It was a Two Tu-Tu Weekend!

The tiniest dancer? My little ballerina!

She couldn't decide...pink tu-tu or white tu-tu...sooo we wore ballerina costumes all weekend!

On Saturday GiGi came over to hang out and help Daddy while Mommy went to Miss Elise's shower to help celebrate M's future friend "Baby W". M wore her pink tu-tu.

Sunday M wore her white tu-tu to church and lunch at the Sunflower...she skipped trick-or-treating this year...
Clara kisses!!

Doing some stretches...

Practicing second position

Pumpkin Carving Party!

The end of the day can be a tough time for our household. Madelyn has just had all she can take and sometimes it's a battle to make it to bedtime. To combat this, we try to think of things to do during this time period...take a walk, run a short errand, etc. Otherwise, we are literally moving her every 5 minutes from one of her many positioners...the jumperoo, swing, bouncer,bumbo, boppy, activity gyms and so on from the end of the afternoon nap until bath time. Oh, and Clara also chooses this time of day to ask out every 10 minutes! Let's just day this makes cooking dinner a little challenging...

So, you can imagine how excited we were after breakfast yesterday morning to find an email from Miss Sarah inviting us to come carve pumpkins.

M hung out in C's old excersaucer...note to self, don't know where we are going to put one, but another item to add to the aforementioned positioners.

Loving the excersaucer...will she like it as much if we get one for our house? Who knows...

C thinks Pumpkin is tasty!

P escapes...again!

Daddy carves a pumpkin...

and enjoys an adult beverage! What did he carve? An ATM of course!!

Yay! Davis arrives!

Miss Sarah's owl carving

M had a great time...she partied until she passed out! :)

October...the PARTY month!

October was a month of birthdays!

GiGi, Lolly, and Granny all have October birthdays, plus our pals Davis & Carolina!

We celebrated with GiGi by going to lunch at Rudy & Paco's (one of our Galveston faves) and then spending the afternoon with her.

We went to spend the night with Lolly for her birthday and took her the "Howdy" necklace we found at James Avery.

We went to a fun "mickey themed" party at Davis' "clubhouse" and had a great time!

Finally, we wrapped up our birthday party spree at Carolina's house. There was a jumpy castle (some very yummy mac & cheese) and Madelyn can't wait until she's big enough to bounce!

The Birthday boy with his friends.

M - recovering from partying at Davis' house!

Birthday Girl!

Happy Birthday October Babies!!

Mommy & Madelyn Roadtrip!

Last Thursday Madelyn and I took a solo road trip...just she and I on the open road, East Texas bound again. I was a little worried about traveling that far with her by myself for the first time so we reluctantly dropped Clara off at my Mom's for her own weekend get-a-way. Then M and I headed on.

We stopped in Lufkin to have a bottle at Granny's, whizzed through my FAVORITE spot - Ray's Drive In - for a burger & fries...and of course a DP (they have great ice), then continued on. The last leg of our trip was tough. Madelyn cried...and cried...and cried. I turned up the radio and tried singing to her...she cried harder. Nothing to do but grit my teeth and drive. We got to Dad's, where she got kisses from Sir & Granna, then we gave her a quick bath, bottle and bed pronto!

The next day Nanny came to spend the night too! We loved spending time with her.

Saturday we loaded up and headed home. This time we decided to break up our trip at bit. We stopped at Granny's (where M met Cousin Carrie & Haleigh for the first time), and added Gran to our car. Traveling with a back seat passenger makes it much easier! We continued on, but stopped at Lolly's to spend the night and pick up sister Clara.

The next day Uncle Lou came and picked up Granny to take her back to Lufkin.

We enjoyed being able to visit with Granny, Nanny, Sir, Granna, Lolly, KK, Great Aunt Mimi, Uncle Lou, Cousin Carrie and Haleigh all in one trip...whew!