Trick or Treating and 9 month Well Visit

Halloween 2013. I think that this picture summed up how I felt. Barefoot and frazzled! Something about rushing to get kids into costumes and out the door into the cold, dark night doesn't interest me. But I know that our little fairy was excited. Halloween had been postponed from Thursday to Sunday because a super windy storm was slated to hit that night. While the storm did come as predicted, it left a lot of sad little kids waiting to wear their costumes.

Hadley is not impressed with this costume thing.
Or maybe she just wanted to be the bee...

Elise getting ready...

Cecilia

There's nothing worse than having an awesome costume and then have it ruined by a coat... but the fact of the matter is that we live in Ohio and while Halloween can be 60 degrees, it probably won't! Luckily the twins costumes were nice and toasty for the 3 homes they visited. But poor Cecilia had to sit on her stinger!

A 6:15 bathtime and 7:00 bedtime can definitely hamper a night on the town especially since trick or treating started at 6:00. Luckily daddy and fairy Elise ventured out past the little girl's time limit. Afterall, I do expect to spend a few glorious weeks stuffing my face with chocolate once everyone is in bed. Funny how I can buy candy myself at the store but I prefer eating a 4.5 year-old's prized stash!

House #1... what a thrill waiting!!!

Right about now I am wondering why I didn't take bags for the babies
to fill. Oh yeah, that would be rude and people would
realize that the candy was really just for me!

The girls also had their 9-month well visit at the pediatrician's office. Granted, they were closer to 10 months than 9 months. Dr. Kennedy spent most the visit discussing the introduction of food. The nice thing about having an older child is that I have fretted a lot less about how and when to introduce table food. And because of that, I can safely saw that Hadley's favorite food is pot roast (what baby likes meat?!) and Cecilia loves everything! I know that to make things go more smoothly around the house, the twins need to mesh into our schedule as much as possible... and if that means eating pot roast at dinner then that means I just chop our dinners into super little pieces!

Cecilia

 18"9oz (50%)

28.5 inches long (75%)

17.25 inch head circumference

*That's a estimate on Cecilia's length- she refused to lay still for her measurement

and that's what we could get out of her. Mind you, she won't lay still for anything

including messy diaper changes! Fun times!

Cecilia 9.5 months

Hadley

18"3oz (50%)

28 inches long (60%)

17 inch head circumference

Hadley eating pot roast- 9.5 months

Hadley, Cecilia- sisterly love

Off to get big sister from school...

Pumpkin Carving

On a windy and cold day we decided to carve our family pumpkins. We waited until the babies went down for a nap so there wouldn't be extra hands helping! Elise was super excited and it was cute that she didn't have any memory of carving from previous years except from photos.

 The dogs, of course, joined us too... laying right beside us.

It must have been exhausting work for them.

 Jeff carved Elise's pumpkin... under Elise's guidance. 

Elise's pumpkin... notice the hair and ears

My pumpkin... which was grown in our own garden

Jeff's pumpkin... which is Garth's head... not sure where he came up that one!

Of course we finished with pumpkin seed making. You can really see how messy Elise's hair is- which is from wearing a hat to Perrysburg's BooFest earlier that day. The pumpkin seeds were super yummy... worth the wait! I image that next year we will have to share them with the twins...