Girly

Lilah is 100% a girly girl.  And I LOVE it!!  She has been taking gymnastics for a few months and is really good at it.  She loves it too.  I love seeing her in her little leotard and leg warmers!

She's gotten to tag along on some girly adventures lately and she thinks she's hot stuff!  We had a tea party for my lead teacher's baby shower and Lilah fit right in.  Then last week Lilah, Teri and I hit the nail salon.  She was overthemoon excited!

And just because I feel you may need a good laugh, I will add this bit of information to this post about my baby girl.  The other day she went into her room where she was supposed to be putting a new pull up on.  Instead?  I found her with a bottle of hand sanitizer.  If you ask her where she put it, she'll tell you.  "All over" her "gina."  And yes, she is the child that will be the death of me. 

Halloween 2013

I feel like we spent all of October preparing for Halloween only to celebrate it into November.  The weather here was a lacking on the 31st, and having listened to the weather reporters, we made the call early in the morning to do our "real" trick-or-treat on Friday at the golf course community where my dad, brother and SIL belong. 

Since the kids were so excited about the holiday, and picked their costumes very early in the month, it was a real bummer to have to put it off until the day after.  They handled it pretty well though and since the weather was slightly better than predicted (at least for the first 45 minutes of trick-or-treat), we did make it to a few houses in our neighborhood before the rain really started coming down.  The kids enjoyed giving out treats almost as much as they enjoyed getting them anyway!

Besties for life.  They have no choice :)

Sweet cousins :)

This is the only picture that shows how genuinely excited he was for this holiday!

The Minnie witch hats Aunt Teri made!

Lilah's friend Bob was Mickey!

Much to my surprise and happiness, Brian and Lilah have jumped right into the preparations for Thanksgiving-my favorite holiday.  I was worried that because it doesn't involve presents, fireworks, candy or costumes, it might not have the same appeal.  They have been great though.  They helped Shawn take down the Halloween decorations and helped me put up the Thanksgiving decorations.  Then they went to Nana's and asked her where her Thanksgiving decorations were!  They are funny!  They have learned a few turkey songs and have been signing them regularly.  I have a feeling Lilah will make an appearance in the preschool Thanksgiving Dinner performance.  She thinks she is in the 3 year old class so I don't see them being allowed to perform without her.  Brian has been all excited to tell me about the pilgrims this week.  He came home one day and said, "Mom, they had a BAD king!  He wouldn't let them pray!"  Love that boy!  Shawn went to Plymouth last year on business so Brian was excited to wear his Mayflower shirt to school and show off the pictures his Daddy took on his trip. 

Can't believe it's already November 9th!  It will be 2014 before we know it.

Out of the Mouths of Babes

Sometimes I just have to stop and write down some of the things that my kids say so I never, ever forget them.  I have had two of those moments in the past few days...

Lilah

My lead teacher is VERY pregnant and we have had several false alarms where we thought she would deliver and then she hasn't.  Thus there has been much talk about baby Bella, when she's coming out, etc.  Bella will be hanging with me and Lilah in my office during the school day once here mommy returns from leave, so there has also been much discussion about who will hold the baby and how careful we will have to be with her. 

I tell the kids often that they have to be happily married before they can have kids.  I also tell them that babies come out of their mommy's hearts because the mommy loves the baby so much.  I mean, they are 5 and 2...that's as far as I am going with that discussion.

So this is the conversation I had with Lilah the other day...

L: "I'm married."
Me: "Oh really.  Who did you marry?"
L: "My Brian-boy."
Me: "Oh wow, that's great Lilah."
Longish pause...
L: "I have a baby in my belly."
Me: "Oh, do you?"
L: "Yep. Her name is Bella.  She's going to come out of my heart.  You will have to hold her.  I might drop her and she could get hurt really bad."

Two going on 17.  For real.

Brian

Today at the gym when I went to pick up Brian, a middle school aged girl stopped me and said, "I really like your son's hearing aids."  I replied, "thanks so much, sweetie!"  She lifted her hair to show me that she also has hearing aids.

As we walked out, I asked Brian if he noticed that she had hearing aids too.  His response...

"No.  What kind were they mom?"

Me: "Oh I don't know, red and brown, maybe."

B: "No MOM what SUPERhero?  (Insert eye rolling.)  Red and brown?  They must have been Iron Man ears."

LOVE him.