"I love Halloween" "I love Halloween"

Addie really embraced trick or treating tonight. She was really into it. She declared after only 3 houses, "I love Halloween" and skipped down the sidewalk singing it. She said "trick or treat" to every house. She also said "fank you" to each house and by the end of the night had shortened "Happy Halloween" to just "Halloween."





Here's some pics from the parade at daycare as well as from tonight's festivities. The last one is called "What happens when a 2.5 year old is really quiet in the backseat of the car, after Mommy didn't realize said 2.5 year old grabbed the Hallowen make-up kit."

Walking with Daddy trick or treating

After trick or treating


With Savion, her boyfriend, at the parade

The steps continue...

Ben took 6 steps at lunchtime today. Slowly, but surely he'll get there :)

I finally decided on a theme for his birthday party. Nothing like waiting til the last minute right? Get this- the cake pan I was going to use has been discontinued! Even though every craft store's website shows them carrying it, they don't! I even went to Sheila's Party World and called Canon's! If Canon's doesn't have it, no one will. The woman there actually told me about it being discontinued. She said my best bet was to find it at a garage sale. WHAT? That was a weird suggestion, I thought.

I managed to buy just about all of the decoration thingies today. It'll be cute, once I get it all worked out, along with what food we'll serve and oh yeah, after I clean this house.

Excited tomorrow is Ben's first Halloween. I can so clearly remember last year's Halloween and being ready to have Ben. One week later I did. :) We have a busy day running around tomorrow, so everyone can see Addie and Ben in costume. We also have the "imagination parade" at daycare (since they can't celebrate 'Halloween'). I am really looking forward to that and to seeing all of the costumes there.

Steps!!

Yahoooo!!! Ben took 2 steps twice tonight! He was so thrilled with himself and the applause he received from Addie and me! Unfortunately when Brian got home (late) from work, he wasn't so interested in performing.

I just got off the phone with Addie's pediatrician. She agrees to keep Addie on the antibiotic. She ordered a bunch of bloodwork for her to get done. She also is giving us a prescription for a suppository emergency thing that we are to administer if she has another one that lasts 8 minutes long. Typically they are administered after 5 minutes, but since she came out of the 8 minute one on her own, we should wait 8 minutes. If we ever have to use it, we must call 911.
If Addie still has a 100 degree fever on Wednesday, after I stop giving her the preventative doses of Motrin, then I am supposed to call the doctor and we'll get a chest x-ray done to rule out pneumonia. Although the chance of her having pneumonia on the 19th, then having no fever up until the 27th is almost impossible, according to the doctor.

I'll keep you posted.

Pumpkin carving

From the left: Muddy's, my Elmo (baaaad), my Mickey Mouse, Guppy's, Aunt Gail's dragon (awesome!), my funny other one, Addie, Onkteb's

Surrounded by her new favorite things

Isn't this an adorable picture?

Addie enjoyed getting to blow out the candles in Muddy and Guppy's jack-o-lanterns before they left.

Here's cute video of Ben and Muddy.

Addie is on an antibiotic now. We'll see how she does. She is running a fever tonight, so we're on the Motrin and Tylenol. Wish us luck!

Seizure #3

Addie just had another febrile seizure tonight. Brian and I are becoming experts at this. She woke up from a nap burning up, Brian gave Motrin, I came down from putting Ben to bed, felt her head and gave her Tylenol too. Five minutes later she was seizing. This time she threw everything in her stomach up. Then instead of falling asleep for an hour, she was just really loopy and out of it. NOT FUN! We're taking her to the on-call ped tomorrow at 11:45, to figure out what the infection is. UGH, I HATE THIS PART OF BEING A PARENT. Nothing worse than seeing your child hurt and sick.

Other than those late developments, we had a nice day. It poured here until around 1pm. We went to Ilka's Halloween party with the kids in their costumes. Of course, they stole th show. Even after the costumes came off, Addie entertained in her usual way. Then we had dinner at Applebee's and had 4 different couples/groups come up during the course of our meal to say what beautiful, fun and well-behaved children we have. That felt great.

Pure delight

Notice the Dora pjs Ben is wearing? Addie thought it would be cool to switch pjs tonight. She was wearing his dinosaur pj top earlier, and he's wearing her Dora one.

The kids are hysterical. Ben is so funloving. Addie is a hoot. She walked up to Miss Xiafen at daycare and said, "Oh my goodness, I love your hair!" today. Miss Xiafen also informed me that Addie is the only one in her class who during circle time accurately names all of the colors, shapes and seasons.

Brian also called me to tell me that Addie and Ben are virtual twins. He was looking at his digital picture frame (best gift ever!) and saw a picture of Addie almost a year old. He said it was Ben looking back at him!

Addie and Ben get to spend a lonnnnnng day with Muddy and Guppy tomorrow. Luckily for me, it's the last time I have to be far away for a while.

Pure comedy

So Addie has come out with quite a few zingers today....enjoy!

1) We were walking up the stairs and she was carrying a foam Dora cutout that's for the bath tub. She dropped Dora on the landing and immediately said, "Oh no, Dora! Are you ok?" She asked again, "are you ok?" I told her Dora was fine. She picked her up and matter of factly said, "We need to go to the hopsible." Maybe Dora had a seizure?? :)

2) Muddy and Guppy were kind enough to watch them today while I ran into work to get some things together for my continuation of Hell week. I wasn't 5 minutes away when my cell phone rang. It was Muddy questioning if I had anything I wanted to tell them. Not off the top of my head at the moment, was my response. Apparently Addie had just had this dialog with them: "You made a mess." "Who did?" "You and Guppy." "Where?" "At my house." "No we didn't" "Yes you did. You made a mess with your soda cans." Let me for the 100th time reaffirm that neither Brian nor I have told Addie that Muddy and Guppy leave messes of soda cans when they come over. That was just pure Addie putting the world together. Come to think of it, maybe she is right.....

3) Muddy and Ben were playing the piano and Addie was in the other room. Addie stormed into the room with the piano and demanded, "What you are doing?" Muddy told her "we're playing the piano." Addie retorted, "Keep it down" and even gestured to bring the volume down!

Still no official walking from Ben. He's a dancing fool. He dancing standing completely on his own, bobbing up and down. He just needs to realize he can do it. I got video of it today, but probably won't have the time to upload it tonight.