Halloween 2009

Ella got a haul last night and we didn't even do that much trick-or-treating! William even joined us for a bit.

Some kisses before heading out.

Looking mishievous??

My little witch ready to go!


Brr...it got cold fast!

Checking out the loot! Ella's good to share...

and everything went into William's mouth.


Mmmm...

I think we have enough candy to last us quite a while!

Dumping her pumpkin...

Enjoying her one, yes one, piece of candy she was allowed. A mini twix! And no, she didn't even ask for more! What a good girl!

Carefully examining the bag... wishing he could eat it!

William was tired by the end of it all.

What a fun night... happy halloween 2009!

My Little Sweeties

Hanging out and playing together...



They even play well together. :) Ella is so wonderful sharing her toys with William, and she's a great helper to me - getting diapers, wipes, or anything else I need.

Now if only they'd both start sleeping regularly past 5:30am....

it's still dark out at 5:30!

Loves to Paint

Ella sure loves the watercolor paints that Nana and Pa got her.


She paints such beautiful pictures!

Ghosts!!

We made two different ghosts today.

Our glitter ghost. She just loves glitter. We used half the bottle on this! Ella was dumping it everywhere on the black paper!

But they are cute!

And our cotton ball ghost. Ella wasn't so sure about the texture of the cotton..
but enjoyed the glue as usual!


Ella also drew a little spider or two on the side of the ghost.

We went to story time at the library this morning and Ella wore her witch costume and William wore his chicken costume. Both kids ended up wearing their costumes all day...even to William's doctor appointment! They both looked so adorable!

We also went trick or treating tonight at the mall. I'm not sure any of us actually had any fun. It was way too crowded and it really just consisted of standing in a big huge line. Ella though, was at least fascinated by all the interesting people. It was an experience.

This is Ella earlier today being forced to stand so I could take a picture. Yeah...I guess forced pictures don't come out so well! Hopefully I'll get some better pictures Saturday before we head out around the neighborhood.

Happy 6 Months William!

Really, where has the time gone???? 6 months old already??????

My little cutie... so happy.

His smile melts my heart!

Notice the sign behind him is all wrinkly? :)

Today we gave him a sippy cup for the first time with some water in it and he figured it out right away!

He was very intent on sucking some water out.

I'm so proud of him!

William also tried out the swing for the first time today and enjoyed it. Next week we're starting veggies!!

William and the Swing

William enjoyed the swing for the first time today!

Happy Day!

We had another fun day! The sun was shining so we even got out to enjoy the beautiful weather!

Ella played with her magnetic letters today... putting the letters in ABC order, sorting colors, etc..

We finished her leaf wreath...and hung it on the door.

We played several games of concentration with her occupations cards. She beat me all four games!

She did a little letter matching...

And we melted crayons...which we later colored with.

Ella also had a playdate with her friend Gavin. We had so much fun!

Craft Day!

Ella and I haven't gotten to do any art projects lately, so when William decided to nap for a shocking two hours, Ella and I took advantage of our alone time.

First we made a pumpkin patch with the letter P. Ella painted grass onto the P with a toothbrush, colored her pumpkins, and glued them on! No pictures of Ella at work because my battery was charging.

She wanted to do more so we used orange paint to make halloween cookie cutter prints. After we were done Ella asked for the googly eyes so she could give the cats, bats, ghosts and pumpkins eyes. What a good idea she had!

Then I added mouths for a finishing touch!

Next we made coffee filter leaves.

These turned out really pretty. Mine is on the right, Ella's on the left. I have hopes to make these into decorative garland next fall. (Ella had enough after one.)

We had so much fun creating together this morning!

Fall Suncatcher

I forgot to post a picture of this the other day when Ella and I made it. I got this idea from here. What a fun thing to make! Ella wasn't all that patient though and after placing a couple pieces down one at a time she preferred to just grab a handful and dump them all. :)

Isn't it so pretty?

Fall Fun

Today was absolutely beautiful, so we took the kids to a park. We have all but one tiny tree in our yard that seems to yield any leaves, so Ella was having tons of fun throwing the leaves around and trying to catch them.

She went on the swing for a bit... (of course!)

And played in the leaves. The look on her face is just so innocent and pure.

So fun!

Watching the leaves fall...

So excited! She was just so happy playing with the leaves. I took sooo many pictures today of our outing it was hard to pick just a few to put here on my blog.

This is what I get when I say "smile Ella!" heh.. :)

This was during William's nap time, so he wasn't his usual Mr Smiles. I was really hoping they'd both be in happy moods to get a nice picture of them together.

This is when Ella and I were tossing rocks into the water and they were "plunk"ing. She looooved doing this and it was hard to get her to move along when it was time!

Playing on the bench. She was being really silly.

What a happy, fun day. I wish every day could be like this!