What?

Wait? It's already November? Mid-November? Seriously? What happened.

Quinn's going to be six in just 10 days. Crazy.

Anyway - Happy Halloween. One of my favorite holidays just came and went super quick.

I'm an All or Nothing Sort of Girl...

When I decide to do something I sort of go all out. For me - it's all or nothing.





So, when I challenged myself to not eat any Halloween candy starting Nov. 1st I knew it had to be all or nothing. No letting myself have a bite of one of the boy's pieces, no choosing just certain ones I can eat. I will eat none of it.

But then today I realized someting. Even after having Mike take an entire bag of chocolate candies to work - If I don't eat any of this candy it will take FOREVER to get it out of the house.

So...

I decided: Each time I "crave" a piece of candy or each time I think about eating one - I will go choose a piece and put it in another bag - to either donate or send to Mike's work. (Any ideas of where I could donate this candy would be awesome. As of tonight there are 6 pieces in there. I'm sure the bag will be ready by the end of the month.)

Weekly Winners - Halloween Fun Edition

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Growing Up...

Our first Halloween as a family of four - I gave our costumes a lot of thought. Quinn wanted to be Buzz Lightyear - so I had that to work with. We figured it out. Since we had a family Halloween party to go to - we all needed something. I went as Little Bo Peep, Liam was a Sheep, Mike was Woody, and Quinn was Buzz. It was absolutely the most perfect family dress-up ever. I worked on finding our costumes in August!




And then there was last year. Quinn wanted to be a firefighter. And what firefighter is complete without his dalmation? So, Liam was a dalmation. It was great. I worked on finding their costumes in September. (I was just a witch, since "slutty firefighter" is really the only option for women.)




And here we are this year. I thought I'd have one more year to dress the family. I thought for sure Quinn would choose either a pirate or a superhero. Pirate - we'd all dress like pirates. Superheros - we'd all pick a superhero (of course, there's that "slutty" problem again. Anyone ever see a decent Wonderwoman costume?) But guess what? Liam can talk now. Really well. And he insisted on being batman and Quinn insisted on being a pirate. After looking for a batman costume, I couldn't settle on any of them. I brought home a Curious George costume and a pirate costume for Liam to choose from. And he picked Curious George.

And so we have - a pirate and a monkey. They go hand in hand - don't they? (And is that saying hand in hand or hand and hand?) Oh and me? I'm going to be a clown. I super cute clown, if you ask me! And Mike - has no plans of dressing up this year - party pooper - that's what he'll be!


Except - guess what? We pulled down the bin of old costumes. Quinn tried on his old Buzz costume and Liam tried on his doggy costume. Looks like we might have a Buzz (I can't believe it still fits him - barely.) and a doggy on Halloween this year! At least they got one morning of use out of their new costumes for Quinn's school party!

I must say. I'm pretty proud of myself for letting this go. What? You may be asking. You see part of me really wants them to coordinate - for us to coordinate as a family. But you know what, we really don't need to. And if these boys of mine decide to wear their old costumes Saturday - that's alright with me too.

Our Halloween Day

I got home from work (where we had two really good parties!) around 3:30ish. And right away Quinn, Liam, and I headed out for some trick-or-treating while Mike stayed home and handed out candy.


After a few houses I thought we'd go drop off Liam and head out for more.
But first we needed to grab a few pictures of the boys. We got Liam to sit there by giving him chocolate.
Later we found out that Liam is, in fact, allergic, or sensitive to, chocolate - he now has a horrible diaper rash. After the pictures Quinn and I ditched Liam and went out for more CANDY! About an hour later we came home, I put Liam to bed, had some dinner, and Mike sat outside with Quinn waiting for more trick or treaters.
I could hear Mike telling the spooky stores and singing spooky songs. "Who has my golden arm? Who has my golden arm?" and "There was an old woman all skin and bones...."

All in all it was a great day - perfect weather, work wasn't too crazy - in fact - everything would have been perfect had I not felt like crap all day. I was feeling better (or doped up on pain medicine) after work, which is why I took the boys trick-or-treating. But then, I sat down while Quinn was outside and it hit me. My face hurts, my nose won't stop running, I keep sneezing, and of course the skin on my nose is all dried up from all the blowing. I called the doc. today, they sent in a prescription, but by the time I dragged myself to the pharmacy it was closed! Argh! Oh - but more good news - we went to some Halloween stores this morning looking for discounted costumes - and I got the best clown costume ever! So cute! I can't wait until next year!

Love that Face

Little Bo Peep Needs to Eat

So a few of you have asked for a family Halloween picture. No such luck yet - the only ones that were taken of all of us were not on my camera, which means I need to wait for them! Anyway, to hold you over here's one of Little Bo Peep and The Lone Sheep.

Also, Little Bo Peep needs to eat. Seriously. I have lost many many pounds due to this elmination diet that I've been on. People at work keep asking me how I'm doing it and I can only say, "Have a Liam." You know, a baby that doesn't let you eat much and for the first 4 months of his life required much walking, bouncing, and swaying. Anyway, at first I was all excited about all this weight loss. And now it's making me a bit nervous. I stopped weighing myself because it was making me sick. I like to lose weight - when I'm working out and trying. But now, I'm dropping pounds, losing my hair, and getting light headed. I've been taking my vitamins (prenatal plus calcium and magnisium). I've been trying to eat more often (and have added almost all fruits and veggies back into the diet). I feel like I'm attempting a Project Fatten Up for myself over here. Or at least a Project Stop Losing Your Hair. You'd think with the amount of potatoes I'm eating that this would not be a problem...

Noooo....

So Quinn's favorite part of Halloween had to be when we were at home waiting for trick-or-treaters. He sat right by the door with the bowl of candy and would get sooo excited when some would walk up to our door. Then seven o'clock came. The time when trick-or-treating would be over. Oh the drama. "Nooo Mommy. More trick-or-treaters are coming. We have to wait. Nooo." How to solve this? I had Quinn blow out the candle in the pumpkin (very exciting) and then he got to put all (six pieces) of the leftover candy in his bucket. This seemed to work, until Thursday morning when he went to the door to wait for the trick-or-treaters.

Happy Friday Y'All

One Buzz Light Year and One Lost Sheep

Mike and I dressed up also.

Woody and Little Bo Peep.

Dorky? Yes.

Fun? Yes.

Trick or Treat?

I saw him coming up the path to our door, so I go to the door, go to open it, and notice he's walking away! What? Further investigation shows the following cause for the interuption in his trick-or-treating:Can you see what's holding him up? Click on the picture to enlarge if you can't. After about a 10 minute conversation, he approaches the door again. I go and open it - and this is what he says, "Hey. Sorry about that I got a little distracted. Trick or Treat?"

Happy Friday!

I'm having some computer trouble - so enjoy this flashback.

This was last year - Quinn was almost two and I was two months pregnant!

One Fall Day

It doesn't get any better than this.

Me Too!

Hey, we like it too.

Sorry for the cheap updates lately...been busy.
Here's a quick one for you -
Quinn's going to be a dinosaur for Halloween. He picked it out himself and is VERY excited. "Na (quinn) Dinosaur." He says over and over. Sometimes he'll add "purple" in front of dinosaur, because that's what color it is.
I bought a witch's costume to wear at work. It was hard to find something that wasn't slutty. There's a lot of slutty costumes available, if anyone is interested.
My classes are going well..and there's two new films to add to the list: To Sir, With Love (an older one, but I enjoyed it) and The Miracle Worker (about Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan) As a child I was obsessed with this story - and the movie made me want to start learning more! I watched the older version with Patty Duke as Helen, but later she stars in the same movie, but as Anne Sullivan, neat, hunh?
That's all folks.