One of her favorite places to be!
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Sunday, November 10, 2013
Milestones
While we were in Minnesota we hit some major Young family milestones. Lake drank her first bottle (after weeks of frustration and crying) and Babers went poops on the potty (after months of frustration and crying). This is the prize Adam picked put when Auntie took him to the toy store (Kohl's - we had a 30% off coupon). It's a tow truck "just like Terrys".
Halloween 2013 Part 2
During the ghost costume debacle, Auntie suggested I draw on a skeleton on all of Adams white ghost clothes. Great idea in theory but I knew I didn't have the skills to pull that off. But then he got kind of excited to be a skeleton. A nice skeleton, not a scary one. So I search the stores. No toddler skeletons. No big deal, I can just get some of those toddler pajamas that every store carries with the skeleton bones on them. What I did not realize is that every store sells out of them. Every store. So I start calling and calling ( this is Oct 30th by now) and finally find a pair at a random Carter's in LA. One pair left, in his size. So I race over after bed time before they close (with only two minutes to spare after first going to the wrong store). The next morning I grab some costume make up and bam! He's the cutest skeleton there ever was!
We went trick or treating with the Sommers in their neighborhood which was straight out of the movies. Adorably decorated houses, perfect weather, and a flash mob of neighborhood kids doing Thriller. Best Ever.
Mornings
Lately Adam and Lake both wake up around 7. Adam comes in bed to snuggle and read books before watching tv, and Lake comes in to nurse and hang out. It's the best time of day.
Bacara
A few weeks ago we took a little mini vacation with Lake to Bacara for a wedding. We went wine tasting, had a Hitching Post dinner, relaxed at a beautiful pool, went to amazing breakfast in Santa Barbara and a gorgeous wedding. It was a wonderful weekend. Mimi and Grandad flew out to spend the weekend with Babers, which was so incredibly kind and generous. They had their own weekend of fun too.
Procrastinating Perfectionist
This is what I have been lovingly labeled by my sister and brother in law. Most recently proven by this year's Halloween. For months, Adam had been obsessed with ghosts. He would run around the house scaring us with his boo boos over his head. He would squeal with delight every time we would pull off the blanket and say "oh phew! It's just Babers!" So when it came time for Halloween costumes he knew right away that he wanted to be a ghost. I thought, perfect, what a fun idea that is so HIM right now and super adorable to do a homemade costume from a sheet. So the week leading up to the big Halloween festival at school I started collecting accessories, white tights, white shorts, a headband to hold the sheet in place, and a twin white sheet. Two days before the festival we draped the sheet and cut it to size. It was perfect. Now I just needed to make the eye holes a bit bigger and draw a face. Which could wait until Friday. Then Friday came. Of course I had volunteered to make cutout cookies for the festival, and of course I had not started them yet. So right after Adam decides not to nap, he and I mix up the dough. Until I find ants in the sugar. Ugh. So I pack up both kids (Lake is not happy about this) and we head to Ralph's. I consider for a moment making something more simple. But I cannot bring myself to do it. Halloween cutouts are too cute. So we get back and bake the cookies. Then I decide around 6:00 that we better put the finishing touches on his costume. That's when I realize that there is no way a toddler can actually wear a sheet over his head and function in any real way. Disaster. I try bigger eye holes. I try arm holes. But the poor kid feels so trapped and disoriented under the sheet he doesn't even want to have it on any more. So at 7:00, after some emergency FaceTime with the Hinkles, I call defeat and pack up the two kids again to go to a costume store. On the Friday night before Halloween. With two over tired hungry kids in tow. Yikes. After multiple stops we finally find one that he doesn't end up wearing. Thankfully Alex met us after his dinner so I wasn't totally alone trying to get them home. Adam got a pretzel at target for dinner and Lake got fed in the parking lot. We get home and decide his costume for the party the next day at 9am is just too lame and we pull out all of his fire chief gear. Thank goodness for fire truck obsessions (wish I would have remembered this hours earlier). Then around 10:30 I finally start frosting the cookies. Procrastinating Perfectionist.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Throwback Video
Forgot to post this video from this summer. After Nora was born we drove to Wabasso to see the sights. The toddlers were trying to comfort Nora in the back seat. Hilarity ensued.
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