"Going to Hah-aween..."

Anna: Mommy, can we go to Hah-aween?

Me: Anna, it's Halloween all day today.  So we are already "at" Halloween.

Anna: Oh. Are we going to Hah-aween at Daddy's Oppice? (office)

Me: They are having a Halloween party at Daddy's office, and we get to go see some friends and get some candy.

Anna: OH YAY!  I'm gonna show Daddy my tail!  ...and my SPIN!

Me: He will love to see your tail and spin.  You'll have to show all our friends your pretty costume too!

Anna: Mommy, is Daddy gonna where his thing you made for him?

Me: I think he is.

Anna:  Mommy, are all Daddy's friends gonna laugh at him?   ...he's kinda silly.

Me: Yes, I think they will laugh.

Anna:  Mommy, are we going to Hah-aween?

(and yes, almost all of Anna's sentences begin with "Mommy.")

Caught.

As I was doing my hair this morning (yes, that's what I said...), this is what Anna was doing.  I promise I fed her breakfast.  She ate scrambled eggs with cheese and bacon mixed in AND a whole thing of strawberry yogurt.   And her usual chocolate milk.

I came into the living room and saw her in the kitchen floor under Grey's highchair eating his leftovers that had been swept into a pile.  I'm sure there were other things that got swept up with those Cheerios.  Yuck.  

Me: "What are YOU DOING?!  Are you STILL hungry?!"

Anna: "Don't you LA-AUGH!"

...and she kept on eating.

I'm SO good.

Check me out going upstairs on stilts!  Did I mention how GOOD I am?

G-Money in tha Tub.

It's one if his favorite places.  Poor kid had 3 mosquito bites on his forehead.

Royal cookies and creepy princesses.

This weekend Anna, her new best friend Eleanor, her mom, Meredith, and our event coordinator, Erin, all went to a local bakery to decorate princess cookies.  We (I mean Erin) RSVP-ed for us and everything.  The girls dressed in their best gowns, jewels, and crowns and we hopped in the car.  They had a blast, although weren't quite sure about the "princesses" at the bakery.  Snow White, Belle, and Cinderella were all there.  The poor high school-ish age girls dressed in the princess costumes seemed a little overwhelmed by all the little girls bouncing everywhere.  I think our girls could see right through those cheap satin dresses they wore...not literally.  They didn't want to come near the "princesses" and just wanted to make sure they got enough icing on their cookies.  I'm pretty sure 3/4 of an inch of icing on the top of a cookie is plenty.  After they both sucked on the icing squeezers and licked the spatula things they used for spreading, we left them for the next bunch of girls to use.  I hope they washed those...we were in the first batch to come in and there were three more batches to come.  

The finished masterpiece.  Can you see the layers?

I heart Fall.

This is our new tree in our back yard that we planted this summer.  I'm SO glad it's happy and changing these beautiful colors.

Anna got her first taste of hot chocolate.  She's decided that it's ok to ask for it every night.  Doesn't she look like she should be sitting in a coffee shop somewhere?

A long time comin'...

Yes, the pro-photographer wanna-be finally got some family shots done.  These were taken by the great Teri Cepica.  Thanks again Teri, you did a FABulous job!  She was the artist behind the camera on these and I did the post-processing.  :)  I think they are the best I've seen yet.  But of course, they're my kids.  :)

Poor Daddy.  He is in many of these pictures but since he's an undercover CIA agent, his identity cannot be revealed.  Oh wait...  ;)  

The Reagan Obsession.

Anna has LOVED Reagan for as long as I can remember.  Reagan is always a topic of conversation around here.  She will pop in and out of random sentences now and then.  Lately, Anna has been waking up in the middle of the night crying and wanting her "best friend Reagan."  As always my response is either, "She's at school.", "She's at home with Jon, Lee, Reese, and Sage.", or "She is her OWN bed ASLEEP like you should be."  But who couldn't love that face?

Leftover makeup acceptable.

I washed my face last night for the first time since Friday!  Take THAT Erin.  HA!

Gamer.

Anna got a new Leap Frog "super computer" game system for her birthday.  She has been wanting to play it so bad.  I thought that you needed a game cartridge to be able to play, so we ventured to Target to check out the selection.  To my surprise, Anna chose the Disney Princess game.  You may ask why I was surprised...there was also a Dora the Explorer and a Go Diego Go game next to the Disney game.  She almost always goes for the Dora or Diego stuff.  Gag.  So I was armed with a strategy for trying to talk her out of those before even getting to the store.  I was glad she chose the princesses.  I get enough of those other two shows everyday (she just watches one of each in the mornings)...but they talk SO loud!  Also to my surprise, you don't need a game cartridge with the system.  It comes with a few little built in games.

Anyway, last night Anna was busy dressing the virtual Cinderella and I, of course, was at the computer working.  I heard Anna say, "Mommy, can you come help me?"  She's been saying that many times since she'd just learned how to use the mouse and keyboard, so I thought she was just having trouble figuring something out.  I went into the living room and saw her having no trouble with a nice "video game gaze" on her face looking at the tv.  I asked, "You look like you're doing fine.  Why did you need me?"  She replied still staring at the 'beautiful dress' she was making, "Can you take off my shoes?"  She, sitting comfortably in her chair, couldn't bother to reach down and pull her shoes off because she might mess something up on her game.  Hmm, I see 'limits' on this game already.