Keeping up with our busy Navy lives....wherever we live :)

Sunday, October 31, 2010

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween!!!!
 1st Thing this morning!! Thought they were cute in their pj's on the couch together, minus Abby coughing!
 Carving the pumpkin Halloween day! Hopefully next year we get around to it a little sooner....oops!
 Showing off her 1st Jack-O-Lantern!! She loved watching daddy light the candle inside!
 All dressed up before trick-or-treating! Maddy wore the ladybug costume that Abby wore when she was 1 two years ago (below!!)
 ABOVE: Cute Abby!! When she couldn't talk back!! I keep reminding myself to enjoy Maddy now before the words come :)
 Maddy had the giggles!
 Halloween HUGS!
 1st house of the night!
 One house had someone dressed as Mickey Mouse! Photo Opp!
Keeping Maddy happy for a bit between houses...the girls were in the double jogger as we walked throughout the neighborhood!

Monday, October 25, 2010

Pumpkin Patch

So we made our 2nd annual trip to Hunt Club farm here to go pick out pumpkins and have a little fall festival fun! It was particularly warm on Sunday, probably mid 70's, but we pretended it was the end of October! The girls had a great time.
 No visit is complete without the petting zoo goats!
 Squatting with a goat!
 Abby was supposed to sit on Elmo's lap, by request, then chickened out at the last minute. So Maddy got to go by herself. She was a little confused or scared....but she didn't cry! Who knows....maybe she recognized him!
 Abby spent more time in the chicken coup this year than the goat petting area. She chased chickens like a monster! Maybe she is bound for a farm one day!
 She loves the "Toy Story" movies. She calls it "special movie" because when we went to see it in the theater, I told her we were going to see a special movie.....things just stick with a 2 year old and you can't convince them otherwise....so when she spotted Buzz LightYear, she kept saying "Special Movie!"
  ABOVE: Last year's family pumpkin patch photo...9 months pregnant with Maddy! She was born 10 days later!
 And this year's family pumpkin path photo! I can't believe they are 3 and 1!!! 
Abby requested to go on the "monkey" ride. As she and Mike got on, I was sitting on the side with Maddy watching and all she did was reach for him and start "talking", so she got to go too! She does not like to be left out of the fun these days! 
 ABOVE: Here's another one from last year of Abby & Mike! I love looking back a year.....she really has grown soooo much in every way. But day by day being with her its harder to tell until I compare!
 Picking out the take home pumpkins!
 She found hers!!
 And then she found Maddy's!
 I swear, the hardest thing with two kids is to get them looking in the same direction and smiling all at the SAME time! So no....it never worked! Good enough though!!

Pre-Halloween Party

 We went to a pre-halloween costume party on a whim this past weekend. Babysitter booked, we were gone! If you don't follow the show.....we dress up like the series "Mad Men". Mike was the main character "Don Draper, Advertising Exec", and I was his wife Betty. It was fast and easy. And didn't interfere with trick-or-treating to come this weekend!

Thursday, October 21, 2010

It all begins.....Maddy is learning to stand on her own!!! What is next and when???

Sisterly LOVE

 In their matching halloween shirts! Cheese!!!
 Double fisting the sippy cups!
 Big sister kisses
 This is their new favorite vantage point for watching shows...on the Dora couch!
Squeeze!!!

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Grma Smith Came to Visit!

Grandma Smith came to visit this past week, and got to spend a lot of time with the girls!
She was here over Abby's birthday, so that was extra special! She got Abby her very FIRST Barbie doll! 
 Aunt Sarah starting Abby on the painting kick! I was afraid of the potential mess, but so far so good and she LOVES it!! So Grandma picked her up some extra supplies and she is painting twice a day. She even is excited when the "accidental" paint on her hands comes right off in the water!
We went for ice cream one night and Maddy got her own FREE baby cone! And of course, she loved it!
 Abby got a special kids sundae with a green dinosaur cookie in it! Here she is taking the 1st bite!
 My big girl!

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Birthday @ School

Abby had her first Birthday celebration at preschool today! 
She said to me this morning...."We're having my birthday again???".....Yes dear!!!
She loved it. She got to wear her birthday hat all day and I brought in decorated cookies that she shared with her classmates after lunch! These are her teachers "Miss Angie" & "Miss Tina"! They are sooo sweet!
So she is officially 3!

Monday, October 11, 2010

....And the presents!

And then there were LOTS of presents!!!
  Grandma Donna's bag of dress up clothes/accessories! A huge hit. Both girls were covered in necklaces and decor in minutes.
 Aunt Sarah's purple dress up tutu & wings!
 Maddy loved dressing up too!




 The girls had a blast!
 And then onto our newest piece of PINK furniture! Aunt Amy got Abby her own personalized pink bean bag chair!
 I'm pretty sure Abby is telling her here "Don't touch my new chair!!!!"
 And she climbs again! 
 Relaxing at last! Her friend Harrison got her a Unicorn "Pillow Pet"! So between that and the bean bag chair, she had it made in front of the tv watching her new "Tinkerbell" movie.
Ooops.....I swear this is Abby's bean bag chair!! But Maddy is too cute!

Mike, Allison, Abby and Maddy Smith

Living life in beautiful........well, everywhere......US NAVY!!!