Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! Here's what we've been up to...

Popcorn making her turkey cookies...


Sweetie with one of her cookies. I didn't mean for the cookies to get that large, we ended up with some giant turkeys, but we had fun.

One of our traditions is to see a movie on Thanksgiving. We saw Bolt in 3D (which was kinda cool). We all enjoyed it a lot and after the movie Popcorn took the popcorn bag and wore it as a hat. What makes this funny is that she asked Ladd for the bag early on in the movie, like she was planning this little stunt for at least an hour. When it slipped down over her eyes she said: 'hey, who turned out the lights?'

Our other Texas tradition is to eat dinner at Cracker Barrel. Some people think this is terrible but we actually quite like it; everyone gets what they want and I'm not cooking and cleaning all day (or at all). Here is Cutie Pie chillin' in her booster seat (she absolutely HATES high chairs so we were glad she actually sat during a meal out).

Here is Sweetie and Ladd waiting for our food...

Popcorn and I on the other side of the table...

Yes, we were waiting for our food as well. Our waiter first brought out the rolls and also brought out the pie?!?!!! Ladd said something to him about it and the waiter just shrugged and handed over the pie. I thought it was funny (and ate my pie as an appetizer- yum!). This is what makes it fun- that would never happen at home!

Cutie Pie's 1/2 birthday!

Cutie Pis is now 18 months! This is my favorite half-birthday to celebrate because they change so much in just 6 months at this age. Here she is enjoying some ice cream. She wouldn't touch the cake.
On the other hand, Popcorn and Sweetie loved the cake (and ate it all themselves over the course of a couple days).

Here are all 3 of them in their cute matching sweater dresses. It's VERY challenging to get Cutie Pie to cooperate for posed pictures. She found her thumb and I snapped a quick photo.

What was on my camera...

The cord for my camera was temporarily misplaced but it has since been recovered. First let's start out with a picture of Cute Pie at the top of the stairs...

The staircase itself...
Now for the story. Cutie Pie became quite the expert at navigating stairs while we were at the grandparents house so I wasn't worried about her in our new place. As I suspected she climbed right up and in no time she remembered how to turn around and slide down. The playroom is at the top of the stairs so she goes up and down a lot. Not only was she confident in her abilities, she became a bit of a show off. She would stand up and turn around (facing down the stairs like someone who can actually walk down them) and wave her arms around, squeal, etc.

One night Ladd saw her tricks and told her to stop before she fell. Cutie Pie continued to flap her arms around and gibber jabber on the stairs. He walked back into the kitchen while I was working in the office (a short distance from the stairs). Not 10 seconds later we heard Sweetie shriek (she shrieks at a lot of things, such as the sight of a spider so that in and of itself isn't a good indication of anything wrong) and then a thud/tumble noise. I jumped up and caught Cutie Pie as she bounced down the stairs. She only made it about 1/3 of the way down and other than being scared she was fine.

If any good came from this it's that Cutie Pie is now rather cautious about descending the stairs. This takes us back to the first picture (taken right after the accident) where she was afraid of coming down. She has now regained her confidence and will go up and down on her own, but she hasn't shown the recklessness of before.


Here's some other pictures that were on my camera. This is Cutie Pie at swimming lessons. She was bothered that I was taking pics of the other two.

Here is Popcorn in the water. She saw me pull out the camera and smiled.

Sweetie is very good at the backstroke. She goes fast and has actually swam the entire length of the pool on her back.

I finally bought the girls those turbie twist hair towels and I'm so glad that I did! They get a bath at night and usually their hair gets their pj's all wet. This isn't a problem in the summer but as it gets cooler its not very fun to go to bed wet. Here they are modeling their new after bath look.

Halloween Fun

2 cuties posing in front of the fun Halloween banner Grandma made for us. They both wore their Hello Kitty pumpkin shirts and 'black flowy pants' on Friday. Sweetie is SO excited about not having to wear a uniform anymore!

Popcorn decided to mix things up by being a Princess and wearing her Barbie tiara and Cinderella slippers. More than one person was confused by this.

Sweetie was still Gabriella...

Waiting in line for our food at the trunk-or-treat activity.

Cutie Pie is spitting out a Sour Patch Kid candy...LOVE the look on her face! Yes, I am a totally lame mom and didn't dress her up. In my defense I couldn't find the fleece pumpkin costume for her and besides, it was a little warm for fleece. I'm sure someday she'll look at these pics and complain that I didn't dress her up...oh the life of a mom!

At home with some candy. We didn't go door to door around our neighborhood, Sweetie started answering the door to give away candy and Popcorn joined in. They thought that was more fun than trick-or-treating. Awesome!