Happy Halloween- A few trick or treating pics

We had the best Halloween! Now on to Christmas planning. Unfortunately, it looks like blogger isn't meeting my blogging needs anymore, grr. Stay tuned (the 5 people who read my blog), I think I'm switching again. I am not allowed anymore space for pictures on here, so I have to copy and past html code of the pics from flickr now. I guess 5 years of blogging is the limit on this old skool blogging site. It is so much work to blog, when I should be able to do it anytime, anywhere and very quickly from my smart phone. That's why we pay the big bucks for the damn thing. Tumblr here I come!

Darth Vader in the school fashion show

Merida in the school fashion show

9 months

Ingrid is 9 months! She has quite the personality. She wants to do everything herself, including feeding. She rarely wants something by spoon, so I just give her anything she wants in little pieces to pick up. Yes, anything, per the pediatrician. Once again I have a baby on the small side. She is 25% in height, less than 5% in weight. It is pretty easy to throw potatoes, sweet potatoes, apples, etc. in the microwave, so it hasn't been too bad. I just was not expecting this so soon. This actually started the week she turned 8 months. She is saying "Hi" and "Dada" and will say "Hi Dada" and wave to John. I love waking up in the morning; she puts her head right on mine and says, "Hi!" She is pretty stubborn and wants to do what she wants when she wants to. I guess that's pretty typical being my daughter ;).

a little bit of CA fall weather

Ingrid/Amelia

Same outfit, but Ingrid is 8 months and Amelia is 6 months here. I wish I would have remembered to do this a couple of months ago, but it was so cold I didn't realize I still had this outfit in a bin.

 I love how Ingrid is so big, you can't see Amelia while she is on her lap. Her 9 months appt is coming up next week, but I'm pretty sure Ingrid is more than half of Amelia's weight. I don't think she is necessarily that big, it's just Amelia is small.

I'm happy to say, though, that a couple of Amelia's leggings look more like capri length. I think Evan's legs are getting longer, too. He also has a couple of "capri's" now. He got on the scale at the docs yesterday and he heard the nurse tell me he is 30 lbs. He shouted, "Yes!! I get my blue car seat now!"

 I can't believe he remembered me telling him that awhile back. I'm pretty sure they are getting bigger because I tell them if they are big enough next year they can get big kid car seats and go on the Star Wars ride at Disney World.

summer fun pics

soccer star

The best part of a soccer game- the after snack surprise

finally warm out!

soccer pics

The Hearbreakers have had two games so far. It's so much fun to watch them. Amelia is one of the stars of the team, of course. Not that Evan isn't good, he just isn't as into it as Amelia is. And Amelia is FAST. Fast since she was born.

had to throw up this pic from the county fair.

A quick story. I was watching Say Yes to the Dress and this bride was talking about marrying the man of her dreams. They went to a head shot of the guy and I startled and yelled, "Ack!" Amelia said, "What's wrong, Mommy?" I said, "That guy wasn't the best looking guy, I wasn't prepared for it. Boy your brother is going to make a handsome groom someday. Right, Evy?" I nudged him with my elbow. Amelia asked, "What do you mean he is going to be a groom?" I explained that he would marry a girl someday and she would marry a boy. "Aww, but I thought I was going to marry Evan!", she yelled.

7 months!

There is so much going on with the kids and I hate that I have ZERO time in my life right now to write anything down! I just went out and took pics of Ingrid today outside, so I thought I would throw them up on here. I have videos, soccor pics, funny stories, etc. Soon!!

I just can't believe we had her 7 months ago. Time is going very fast now. A sure sign of getting old. Waa, waa.

Milestones for Ingrid

I just wanted to show everyone Ingrid sitting and almost crawling. I'm thinking within the next few weeks she will be crawling :).

Ingrid is 6 months

Well, I have been updating the blog from my phone and it hasn't been working apparently. I don't even have time in my life to check it on my laptop. Oh well. So here are some Instagram pics (my latest artsy addiction because all you have to do is press 1-4 buttons and that is all I have time for). I believe I "posted" some of these before, which did not post.

So Ingrid is above average in length and below in weight. I am not worried about it. It is definitely strange to buy 9 month clothes for her at 6 months. Her legs poke out of the bottoms of her pants. The whole buying clothes thing has me in a tizzy because it will be warm here in the fall and winter, yet she needs the next bigger size (in some stuff) and there aren't many short sleeved things out there. I need to get 9 and 12, even 18 month stuff in short sleeves. The pressure!

Under things. Her favorite place to be.

matching hulk jammies