Tigger and a chicken-bawk bawk!

Happy Halloween!!!

Caleb seemed to enjoy his first experience trick-or-treating this year. We went out with our neighbors this evening. Isaac (he's 3) had gone last year and set a good example for how to get the goods. Ellery and I went to about 10 houses and then came back home to hand out our own candy. When Caleb got back with dad, he handed out some treats to the visitors that we had. He seemed to like handing the candy out better than he liked getting it. Naturally, though his favorite part was eating it-especially chocolate-doesn't he take after his daddy!

Here is the best shot we got of the two kids together. It was quite difficult to get them both to sit and smile!

Here's Ellery only 1/2 dressed waiting for the trick or treaters.
And my little Chicken. He chose this costume all by himself-over Thomas and Spidey.
Nice hair-she had just woken up from her nap.

Caleb loves to be in the drivers seat!

Monday night we carved our pumpkin. Caleb got into it a little more this year and Ellery definately liked the goo. She dug right in where he was still a little tenative of the slimy stuff. She even got a taste of a seed (uncooked-eewe!)

He did dig in a little bit.
We actually succeeded in getting them both to look!

The Halloween/Harvest party at my friend Kris' house. The kids age range is 10 years to 5 months. Our "little" group has grown so much in the last year and by march there will be 3 more!

Here we are at Gertens choosing our pumpkins.

Ellery's first hair cut. She behaved really well. Caleb did too. He sat in the stroller quietly watching while the lady cut her hair. I just had to get it trimmed. It was getting a little out of control.

"I love my blankie!"

Happy fall!

Hope everyone is having a good fall. I for one was ready for the change of seasons, I only wish that fall could last until Christmas and then we could have some snow and then after about a month, switch to spring. That's not too much to ask is it? Hope you enjoy the pictures.


Just being silly in the kitchen. Lately, the oven drawer is a draw. We also enjoy taking all the pots and "cooking" with them. Ah, what the heck, he can't hurt them too much!

Isn't she sweet. We are trying so hard to get them to sleep in the same room. We resorted to putting the crib tent back on the crib-this time to keep Caleb OUT!! He woke up at 3am the other night, turned on the lights and hopped in Ellie's crib-waking the whole house! I think he might have landed partially on her because she let out a yelp! After that, we had to take her out of there! Hopefully, with the crib tent, he'll stay out and learn that that is her bed!

The silly little man!!!

At a fall festival. Too bad it rained something fierce most of the day and we didn't get to enjoy it. We did get to check out some animals at the farm and see some tractors-Caleb wanted to ride on them, but the workers said no :(

Ellery's new best bud-the monkey. It's her animal of choice lately.

Our trip to the apple orchard. It was Caleb's first time picking apples and our first hay ride-I think. He enjoyed picking the apples and eating them right off the tree.
Dad and Caleb decided to share an apple. I couldn't resist getting this shot!

They even had a pumpkin patch there. It was a little hard to get them to cooperate for any pictures together though.

They also had a petting zoo there. Caleb loved talking to the goats and mooing at the cows.

He even got to feed the goats some corn. Dad tried to get him to keep his hand open, but he didn't quite understand that and wanted to give them the pieces with his fingers. Thus the picture of them below. He was laughing at the goat when he nipped at his fingers.

The big birthday!

My Baby Girl is ONE!!! I can't believe how fast time flies!!!

She's walking now (as of about 2 weeks ago) and starting to talk, dancing like crazy and making a fast getaway up the stairs any chance she gets!!!



Miss Ellery Lynn-born 9.22.06 at 7:50 a.m. (this is the next morning)


And here she is-my sweet little princess at ONE!!!


Here's Ellery's impersonation of Shrek-it's "Ennie Shrek"!




Our family last year....


and this year!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!! (She just woke up that morning.)

Opening presents. This particular one Caleb picked out himself for his sister and he helped momma wrap it too.

Just after eating supper-She gets a little cranky and impatient when she's hungry.

Here's the CAKE!!!! She didn't quite know what to do when it was set down in front of her, but she got the hang of it once I put a small taste on her lips. She made a good mess-messier than her big bro was.

Caleb couldn't quite wait for his piece-he had to sample some of hers. My mom was holding him watching her eat and he said he wanted to get down so she let him and he ran over and decided to lick her cake. Luckily, she didn't mind.

Here's the only shot I got of her smiling with her cake, otherwise she was intent on eating it only!

"Here, I'll share"

"Whew! That was a lot of work, but I'm still smiling"

Playing with her new stuff this morning.

The following pictures are from earlier this month. I figured that the birthday stuff was more important, so I put those first, but there are some cute pics here so check them out!

I was trying to get a picture with them both smiling, but as you can see, it was one or the other!

Cookin' in the kitchen with mommy! One of the rare times Ellie was alone and able to do things without some help from her big bro!

Ellery's first finger painting. She did most of it on her own, but wasn't too sure of the paint especially how it tasted!

She shuddered when she put some in her mouth. I got video of it and I couldn't help but laugh at her-aren't I naughty!

Here is Caleb by our new tree-he calls it his tree. When we planted it, he kissed it and told it to grow big-with some prompts from mommy.

Being silly!
In the van-his favorite place to be! Before we know it, he will be able to drive! It's so crazy how fast they grow up!