Trunk or treat

The "trunk" decorated by Chelsea and mom. We had bubbles blowing too, and dad and I passed out the candy to all the kids.

My little baby girl

The trip to the Doctor went well today although there has been no progression. The doctor was happy with what he saw. She weighs 7 pounds 12 oz as of right now. Monday morning, if by then I haven't had the baby, I will go back to the dr's office for a non-stress test. I am scheduled to be induced on Monday evening, November 5th. It's looking likely that I will have my baby on mom's birthday! It will be so fun! I think our baby girl will enjoy having the same birthday as grandma. It will be special. Anyway, here is the picture of her face! I included another picture for some help in deciphering where everything is.

At McDonalds

Cute Autumn at McDonalds.

Train

Autumn doing the train at dance class.For more videos of her dance class on October 27th, go to the following link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8015508138123328574

Halloween Ballet Class

It was dress-up day at dance class on Saturday. All the girls dressed up in their Halloween costumes. It was so adorable. Of course, it made all the girls a little rowdy as well. They had fun though! I also added some pictures from McDonalds. Chelsea and Autumn have a tradition of stopping there before dance class to grab some breakfast. Autumn loved her little "Bee" toy.

More Autumn Dance Class Videos

Autumn's Dance Class

Since Chelsea moved and doesn't have internet at the moment, I decided to post some pictures and videos of Autumn I took at her dance class on Saturday. It was my first time going to watch her dance and she was SOOOO adorable. She did pretty much everything her dance instructor told her to do. Precious.

Our brother the Pizza Delivery Man

After a fun night out on the town (Adam and I went to go see Antsy McClain perform in the Woodsongs old-time radio hour at the Kentucky Theater... see my blog)Adam and I ordered some Pizza from Sol and watched Heroes. Fun night :) Here's Solomon at our door with the Pizza he made himself special for us. 16" half hamburger/half pepperoni. Always a treat!

I was able to take this rather adorable picture of Charlie the other day and thought I would share his ever-smiling face with ya'll. He is typically a happy booger. I am really enjoying the fact that he goes down with Kade- by that I mean that he's ready for bed at 7:00 p.m. Wahoo!!! Now if only he would sleep ALL NIGHT like his big brother!!! His day will come, I know...

Anyway, here is the cutest little baby boy in the world!

Signing Time! Potty Time!

Well, Kade caught me off guard yesterday. We've been watching a few videos- Baby Signing Time and Signing Time- to help Kade communicate with us. It's been really helpful, and Kade can tell us a lot of things that he wants, or point out cars and cats and trucks and airplains and dogs, etc. It's pretty cool and I'm glad we've taught him some signs. Anyway, he has learned the sign for toilet (or potty). We talk a lot about potty and toilets and what people do on the toilet (when he comes and joins me as I am going... I know... TMI!) anyway, we were up at my in-laws yesterday, and they have a little kiddy potty for my nephew. Kade went up to my father-in-law, and also me, waved his little fist (the sign for potty), and then went and sat on the little potty! Well, although he's not completely ready, he's getting there! So we'll be getting a little potty seat soon so Kade can "practice" going in preparation of potty training. He actually sat on a stool this morning with Aaron and was "reading" the newspaper, just like daddy! It was cute... I can't wait. I am dreading having to buy diapers for two (we've been given a lot of diapers for Charlie.)

The power of punctuation!!!

Honk Honk!

I taught Autumn a new trick tonight. It was adorable. I honked her nose and she copied me... except she was honking everything including my shoes. I finally got my camera out and caught her doing it a few times.

Missy- I keep meaning to tell you how much Kade loves that teddy bear. We sqeeze the paw of it almost everyday, at least twice. And then he'll kiss it on the nose. Sometimes he'll roar. Too cute.

Kade has become obsessed with cars, and anything with wheels. The funny thing is is that he was born with this love of cars. I have never pushed cars on him, nor did I teach him to "vroom" with cars, and yet it is instinctual. Talk about nature vs nurture. Cars are just something he loves. At my in-laws house, where they have a lot of bigger toy cars and trucks and trains, Kade will run around their big room around the island pushing a car or truck with my nephew Hunter for hours on end. He plays with little match box cars for hours on end at home, running them up my arm, leg, and all over the tables, vrooming and putting. And this afternoon he was pushing the little train all over the house. He would get so frustrated when the little box cars would come apart. So frustrated, in fact, that I sent him to bed. He seemed rather too tired to be awake. He only gets crabby like that when he's tired. Anyway, I got some video of him pushing his "choo-choo". It's cute.

He also likes Frosted Mini-Wheats... I finally gave him his own bowl instead of cherrios. So, a picture of him eating cereal. So funny.

I also got a cute little video of Charlie talking. He's getting so big!!! Almost three months old now. He likes white noise when he sleeps, as we discovered yesterday. He's napping better for me today as long as it's not quiet. He's in my room on the bed right now, with the fan of our AC running. It's the longest he's napped all week! I have attached some pictures of Charlie that we took over the past couple of days also, since I had them handy. The ones where he is wearing white was when we were watching conference, and the one with him laying on the couch was this morning.

As a side note to Kade's "woohoo"-ing, it doesn't matter what kind of "trick" we are doing, flipping him around, spinning him on chairs, him going down slides, he always "woohoo"'s. it's pretty dang cute.

Well, we have the other laptop for a couple of days, which means I can load some video and pictures. Kade is now officially 18 months old!!! What an exciting milestone (I keep wating to say landmark or landstone... goofy brain of mine!) he can now go into Nursery officially. ::WHEW!!!:: Charlie, Kade, and Aaron (who is home sick after puking his guts out multiple times last night... it's a wonder he has any guts left!) are all taking naps now. I should take a nap probably, too, but... I need to use this opportunity.

Charlie is really starting to talk. I remember Kade talking, but Charlie's coos are much higher (Kade had a low voice) and he talks for what feels like is such a long time. I only got a couple of coos on there, but you'll hafta live with that until I get a better video of it. Kade is also saying more words- "Baintee" (blankie), "Papoh" (apple), "gpsh" (grapes), "baooo" (balloon), "woohoo" (video of that), and some other cute words... "Truck". He knows the word MOM, but I have yet to hear him call me that. Aaron says he does...?

There are a bunch of odd-ball pictures, but lemme see if I can comment on them, albeit will be rather random and not in order. Kade wearing MY shoes (two videos also of that. I CAUGHT him walking around in them, I did not put them on him!), Kade giving himself a moisturizing treatment with BUTTER, Kade playing in the bathtub (he LOVES his baths!), Kade reading scriptures on my bed (once again caught in the action), Kade playing UNDER his bed (Dad taught him that one... it's one of their favorite places to play), Charlie on the floor, Kade being VERY thirsty, Grandma Matthews and the two boys (as we were cleaning our carpet), Kade playing the piano at church (he always "conducts" when he sees a piano or a hymn book... he knows it's music and when we sing at church I sometimes "help" him conduct to keep him still) and Chipmunk Kade stuffing grapes (the record is 5, I think) into his mouth.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Dad is turning 15! Wait... how does that work? LOL! Anyway, sorry about the darkness of the video... it was, well, dark.

And Last But not least.... A couple of "Family Pictures"

I figured while I was at it, I would show some pictures from Autumn's first day of Dance Class...

Hey!!!! Yes, I managed to find time to finally start doing this.... It has taken me a while to upload all of my pictures. Well... anyways, let me contribute to my little pumpkin noodles birthday party!!! Here are some pictures... It was a fun little party.....