benched

Blogging has officially been benched for now.

Actually I'm the one that's not really in the game lately. Life seems to be just passing by and I'm in slow motion.

Lots to catch up on one day, but here's a quick update: went back home for 2 weeks and had fun with all our friends and family (and missed those we didn't get to see!), came home, did the sick recovery from vacation thing, Halloween, packed up and headed to South Carolina for Dave's vacation. And now it's apparently Thanksgiving next week. Wait! I didn't even get to celebrate Columbus Day!

It's all been great fun, but now I just want a nap.

And then maybe I'll be back on my game. and get a grip on my life!

cue Zac Efron singing, "getchya getchya getchya head in the game"

Trick or Treat

"Tickateet!" as our Little Bo Peep says.

Anna definitely had a fun Halloween night. I never would have guessed by the occurrences of our Halloween day.

Anna was sick with a cold in the morning, so I loaded her up with some Vitamin C loaded grapefruit to fight that cold like a good mom should. Except that a good mom would remember that grapefruit also contains lots of citric acid and doesn't mix well with a blueberry smoothie for lunch. Yeah, I figured that out when Anna woke up from her nap and threw up three times in her crib, down on the rug and the carpet, and all over me. Just lovely. After giving her a bath, cleaning up the mess, I prayed that Dave would be home soon. I snuggled Anna up in our bed with Noggin thinking we better spend our Halloween watching the Backyardigans. Then she started saying "Tickateet" "Peep" "Canday" Which is her complete sentence for, "I want to dress up like Little Bo Peep and go trick-or-treating to get candy." I had explained this all to her for the past couple of days and she didn't forget. Well, she seemed to be better so I thought we might as well try a few houses. Dave finally came home and wanted to go ASAP because he was embarrassed by our lack of candy to hand out. I didn't buy very much since I thought we wouldn't be home most of the night and so we got wiped out pretty darn quick.

It took Anna all of about 2 houses to get the idea. This girl is a very good observer.

Ring the doorbell.

Look cute.

Wait for the candy bowl to come out.

Reach in and grab as much as you can.

Put in sack.

If bowl is still there, repeat.

She didn't quite get that you say trick-or-treat when you ring the doorbell. Instead she would just say, "Peees" which still got her the same result. I tried teaching her about only taking one, but that didn't quite sink in this year. We'll work on that next year. Luckily most of neighbors were glad to give her as much as she wanted because she looked so darn cute (if I do say so myself.)

We had a good night (after a long day) and I'm so glad Dave was able to come with us. This is actually the first Halloween that we've actually spent together since we've been married! Usually he had a test, or was at the hospital or some other lame excuse. Hopefully this year broke the trend and there will be much more "tickateeting" together in the future. Although, maybe I should wait 5 more years to make that wish! Just to be safe.

Happy Halloween!!!