Randomitis

That pretty much sums life up lately...random. Nothing too crazy or exciting, just random and mundane. If T could talk, it's a sure bet she would agree with me, probably add boring, slow, painful....

She's about to be 17 months tomorrow (party at our house!!) and she has definitely got her own little personality, more so than before, if that is at all possible. Along with all the fun things she does, she has a few not so fun things. Like deciding she doesn't need a nap some days. Not fun. Throwing fits when you won't give her the freezie she saw when you opened the freezer (throw herself on the floor, my dog just died fit). Not fun. Thrashing her body around, flipping over, while trying to change her diaper. Not fun.

Luckily her fun things outnumber the not fun things. Reading books, sometimes 1o at a time. Fun. Filling her little coupe car with the goldfish crackers and BBQ sauce bottles from the food shelf. Fun. Playing Ring around the rosie in the living room and watching her throw herself to the ground. Tons of Fun. Letting her try to play the Wii with us. Fun. Playing with the puppies, kitties, rabbits, ferrets and other pets at the pet store. Fun!!

We haven't been out to any exciting places lately, just some play groups, a lunch date, random shopping and a church activity. Of course, no pictures were taken during any of these!! It's hard to take pictures these days because as soon as the camera comes out she wants to take the picture or see the pictures. Either way, she doesn't want to be in front of the camera!

This week T will love the excess of boringness that will happen, especially since she will be stuck with just one parent for most of the week. That's always the most boring. Maybe we can find some fun things to do this week. Or maybe I can teach her how to do laundry? It's never too early to be self sufficient, right?

Hanging out with some friends on Sunday morning.

I LOVE this picture...I have no idea what she was doing!

Playing in the leaves in the backyard.

Don't let this picture mislead you..this is not a look of pure leaf playing happiness...oh no, this is mid scream of terror from being covered in leaves.

Watching the plane fly over the house.

Practicing her photography skills...she still has a way to go before she hits the big time!

That's all for now folks...perhaps we'll have something more exciting to say in a few weeks after we have our Turkey day visitors. But no promises.

Scary Stuff!

T was a little Halloween trooper this year! I think she quite enjoyed going door to door and watching strange people put things into her little plastic pumpkin, well almost everyone, one house sort of scared her when they started with the fog machine. Other than that, she had a grand old time.

We started the day off by going to the Halloween carnival in the Halloween capital of the world. We live right next to it, who knew?? It wasn't quite what we expected but it was fun and T won some little prizes, jumped in a bouncy house, spun the sucker wheel and played a few games.

Throwing the football with Dad...he didn't have very good aim!

Throwing bean bags into the jack-o-lantern, better aim on this one!

Then we went to a little strip mall where they had a Halloween parade.

Basically all the kids lined up at one end of the mall and walked by the stores while the store workers handed out candy. When we were done, the mall gave away free pumpkins. We got a huge one and I spent the afternoon carving it out - another masterpiece if I do say so myself.

The Halloween parade was at 1:00 but T really needed to come home and take a nap, so after a quick lunch out, we came home for a nap.

Walking around at the mall waiting for the candy!

Two very awesome pumpkins!

Due to this new time change schedule, it was still light out at 5:30, but we went to our neighbour's homes for a quick hello and to let T get her first taste of trick or treating. We then went home to warm up a bit and wait until it got a little bit darker. I think her favourite part of trick or treating was shutting every one's door for them as we left. It's her new favourite past time. She has to make sure she shuts every door that's open. She made a nice little haul of candy and we wound up having to use some of it for the kids at our door because we ran out. Luckily she won't mind...she doesn't even know she has candy!! I am sure that will change next year though. We thought she would be more than tuckered out when we got home but even after keeping her up later to try to adjust for the time change she just did not want to go to bed!! Lucky for us.

Rocking the costume

Trick or treating...needs a coat in MN. Luckily there was no snow!