Happy Halloween and a Skeleton too!!!!

Here are Maddy and Colby all dressed up for Halloween. Maddy is Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz and Colby is the Lion. Unfortunately, Maddy has been sick the last couple of days, so we'll probably just let her trick-or-treat at a few neighbors' houses and that is it. Colby's costume does have a head piece to it, but his head is so large, I couldn't get the head piece to fit! So, we won't be using that part of the costume :-) It will be a pretty low key Halloween around here this year with Maddy being sick, but I don't mind as it is cold and windy out, so I think I'd rather be inside :-)

I was at Hy-Vee today buying some Halloween candy for the trick-or-treaters and saw this skeleton guy on sale for $5 and I just couldn't resist! Maddy thinks he is scary, but I like him....so, I guess that is my splurge for the week!

Grandma Barb Visits!

We had a great week with Grandma Barb!! She came and visited and spent time with the kids, went to Maddy's Halloween party at preschool and just hung out for the week. She even let Jeremy and I get out a couple nights which was very nice!!! We went out and watched the Iowa game one night and then went out another night for a drink and appetizer at a local restaurant. It was a lot of fun spending time with Grandma especially since we are home so much more now....it was nice to have some company around!! Thanks for coming Grandma and for all your help with the kids and house!!!!!!! Come again soon!!!!!


Maddy's Halloween party at preschool. Of course she has to be right next to her teacher ;-)

Playing a game at her party

Grandma and Colby playing

Grandma and Maddy having some tea (and hot chocolate) in "breakable" cups :-)

Colby has a friend over......

Jeremy's best friend Jason, (whom he grew up with in Norwalk) and his wife Cari had a little baby boy, Ethan 1 week before Colby was born. It is funny to see Colby and Ethan together and how much they have both changed in the past 8 months. Jason and Ethan came over to visit the other day. Colby loved having him here and kept looking at him and laughing! It was really cute!

Colby is 8 Months Old!!

Colby turned 8 months old on Friday! I am a little behind in my posts as we were all pretty much under the weather last week. Jeremy had to stay home from work a couple days to take care of all of us sickies :-) We are doing much better now, though!! Some updates on Colby:

He got his top and bottom 2 teeth in the last few weeks. He has been waking up A LOT this past week from an ear infection and I think his top 2 teeth are bothering him. We are hoping this passes soon ;-) He is crawling all over and pulling up on everything! He seems to be about 2 months ahead of Maddy in these areas. She was over 9 months when she started doing all of this! I'm wondering if he'll be an earlier walker as well.......who, knows???!!! He is definately keeping us busy these days, but is so happy to be able to move around and get to his toys. Our next project is to get some more baby-proofing done!!

All the babies........and Colby

Relaxing Day....

Here is Maddy and Colby watching Baby Einstein together..........They really do just LOVE each other, it is really cool to see -- It's funny how Maddy can have fun with any of Colby's little toys or movies and he can have fun just watching Maddy go about her day.

Colby turns 7 months and Maddy turns 4 1/2!!!

Last Wednesday, the 16th, Colby turned 7 months old and it was also Maddy's 1/2 birthday!! She was pretty excited about it! We had a mini-party and bought a little bag of balloons and had fun that night just blowing up balloons and playing around the house. Colby is changing so much -- he is sitting up very well; still working on crawling; laughing at almost everything Maddy does and eating all different types of baby food. He takes 2 naps a day and sleeps well at night. He is really starting to show his personality so it's been really fun.