Helper

I thought that having Wyatt gone every morning would be hard on this little one, but I really think she loves the one on one time. I can't say that I always love having her under foot all day, but she is getting to be a great little helper. We still sped time together, but are actually accomplishing things at he same time.

Halloween

I'm not good at buying new costumes every year, so my poor kids were dragons again this year. I actually borrowed a princess dress for Isla, but she wanted to be just like Wyatt.

We were invited for a spooky dinner and games at the Pratt's for fhe. My kids are lucky to have friends with such cool parents. It was a fun night.

Halloween day Wyatt had a party at school, and some moms with little ones met at the church nursery for snacks and play time. In the afternoon while we waited for Brett to get home, I took the kids to the mall for some warm (mommy friendly) trick or treating. I hadn't thought of it until I saw some posts from other parents on Facebook. It took us under an hour to get through the whole mall, and they came home with more candy than they needed.

Brett took them out in the evening. It was cold and wet and Isla lasted 15 minutes before wanting to come home and help me hand out candy.

What do you do with the candy? It is way too much for anyone to eat, but I know from buying my own to hand out that it's expensive stuff to just discard of. The only positive thing is they ten to open something have a bite and then are interested in something else, so they aren't really eating much.

Play dates

These two girls are going to be such good friends. The older brothers used to play regularly before Kindergarden got in the way, and we spent a lot of fun summer days with the Pratt's. Now that school has started, Lindsay came up with the FABULOUS idea of a play date a week while the boys are at school, and we alternate locations to get a little break on the week off. It has been wonderful, and very good for Isla to learn how to play with someone her age that we don't let her push around, the way she does with Wyatt.

Potty trained

Isla is 2, but after a few days of UTI symptoms and no real illness, I decided it was time to get her out of the diapers. Wyatt was much easier to train, so after a week of accidents, including peeing on the neighbors trampoline I was ready to give up for a while. Then, in true Isla style, right when I was ready to give up, she 'got' it, and we've been accident free since. Hurray!! I'm all about only changing one bum at a time, so are ready to just change tiny bums from now on.

I had to bribe Isla to do #2 on the potty, and so each time she went I'd let her paint my toe nails. Funny what will work sometimes.

Pregnancy

I have never been very good at allowing myself to be photographed during my previous pregnancies, but I was encouraged this time around by my good friend Sheri to take more pictures and I'm really glad that I have been. I have about 8 weeks left and it feels like I'm waiting to blog about this big event coming up that I haven't updated anything else in my life. I need to be better especially since I want to document the life of this baby and my family once it does arrive.

23+ weeks

18 weeks

18 week baby and belly. Just for Sheri!