Happy Halloween

Halloween this year was very interesting!! The Friday before Halloween we joined Nathan's family for an outing to the Chattahoochee Nature Center. There, we all went on a Halloween Hike. Wyatt had a blast, and is still talking about it today. Everyone wears their costumes and you go for a hike through the woods. There are people dressed up throughout your hike as animals and you stop to listen to them talk about the animal they are portraying. I had no camera, so these photos are stolen from Aunt Kriya's blog. I'm getting pretty good at stealing photos from her! :) Thanks Kriya!!! I finally got a new camera, so hopefully I can now take some of my own!!

Here we have all of the cousins.....


Here is the whole gang before heading to the hike!!! Everyone has really big smiles, don't they??
On our hike....

And afterwards, more fun to be had.....


Nonna with Baby Wade (or, as Wyatt informed me....he is no longer a Baby, but is now his Buddy)




On Halloween, we went to a friends house for the UGA football game and then out to trick or treat. Trick or treating did not last very long though. The first person to approach Wyatt was a growling wolf and he decided immediately he was not into it this year. He had just gotten over the Swine Flu days earlier and we thought it was best to not have him out in the drizzle anyways so it all worked out.

Despite not getting TONS of candy, he ate just enough to bust trough his costume. Notice his belly area in this pic....

A new baby in our house??

Wyatt has been requesting a new baby for our house. He told my mom and I that he would like another Baby Sister. His reason? He wanted a new sister to wrestle. The request for a sister lasted about a day, and he moved on to wanting a brother. He even went as far as shedding a few tears today because I could not confirm that we would or would not be giving him a brother.

Below is a picture of Wyatt with our first born!! :)


Oh, and this was suppose to be Wyatt in his school pictures today. I won't have any pictures to share, however, because Wyatt refused to take a school picture at school today. When I went to pick him up, his teacher told me that he refused to take a picture. It was quite comical because Wyatt just looked at me with a frowning face while 3-4 little 3 year old boys tried to explain to me just why he couldn't take it. "Wyatt didn't like the big light in the room." "Wyatt didn't like the man." Wyatt's excuse, "Well, Mommy, See.....I was just too tired today." What can you do??

98-98-60ish

Yesterday we had Lauren's one year doctor apointment. Yes, I am over a month late. I've been putting it off for a few reasons. 1. I have been dreading the vaccinations for Lauren's sake. I have such mixed emotions about them. 2. When I made the apointment earlier, Wyatt cried when I told him that Lauren would be getting shots. I dreaded having to take Wyatt and Lauren to her apointment. I knew she would be a handful and was worried about how it would be with him crying too. He didn't want to see his Baby Sister get a shot. So, with my mom in town, I bit the bullet, made the apointment and we went to the doctor. Since we have been home, Lauren has been running a 100-102.2 fever. :( My poor baby. Don't you just love vaccinations??

Overall, Lauren is in good health!! She is still extremely tall, but her weight percentile dropped. She is in the 98% for height and head circumference. Her weight fell just above 50th percent!!

Might a decrease in her weight percentile be from sharing all of her food with Macy??

Our Working Boy

Wyatt's imagination is quite interesting lately. For the past several days, he puts on his working shoes and he heads to work. You might ask where such a young boy might be employed?? Well, he works for himself in the comfort of our own home. His office is in our office off the foyer. Today his job was to be a golf course creator. Here are some picks of him at work. Notice the picture on his desk.....his baby sister!!!

Here he is admiring the details of other courses and making executive decisions about his future course.....

Here (the human head kid from Jerry McGuire) is exhausted from a long day at work!!

Baby Girl is 13 months

Again, I can not believe it. We are already one month in to Lauren's second year of life!!! Our precious little girl is so much fun right now. She is adding words weekly, walking, climbing, playing and mimicing everything!!!! She loves to talk on the phone. She picks it up, tucks it between her chin and shoulder and says, "Hi." She still LOVES Wyatt on most days!! :) They have definitely perfected the screaming at each other.....something I really didn't think I would experience until she was 2 or so. She loves the playground. She climbs up the stairs, walks straight to the slide and sits to go down. It's as if she has been walking for months and months. Not only is she adding words, but she is modifying her old words. For example, "DaDa" is now "Dad-dy" and "Da" (dog) is now "Dog-gy." Every day she shocks us with the words she attempts. Yesterday she attempted Thank You (it actually sounded pretty good), and she screamed ChooChoo when a train went by our neighborhood park. Both words we didn't know she knew. She is still as lovable as always, and loves to snuggle and share kisses. She is also still very social. She loves to wave to everyone and to carry on a babbling conversation with anyone who will listen.

Now that Lauren can walk, she thinks she should be running....

In action at the playground...

Waving good bye while screaming "bye" to my mom......

Taking on Wyatt's sports.....baseball......

And golf.......