Getting ready for Halloween. Jiddo's Party

We have had a fun couple weeks getting ready for halloween. Parties at school, and then jiddo and grandma were in town for a few days and had jiddo's birthday party. Grandma was around a bit longer than jiddo, and was around for halloween. She arrived in town earlier than jiddo too, and we spent some good time with her, making cookies, and we girls (tia, ariadnee and me) had a sleepover at her house. Mom and dad made that eveing special for zac by taking him out to eat and then he got to sleep with mom all night - dad was working.

Mom forgot her camera on halloween, so all we have are pictures of getting ready for halloween. Mama worked on halloween, but Aunt Lara had the party at her house, so dada took us there and then mama met us there after work. She made it in time to go trick or treating with us - it was so much fun. I was with tia and ariadnee and izaac, and we went to about 10 houses and got so much candy!!!!

My class - I'm on the right in my mermaid costume

Jiddo and his grandkids (plus bridger, minus samarah) at his birthday party

My preschool halloween party

in Grandma and Jiddo's tub at Jiddo's birthday party

Auntie Lara with Samarah and us at Jiddo's party

Back to warmer fall days

Izaac trying on his halloween costume

They just don't make good toddler snow gear!

Our first snow (Oct 18th!)

A new Cousin!

On Friday October 13th, i got a new cousin - Ariadnee's sister was born very early in the morning - just after midnight. We went to visit them in the hospital friday afternoon on our way to dinner to celebrate mom and dad's 8th wedding anniversary.
The rest of the weekend was fun too - went to a faraway park on our bikes, took the training wheels off my bike to see how i'd do - mom and dad say they plan to wait till summer to try again....
Mom and I also went to the pumpkin farm with aunt nada and uncle tony - zac fell asleep just before we were supposed to leave, so dad stayed home with him. I got to pick all the pumpkins, and see some baby farm animals. Our pumpkins were green - the guy at the pumpkin farm said it was from the drought.

mom carved me a castle in my pumpkin

back home with the pumkins

at the pumpkin farm - looking at the animals

Mama's pulling izaac in the chariot

Biking over the weekend

Dinner at pfchangs for mom and dada's anniversary

Oohing and aahing cousins

Proud Papa

Samarah Riyan Ziady

Old neighbor friends

Yesterday we went to visit our old neighbors (they use to live next door) for the first time since they moved 2 years ago!!! We have both been busy - us with having zac and them with having rowan. It is amazing how hard it is to keep in touch with the people who are outside your immediate circle of normal routines. We had a great time - all of us!!!

ice cream time 

zac and rowan dancing 

dress up with Carlie and Hannah 

Back to the Georgetown train; Decorating for halloween

Today we went back to Georgetown and rode the train - it was lots of fun, but a little long. We were getting pretty stircrazy by the end of the ride. But now izaac and i know all about yelling "all aboard"!!!!! Today we also put up halloween decorations - and mom was so happy because i was such a help. She was remembering last year and how hard it was to do anything special for the holidays because she was taking care of two young kids. This year she said i was a total help, and it made all the difference.

Putting up halloween decorations

Naps and night time routines

Since school started, our nap and nighttime routine has been all screwey. Naps are happening later and later, since i don't get out of school till 1215 and then have to have lunch and wind down. Mom likes us to nap by 2pm, so that we wake by 4pm and are still able to go to bed about 8pm. On this day, we didn't take a nap until 330pm, and then didn't go to sleep at night til 10!!! mom was going crazy, and finally shut us in our room and wouldn't let go of the door handle until she didn't hear us moving anymore. Then mom and dad checked on us 15 minutes later and found us asleep on the bean bag together. They thought it was pretty cute and fell in love with us again.....

Zac and i fell asleep in the bean bag like this...

Zac is still potty training

Our weather is still nice - mom has been riding us in the chariot to school, but not to gymnastics (she thinks that is just too hard!). We are still playing outside alot, and as you can see, we had to bring the potty chair out for zac so that he wouldn't feel left out while sitting on the potty. He is doing pretty good - pees in the potty about a third of the time, and sometimes he even poops in the potty. Dad is trying to teach him to stand and pee. Mom wishes he would just learn sitting down.

Zac potty training

The Georgetown train

Today we went to Georgetown - about 45 minutes west of us - to ride the train with our neighbors Dillon and Nataliya and their mom Beth, but they had sold out of tickets. So instead we watched the train leave the stationa and played in the dirt and among the aspen that were changing colors. Then we went into the cute town of Georgetown and had lunch. We had lots of fun, and mom promised that we would come back another day to actually ride the train.

playing with Dillon and Nataliya (our neighbors)