random ramblings.

- I have a love/hate feeling about dressing Eleanor as part of a duo for Halloween. Obviously they are so close in age, it will be so cute if they coordinated every year, think of the pictures to look back on! But since we have done a few things this year that Jase didn't attend, it seems kinda silly to have a thing 2 without her thing 1!

-It has been so nice (and a nice change from the dang winter temps we had last week) that we have been spending lots of time outside during the day. She scares the bejeezus out of me when we sit on the porch though, because this girl has no fear and will walk right off the concrete without thinking twice.

- I was at my parent's house all day Sunday and I see my dad soaking his feet in this pan of Listerene, warm water and ...something else I can't remember. He said he saw it on Pinterest and it's supposed to get all the dead skin off your feet. HAHAHA!! Also, my mom told him not to smile like this again because he looks like a chipmunk.

 

 - After Ellie's hair comes out of her ponytail at night, she has the perfect rockabilly Mohawk. :)

- Today for lunch, I decided to let the babies self feed. Chicken nuggets and green beans. Couldn't do more simple than that, right? Except I'm still scraping smushed green beans off the floor and even got some out of her hair!! They ate almost an entire can of green beans together. I def. kept the ketchup on my plate to dip for them. I'm not that brave.

- Today after lunch, E had HUGE red welt/rashed on her thighs and calves. I was freaking. My mom showed the pictures to the school nurse and they said I better take her in. The doctor said it looked like hives and it could be from something she ate or something that touched her. And it also turns out that she has her first ear infection. I had no idea. She hasn't had a fever or runny nose or even pulled at her ear. So sad, but we shared some pumpkin spice ice cream on the way home to soothe ourselves.

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saturday, busy day.

we had such a fun weekend!
Saturday was our first opportunity for Eleanor to wear her Halloween costume,
twice!

first we headed to the library for a Halloween story time
with liz and brogan.
it was unbelievably PACKED!
we listened to a couple of scary stories, went on a costume parade and pulled all the books off the shelves played with our friends.

after going home and taking a nap,
we were ready for outing #2!
a fall festival at a church just next door to our house.

it didn't start til dark, so it was too dark for many pictures
but ellie did get to go on her first hayride.
she didn't care much for it actually,
had a trembling lip part of the time and fell asleep a bit of the time.
she also got to do some trunk or treating and had a hard time moving to the next car.
can't blame the girl, who wouldn't want more candy!!

also, I don't think it needs to be mentioned how ridiculously hard it is to get a not blurry, everyone looking pictures with babies.
we have a few more Halloween events this week, so we will get plenty of use out of her first handmade costume!
love this time of year.

farmers market

An adventure to the farmers market,
in the cutest little wagon.

We had to make stops at every musicians booth,
but there was one we stayed at for over 20 minutes.
Both babies were clapping their hands and rocking in the wagon.
I let Eleanor out and she walked right up to them
and started dancing.
They had these little easter eggs shakers,
and she just stood there shaking and moving!

We bought pumpkin butter, garlic sourdough bread, pet some puppies
and just had a great time walking around the square with our friends!
When we got back to the car, I couldn't believe we had been there for over an hour and a half.

pumpkin patch.

last year when Eleanor went to the pumpkin patch,
she was just 2 weeks old.
I carried her in the sling, and slept the entire way through the corn maze.

today, on our first visit for the year,
my big girl was walking around like a champ
and looking at the animals, picking out pumpkins and feeding cows tortillas.

Even though Eric told us before we left that it was too early for pumpkins,
we just HAD to get a little one to celebrate the trip!
So sweet and little, just like my own little pumpkin.

We can't wait to go back soon,
especially when it cools down and we can get into proper fall attire!