Trick or Treat

For Halloween this year, Jonah was Woody from Toy Story.

Such a cute guy!

Noah was supposed to be Dash from The Incredibles, but they sent a Mr. Incredible costume instead.

There was much debate as to whether Julia was a strawberry or watermelon.  I'm going with strawberry, but not matter what fruit she is a super cute little sister!

And I was Violet from The Incredibles.

Ready to throw my force field with my mad superhero skills!

Party Time

Mummy is the room mom for my class, so she got to come help with our Halloween party.  Here is everyone in my class all costumed up.  Mrs. Fredell was a Slurpee and Ms. Felloni was a cupcake.

We made a spider web as a group game.

We did marshmallow relays in the hall.  We also did a ghost pencil craft, bozo buckets, ring toss, a word search and snack.  It was a fun party!

I love having mummy around school.  I just can't stop smiling!

A Girl and Her Gran

Pumpkin Time

This year I was part of this strange tradition of cutting up pumpkins.  Now when I say I was part of it, I was trapped in the stroller watching, wearing this really cute hat that mummy's friend, Mrs. Forster made.  Doesn't she have mad skills?

Jonah spent a bit of time off task, hanging out in the trunk.

Then he got on-task and scraped off the "guts" of his pumpkin.

Then he tried to eat the "guts".  Silly brother!

Mummy and daddy trusted Noah with a carving knife so he could do his own carving.

Jonah however wasn't so trusted.

But he made a good end product.

So did Noah with is bat cut-out pumpkin.

Anna made a "happy jack" to match her happy face.

At the end of the evening, this is what we have to show for our efforts.  You should fully expect to see my carved pumpkin next year because I'm not sitting on the sidelines again!

Another picture with my cool hat!

Beans

I love beans!  They taste great, make a great finger food, work as a facial moisturizer and a hair styling product.

Aren't I a cute bean eater?

Alumni

I'm an alumni now at Noah's Ark, so I got to go to the family fall festival this year as an alumni and not a student.  Given my new status, I brought Auntie Leslie along as my guest since she was town.  Here she's posing with Julia.

And here she is with mummy & Julia.

As always, there was a tractor for us to play on.  I was trying to help give Julia the real tractor experience while keeping her from falling out all at the same time.

Jonah really go into the crafts this year.  Really what boy doesn't love glue and glitter?

Anna tried out her arm at the beanbag toss.  You can see her brown beanbag midair.

The whole gang came to the fall fest.  Mummy was remembering the fall fest last year and the fact that Julia was such a tiny baby.  She said that she this year was much easier for her and Julia did seem to have more fun this year.

Auntie Leslie posed with all of us and the tractor.

Here you can see that Julia was having fun more fun this year then last when she was stuck in the Bjorn the whole time.  We love the pouf on her hat too, which she didn't have last year.

One

And on the actual day I turned 1, I was cuter than anything.  I'd been walking for a few weeks - makes me the earliest walker in the family, my claim to fame.  At my 1 year check up I weighed in 20 lbs 1 oz (30-50%) and 29" (30-50%) with a head circumference of 18 1/2" (90-100%).  I checked out reasonably healthy, although I walked away with a prescription for amoxicillin to address the mild ear infection and cold that I couldn't kick since my birthday party.

We had a little "at home" celebration on my actual birthday that involved a cupcake for me.  I really like all this celebration that involve cake!

Party Time

Right before my birthday, I had a birthday party.  Although I didn't have a great time at the party because I was sick, it seems good to start the blog with a happy post that was brought to you by Tylenol, pizza and cake.

Here I am at the beginning of the party, the only time I'd tolerate being put down.  I was at the start of a terrible cold & eye infection.  The good news is that everyone else had a great time and played around Pump It Up ready to celebrate.

Anna braved it up this year and was the only Goodall to try the rock wall.

My beautiful birthday cake.

All of my party friends - (left) Libby, Samantha, a friend of daddy's son, Henry, Luke, Caleb, Anna, Ethan, Ashlyn, Ben, Everett, Grace (middle) Ben, Callie, Kate, me, Noah, Allie, Ben & Autumn (right) Rachel, Benji, Gavin, Tyler, Jonah

By the time the cake had come around, the tylenol had really kicked in so I was able to enjoy myself and my cake.