Happy Halloween!!

We have had a festive Halloween season with spooky meals, scary crafts, goopy pumpkin carvings, and very scary emotional children.

Our pumpkins are a family portrait from the day we carved them. If you can tell what Russell's really is, you must hang out with someone between the ages of 1 and 4.

I pulled out the mummy costume for Meghan and Russell said he wanted to be a ghost, so I obliged. He was very unhappy with it until I cut a huge hole for his entire face. Then he was unhappy because he couldn't climb people's stairs without stepping on it. I am picking costumes next year. They will have no head coverings and will not be long.

Our trunk-or-treat was a little less exciting than last year, but the weather was pretty cool and wet. And, I didn't allow kids come around more than once or twice if they were really cute and not over the age of 8. Ben's chili dog chili tied for 2nd place at the chili cook-off.

Life with Meghan

Meghan has been a little spitfire since the day she was born. Life has gotten a little more enjoyable, but a lot more tiring trying to keep up with her and her silliness.

Meghan tries really hard to keep up with Russell. She insists on doing what Russell does, including riding her 'bike'. Whenever Russell gets off of his, she races over to try and climb on. This of course leads to lots of screaming from both Russell and Meghan.

She LOVES shoes but, shoes are never allowed to be on the shoe rack. She must sense that there are shoes on it because she rushes in to it every morning to pull them all off. Luckily, this will be going away once Ben gets our back entryway finished. When we put her church shoes on, she has to run right to the wood floor and check to make sure that they make noise when she walks. When Ben takes her out of Sacrament Meeting, she likes to go to the bathroom area, which has a tiled floor, so she can hear her stomping feet.

Meghan is a hider. She spends most of the time finding something that she can hide somewhere. This is Meghan's favorite hiding spot. She has put the recycling truck, the toy penguin that sings, Night, Night Forest Friends, The Mayo Clinic's Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy (no this is not an announcement I just haven't decided if I want to keep it or give it to Savers), her doll's clothes, etc. Last night, I looked all over for the Roku remote, but had a heck of a time finding it. Ben came home and helped me search for it, and Meghan had stashed it in our little people house.

 She does not hold still. I tried taking some fall pictures of the kids, but this is all I could get of Megs.

The nurse at the doctor always has lots to say about how much Meghan moves. There was a student with the doctor last time she went in, and he asked if Meghan got at least 60 minutes of physical activity. It's more like 9 hours of physical activity.

Her hair growth plateaued for a while, but it has started back up again! I was able to get this bow in, and it lasted for about half an hour. That was probably the longest she has gone with something in her hair lately.

This is how you eat corn