Okay….major blast update.  I’m embarrassed at how long it has been.

Christmas

Molotov, the Cat…Ruler of all

Silly cousins, Ingrid and Mal, in GranMa’s old wigs!

FaFa’s 90th Birthday Bash – January 14th-16th

Fun at the Mall and Latest Belly Shot for January – 1 week and counting!!! 

Hopefully BUD stays put until after February 5th, Superbowl Sunday.  My doctor decided it was okay for him to take vacation during my last week of pregnancy!  But I have a good feeling that BUD will be late to arrive, just like Lucy was.  So no worries!

Here, Ben and  Lucy got a chance to feed the giraffes by hand.  Lucy was amazing….not scared at all!  {While writing this blog entry, Ben is insisting that I make one other point…there was “bad lighting,” and he’s really not that bald…LOL.  So on that note, I’m really not that fat}.

Also, we kept bumping into Graseon, one of Lucy’s school buddies, while at the zoo.  Finally, on the third chance meeting, we were in line for the train.  So we decided to sit together, and the kids had a blast!  They’re so adorable together!

Halloween was a big success for us this year.  We hung some very awesome decorations in the front yard (which I failed to take a picture of), paid a visit to the pumpkin patch at church, carved jack-o-lanterns, made incredible pumpkin pie from scratch with Nanny, and went “Trick-or-Treating” with friends.  Actually, I’m convinced that without her friend Taylor by her side, Lucy would have stood shy and silent at each house we visited.  But, the girls did great together as they took turns ringing doorbells, saying “Trick or Treat,” and then saying “Thank you” as they skipped on to the next house.  After two blocks, they were happy and ready to go home  (amateurs!). 

As you can see, Lucy made a very adorable “Scary Dragon Witch.”  Since her friend Taylor was going to be Tinkerbell, I was afraid that Lucy would want wings just like hers when it came time to dress up and go candy hunting.  So…I told Lucy (who had already decided to be a scary witch) that we could get her wings, and she could be a dragon witch like Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty.  She immediately turned to me and said (while motioning to the top of her head), “Momma, I need horns!”  So naturally my response was, “You’re right!  Dragons need horns.  We’ll get horns too!”  She was very excited!

The problem with cute cartoon Band-Aids is that the kids refuse to take them off. 

We hope it isn’t a permanent scar.