Happy Halloween!!

We have some fun pictures for you today. Erik carved a pumpkin a couple of weekends ago with our friend, Erick. While we were in St Pete last weekend, the pumpkin shrank like the Wicked Witch of the West! When we got home from St Pete, there was a weird smell in the garage, but the first thing I noticed was the trail of ooze.
We don't have anything for Kayleigh to dress up for this year. Last year she wore her Halloween outfit to her day care, and to the church for Trunk or Treat. Neither place had any activities this year, so I just dressed Kayleigh up for the pictures. It's probably a good thing that we didn't have to take her anywhere, because I think the wings on the outfit bothered her.

Kayleigh pictures

Okay, Okay. I know you want to see pictures of Kayleigh, not me, so here you go! Sheesh! The first picture is of Kayleigh carrying her bag outside. She and Erik were on their way to see Granny and aunt Ola. The pictures of Kayleigh on the couch are of her watching a squirrel eat peanuts outside. If you look closely in the picture where she's climbing on the couch, you can see the squirrel on the wall outside.

More reunion pictures

Okay, I know that this isn't interesting to those of you who weren't there, but these are my friends, so look at the pictures, anyway! I seem to be missing one picture, so I'll have to get it from you Valerie.

High School Reunion

I won't say how long it's been since I graduated, but this weekend is our reunion weekend. Earlier this afternoon we had a picnic time at the gym. It was bring your own food, but also an extra chance to hang out with people we haven't see in a long time. For those of you who know our high school friends, there were Meghan, Molly, George (the only guy that came!), Polly, Jana, Kelli, Ashley, Alison, Valerie and me. We had a good time talking and catching up with everyone. Miss Jones, our 7th and 8th grade history teacher even came for a little while. She left NCS, and just came back this year. We have a dinner tonight, so I'll be posting more pictures later. Out of the 68 people that graduated with us, only 20 are coming. A couple of the girls are pregnant or have just had babies, so that's a pretty good excuse. Others are out of town and couldn't make it in for different reasons.

Kayleigh's first "date"

We invited our friends Erick and Amy over for dinner last night. Amy had a prior commitment, but Erick said that he still wanted to come over. We told him that it was couples only, so he asked if Kayleigh could be his date. We figured he would be a good date, so okayed the offer. Erick is definitely one of Kayleigh's favorite people, too. When Erick came over, he brought Kayleigh a rose. It is super pretty, and Kayleigh loves to smell it. I put it in a cup and brought it up to Kayleigh's room last night. When she woke up from her nap this afternoon, it was the first thing she wanted to do was smell her flower. She was literally sitting in her crib, reaching out to the flower. We have decided that all of Kayleigh's dates need to be like the one she had last night--at our house and over by 8:00! :)

More pumpkin patch pictures

Here are the rest of the pictures from the pumpkin patch this morning. She had fun, can you tell? If you didn't see the other picture, scroll down to the next post.

Pumpkin

 

We went to a Pumpkin Patch this morning to get some pictures of Kayleigh with the pumpkins. We did it last year with Nick, Robyn and Taylor, and I thought it a neat tradition to start with my family. I'll post more pictures later, but I stole the idea for this one from my friend, Jenna. I think it is really cool, and I'm glad that I was able to get a picture of Kayleigh that the effect would work with.

Bag lady

Kayleigh's latest "thing" is wanting to carry a purse/bag whenever she can. I always put her school stuff in a plastic bag, because it's easier for me to carry her things in just one bag, rather than trying to carry them separately. Her lunch box is always heavy, because I have to put a cold pack in it, along with all of her food for the day. She doesn't care. She'll try to carry it anyway. Last night before we went out to eat, she wanted to carry her diaper bag. Later, she was carrying my purse. And, don't try to take the item away from her! You will see a very angry Kayleigh if you do!

Ginger

I can't remember if I've posted pictures like this before, so here we go again! Erik told me that Ginger had climbed into the dirty clothes basket this evening. I went into the room about 20 minutes later and was very surprised to see that she had fallen asleep in the laundry basket. Usually she heads straight for the bed.

My big girl!

Kayleigh HATES to wear anything in her hair! That is necessary to know before I tell the rest of the story. This morning, I put a bow in Kayleigh's hair, and to my amazement, she didn't immediately yank it out. She kept it in her hair all day! It fell out a couple of times, but she would take her bow to one of her teachers to get it put back into her hair. Hopefully, this means that she'll wear bows more often.
P.S. Kayleigh was chased around by another boy today! Her teachers think that it was because of how cute she is with her bow. :)

My kid cracks me up!

Kayleigh was being so silly this morning. I went to Tropical Smoothie and poured some of my smoothie into another cup for Kayleigh. After she was done drinking it, she played with the straw. She also decided to see what her toes taste like. She must not have liked how they taste because she didn't do that for long. There isn't much sound in the video besides my laughing. I think you'll still enjoy it.