Halloween... then and now

Halloween back then in 2007...





... and now Halloween in 2008...




Happy Halloween everyone!

GIve a Mom a Muffin

This is how it's been going lately...

If you give a mom a muffin, she'll want a cup of coffee to go with it. She'll pour herself some. Her three-year-old will spill the coffee. She'll wipe it up. Wiping the floor, she will find dirty socks. She'll remember she has to do laundry. When she puts the laundry in the washer, she'll trip over boots and bump into the freezer. Bumping into the freezer will remind her she has to plan supper. She will get out a pound of hamburger. She'll look for her cookbook. (101 Things To Make With A Pound Of Hamburger.) The cookbook is sitting under a pile of mail. She will see the phone bill, which is due tomorrow. She will look for her checkbook. The checkbook is in her purse that is being dumped out by her two-year-old. She'll smell something funny. She'll change the two-year-old. While she is changing the two-year-old the phone will ring. Her five-year-old will answer and hang up. She'll remember that she wants to phone a friend to come for coffee. Thinking of coffee will remind her that she was going to have a cup. She will pour herself some. And chances are, if she has a cup of coffee, her kids will have eaten the muffin that went with it.

Pumpkin Patch

We took the babies to another pumpkin patch and got some more pictures. Enjoy!










I guess Madaleine was giving us a preview of all the many faces she will make in her adolescent years! HA!

Little Man

I love these two pictures of Gavin. I can't believe that my babies are starting to look more and more like little kids! My Dad always called Gavin his "little man", and I think these two pictures show that he now indeed is a little man... not the little baby he once was (although he will always be Mommy's baby forever!) I love you Gavin and I miss you Dad!

Mischievous Monkeys

The babies love Gerber Puffs. I guess that I left the container on the couch or something because this is what I saw... little mischievous monkeys.

You can see the culprit in the background there... he is the one who apparently got the lid off of the container and made the feast on the living room floor. And of course the puff piglet (Maddie... that girl loves her puffs!) is never far behind

Little Stinkers (literally!)

So we have been having some issues lately... some very stinky issues! I will first start with Gavin since he was our first stinker that was born. Our babies are very "regular" babies. It never fails, both babies poop at the same times every day... no joke. Last week sometime I was talking on the phone with my sister. I could hear in the background one of the babies pushing. I thought to myself, "Gotta change that when I'm off the phone." So I continued with my conversation until I see this brown spot on the carpet. I immediately knew what it was and told my sister that I needed to get off the phone. It was obviously going to be a messy job since it had already come out of the diaper, and I needed to get my changing pad out which was in the kitchen in the diaper bag. Both babies were on the other side of the room playing with toys very contently, so I thought it would be okay to leave them there while I was getting the changing pad. Keep in mind that my kitchen is like 10 steps away from the living room... not very far at all. When I get back into the living room with the changing pad, Gavin had already found his way over to the "brownie" on the floor. He had it all smooshed in his hand and he was eating it!!! AAHHHH! Meanwhile Maddie decides that she needs to get in on the fun and is crawling over to all the action. I quickly thought to myself, "Better to have only one baby eating poo than two" so I grabbed Maddie and put her in the exersaucer before she could get to it. I then grabbed Gavin and ran him to the bathroom and washed his hands and mouth (and then brushed his teeth...yuck!). I couldn't believe it! My Mom and sister always teased me about when I was a baby doing similar things, but I thought for sure that my babies would never do anything like that! And just in case your wondering, Gavin was the one with the dirty diaper, so at least he was eating his own poo... does that make it any better!?!?
So I'm sure you have guessed it already... yes I have a story about our second little stinker as well. I left both babies with Daddy while I ran out really quick to do something. Like I said before, the babies are very regular, so I warned Len that Maddie was due to do her business. When I got home Len said, "You will never believe what happened!" Immediately I knew this was going to be another poo story (a mom's intuition never fails)! Maddie has learned how to pull the tabs off of her diaper and get her diaper off. Len told me that Maddie made her way over to the dinning room like she always does to play with her jungle gym (aka kitchen table). The next thing he knew he sees his little girl with her diaper off and stomping in her poo that was all over the floor! He figured better to have just one baby in poo as well, and caught Gavin before he made his way over to all the fun. What is it with those babies??? They are fast little stinkers... and I love them and their messes!

Yet Another Halloween Costume Picture

Check out our sneak peak!

We took the babies for their 9 month pictures last weekend (even though they are 10 months old today!) Check out a few of the pictures from the session. Go to www.sunkissedphotos.blogspot.com
Gavin would not smile for anything in any of the pictures! He was to busy taking it all in! Maddie of course was basically posing for every picture she took! Two very different personalities!

Winter Coats

I love the fall/winter seasons, so of course I am going to love playing dress up with the babies as the weather changes. Here they are in their new coats... so precious! When I put the hats on the babies, they both looked at each other and started cracking up laughing... it was soooo cute to watch!

Ragga Muffins for Halloween!

The babies are absolutely ADORABLE in their Halloween costumes! Gavin is a Ragga Muffin Sailor and Maddie is a Ragga Muffin Dolly. I first got Gavin's costume in the mail, then about two weeks later received Maddie's... so if your wondering why I didn't get pics of them together in their costumes that's why. Check back soon though to the blog... we will be taking them to get pictures at the pumpkin patch with their costumes!

Dewberry Farm!

We recently took the babies to Dewberry Farm. It was a lot of fun! I love the fall season, and I love family traditions. I look forward to going back to the farm every year and getting to do more as the kids get older. This year we stuck to the basics... we went out to the pumpkin patch and got lots of pictures. As the kids get older there will be more to do, like the corn maze and the camp fires. Over all we had a great day. I was amazed at how great the babies did. Even though it was a little on the warm side, the babies had a great time with no melt downs!

I love this picture of Maddie showing off those pretty eyes and chubby checks!


The babies love to ride on their Daddy's shoulders.... they especially love to mess up his hair


"Hey Dad, don't tell Mom I'm playing in the dirt!"


Maddie and Daddy on the hay ride to the pumpkin patch


Gavin and Mommy on the hay ride


Here they are picking their pumpkin. Poor Gavin was stuck wearing one of Maddie's hats all day because the one I brought for him was to small!


"Okay Gavin, you can have that pumpkin... I'm going for the big one!"


I can't believe it, we got a picture of all four of us looking in the same general direction! It's a miracle!


Madaleine discovering that hay doesn't really taste that great.


A picture on a tractor
Daddy: "Just hurry up and take the picture"
Maddie: "I didn't even want to get up here"
Gavin: "How in the world are we going to get down off of this thing"


HA!


Our first little pumpkin sitting in the pumpkins...


Our second little pumpkin sitting in the pumpkins...


And you guessed it... both of our pumpkins sitting in the pumpkins!


The car ride home...


was so peaceful!