Happy 3rd Birthday!

Wow.  Time flies.  I truly cannot believe that my baby girl is three today.  It seems like just yesterday that she came into this world.  I decided for her birthday this year, I’d interview her so she can look back on this and remember what being 3 was all about:

My favorite color is…blue

I like to eat…pancakes

I feel happy when…I have a birthday

I feel sad when…I got hurt

I like to…get something from Chick-fil-a

I don’t like to…I don’t remember

I think daddy is…Daddy

I think mommy is…tidy

I think Bennett is…a cockadoodledoo

I think Lucy (our dog) is…nothing

I like to play with…you

My favorite toy is…my farm

I am really good at…piggy bank (???)

I get excited when…my birthday comes and I say goody-goody

I like to go to…the aquarium

On TV, I like to watch…Imagination Movers with the baby mouse

I love…Henry.

Happy Birthday, Charlotte Anne.  We love you so much!

Card Puzzles

We made puzzles out of our Halloween cards.  It was a little easier after I made the grid for her to place the card segments onto.  She did not want to cut some of her cards, so we cut Bennett’s (he didn’t mind!).  Very easy and fun!

Wordless Wednesday

“Fall Fun”

Halloween Fun

We had a great Halloween.  It was so fun to see Charlotte get so excited this year.  I could hardly believe that she was able to walk up to the doors with her friend Henry – and no parent with them!  They’d knock or ring the bell, say “trick or treat,” get their candy, say “thank you,” then exclaim, “Let’s go to another one!”  It was the cutest thing.  They seemed like such big kids.

We named Charlotte the Fairy Princess of Autumn.  She absolutely loved wearing her costume this year.  She loved everything from the wings to the wand to the “crown” atop her head.  I think she would’ve worn it to bed had I let her.

I didn’t get too many photos of Bennett.  He wasn’t in his costume for very long – he was so hot, the poor little guy was sweating!  Of course, I did get his photo with all the pumpkins.  And because it was lightly raining for trick-or-treating, he stayed behind.  I’m sure next year will be even more fun!  For more photos from our evening, click here.

Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Carving

The night before Halloween we had our friends come over to help us paint and carve pumpkins.  Then Bobby carved one  of his very own.  It is one of our favorite traditions.

Bennett 5 Months

What a growing boy!  He’s still rolling from back to tummy, but still can’t get back over.  Which frustrates the daylights out of him!  Hopefully he’ll get it soon, because he just wails when he gets stuck.  He’s come a long way since his first solid food feeding.  He liked trying sweet potatoes, but wasn’t too particularly interested in bananas.  And, as always, he adores his big sister.

It’s getting harder to get a photo of him – he’s so wiggly and moves around a lot more these days!

Shapes Scarecrow

Here’s a fun little scarecrow we made this week.  He’s made up of circles, triangles and rectangles of all sorts!  I got the idea from the wonderful website, No Time for Flashcards.  For more ideas, visit Ramblings of a Crazy Woman.

Halloween Cookies

My husband loves to make cookies – and he’ll use any holiday as an excuse to make them.  It’s a recipe handed down from his mother.   They are quite delicious, and this most recent batch is his best yet.  The fun part is frosting and decorating them.  This has been a Christmas tradition for a long time, and now we’ve taken on Halloween!

Menu Plan Monday (on Tuesday)

A day late and a dollar short, that’s me.  Anyhow, here are our meals for the rest of the week:

Balsamic Chicken with Mushrooms and Green Beans

Salmon Patties and Barley-Asparagus Rissoto

Slow Cooker Roast Beef with Carrots and Peas (use leftovers to make some vegetable-beef soup)

Grilled Turkey Smoked Sausage with Sweet Potato Fries and Broccoli