Happy Halloween!

Halloween was a lot of fun this year. We're just barely coming down off the sugar high! As usual, it was my chance to pull out the sewing machine and put those home ec skills to good use. Max was a "Rock Star." We tried to tell him that he was Elvis, but he has no idea who Elvis is so we settled on rock star. Man, that costume was a labor of love. The entire thing was custom tailored to fit his little toddler body. A lot of work, but I think it turned out to be one of my best costumes yet. We taught Max to curl his lip and in a deep voice say, "Uh huh." Oh so funny. You'd just have to see it.

Sophie was a Halloween witch complete with 30 yards of ribbon and tulle. We taught her to say, "Boo!", which was absolutely hilarious. She was very proud of her costume and sparkly shoes and twirled around and around. I also put her hair in her very first real ponytails. She looked like such a big girl!

We had a wonderful Halloween. I'm relieved to pack up my sewing mess and call it done for a year. Now I'll just have to start daydreaming about what they can be next year!

Pumpkin Patch

Don't you just love fall?! We went to Pumpkin Point Farms to pick out our pumpkins this year and had a blast. In addition to millions of pumpkins to choose from, they had a hay ride, a children's corn maze (which was great - short, easy, and not scary!), and 20 old fashioned tractors to pretend to drive. What fun! We were frozen by the time we left so we stopped for some hot chocolate to warm us up. It was a perfect night!

Sophie's Big Announcement (and really fast 8 month review)

So, um ... guilty conscience here. Just noticing that it has been a few weeks since we last posted. Okay, months. Okay, okay, EIGHT months. Cut us a break...we've been just a little bit busy. At this point Jacy would like me to make sure that you all know that this bit of sugary and petulant goodness flows not from her mouth, but from my (a.k.a. Steveo's) yapper. We had a rather phenomenal day today, however, and I repented my blogging sins to post yet another serving of bragging about my kids. Before I break the big news, here is what you might have missed in the last 8 months: Christmas '08, Grandpa's birthday, New Years '09, Steveo's birthday, Valentine's Day in Vegas, Grandma's birthday, Uncle John's birthday, Easter'09, Angie's birthday, Grandma's birthday, Uncle Steven's birthday, Sophie's 1st birthday, Independence Day, Grandpa's birthday, Max at swimming lessons, trips to the zoo, buying a new house, almost selling our house, Steveo graduating from University, and a wide variety of other things that we may someday actually post some pictures of. Now, with that out of the way, the big news. . . SOPHIE IS WALKING! It is so great. She has been pretending to walk for months now. But today, out of the blue, she took those first tentative steps and off she went. They say a picture is worth a thousand words ... so a video must be worth more, right? Okay, in any case I'm way too lazy to actually write those thousand words, so a video will have to suffice. To all - we love yer guts.