November Challenge: Day 3

     Today I am thankful for Caffeine, more specifically coffee. Some days more than others I am reminded how important it is that I am appropriately caffeinated. Today happened to be one of those days. Keep in mind that parents don't get to enjoy that extra hour of sleep that I kept hearing the weather man promise all week long. That means this afternoon, while on a super secret mission with Froggie to pick up a gift for Big Brother, I snagged the biggest White Peppermint Mocha I could and let me tell you IT WAS AMAZING!
     Now it's time to settle in and watch some football! Happy Sunday everyone!

9 Months Old

     Froggie is 9 months old today! She's come a long way in the past 9 months and has had her share of set backs. She is generally happy and lots of fun to snuggle. She's normally tolerant of her Big Brother which is saying a lot, since there are days where I have a hard time tolerating his behavior.
     Our little Nugget officially has 7 teeth! With another on its way through... She is a GREAT eater and will try whatever we give her. I don't think we've found anything yet that she doesn't like! She got a nifty new sippy cup with a straw yesterday and seems to do well with it. She crawls around and pulls herself up on everything from toys to furniture to the legs of anyone close by.         
   She's growing in leaps and bounds but lately she has been struggling with sleep. I don't like to blame behavior and illness on teeth but by process of elimination I feel that her sleep issues may have been tooth related. Some nights over the past few weeks she has woken up to have a mini party. She crawls around and throws stuff on the floor. This morning she crawled over to Hubby and attacked him with kisses!

Big Girl at breakfast

Such a happy Froggie

Big Girl at dinner

     November 1st is also the day that I choose what the kids will be for Halloween next year. I snagged a new superhero for Big Brother and a Strawberry for Froggie for about $18.50. The costumes originally cost $52.99, I'd call that a deal! We are all snuggled up now for the night watching Monster's University! 

Movie night

This is Halloween!

     Happy Halloween! Much like the rest of this month today was filled with festivities. This morning was our party at school and this evening was Trick-or-Treating. This afternoon was nice and Hubby and my mom were able to come see the kids in their parade.

1st Halloween

My little pumpkin

Smooch!

They like each other sometimes

Happy Halloween girl

parade

parade

Hubby, Grandma and the kids

Grandma and the kids

Ironman flying

     The weather this evening was horrible and so we walked in the wind and rain to my aunt's house a few streets over and then walked back. The only really decent picture I got of Trick-or-Treating was the one that was taken before we headed out. 

Treat bag from Grandma

Treat bag from Grandma

A treat from mom and dad

Look what I found!

Off to Trick-or-Treat

Trick-or-Treating

Trick-or-Treating

Trick or Treating

Trunk-Or-Treat

     This evening was "Trunk-or-Treat" at our church. We headed over right before it began and jumped into line. There were a ton of people set up in the parking lot with their trunks decorated and candy to hand out to the kids.
     I couldn't find Froggie's costume in the rush out the door so I snagged Big Brother's costume from his first Halloween and a bow and Froggie went as a monkey. Big Brother and Froggie had fun and got LOTS of treats!

Before Trunk-or-treat

The line of kids

Waiting for treats

Showing off his treats

Super Hero pose

Froggie's peep

Marshmallow goodness

YUM!

Green face and new teeth!

Zoo Boo Part 2

     Thanks to the graciousness of one of my co-workers we were able to return to Zoo Boo this evening. There was no rain and it was a pretty standard fall evening. We got there a little earlier than we had last week and were able to make it through the zoo in about an hour and a half. We didn't ride the carousel or train tonight though which is probably why it didn't take us as long.

Finally got that picture of the kids

Froggie

Big Brother

checking out the rhino

bean bag toss

Sleepy Froggie

Trick or Treating

Cold enough for hot chocolate

The talking Pumpkin

Meet Jack

     Tonight, after a rough dinner and grocery shopping, we brought in one of our pumpkins to transform it. This was Froggie's first Jack-O-Lantern ever and the first that Big Brother actually helped to carve. It was a lot of fun even though Big Brother stayed up past his bed time to work on it.
     We never seem to have enough hours in the day during the month of October so we figured if we didn't carve him today we would never do it.
     Big Brother helped scoop him out and carve his face and Froggie even played with some of the insides (she tried to eat it a few times too)
. We were going to try carving something other than your standard pumpkin face into it but Big Brother said he wanted a face. Without further ado, here are some pictures!

Big Brother ready to carve

Froggie ready to carve

Hubby cutting the top out

scooping out the insides

scooping out the insides

cutting out his face

cutting out his mouth

working with Froggie

Both kids helping to carve our pumpkin

Froggie with our pumpkin

Froggie with our pumpkin

The kids with their pumpkin

Meet Jack!

Jack in the dark

Froggie with the pumpkin goo

she liked it!