Trick or Treat!

Makayla was SO excited for Halloween this year. She was so helpful helping Grandma and mom decorate. And when we were in Real Deals home decor, she kept saying "Mom, this would be so cute for Halloween!" Which made all the old ladies in the store giggle and smile. So funny!
She understood the whole "trick or treat" thing a lot better this year too. We actually got her to say it at the houses we went to and she even said thank you. She's getting to be so grown up!
And I'll share a little secret...she may have eaten about a dozen of those little dum dum suckers that day. Yikes. Awesome parenting I know. Once a year though...can't hurt too much right!? Besides a little gut ache and sugar high. Haha.
Here's Makayla's costume. She has been SO into Tinkerbell lately, she didn't even hesitate when I asked her what she wanted to be.

And Brooklyn got to be whatever was on sale...because I couldn't find Makayla's old lady bug costume from last year. I thought she made quite an adorable bumble bee though! Makayla told everyone she was a "buzzing." As in a "buzzing bee," but she would just say "buzzing."

And this little one now has two little teeth!! Crazy! Her two bottom teeth finally came through last week!!

Me and Jason totally rocked it as M&M's this year! We got compliments on them at pretty much every house we went to! So fun!

This was at my parent's house after we finished going door to door, and I was starting to feel incredibly sick...
We went home after about 40 mins, and let's just say dinner didn't last too long for me. It was a really crummy end to a really fun night! Luckily it was just a 24 hour thing. Much better the next day!
Now we are all coming down from our sugar highs, and looking for our awesome costumes for next year! We are on a quest to find something amazing!

Sickies

My poor baby girl is sick. This is her first real stomach bug in her almost 3 years of life. I thought it would be a one night deal, you know up all night with the pukes, and then take it easy the next day and be done with it. But no. Day 1: We went through all 3 sets of sheets the first night, and she ended up sleeping on the floor next to our bed, so we could reach over and hand her a bowl when she felt the need. That worked out much better than running into her room AFTER things had already come up. Day 2: She was fine ALL day! Didn't eat much, but I figured, she just didn't have her appetite back yet, cause she was dancing, singing, playing just like nothing was wrong. Then on our way back to our house from my parents, right before we pulled up to the back door, she let loose. In her car seat...that's the worst. So the rest of the night, was spent cleaning that thing out, (and I obviously missed some somewhere, because I was still smelling it this morning...)
laying on the couch and just doing a whole lotta nothing. She once again slept next to our bed.
Day 3: She has absolutely nothing in her stomach, except I did manage to get some Gatorade and a tiny tiny bit of water in her this morning, thankfully. I was starting to worry she would get dehydrated. So now we are sitting on the couch snuggling in a blanky, hoping the stomach cramps will ease, and the fever will go down, and that it doesn't pass on to mom and Brooklyn...
Mom is having a girls night out tomorrow, and needs to be feeling goooood!! And so does Brookie, cause dad will have her for about 9 hours!!
So here's hoping for a better day tomorrow!

And here's some pics of Kayla being super cute with Grandma's dollies a few days before she got sick.

reading to them...

now she is the "momma dolly"

night, night!

And tomorrow Mom is going to take a big loooong nap, and then go play with no kids! I don't do this often, but it is definitely much needed this time!