Halloween cont.

Reagan, 7 months, as a baby chick

Addison, 3 years, as Cinderella

Addison and Reagan

Addison and cousin Pagelynn

Pumpkin carving

On Saturday, before we went trunk or treating, we had my sister Whitnie and her family come over for some Halloween festivities including carving our Jack-o-lanterns.

Addison scooping out the guts

more pumpkin guts

so proud of herself for helping daddy create the design

finished product

our jack-o-lanterns lit up at night

Preschool Halloween Party

Addison's preschool had a Halloween party last week. It was fun to see Addison among her classmates. She talks about all the kids in her class by name, and so it was nice to have a face to go with the names. They went trick or treating to some stores in the area. It was raining that morning, but it stopped as soon as they started, so it turned out to be a nice day. I dressed Reagan up and she was mistaken for a boy about 90% of the time. I finally got tired of correcting everyone, so after awhile I just agreed that "he was a cute baby chick".

The class outside of the bank

Addison as Cinderella

at the grocery store, where they gave out sugar cookies from the bakery, and apples from the produce section

Addison in her classroom on the "circle time mat"

Fall= pumpkins

Fall is right around the corner, and it is pretty much my favorite time of year. What better to do in the fall then visit a pumpkin patch. There is a farm about 1/2 an hour north of here in Southwest City, Missouri, that I took Addison to last fall. We had so much fun that we decided to go again this year. We met up with some ladies from our ward and let the kids enjoy all the fun stuff that the farm offered.

They had 2 really fun slides. This particular one, you sit on a plywood board and the bars would roll you down the slide.

There was a really long, hayride that they stopped various times to "educate" you on how corn growns and how they plant it. Let's just say the kids didn't listen and threw hay at each other the entire time, I didn't blame them though, it was pretty boring.

Addison's favorite, the Cow Train. It was a train of cows that was pulled by a tractor

The pumpkin patch

We were there pretty much the entire day, and Reagan was really good to sit in her stroller the entire time. I had the sun shade down on the stroller, but sometime during the day the sun got her and she got a mild sunburn on her cheeks, nose, and chin. I felt so bad, but she didn't seem bothered by it. What a cutie all bundled up in her jacket!

Sidewalk drawings

The other day Addison wanted to draw on the cement with her sidewalk chalk. She loves to draw people, and if you can see, she does a pretty good job. (I know, I am bragging, but that is what mom's do best!)

Benton County Fair

O.K., so this is a little late, but we went to the Benton County fair a few weeks ago. At Addison's preschool they were learning the letter F and talked about various things that started with the letter F, including the fair. I thought that it would be fun to go to the fair since Addison had just learned about it.
The 1st thing she wanted to do when we got there was to ride the rides. Most of the rides were pretty old and looked like they were going to fall apart, so we stuck to the safest looking ones. The tickets for the rides were too expensive, $1 each and most of the rides took 2-3 tickets, so we limited it to 2 rides. The 2 that we swayed her to go on were:

The ladybug ride,

and the gunny sack slide, that I made Brad go on with her.

We also let her have a pony ride, which was a special treat

I didn't get any pictures of the animals, because that was our last stop, and by that point Reagan was ready for bed and got fussy. We ended up walking through the livestock building pretty fast, but I wish that I got a picture of a goat because they are my favorite.

Reagan, 6 1/2 months

I seem to only post about Addison, so I will change it up a bit and let you all know what is going on with Reagan. She is almost 7 months old, and is growing too quickly. When I say growing, I literally mean growning. At her 4 month appointment she was in the 60th % on her weight. Her height was only in the 30%, so she basically is short and square. We are behind on her doctor's visits, so when we go in for her 6 month visit, I will let you know on her stats then.

I have been feeding her rice cereal now for a few months. This picture is from when she first tried it, as you can tell by her face that it took her awhile to like it. She is now a pro at eating puree'd foods, and opens her mouth nice and wide way before I get the spoon to her lips.

No, she hasn't started crawling yet, thank goodness, and a predict that it won't be for awhile, because like her sister, she hates being on her stomach and doesn't even try to roll over on to her stomach. She will probably learn how to crawl from a sitting position, which brings me to my next subject....

Reagan is sitting up, yeah! It is so nice when the learn to sit up, because they are happy for longer periods of time as they play with their toys.

A few other things about Reagan, she loves her big sister and will only laugh at Addison. I can get her to laugh sometimes, but she really thinks Addison is the greatest! She is usually laidback and delightful, as long as she is napping well. She has finally gotten her 1st tooth, and working on a second, because heaven forbid my kids get 2 teeth at a time!