Happy Halloween!

A wet and miserable day to go trick or treating but we grabbed an umbrella and Ethan had his hat and off we went! We just took Emma to a few house. We would have taken her out more, but it was just to dang cold and I wasn't in the mood to deal with another cold from her... She enjoyed herself and got the hang of grabbing the candy and putting it in her bucket!

I was surprised how well Ethan did... He was sick, but he toughed it out! He crashed and burned when we got home!

On your mark... get set... go!

I put a flower Emma's costume so people will stop calling her "dude"...

She loves her suckers!

Newman's Review...

As we all know, Halloween was this past weekend! It was a blast despite the rain! Stay tuned to pics of the kids! I need to get them from Scott! This past week... well, is something I would like to call, sickening!... Let me explain!

• Last Sunday Emma somehow caught the dreaded "stomach bug"... Yep, you guessed it! Vomit! Emma has been sick A LOT, especially these past 2 months, but this is the first time she has puked! May I just say... EW! GROSS! Never had to deal with this before, not even with Ethan... it was disgusting! Thank goodness it passed quickly...
• Passed quickly to me! A couple of days later, I got it... I was up all night, sick! And, yes, I did puke too... I can't remember the last night I threw up because I was sick! I threw up after delivering Ethan and once while I was pregnant with Emma... But I never get sick to my stomach and up chuck everywhere! I can't believe it got me!
• Next it was Scott's turn... He was nausea, but no throwing up for him! Thank goodness!
• We thought we got off lucky and Ethan didn't get it... until... midnight, Thursday night... You guessed it... Ethan puked in his bed and again all over his floor... put him back to bed and it happened again in bed 30 mins later and 30 mins after that and after that and so on... I was so tired cleaning up puke I put him on the couch! And we were up ALL night long puking and watching TV!
• So now... I think we are done being sick, until Emma decides to find another germ to house!

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Some good things did happen...

• Emma is making all sorts of animal sounds... cat, dog, monkey, duck... My favorite is her meow... On Sunday in the middle of Sacrament if you heard a meow, that would be my daughter! She is very convincing!
• Scott worked from home last week, YEAH! He is now in Atlanta, but with promise of next week completely off...
• Tooth #5 FINALLY broke through for Emma! 6 weeks! It's about time!

Here are some fun pics of the kidlets!

Emma LOVES hats! This is Ethan's Woody hat from his costume... She put this thing on and grabbed her pumpkin bucket and was heading to the door to go trick or treating... um, that was last night, princess!
She just cracks me up! Too cute!

So precious!

Went to Wally World this morning and Emma fell asleep on the way back... instead of putting her in her crib, I set her on the floor...

Nothing is more adorable than a sleeping child...

Carving Pumpkins

OK... can you believe this is the first time we carved pumpkins. What's wrong with us! I know I had a good time and I'm sure the kids did too... but Scott... he couldn't even get his hands in there... Just look at him... he can barely touch it!

It took a lot of convincing to get Ethan to put his hands in there!

The kids are fascinated!

So I stepped up and I put my hands in there and did it! It was a bit smelly and slimy... but it was fun! Brought back a lot of good memories!

Scott wanted more of a masterpiece, but realized we are beginners and decided next year we will be more prepared... so I did the classic jack-o-lantern face... Not too bad, if I can say so myself!

Ethan with his pumpkin... He did help gutting the thing...well, sort of!

Little Emma had to be where the action is... up front and center! She just looks so innocent!

Silly Little Emma!

I can't help but laugh at my sweet little baby girl... She walks in this morning wearing her winter's knit hat pushing her stroller loaded with various items. She reminded me of an old bag lady pushing around her cart of stuff!

Newman's Review...

Nothing very exciting happening in our lives right now... Things are calm and I hope they stay that way. September was very busy and things are slowing down and back to normal around here. Whatever normal is... Here's to being normal!

• Scott was in Toronto, Canada this past week... Canada isn't his favorite place of visit... This was his first international job this year. He usually has several international trips a year, but this year, nope! He is now headed back to Virginia!
• Weather has been AMAZING this past week! I finally got outside and did some yard work and took the kids to the park.
• Emma is doing a lot better with her sleeping at night. 16 months old and she still has trouble sleeping through the night. I just can't continue getting up 2 - 3 times a night. It's exhausting... My solution... I eliminated her morning nap and waiting until after lunch to give her a nap. Making her more tired at night and hopefully, sleep! It's working... for the past 4 nights she has slept until 5:30-6:00 every morning and I then bring her in bed with me and she'll go back to sleep for another hour or so until Ethan wakes up.
• I'm starting to get sleep! Being more rested = Mommy is happy! I realized I haven't been happy because I was just so exhausted! Wednesday was a glorious day... Emma slept through the night and I felt good. I think I was going through a bit of depression and now I just feel better... I know happiness is a state of mind, but it's VERY hard to keep upbeat and happy when my mind and body is tired! Life is looking pretty darn good right now!
• This past week my parents FINALLY took a church history trip back East.... I can't wait to hear about it!
• Emma added... "cheese", "we" "night, night" and "that" to her growing vocabulary...
• Funny anecdote... Ethan was outside playing and Emma was watching at the door... Emma said, "weeeee" as Ethan went down the slide... cute!
• Ethan and Emma found a box of shoes in the bathroom... Well, you can guess what Ethan did... he started trying on the shoes...

Ethan tried on my boots!.... Very stylish!

Emma was pulling out the shoes and when I got the camera out she stopped what she did and gave me a big smile and said, "Cheese!"

Couldn't Resist!

Ethan wanted to be Woody from Toy Story for Halloween... Well, here he is!

Emma is wearing a monkey costume that Ethan wore a few years ago... I'm trying to decide to have her wear that or find something else..??

I love the tail!

Emma showing us her stuff in her tutu!

Too cute!

Ethan in deep thought!

So precious!

Emma's Cuteness!

Some of Emma's cuteness...

• Emma LOVES shoes... She'll go find her shoes and bring them to me.... she'll say, "shoe" and hands them to me and sits on my lap... meaning, she wants to wear her shoes. It doesn't matter what we are doing she just wants to wear them.
• Emma's new word this week is "down." She actually says, "want down" when I'm holding her and she wants get down.
• She loves to play dress up... especially hats.... She finds Ethan's hat and puts it on or she'll find anything and puts it on her head like it is a hat. This morning she found a skort and decided that it belonged on her head...
• Emma loves her mommy... at 2:00 in the morning when daddy gets up with her she'll throw a big fit and will calm right down if I come in. Ok, that really isn't cute, because she doesn't want daddy only mommy... but when we are dealing with a sick little girl, it is kind of cute, right?

Some of Emma's not so cute moments...

• Emma caught yet, another virus this week. She had her fever for 3 days. She isn't fun when she is sick. No sleep for mommy or Emma... Mommy not getting anything done because all Emma wants is cuddles from mommy.
• Endless whining and crying from our little princess... man, it gets very old after awhile!

We love our little girl! She is finally on the mend and hopefully she'll get over with this sickness completely before she decides to get sick again. A nice break would be nice!