November 2, 2009

My beautiful P2 is 6 months old.  Where does the time go????  It seems like only yesterday we were trying so hard to conceive another child and here I am blogging about said child.  She has been a great blessing to our entire family.  P1 just loves her baby sister, I get to enjoy watching M around his baby girl & his big girl, and I get to snuggle and huggle another sweet P.  God is good and we're so grateful for this child.

Those two photos above were taken on 11-2.  She weighs a little over 14lbs now and I'm not sure of her length.  She's got her two bottom teeth coming up at the same time (poor baby).  They are about half way up!  She's also trying to get up on those knees to get to where she wants to go!  I just bought some baby gates for the house and I think the timing is perfect!  Once she figures it out I know there will be no stopping her! We go to the Pedi on 11-20 for her 6mo check up.  I know, late.  Here are some other pics that I've taken recently of my growing Sweet P!

Halloween Continued

Before we get to Thanksgiving, I better finish posting about Halloween!  Since we're just NOW starting to get over the crud we all have had, I've had no energy to spend anytime on the PC when I get home!!  Now it's Sun night and M is giving me a break by giving P2 a bottle, I figure I better hurry & post about Halloween.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but M and P1 decided they did want to carve pumpkins, so I found the last remaining decent ones and we carved them! 

Here is P1 scoping out the pumpkins!

Here is mine!

This one is daddy's pumpkin.

Mommy's...need I say more?!

TADA!!!!

My girls!

P1 posing with our little scene out front!

The Loot

My favorite part of carving pumpkins, the yummy seeds!  Here they are right after I dried them in the oven.

After they were made happy, recipe ala Martha Stewart (Sweet & Spicy). YUM-O!  I've been making them every year for the last 4 or 5 and they taste better every year!

P2's Party Trick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yBcu8BwIpw

Happy Halloween

Saturday was a really busy day!  I had to go pick up my new glasses that I've been neglecting for about 3wks.  Then P1 and I had to get our hair done.  It had been months since we'd had a trim, so it was much needed!  She got her hair layered and it looks so cute!  She's getting to be such a big girl!  We also goofed around at the mall for a few while waiting to get into the salon.  We saw a cardboard cut-out of 'Edward' & 'Jacob' from Twilight and P posed for a pic with them!  LOL

Since the family hadn't been feeling well, we came home and rested before starting to carve the pumpkins.  In an earlier post, I mentioned that we might skip them and I fully intended to.  Then on Friday, the 30th, M and P decided that they wanted pumpkins!  So I went to Wally World and found two of the best I could find on October 30th!  It was slim pickins!!  After our naps, M and I started to carve them and P1 supervised.  P2 was still sleeping so she missed the festivities. :(   They came out pretty good and I got a lot of pkn seeds out of them so that was a plus for me!  I love making Sweet and Spicy pumpkin seeds!  YUM!   When P2 woke up, I tried to fit her into one of the pumpkins for a picture (got it from an idea from my friend, B) but she wouldn't fit!!   Oh well!  I did snap some pics of her wearing her "Baby's 1st Halloween" onesie and of sister wearing her Alice Costume. 

I did a big mommy foul and I didn't take a single pic of P2 in her costume on Halloween. :(  She did wear it and she actually kept the crown on, but of course I didn't capture it.  She had fun though, I think!  She actually had this stunned, deer in headlights look on her face though.  I know she was thinking: "Why am I wearing this?, WHAT IS ON MY HEAD?  Why are you pushing me around in the stroller, at night?  Who are all these kids running around?  What the heck are they wearing??  I'm cold, why aren't we going into any of those warm houses?  What do they keep giving big sister??  Ya, you people have completely lost your minds!!!!" 

We had fun though, despite the three out of four of us being sick.  The next day we cleaned and got ready for the week ahead.

It's VERY scary to think that this time next year we will have an 8year old AND an 18mo old Trick or Treating with her big sister!! 

My beef this week....

Hypocrites. 

Back home, Halloween was fun.  It was a time when the weather got cooler, the decorations started showing up on the neighborhood streets, we got to dress up and go to school in our costumes, and I got to stay out late at night with my friends roaming the streets & getting candy.  Ahhh, good times.  Now here, in TX, or the Bible Belt...it's "Satan's Holiday".  Huh?!  Never in CA had I heard of Trunk or Treat...or this time of year being referred to as "Fall Harvest" because "Halloween" brings up too many negative connotations.  Whatever.

When I was younger and much into my adult life, my former best friend (long story) is a Jehovah's Witness.  When we were younger, and I'm sure still to this day, her family would get together and have a large family meal on....hmmmm, Easter Sunday....or on the fourth Thursday in the month of November, or on the 25th of December.   But NOOOO, they weren't celebrating the holidays, they didn't believe in the holidays.  They were just getting together and having a family get-together.  Now this may offend you, but what the f*ck?!?!   How convenient that you do the exact same thing we Christians do, but you just call it a different name.  I never understood that. 

So, my point (and I do have one) is that here in the Bible Belt, Halloween at the schools is frowned upon.  There are no Jack-O-Lanterns, no bats, witches, ghosts etc.... but having a pumpkin patch at the school and having hayrides is A-OK?!?!?  Again, what the f*ck?!?!  Isn't it the same exact thing, but just with a happier name????  I just don't get it!!!!!  It makes me angry when religious freaks bend the 'rules' to accomodate their own belief structure.   If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a freakin duck!!!!!!!!  GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!! 

Halloween Eve & We're Sick

I'm just not feeling it this year.  Normally, Halloween is my favorite holiday, next to Christmas.  I haven't even decorated my house.  I think having a new baby, dealing with M's back ailment, and working 40hrs a week is taking its toll on me.  It doesn't help that 3 out of 4 of us have been sick for over a week.  P2 has been sick for almost 2 weeks.  She is getting better, but it's been rough on her.  This crud that she has is awful.  Also, with no antibiotics to give her, there isn't much we can do.  Thankfully she's not running a fever anymore.  M and I both have it too.  I think M is getting better while I'm still fighting a sore throat.  I wonder if I do have strep.  Since I have no time to take myself to the doctor and since I'm not running a temp, I guess I'll never know.

To add insult to injury,  it doesn't help that last Tuesday one of P2's two bottom teeth poked through (sigh).  She's growing up. :(  She's actually getting two at the same time and I feel bad for the little girl.  Not only to be sick and miserable, but throw teething into the mix and you get one unhappy 5mo old.  She's on the mend though.  She was able to stay home with daddy all week so I think that helped her.  I'm happy they got to bond this week. 

Family Pics

A few weeks ago a friend of mine volunteered to take some family photos for us.  It's the first ones we've had done since P1 was about 18mo and the first to include our newest princess.  It's LONG overdue!  Another friend volunteered his BEAUTIFUL garden for the shoot!  

I wish M would have worn 'fake' glasses, but I thought they still came out pretty well!!  The photographer messed around with the pics and I'm not sure I'm going to leave them, but here are some of my favorite! :)