Day 304

I love making costumes for the kids. This year I had zero motivation. I was planning to buy them costumes, til I went and looked and absolutely could NOT bring myself to spend $20 each on crappy costumes. After idea, after idea, after idea, I finally settled on Batman, Cat Woman and Robin. I did the easy thing and did half and half. Bought AJ a Batman mask, cape and shirt. Made him a belt out of yellow felt and threw on some sweats. I bought Rian a cat kit, with ears and a tail, added black leggings and a shirt and made her a mask out of black felt. Their costumes remind me of costumes from back in the day, you made them out of what was lying around the house! Asher's was all homemade, so cheap, easy and totally CUTE. I dyed a white onesie red, cut a green shirt for his cape and made his belt and "R" with felt. Ahhh I love his costume!

Today Michael and his family got here. He got orders to North Caroline when Adrian was 14 months old, they came here the August AJ turned two (Adrian was also two) and next month Adrian will be six. I've only seen him once in almost five years! My brother's getting out of the Marines and they'll only be living three hours away! So exciting. :) I also finally got to meet my niece, Gabriella. She's so smiley and happy!

Ready to go trick-or-treating

 

Aiden's first Halloween, we stayed home and passed out candy. Every Halloween since then, we've gone trick-or-treating in Steven's parents' neighborhood, then hung out with them. This was our first year doing it in our neighborhood and it was totally dead. Sad. We ended up cutting through an alley and went to a different area and there was much more going on.

 

The highlight of our day was seeing our family!

Day 303

How has it been eight weeks already?!

He's so cute, my perfect little blessing. His hair made me laugh this morning, it doesn't always stick up like that. Rian's did! I'm glad its stopped falling out and where it did and was bald, has started growing back. Baby hair is so funny.

This week breastfeeding has officially become 100% easy and comfortable. Before now, it's been touch-and-go, such a learning process for both of us. I'm so proud of how far we've come.

This morning while I was getting AJ ready for school, he told me his teacher said today was going to be mixed up, I thought he meant the schedule. Then he said, "She said we can wear two different socks or shoes or something." I thought about how the last two days, I'd seen people on my newsfeeds posting pictures of their kids (at other schools,) "crazy hair day" "twin day" etc. and realized it must be spirit week. I was bummed we missed it!

Steven came back after dropping him off and said tomorrow was Halloween shirt day and the next was sport's team shirts. I always buy the kids Halloween shirts, every since Aiden's first one. Of course this year, I didn't. So I went to a couple of stores on a mission and thankfully found one! His first spirit week! I don't know if it's this normal to be so excited about it. :)

* Baby's awake. Now I'm only a week behind, hopefully I get motivated to catch up soon!

Day 302

I usually give Asher his bath in the bathroom sink, but the kids were taking forever to finish their dinner, so I did it in the kitchen sink while they finished. I was so excited! I love kitchen sink baths.

 

:)

 

Day 301

Pumpkin carving fun!

Day 300

After nursing cuddles.

My favorite.

Aiden got to go to a real pumpkin patch!

How fun. I was jealous!

Asher will be two months old and soon and we haven't taken one single family pictures. Who am I?! I used to make us take them alllll the time. So we squeezed all five of our heads together. Steven took a ton of pictures and they all came out so funny.

 

Love my crazy family!

Day 299

It's still warm during the day, mid-high 80s, but mornings and evenings are perfect.

Sidewalk chalk and coffee.

Steven took the day off from both jobs. That pretty much NEVER happens. He did this off-road poker run and all the proceeds went to a scholarship after a guy who went to our high school that passed away a few years ago. It was nice having him home for most of the day on a Saturday.

Since he was off, I thought it'd be perfect to have a glass of wine. And it'd go perfectly with Tori Spelling's new book! She's so weird, but I love her.

Red moscato is my favorite and I've been craving it like crazy since before I had Asher.

 

 

PS- That wine wasn't opened that day. It wasn't opened til recently!

 

Day 298

This afternoon AJ headed to Tucson with Grandpa and Grandma. Steven's Aunt and her family are there from Georgia and Grandpa wanted them to meet his buddy! Plus Auntie Beck has a lot of fun Halloween stuff planned. Our Pumpkin Patch is the same every year, and the only Halloween thing around here, this will be our second year skipping it, so I'm glad he's getting to do some festive stuff with them.

:)

Asher is so easy to put so sleep at night, he either falls asleep nursing or he'll stay awake for a few minutes after while I rock him, then I lay him down still awake and off to sleep he goes. He's not a huge fan of his paci at night, but he does like it during daytime naps.

 

I checked on him a little after putting him down and he looked so squishy:

 

Love this picture!