Cute Birthday Coat

Vivi adores this new coat she got for her birthday from the Lawrences in Oklahoma. She gets lots of attention when she is wearing it and will voice a very sad "No" when it is time to take it off. Here she is showing off how cute she is in her little peacoat.

On a side note I had no idea the mat at Lillys dance class was that dirty.. yuck!

Big Girls Dining Together

Now that Vivi is spending time in the 1 year old room every day at daycare it was important to have her start sitting at a little table instead of the high chair. At daycare she was not thrilled with the switch to a little table and would get her snack and crawl off to eat it in a corner only to be picked up and brought back. She was always telling her teachers "No" and shaking her head to protest being made to sit at the table with the other babies. I have no idea why she would want to eat on the floor! We don't let her do that at home. In fact if food is ever near the ground the dogs will steal it.

 At home she adjusted pretty easily to sitting at the table with Lilly, but Lilly missed sitting at the big table with us. Now they like to dine together, chat, giggle, push the table back and forth and Vivi does a fair share of food stealing. It is so cute Vivian is finally old enough to do big girl things!

Flashback Friday - Ryan's Birthday

We celebrated Ryan's birthday by going out to eat with our families. Lilly helped him with the candles, cake and unwrapping stuff and Vivi clapped a lot. We had a lovely time celebrating his birthday!

Vivi's First Birthday

We had a wonderful time celebrating Vivi's First Birthday!

Here she is "driving" her pink car. She LOVES it and Lilly likes pushing her around it too!

Snuggling with her "Da Da" and her special baby bear and baby blankie.

The birthday girl.

Snuggling with "Ma Ma"

Yum... Cupcake!

Trying to take a few steps.

Enjoying some new toys.

Pumpkin Carving

We didn't pictures of us carving pumpkins this year since Vivi has been miserable with teething over the last week and required being held the whole time. And this was the best we could get of the two of them sitting with our completed pumpkins. Lilly did have fun decorating her pumpkins and admiring our carved pumpkins. We also cooked pumpkin seeds for the first time, they were a big hit!

Kids Creepy Halloween Dinner

We had a Kid Themed Creepy Halloween Dinner with the Rogers the night before Halloween. The kids had zombie carrot fingers, mummy hot dogs dipped in blood, mandarin orange brains on a stick and grape eye balls. Then we made bat cup cakes for dessert. The bat cupcakes are going to be a tradition at our house since the day I met Ryan I was buying supplies for the cupcakes to make with my second grade class.

Vivi enjoyed her first taste of oreo cookies.

Lilly with her bat cupcake.

The kiddos watching "Shrek Spooktacular" after the sugar rush wore off.

Happy Halloween!

We had a happy halloween full of trick or treating and fun with family and friends. Our neighborhood is a big deal on Halloween with usually over a thousand trick or treaters coming to our neighborhood. It is lots of fun! Lilly was REALLY into it this year. She was excited and very prepared!

Sadly poor Vivi who is usually so happy is getting 5 new teeth this week so she was pretty miserable the whole time and constantly drooling. Poor sweet baby did not enjoy Halloween as much as everyone else.

Here we are ready for trick or treating. Our precious princess and darling baby witch.

Lilly ready to trick or treat.

Vivi enjoying a lollipop, it was the only thing that took her focus on the awful teething pain.

Lilly and her "Da Da" waiting to go through the Haunted House.