well!

Julia is 2 months old

Can't believe Julia is 2 months old already! She had her doc appointment yesterday and was 13 pounds, 24 inches. Exactly the same as Grant was at 2 months - how strange is that? That puts her at 90% for weight and 92% for height. She also got shots - poor girl was smiling and cooing at me one minute, then BAM they stuck her with the needles. Her little face looked so scared and she started screaming. Oh well, we both survived and she fell asleep shortly afterwards.

Grant is running around the house "learning to fly" right now. He's wearing a Superman costume with a cape so decided he needed to fly. So he took a book with birds on it (off Julia's bouncy seat), looked at it and declared that he had learned. So now he's flopping himself all over the house!

Funny story about Grant - the other day I asked Blake what he wanted me to make for dinner. His reply was "I'll eat whatever you give me". Grant pipes up "You'll get what you get and don't throw a fit!" I guess he hears that at preschool - made us laugh. Another good story - the other day he sang "Hey Good Lookin" to a boogie in a Kleenex. Oh the things a 3 year old thinks of!

Pumpkin Patch with the Machaceks

Lyn, Steve, Drew and Josh came to visit this weekend. Of course we had to go to the Pumpkin Patch! Although it was cold when we got there, the kids had a ton of fun!
Drew and Julia.
Josh and his sugar stick.

For Uncle Jake - you'll be proud to know Grant knew exactly who this was and was very excited! Did I mention the Patch has lots of random things? Not sure if other Star Wars people were there or not.

3/4 of our family

The Machaceks (a third little cutie will arrive next spring)

Pumpkin Patch

We went back to the Pumpkin Patch today (that is the fifth time Grant and I have been this season). For those of you who don't know, the Patch is 150 acres of fall fun. There are shows and lots of things to see, jumping pillows, train and tractor rides and all sorts of other things. Google Vala's Pumpkin Patch to get the full run down. Anyway, it was another beautiful day out there. The corn maze is new this year and was lots of fun. I was a little concerned Julia would get shaken baby in the stroller though - it was a bumpy ride! And the paintball guns were new which of course Grant and Blake had to check out.

Monkey boy and chunky monkey

Julia is getting quite plump. I need to weigh her again, but she is starting to outgrow her 0-3 month clothes.

Grant said he wanted to be a monkey for Halloween and the costume arrived yesterday (thanks for the tip, Maria!). He LOVES it!! Now he really is my Monkey Boy.

Nobody puts baby in the corner

Julia's shirt says it all! A little Dirty Dancing anyone?

This is Grant's new Halloween mask. He loves going to Walgreens to see the Halloween stuff and pushing the buttons on all the "scary" things (witches, etc). He wanted two masks, but they cost a whole 99 cents, so I made him pick one :)

Cooking with Grant

On Tuesdays, the kids at preschool get to make and clean up their own snacks, and they send the recipes home with them. Today they made banana oatmeal cookies which was perfect since I had some bananas I needed to use. Grant helped me make them, and told me exactly how Mrs. Houlton (his teacher) did things. Julia found the whole experience utterly boring.

Julia's baptism

Julia got baptized today. It was a beautiful day and it was nice having both sets of Grandparents here, as well as 3 of the great-grandparents. I am kicking myself for not getting a picture of the whole group - the day went too fast. Grant went up with us at church and was a very good boy (meaning he didn't run off the stage!). Julia fell asleep as soon as I handed her to the minister.

I did it!

I decided to join the bandwagon and start a blog. It was much easier than I anticipated! Here are pictures of the kids. Grant is with Ellee at the Pumpkin Patch the other day. He is very excited it is open, I'm sure we will go there a lot before it closes again November 1.