Perfection

We finally got our Christmas Tree today!  After going to visit Santa at the mall, we came home, got the lights strung and hung all of the ornaments.  The sequins, glitter, popsicle sticks, and painted puzzle pieces making up the many homemade ornamets may make our tree seem a little "unsophisticated" to some, but to me it's perfect!  All the way to the star at the tippy top, which Hope made in preschool out of construction paper and a toilet paper roll.

Size Wise

EJ:  "Mom, in our family Beck is the littlest.  I am the medium.  Hope is the medium-est.  You are the medium medium-est and Daddy is the biggest!:

She was so very proud of her revelation!

Halloween Festivities!!

2011 Halloween included pumpkin picking, pumpkin carving (Hope did her own from beginning to end this year!), a carnival at Hope's school (somehow I ended up pictureless at that one), a program and costume parade at EJ's school, and of course, Trick-or-Treating!

PUMPKIN PICKING:



PUMPKIN CARVING:

 TRICK-OR-TREATING

I could NOT get a good picture of everyone together. :0(

 EJ's PROGRAM AND PARADE:

Oh yeah, we also had some dirt eating.  YUMMY!

What a Difference...

Monday:

 High of 80 degrees

Wednesday:

High of 30 degrees

Junior

Hope "bridged" to Junior Girl Scouts a couple of weeks ago.  This will be her 5th year as a Girl Scout and she has grown so much since she was just a little Kindergarten "Daisy"!

 Not the best picture- but just a little 5 year-old on a Daisy field trip

Last time being a "Brownie"

 Crossing the Bridge from Brownie to Junior

Junior Girl Scout!

Let Him Eat Cake

Beck really liked his birthday cake!  His party had a "ball" theme and he wasted no time digging in.  He wasn't quite as excited as I thought he would be about a huge ball of sugar sitting in front of him.  He kind of just started eating it like it's something he gets every day.  He did enjoy it though, and kept asking for "mo", even when he still had huge gobs of chocolate in his hands.

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Wow.  That happened fast.  Way too fast.  I blinked and the small little bundle that we brought home from the hospital turned into a walking, talking, smiling, giggling, ball-loving, noise-making, open-mouthed kissing, blanket cuddling little boy.

It's bittersweet, really.  The growing, the changing, the birthdays - it means all is well.  It means he's healthy and developing how he's supposed to.  So, no matter how many times I plead with him to stay my little baby forever, of course, I wouldn't change a thing. 

Sometimes I just wish time would pass a little more slowly...

September 12th, 2010
7 pounds 1 ounce
21 inches

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 11 months

1 year old!!!

22 pounds 7ounces (50th percentile)

33 1/4 inches (90th percentile)