Halloween Weekend!!

What a busy weekend we have had!!!

Mommy is still sick with this cold which is making her pretty sad and frustrated cause she's tired of "taking it easy." But we had a fun filled weekend anyway... and now he's sitting on the couch practically hugging the humidifier drinking lots of water with some tissues right next to her:)

We went to mimi and grumps where I got to test out their new garbage cans before they used them, eat pudding for the first time, touch the inside of a pumpkin and practice for trick or treating.


Then we went to the mall to trick or treat in the morning and went back out when we got home to New Jersey with my good friend Mia. I LOVE trick or treating! I keep saying more trick or treat and I'm walking around the house singing halloween, halloween, halloween! I LOVE candy and have eaten 2 whole MINI tootsie roll pops and a mini bag of m&m's and it's more candy than I've ever had so I'm acting kind of silly!

Daddy made me the most awesome pumpkin ever. Mommy says she wants to try to find a way to preserve it because it's so cool!!! We ate dinner tonight by Thomas Candlelight:)

I loved our costumes even though most people didn't understand who we we were. Lots of people thought mommy was a chicken of a duck and some didn't think daddy and I were in costume at all - that made mommy sad but every time someone figured it out, she wanted to hug them!!!

Now I'm coming down from my sugar high and mommy and daddy are gonna put me to bed soon to get ready for another week! Happy Halloween!!!!

Short update

Mommy has been sick ALL WEEK with a really really bad cold. I guess when you're growing a baby, and you get sick it's worse than usual. Especially since she tried really hard not to take any medicine for it. She's getting better, but you can tell she's still not feeling great.

I got to hang out with Daddy on Monday and then play with my friend Mia tuesday morning and then Mimi came on Wednesday cause mommy doesn't want to get me sick, so she is trying to stay away from me. Especially since Halloween is this weekend, she wants to make sure she's all better for trick or treating in the Danbury Mall.

I'm starting to like dress up and want to wear my ernie sweater around the house, but mommy and daddy keep telling me it's too hot to wear it and I don't really like that.

I threw my VERY FIRST temper tantrum complete with stamping my feet when mommy said I had to leave Mia's house the other day... Mommy was laughing because she said she had never seen anything like it... I just wanted to play more.

Christmas is coming up. Mommy and I talk about it all the time and when I saw this diaper cake she made for Debbie's Baby, and said I wanted to hold Potato Head... mommy said I could ask Santa Clause and maybe he would bring me one. So, let me get this straight... I get to ask for all the stuff I want to play with? I think I can deal with this holiday. What confuses me is that mommy talks about the stuff she wants for Christmas and it sounds boring... things like plates, and cooking utensils and a DVD player to replace our broken one... I sure hope that's not the kind of stuff I get!!!


Ummmm I'm still obsessed with Thomas and can tell you all of the trains names... Mommy says they all look the same to her but I think she's crazy!

Here is a picture from the other day that daddy took to prove that he can put my hair in a bow too:) Happy Thursday everyone.

Test Run

Hide and seek

I forgot to put this one up...



Enjoy:)

Some Videos

talking on the phone

Grammie and Grampie were here this weekend and they saw first hand just how much Katie is talking and just how observant she is....

My favorite quotes from the weekend are, "OH no , Grampie sleepin on the chair"

and "OOOOOOHHH Eating Cake" (while pointing right at grampie as he walked out of the kitchen eating a brownie!!! We had lots of fun and got to eat Pancakes at a restaurant and got to play at the train table at Barnes and Noble and even go to the park! We had a great time visiting and are excited to go up to Maine for Thanksgiving:)

As you can see from the videos above... Katie loves playing hide and seek... she cheats when she counts by peeking and skipping numbers, but we have a good time with it. She also likes talking on her play phones to people - but she won't talk on the real phone to save her life - she runs away from it... go figure!

I have to go nurse a burn from cooking Mac and Cheese for the first time and completely scalding my arm and Dave is giving Katie a bath with her boats... so that's all for now - more to come later:)

PHILLY!!!!

We took Katie to Philadelphia to see the Please Touch Museum and then to pick up Uncle Jeremy from the airport for our special 14 hour visit:)

The Please touch museum was awesome. She loved every second of it and had no interest in eating lunch because she just wanted to PLAY MORE......

She spotted this Sesame Street/Muppet display the second we walked in!

I don't know who was more excited about the cars that you could change all the parts on....


They had a whole room just for playing with water... of course she was SOAKED through on one whole sleeve despite the smocks they provide.... but she loved it!

Yup.... the "Big" piano - only she was too light to make it work on her own and had to jump to make it actually go off.

They had a whole room set up with Alice in Wonderland theme - include a SUPER CREEPY Tea Party set up...



They had a mini Shop Rite.... I was dying to go check it out... but Katie was not in any sort of a rush.... they had little carts and aisles full of food all sorted, and a bakery and a meat counter and it was just HEAVEN!


After the museum we went to the hotel for a nap and then went to this AWESOME diner for dinner called the Pop Shop... then it was off to the airport to pick up Unca Jeremy.... His flight was a little delayed and there was a delay getting off once they landed, so we ended up in the cell phone waiting lot for about 40 minutes and We just keep looking at all the different rental car buses driving by.... Katie was an ANGEL I couldn't get over how patient she was just waiting. When we realized it would be a little while longer, we drove back to the hotel (2 mins away) and Katie and I got out so we could get ready for bed and Dave could pick up Jeremy.... but Katie kept asking for Unca Jeremy - I told her it was time for night night and she looked at me and said, "no, Unca Jeremy coming" so we had to make the boys come up and say hello before they got to have their food in the lobby rest...

The next morning we ate breakfast in the hotel and then left to go get Jeremy at his hotel so we could adventure in philly.... we only had a little while - but we drove around a bit and then had an awesome lunch at Tony Lukes before dropping him back off at the airport and heading home to see Grammie and Grampie who were waiting for us.

We had a great time and Katie was an EXCELLENT traveler and was so excited to see uncle Jeremy... she kept asking for Luke and Uncle Jess - although we aren't sure why she doesn't say Auntie.... something to work on!

Happy Sunday night!

WEEKEND AWAY

Happy 5 year anniversary to us! (a month late... but still!!!!)

I just used the last of my AWESOME gift certificate to my FAVORITE hair salon to get a MUCH needed haircut... Unfortunately, she cut it too short.... I told her short... but she overcompensated and for the first time in like 5 visits... I don't love it....
But, it's hair... and it will grow back and look good in it's own time and at least it will be easy to take care of since it's so short!!! I still love that place and the experience was very relaxing which was just what I needed before we set off for our 2 whole nights and 2 whole mornings away....

I am most looking forward to the peace and quiet - Katie talks so much that I honestly just want some quiet time to let my brain settle a little!!!! We will go see some movies and go eat some peaceful dinners where we don't have to sing and play trains while we eat and hopefully SLEEP IN!!!!!

So... Katie gets to hang out with Mimi and Grumps and we get to go off and relax - so we will catch you after the long weekend!!!!

Then next week, we get to head to Philly for a quick visit with uncle Jeremy Payne and then Grammie and Grampie are coming to visit!!! It's a busy and exciting 2 weeks for us!!!

Halloween Preview

Breakfast with Elmo!!!

Today we had to wake Katie up early so that we could hop in the car and drive to our favorite place to have Breakfast with Elmo and Friends and play at The counts Spook-Tacular.
We got there before they opened because the breakfast starts at 9:15 - so there was a small crowd forming at the gates... This is Katie yelling OPEN, OPEN, OPEN at the gates....

As soon as we got through the entrance, we got to go to the dine with me cafeteria. As you can see we didn't even get her jacket off before she was off and running up to every character there. It was well worth the early morning and the $35 - if only we could have gotten a picture of her face when she realized they were all there in the same room!!! We had a hard time getting her to sit down to eat!

Big bird can't walk around so he stays sitting on his stool and our table was right in front of him - which is perfect since he is Katie's favorite.... (even though she won't exactly watch him on the show.... go figure)

They have a buffet breakfast which was not that great, however the characters come around to the table and sit and play with your kids. PLUS, our breakfast was not nearly full so the characters had all kinds of time to walk around and visit with the kids. Bert came over and played with her by pretending to drink her water.... she was actually kind of shy once they came to the tables... but she kept saying.... bert, ernie, bert, ernie.
Then they have the picture set up (so they can sell you pics) so we waited in line and sent her over and she ran right over to elmo gave him a big hug and then sat on his lap.

Can you see the baby bump in this one?

She also spent a lot of time in the toddler pit running around like crazy and playing with the oversized blocks. She asked to go on the tea cups - which we did twice and then we went to see Elmo's World Live which was about halloween. They had fall/halloween decorations everywhere and a trick or treat scavenger hunt you could do. Some of the characters were dressed in costume too... it was awesome - I love halloween as it is... but being at Sesame and seeing the kids in their costumes walking around made it really feel like fall.

Katie had a blast, and so did we. Unfortunately, I didn't eat well enough and now I feel like crap.... so I have been in and out of bed since we got home with severe nausea and a headache... boooooooo - but it was worth it - because we had a great day. And Dave is great and watches Katie while I recover... so we all win.

Here is our conversation at dinner when I asked Katie what we did today... It's amazing how well she speaks and what she remembers and can tell you - it still shocks me sometimes.

Happy Saturday - I'm headed back to bed.