It's our favorite time of year and this October has been the best yet!! Happy Fall Y'all!!
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Halloween 2016
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Baby Boy is Getting Big!
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| We can't wait to meet the newest pumpkin in our patch in just a few weeks!! |
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| 29 week baby boy bump! |
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| 33 week baby boy bump! |
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| 35 week baby boy bump! |
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| My biggest baby bump fans. The girls love watching Mommy be the one to get her picture taken for once! |
Guys. Our Cubbies are in the World Series!!
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| The men in my life have been pretty happy lately! |
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| Doug at the NLCS Game 5 in LA. Sometimes all that travelling for work pays off! |
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| Since Mommy can't fit into my Cubs shirt anymore, my mini-me proudly rocked it! |
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| Our littlest cubs fan was wearing his Cubbie Blue too! |
Fall Fun!
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| The cutest pumpkins in the patch! |
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| Avery loves the crunchy leaves! |
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| This year, someone else has been doing to Halloween story reading! |
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| The girls liked changing our countdown to Halloween calendar each day. |
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| Fewer things make this little girl happier than a sparkly Halloween manicure! (And this outfit. No lie, she's worn it every day for the past two weeks!!) |
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| We're going to have to add a pumpkin next year! |
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| Homemade orange playdough. |
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| Hailey loves a holiday or theme to keep her busy! She's been working hard creating workbooks, artwork and stories to help decorate our house and entertain her sisters! |
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| Hailey also made a Halloween costume for her Halloween lovey and decorated his house with Halloween decor and a candy basket for trick or treaters. Igor the bat will be trick-or-treating as a Frog this year, just like Bug. |
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| Dental hygiene is more fun in a festive bathroom! |
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| Checking out the spooky houses with Layla at Uncle Poogie and Emily's house! |
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| Acorn decorating! |
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| Avery is very proud of her "happy monsters!" |
Pumpkinville
Pumpkin Carving
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| Hailey loved every minute of the pumpkin cleaning process! |
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| We saved the "pumpkin guts" for future pumpkin goo play! |
"Shopping" for Halloween Costumes
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| I told the girls they could be whatever they wanted to be this year for Halloween...as long as we already had it in the house! They've had lots of fun "shopping" for costumes in the attic! |
Fun with Friends
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| Neighborhood girls! |
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| Playiing school with K. |
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| Halloween Dance party with K! |
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| Lainey was super excited to have a sleepover in Williamsburg at Allie's grandma's house! They had dinner at the marina and danced the night away after dinner! |
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| Alexa and Lainey. Best buds forever! |
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| Avery loves her too! |
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| Playground playdate with the Luck boys! |
Daisy Scouts
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| We have the cutest (and silliest!) Daisy Troop around!! |
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| We made caring baskets and talked about making new friend in 1st grade. |
Offering Helpers
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| Hailey and Lainey were very excited to be the offering helpers during church! |
Sister Love
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| Rainy day sisters on the way to school. |
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| Soapy sisters. |
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| Wet and wild sisters! |
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| Sleepover sisters! |
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| Matching sisters. |
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| St. Catherine's sisters. |
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| Silly sisters! |
Daddy's Helpers
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| Helping Daddy refinish our side porch. |
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| The girls loved watching Daddy's car get towed away to the car doctor for a new battery. |
Mommy's Birthday
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| One of the best parts about being a Mommy is the homemade birthday cards! My girls sure made me feel special on my special day. |
Fall Fun at School
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| Lulu has been LOVING JK! |
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| The teeny tiny farm came to the Red Room and Avery loved petting all of the animals! They made fuzzy sheep to get ready for the farm visit. |
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| More farm fun! Playing with piggies in the mud. |
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| Tootie can't wait to show me her "work" as soon as she gets in the car from school. |
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| The happiest girl in the carpool line! |
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| Avery and I had a great time at her Red Room Halloween party! |
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| I love that I've been able to be the Room Parent for all three girls in this special class! |
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| "Read to Rover" program at school. Hailey was so excited to see Lucy and Mrs. Oken-Wright! She has become quite the reader since her JK days! |
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| Hailey loves having homework and she was especially excited about this homework assignment. Writing her sight words in shaving cream! |
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| Now Lainey can't wait to have homework too!! |
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| Putting a sticker on her homework chart. |
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| Bug has turned into a great reader! I love how passionate she is about reading. You can find her with her nose in a book whenever she's home. She's very excited to be reading chapter books now and brags about how her current book has 10 WHOLE CHAPTERS! |
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| First grade field trip to the Valentine Museum to learn about American symbols. |
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| Folding the American flag. |
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| The girls all made their own flags and had a parade. Of course Hailey made a Frog flag instead! |
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| Another class field trip to the farm! |
The Virus that Never Ends
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| The only downside I can think of, of having multiple kids who love playing together. The sharing of germs. Once one little person goes down, you can expect the rest to start dropping like flies! What would normally be a week long virus, turns into a month-long epidemic! |
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| Poor Avery was the first one to go down. This was the sickest I have EVER seen my sweet babies. You name the symptom, they had it. It was awful. |
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| I enjoyed the alone time with Tootie before her brother gets here! |
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| Tootie loves her "slurpy noodles!" |
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| Decorating big sisters bike tires while trying to get some fresh air. |
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| Hailey made sure to keep Avery's "weegle" cup full of icechips, and read to her patient whenever she could. |
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| Once Avery started feeling better... |
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| It was time for the next patient to check into Mommy's hospital. |
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| Don't judge. It was the biggest plastic cup we had! |
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| Hailey didn't eat for a week and literally turned into a Halloween skeleton! So you better believe that when she asked for a Sugar Shack donut, we were there within minutes! |
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| Fall crafting to pass the time. |
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| Lainey showered her big sister with cards and attention while she was sick. |
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| And as soon as Hailey started feeling better, it was Lainey's turn to check into the Mommy hospital! |
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| The fever made her freezing, and she demanded lots of blankets! |
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| Poor little Lulu fell asleep on the sidewalk while we were all playing outside! |
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| What do you do when you're home sick from school? Well if you are my kids you play school!! |
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| Such good students! |
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| I was actually looking forward to these few weeks when ALL THREE kiddos would be in school AT THE SAME TIME for almost THREE WHOLE HOURS! before baby boy so I could get ready for his arrival. Unfortunately, those plans were squashed. It was God's way of giving me a little more time to snuggle each one of my sick babies separately for a week each! But they did enjoy helping me set up all of the baby stuff for baby brother! |
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| And my belly got lots of extra rubs during all of the "sick snuggling!" |
Halloween Weekend
Trick or Treating at Daddy's Work on Friday
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| Avery was excited to see her buddy from the Red Room at Daddy's work too! |
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| Tootie loved the unlimited Chick-fil-a nuggets too! |
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| Daddy's girls had fun taking over his office! |
