Sister fun!

Last week the boys had a special outing together (which I'll have to post some pictures from that too.....Reed loved his "man time" with Casey)! So the girls had an evening together. After dinner, walk/run, they then had their first bath together. Emery-Claire loved having "Eh Ah" (as she calls Mary Etta) in the bathtub with her.

Yeah for matching towels!!!

A fireman, a cheerleader, and a flower

The fireman, flower, and cheerleader!

Our sweet and so happy little flower!

The firefighter to the rescue!!

Loving the candy hunt!

Hope everyone had a fun halloween! It was so fun to see Reed get into it more this year. It was pretty cool up here in the bluegrass, but we still ventured out to some neighbors homes on our street. It was a little busy in this area seeing that UK had a home football game shortly after trick-or-treating began. Reed was so excited to run from house to house, and acquire more and more candy---oh too much to eat for all of us! EC had fun too, but was strapped in the stroller for most of our "walking"...since Mary Etta was exhausted and had fallen asleep Casey stayed back with her while I took the other two out. So needless to say I didn't think I could chase our very eager 3-year-old hunting for more and more candy, and an on-the-loose 17 month-old! She rode along well, until the last 10 minutes or so. So all in all it was a fun evening!

My girl!

LOVE THIS GIRL!!!!

Just like Momma

My mom recently sent me some of the special baby outfits that we (or at least I in particular) wore as a baby---the favorites that she kept! So I thought it'd be fun to try them on Mary Etta. I wish we had a scanner so I could put the picture of me in them side by side to compare. But it is really neat to see how they have held up over the years and I can put some of these special outfits on my girls (or girl.....I wish I would have thought to do this with Emery-Claire too!)

This yellow one-piece was my "coming home" outfit. It looks so sweet and delicate. Since Mary Etta and I weighed about the same at birth (she was 6 lbs., 13 oz. and I was 6 lbs., 10 oz.) and now she is probably 11 lbs., this must have swallowed me as a newborn! Because it fit her perfectly now!

This sweet little dress was one of mom's favorites she said. I love the little bonnet with it! Mom said I wore this at 6 months, and it was just fitting perfectly on our little 3 month old (the bonnet almost was too small). So needless to say I obviously was a very small 6 month old I suppose! Ahh, she is just too cute!

Pumpkin patch, Aunt Nee-Nee, and more!

Reed with Aunt Nee-Nee before their "lunch date." He was so excited to go ride in her car and hang out with her! It was too cute!

This week my little sis, Sarah (or Aunt Nee-Nee as her nieces and nephews call her) was here for a visit. We had such a great time hanging out with her! We were so sad to see her go home today, but were so grateful for her time here with us! Since this week was my birthday (yesterday) she wanted to keep all our kids so Casey and I could go on a long deserved date night. We had a great time going out without the little people (for a yummy PF Changes meal). And my sweet sister went above and beyond in making it a special birthday (she put up decorations and took Reed to pick out a cake). Little sis you are the best! And we are so thankful for you.....we look forward to seeing you again very soon!

We went to the pumpkin patch with Sarah. The kids loved the playground. Above is Mary Etta in the stroller as she too enjoyed her first trip to the pumpkin patch!

Going on a hay ride!

Picking out our pumpkin!

One Rainy, Yucky Week

A little tummy time, which has to be watched closely in this house!

oh how we love the brown markers!

This week it's been so not at all seasonal weather up here! It's rained most everyday and been in the 40s---yuck! At least next week we are supposed to have some sunny weather and get back up into the 60s (hopefully we can make our yearly pumpkin patch trip then!) So since we've been couped up so much this week we've tried a few craft activities (but not very successful when one tries to eat crayons/markers/paints...and the other wants his hands wiped immediately once they are dirty). Though he LOVES coloring in the CARS coloring book---but why is it that they always want to use black and brown??? Does anyone know the preschooler fascination with using the dark colored markers which they scribble all over the page/picture and you can't even see the picture that was there to begin with?? Oh well, it is occupying and he loves it, so I suppose it doesn't really matter.

Guess who....is 3 months old today?!

The many faces of Mary Etta!

How is our sweet girl already 3 months old today??!! She is getting so big, too fast! She is cooing/"talking" like crazy lately! And I think I heard a couple laughs in the past couple weeks too! When I finally have given her some tummy time I think she managed to roll over from her belly to back once now! It's hard to do tummy time around here, she might get trampled on or something. I usually have to put her up and away from little hands! She continues to do great sleeping at night, and has been settling so much easier for naps and bedtime this past month as well. She continues to LOVE swaddling...as we have borrowed a nice fleece one from a friend, and she sleeps so wonderfully in it! She definitely prefers it more than the other two ever did (they were both belly sleepers), but not this little girl!