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Maddie was a kitty cat for Halloween, seeing as how she thinks she is one on any other day of the week. This proved to be the best photo of the day because as it turns out, kitties do a lot of running, jumping, spinning and moving around. Even as we were on our way to all the relatives Maddie Kitty couldn't resist dancing in her car seat to some Kermit Ruffins music.

All week long I kept trying to get her to try out her ears and she would rip them off as though she hated this costume. Then today, I put it on her and she was anxious to see herself in the mirror. And actually excited to get her ears on. She wore it all day without ever showing signs of fuss. Here she is running to her Daddy and playing with the kitties (of course, with duck-duck).

A couple of kitties out for a night on the town.

Halloween is not exactly my favorite holiday. I actually hate to dress up, but I do sort of like the fall aspect of it all. I think I will like the whole young kids phase because I enjoy seeing Maddie dress up. Rob and I were just saying tonight that we miss having trick-or-treaters -- in all the apartments that I have lived in we have never had a single one! (Though I do buy candy just in case every year.) Tonight I have had 5 trick-or-treaters: their names have been Rob the Saints Fan, Bob the Saints Fan, Bob the Pajamma wearing guy, Rob the Pirate, and Bob the Daddy.

I do enjoy most of the Halloweenish customs (minus the freight side). My favorite part is carving a pumpkin which of course results in delicious pumpkin seeds. So this part of the holiday was my favorite. Here are a few pictures of our pumpkin selection and carving. Maddie loved this part too!


Maddie picks out her pumpkin. "See this one, Mama-Dadda?" she says with ringing positivity. "It's the biggest." And doesn't it look perfect? We got it home, set it on our table and it tipped over. The most crooked pumpkin I ever say. It took some serious leveling to get it to work as our Jack-o-lantern.


Maddie helped me by picking out shapes to use as Jack's face, and drawing on the pumpkin. She actually also really liked cleaning out the pumpkin too and spent most of the night playing with the goopey seeds.


She liked the finished product.

Maddie loved her pumpkin so much, she had to hug it:


And kiss it:

We went to G-Ma's house for dinner and Maddie got the best treat ever: Boo-berries!

The Truth about this Blog

Here's the truth: This is how this blog is written:

Sometime's we have to really think about what we're going to write:

Despite the long hiatus, we'll be back soon with all new posts.

Hunting and Gathering

All summer long Maddie and I were in a nice routine. We would go to the park and go on the swings, which Maddie loved so much that she would point at them from blocks away. After we had swung for a while, she would point at the big kid swing and that was my queue to hold her in my lap while I swang. Then we would head home.

A couple of days ago, I took Maddie for a quick walk, put her in the swing and discovered that she was so over that. She didn't want to be in the swing. She wanted to be on the go.

So instead today, we went to the park and walked around on a scavenger hunt. Maddie collected: 3 acorns, one empty acorn cap, one orange flower, one tiny piece of gravel, one shiny black rock, and 57,000,000 rocks. All of which were handed to me and expected to be held onto with the proper respect deserved of these precious gems. Can't wait to see what we find tomorrow!

***In other news, I am feeling better. Thanks to all for the well-wishes. This round of sickness has made me wonder. Rob gave me this cold, but he doesn't complain as much as I do or appear to be as sick as I do. So does that mean that I'm whinier? Wimpier? or Sicker? I vote for sicker. Because let's face facts, I'm the Mommy in this family. And Mommies are tough cookies.

Just Getting By

September and October are going to be pretty tough for the blog, folks. See, I still think there is more of September to go. That's how bad things are going to be. I'm pretty much working 6 or 7 days a week, from this month to next and even into parts of November. So I'm just going to hold on and wait for it all to be over.

Rob also has been working insane amounts of time throughout this month. That means lots of Maddie and Mommy time. Luckily there has been a really nice sense of calm about that. In the past I was always a little stressed out by the fact that I had to make dinner and clean while having no one to watch Mads. But now I've realized I'm Supermom.

Except today, Supermom is very sick. Thanks to Superdad and also Supermom's officemate at work. So if I just make it through this day and tomorrow when I need to work.... Send your healthy vibes my way, please.