October 30

The last couple weeks have been a whirlwind! We have done so many Halloween activities, I'll be glad when Nov. 1st gets here!

We went to the zoo for Zoo Boo on the 20th. They had all sorts of decorations and treats for the kids. Josh walked the entire zoo collecting candy and looking at the animals. He is still infatuated with Elephants - we spent about 20 minutes watching them, and he still didn't want to leave.

We have been to lots of fun playgroups. We've made Lollipop Ghosts, and decorated Pumpkin Muffins to look like Jack-o-Lanterns. The Ghosts were kleenex over a lollipop secured with a rubberband! How cute is that? The pumpkin muffins were delicious, but even better with the icing and candy corn decoration.

We also recycled baby food jars, and made them in to Ghosts and Jack-o-Lanterns. ModPodge is a wonderful thing!

We hosted a Halloween themed playgroup ourselves, too. We made reflective necklaces to wear on Halloween night while Trick-or-Treating. It was fun, and they turned out really cute.

The Saturday before Halloween we went to Great Grams to help pass out candy for their Trick or Treaters. While we were there, Aunt Joan met Chelsea for the first time.

This past weekend Josh helped to carve his first pumpkin! He normally doesn't like getting dirty, but he thought it was great "helping" to clean out the goo. We collected all of the seeds, and Scott roasted them in the oven. Surprisingly, Josh LOVED them! I'm not sure if he liked them because they were good, or because they came out of his pumpkin. Either way, he enjoyed it!

Last night we went to South Hills Village for the "Mall-o-ween" Trick-or-Treating with MoMo. There were hundreds of kids there. I'm not usually big on crowds, but we had a lot of fun. This was Joshua's first official Trick-or-Treat experience. Last year, he wasn't old enough to eat the candy, so we just took him to the grandparents homes, and that was that. He was a little wary at first, but once he realized what happened when he said "Treats, Please", he was all excited about it... but then again, that might have been the dozen tootsie rolls Scott had fed him. Either way, it was a lot of fun!

Monday October 15, 2007

Chelsea is officially 1 month old already! I can't believe how quickly time flew by. She's changing so much! I can't believe how much she's growing... now if I could only get her to sleep at night...

We've had a pretty busy week! I took the kids to Trax Farm to take some pictures on the pumpkins. It was so cute! Josh loved seeing the big piles of pumpkins, but wasn't too sure about climbing on them, until I put him on top of a pile! Chelsea slept through most of it, but we still had fun.

Saturday Scott went with us to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum with MoMo. Josh LOVES trains and trolleys! He kept saying "ding ding". While we waited for our friends, Josh played with the Thomas Train Table. Then we took a ride to a pumpkin patch, and then took the pumpkins back into the museum to decorate. It was a lot of fun.


We have a lot going on the next couple of weeks. We have some friends from MoMo coming over this morning to play, then we're going to the park together to meet some other MoMo's. Chelsea has her one month doctor appointment tomorrow morning, and Scott is taking the day off - maybe we'll do something fun afterwards! We're going to (and hosting) a bunch of Halloween themed playgroups, tummy time groups for Chelsea, and story times at the library. Never a dull moment around here!

Sunday October 7, 2007

Go Steelers!!!

October 5, 2007

We went to Triple B Farms yesterday! They have their fall festival running now, and they are all decked out in Halloween decorations. They have an entire field set up as Pumpkinland - they have Halloween costumes posed, with Pumpkin heads... TOO cute! There was a petting zoo, haunted house, play areas with a tractor to climb on & HUGE slides, and a mini corn maze.


Josh really seemed to enjoy himself. He even lead us through the corn maze. Something we didn't realize, is his love for pumpkins. He picked out two small pumpkins, and has been carrying them around since we got home last night. We had to stop him from taking them to bed with him last night. He even had to hold them in the car this morning while we were out.

We had a really good time there. It was during the week, so it wasn't crowded at all. The weather was beautiful, too. We're talking about going back for the Strawberry Festival in the spring.

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Chelsea is growing like a weed! She's developing her own personality, and she will definitely let you know what she does and doesn't like! We're still adjusting to having her here, but things are getting a little easier.

Sunday, September 30, 2007

We took Chelsea on her first trip to the zoo today! She slept through most of it, but that's alright! We had a good time, anyway. We got to see the two new baby giraffes, and Joshua learned some new words. "Ostrich" seems to be his favorite at the moment.

We have a lot of plans for the next month. There are a lot of fun events, and Halloween themed playgroups on our calendar. I'm thinking of taking them to a pumpkin patch, but I'm not sure which one to go to, yet. I think Joshua will have fun.