Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Bowling!

Playing Games at the party!

All of the kids at Grandma's Halloween Party!

Second Cousins at Grandma's Halloween Party!

Hadley happy after we got home from Trick or Treating around town!

Enjoying some of her candy after T or T!

Halloween Week

Hadley eating her cookie she made at ECFE!

Today was the kick off to our Halloween week. We went to a pumpkin party tonight at the Isle ECFE. Hadley had fun playing with all the new toys. She went down the slide. It was optional if she wanted to wear her costume. She didn't wear it, we didn't ask. There were a lot of fun pumpkin themed activities...
She got to color a pumpkin. She decorated a cookie. She played with pumpkin playdoh and made little ghosts. There was a short circle time which she went to kicking and screaming saying, "down, down".... but once she saw Nevaeh was sitting she sat... right in the middle of the circle. She does have self confidence, that is for sure. We all sang for each kid and then she got to feed the pumpkin her triangle shape. We sang a Halloween version of the Wheels on the Bus go round and round. Then it was good bye time. I convinced her to leave by saying she could go home and eat her cookie. She asked where her cookie was the whole way home. Thank goodness we live close by.

Wednesday night we have a Fall Fest at Church.
Friday we have Trick or Treating around town from 3p-5p.
Sunday is Halloween and we have a little party to go to at Grandma's.

Hopefully Hadley will wear her costume both Friday and Sunday!

Happy 22 months a week late!

Hadley and Nevaeh at the Isle Firemen's Open House

Hadley and Nevaeh spent the day at Dunsmore Family Farm!

So we are only two months away from 2 years old! Sometimes I look at Hadley and see the baby inside her and sometimes I look at Hadley and see the big girl she is becoming! She has increased her talking a ton. She repeats everything we say. She asks a lot of questions, like where's Daddy at? She enjoys playing with babies and playing with her toy kitchen at Grandma's. She now knows who Mickey Mouse is... not sure how, but she does. It must be from the little bit she has seen on the Disney channel. Or, maybe from Nevaeh. Speaking of Neveah... Hadley loves spending time with her. She looks up to her and they get along great.

We did have a couple firsts this past month. The other day, Hadley was frustrated while playing with Claire at her house and when Claire put her hand by Hadley's mouth, Hadley bit here. She immediately got a time out and talked to her about biting the next two days. Hopefully, it won't happen again. I did order a book from Amazon about biting.

We are also experiencing an eating drought. Hadley used to eat everything and it didn't bother her to eat the same meals. Now she is very picky and has to be asked to take a few bites. Hopefully this is just a phase.

We also started ECFE in Onamia on Tuesday's. Our first day was last Tuesday and Hadley did good. We played together, then did circle time. She got up near the end of circle time and wanted to play again. I was able to tell her that it wasn't time to play and she seemed a little upset but she didn't throw a huge fit. Next it was time to wash hands and have a snack. She did eat some snack, it was Kix. After snack, she got to go outside to play with the teachers. The parents did the parent talk. Then it was time to go... we had lunch at Happy's.

October Update

We are doing well. Robert is working ten hour days now instead of twelve which is better. He isn't so tired.
I added another day at the Messenger. I will be driving to Aitkin on Thursdays to help with ads up there. It may not be every Thursday. I still have my Tuesdays free, usually do some real estate things that day. I have no sales pending but I hope to find this one needy client something soon. She has been looking all spring and summer.

Hadley is growing up... she does talk a lot and copies everything we say. Or usually repeats the last thing we say. She is into picking out her own socks and it also bothers her if they aren't on right. If they are messed up she tries to fix them and then sorta cries and says Mommy help, mommy help.

Hadley is going to be a chicken for Halloween. My Mom is putting together a little party for the kids.

We aren't super busy but have little things going on here and there...
Robert is helping Tom this weekend, then the following he has a grouse tourney at Hunter Winfields on Saturday. They have a little dinner afterwards. Then the following weekend he is heading North with Mike to join some of their high school buddies at a cabin Saturday to Sunday. I mainly just have to work Saturday nights at BeLas.
By that time it will be Halloween, then Thanksgiving, Hadley's BDay (Which I am scheduling for the Sunday after Thanksgiving) then the Christmas Season...

I am kinda excited about being pregnant through all this because I am hoping it will go faster. We haven't nailed down too many names but here are some we seem to like...

Harper or Avery for a girl
Grady, William, Asher for a boy

It seems harder to find a name this time around.