Thanksgiving! A Mobile Moments Post

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful few days! Wednesday, Autumn didn't have school so we got to run errands together like the days before she started school! She dressed herself and everything. Not only did she pick out a great outfit, but she did the buttons and tights herself! She's been working on those fine motor things in occupational therapy so I am very proud of her.


After Mike got home from work, Autumn read him the book we checked out from the library. Molly, in a rare show of sociability, sat on his lap and listened and then let Autumn lay on her.


That night, we joined the Murphys for donuts with the gift card we got from a friend for some computer work Mike did. Yay, donuts! And generous friends!


This box has brought so much joy to Autumn. It's been a plane, a boat, a rocket, and today it's a car. She made a steering wheel and everything! Even better? She will stand up and "drive" it places by walking. Like the Flintstones!


Oh, and Molly has been chilling in the bag I've been keeping some of my craft supplies in.


Mike spent one night sampling the different cookie butters and hazelnut spreads from the same friend who provided the Dunkin Donuts gift card! I had so much fun feeding Stephan, Brad and my mom ritz crackers with the different spreads.


And tonight, we celebrated Lainey's birthday! Happy birthday, Lainey! Here's Autumn not cooperating with photo time, haha.


Be sure to check out Passing Pinwheels! We have some adoption happenings you could pray for if you are so inclined. And, be sure to check out the post with some of my new etsy listings. All profits from the Etsy shop go to our adoption!

Fall Fun

I love fall!! Even though I am cold almost every moment by this time of year, it is so beautiful and, at least here, we get little breaks from the cold! Earlier this month, we had a nice, warm day for Autumn's school field trip. Autumn looooooved getting to ride on the bus. She loved that I got to come along, too! Each parent got 2 or 3 kids to chaperone. I got Autumn and her friend Isabella.


By the way, this is Autumn's teacher. :) She is really, really sweet and Autumn loves her. Autumn had a tummy bug and missed two days of school last week. There was much sadness--Autumn kept lamenting about missing her teacher and PE!


We had way, way too much time during the field trip. Several schools went to the fall festival at the Botanic Garden. We had fun watching the other kids and doing the activities at the different stations but we probably could have taken an hour and a half instead of 3 hours. One of the moms and I tried to entertain our kids with games like duck duck goose.


They hung in there for a while but that last half hour draaaaaaaged. This is not a tiredness collapse. It's a boredom collapse!


Oh, and Autumn was Star of the Week this month! She made a collage of photos and stickers to hang in the hall. Wednesday, Autumn's teacher sent home a book with photos of the kids. At the beginning of the year, each family made a page for the book. Too cute! One day they had show and tell and another day Autumn got to bring her favorite book. Autumn's favorite was Thursday when she got to bring home Marvin the class mascot.


If you notice, there's another monkey there in a dress. Autumn had been calling that monkey Marvin because, apparently, Marvin would leave class and come spend the night with her. I asked her if she knew that Marvin is a boy but Autumn solved that problem with magic. He turns into a girl at night. Of course!

On that note, I'm calling it a night! Oh, one last thing:


STATIC!

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At Tyler's Birthday Party

Well, I'm finally posting Tyler's birthday pictures! We had a good time at a party bounce place. I suspect a couple of the grownups had the most fun (ahem, Ryan and Mike) but the kids enjoyed themselves.


Here's a good Mike Tumble:





Autumn and I had a fun little race.





Is there a better way to spend your birthday? Sweaty AND happy!


So fun!!

So Much Halloween Fun!

I love Halloween. Look what I made!


Red hots melted over marshmallows! Too fun! We had a great Halloween night. I made chili and soup and hot drinks and told people just to drop in. I think I might do it every year. Our community group and a few friends came. My mom, too! She was seriously hilarious.


Know who else was hilarious? Lindsay's cat Baxter.


Anyway, my mom cracked me up. Autumn, however, was not impressed. At all.


In order to get a photo of them together, I had to sit between Autumn and my mom.


Look at how cute Micah and Autumn were together!


It was so fun trick or treating with Micah and Liana. It was also fun to see all the trick or treaters. In the past, we went to Ridgeway so we didn't get to do much in the neighborhood. This time, we got to see neighbors when we went out but also when they came to us! Here's a crowd, some of these guys are from across the street.


We also ran into this little strawberry who lives in the cove.


Autumn did SUCH a great job being brave, as she calls it. She rang doorbells, said trick or treat, and said thank you very politely. It took us a couple tries to push the right button at that house. I see with the flash, though, it's really obvious where the doorbell is!


Kyle and Lindsay set up their firepit in their driveway. It is so fun living close to the two of them! I sent our guests over there with marshmallows to roast over the fire!


Kyle, of course, got a huge kick out of my mom's costume. I made her wear it out when we went around the neighborhood.


Micah had to try on the glasses, ahaha.


Here's a full view of Autumn's costume. She, in no uncertain terms, told everyone she was NOT Ariel but a mermaid. I love it! This is at the Mullins Funnybones Festival last Saturday. I took Autumn so she could see old friends and teachers.


Broom ball: hysterical.


Autumn, Ella, and Evie make such a cute group! Evie has been one of my students for as long as I have been at Mullins teaching Aikido. It is so fun getting to watch the kids grow up!


OH! Back to our house Halloween night...here's Penny taking out Mike's stitches. Thank you, Penny!


And, of course, our yearly Halloween photo!


For more Halloween fun, check out this post. The story I tell is a little crazy but the photo is priceless. Click here for details on our costumes and the banner. And click here for information about a friend's adoption fundraiser.

50's sweetheart!

We had a crazy weekend! Two halloween events and Tyler's birthday party!! I have so many fun photos but they are downstairs and I am comfy under my electric blanket so those things will have to wait! Here's Autumn on 50's day to make it better, though!


CAN YOU STAND IT?


NO. NO, YOU CAN'T. I didn't feel like making a poodle skirt and the ones on sale weren't very nice so I decided to improvise. I put a handkerchief around her ponytail, gave her a poofy skirt and collared shirt from another outfit, and slipped a red cardigan on her before we left. The glasses MADE the outfit. I got them for $2.49 on amazon, if you can believe it! I popped the lenses out in case the plastic bothered her and they were awesome. So many people stopped to tell Autumn how adorable she was that Autumn tore the glasses off and said, "I am going to hide these so people WILL STOP LOOKING AT ME."


Mike and I did our fair share of dressing up! I uploaded a few of my Friday photos. I'm going to do a post on our costumes on the other blog but here's a preview!


Oh, and here's a last quickie. Autumn's first field trip was scheduled for last Friday but they cancelled it for rain. Oddly, the thing Autumn looked forward to the most? Riding the bus. She loooooooves school buses! Since she was kind of sad about it, I had lunch with her and sent this picture to the Papa.

This and That

What a weekend. I had a seminar, Mike cut his hand, I completely FAILED at dying a gi top for my costume...oddly the one that's the most stressful is that I didn't dye the gi right, haha! I'm either going to try again or give it up and make one...

Anyway, have a hodgepodge of pictures! There are the last of the beach photos. Autumn and Mike had fun in the ocean. It was mostly too cold for me.

From October 2012

Here's my dolphin photo! I wish I'd caught them just a second sooner.


I have to say, I think these crane things are creepy. They are so tall! We saw one when we were walking on the beach at night, too. I thought it was a person at first. THEN IT FLEW AWAY. /shudder


We carved a jack o' lantern! It was Autumn's first. We did it too early, though, and it rotted. :( We'll do another this weekend!


Autumn's school had baby animal day on Friday. I got some super cute photos of the kids in her class. So much fun!


After school we went to My Big Backyard with Josh.


I think going out without having some down time was a bad idea. I thought so, but I wanted to try in case I was wrong! Poor Autumn got a little overwrought at one point and had to take a break.


Hey, can you tell where she is?


Pop!


:D More to come next week! Visit Passing Pinwheels to catch up on the blogging event I am participating in.

Adventures

Your regularly scheduled blog post will be TOMORROW! I spent the weekend at a seminar and I AM SO TIRED. I would have had the evening to rest but then this happened:


The Papa is fine but he did cut his hand with some pruners and I had to take him to the hospital. He had 4 stitches. Between the shock of him coming in covered with blood, wrapping him up, getting him there, the wait, the drive to the 24 hour pharmacy, and the usually Sunday night chores, I'm beat! Wish me luck on a good night's sleep and please say a prayer for Mike, who may have a painful night ahead. I'll be posting tomorrow, most likely!