Trick or Treaters...Where Are You?

For most of our married life, Halloween fell second only to 4th of July for worst days on the calendar. Instead of cowering and hiding in the bathtub from the fireworks, Josie is on high alert for Halloween...ready to eat the candy baskets and the kids attached to them. But this year...was different (well not for Josie). Bryce was super excited to put on his costume and hand out candy. He went out a little before it got dark and the traffic was light...so to spur some business, he would yell "Trick or Treaters...where are you?" And sure enough...if you yell it, they will come. Bryce gave out all his candy (and managed to sneak a bite here and there).

Happy Halloween!

I dressed the kids in their costumes and they hung out in them for the morning. They looked so cute!

Ivy is wearing the same chili pepper that Bryce wore when he was the same age.

Bryce 2006

Ivy 2008

Pumpkin Party

We had friends over yesterday to carve pumpkins. Bryce helped me cut open and scoop out seeds from all the pumpkins on Saturday. He thought that was pretty fun and it seemed to help get him excited to have people over. Most kids wore costumes but it was pretty hot so I think by the time we got the camera out everyone was back in their regular clothes.

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a church today with some friends to take some pumpkin pictures. For no apparent reason, Bryce has been really excited about pumpkins. He had so much fun running around finding the biggest pumpkin he could. I didn't get great pictures because he kept raising his arms when I said "cheese" or would make a funny face.

Dinoland

The Zilker Botanical Gardens have a special exhibit on dinosaurs right now. They have life sized model in the gardens. We met some friends to check it out. Bryce really liked wandering around with his friends. He has no idea what a dinosaur is but it was nice to get out and see something new.

Update on the kids

Ivy had her 4 month checkup today. She weighs 11lbs, 110z. and is 23.5". That's 10% on the normal growth chart and 50% on the preemie chart, just were she was last checkup. She's doing great, sleeping 12 hours at night and rolling from her tummy to her back.

Bryce is working on potty training. He likes wearing undies but is still working on keeping them dry. I don't put shorts on him when we're home so we can run to the potty quickly if necessary. Nothing is cuter than him wandering around pantless.