Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Carving Pumpkins

Last night we carved pumpkins (or Casey and I carved pumpkins, I should say). Caiden and Paige both enjoyed scooping out the seeds, but neither would stick their hands inside the pumpkin. Too slimy, I guess! Paige kept calling them apples. It was pretty funny. After we were done we put candles in them and put them out on our porch. The kids had fun looking at the glowing pumpkins. I love Halloween and Caiden is now old enough to understand it and get really excited about it. I'm sure Paige will get excited as soon as she sees how much candy she will get!




Friday, October 24, 2008

That crazy girl!

I've learned with Paige that if you don't see or hear from her for more than 10 minutes at a time, it means she's into something. Usually it's food that she gets into. If I leave anything out on the counter (crackers, chips, etc.) she climbs up and grabs it and then hides in the corner and eats it. If I catch her in the act she immediately hands it over. (I must have a good you're-in-trouble look.) But this time it was the Vaseline. I found Paige with gobs of Vaseline smeared all over her head and face. At first I was angry, but then decided I needed a picture of this. Now the struggle is getting it out of her hair! I've shampooed it 4 times and used dish soap twice. Her head is still a greasy mess!


What you can't see in this picture is that Paige actually has about 8 ponytails in her hair. She loves to bring me her rubberbands (aka "pretties") and put them in her hair.

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Sleepy girl

Paige is going through that awkward stage of trying to give up her nap. If she does nap, then she's not tired at bedtime and if she doesn't she's incredibly grumpy all evening, and...well, you know how it goes. So we've pretty much said good-bye to naps, but occasionally I will find her asleep on the floor in the most random places. On this particular day, I was walking up the stairs only to find Paige sound asleep at the top. A few days before I found her asleep next to the computer desk. Wouldn't that be nice to just lay down and fall asleep wherever and whenever you felt like it?