Pumpkins and Cousins and Birthdays

Woops, I totally forgot to get the pictures off my point and shoot before I did the October post! The girls had a blast painting their little pumpkins for Halloween. They always pick red, pink, and white as their paint colors, so of course the pumpkins ended up being purple, like everything else we paint.  

Nora was too focused to look up for pictures.

I've been a super-lame-mom for the past year, thanks to Finn, so I figured Halloween was a good time to get my act together again. We made some monster cookies, which the girls loved. Mostly because I did most of the work while they shoveled powdered sugar into their mouths.

They were so excited for Jack O'lantern quesadillas and mummy hotdogs. Until it was time to eat them, when they both promptly peeled off all the breading to just get to their hotdogs, little rascals.

Erin and Rob were in D.C. for a night (because Rob is super awesome at his job and was getting an award. High five to Rob!), so we were very excited that they got to come spend the night at our house. Especially since we had not even gotten to meet little Deirdre yet! Baby girl just turned one last week and this was our first time getting to see her in person. Shameful.

She is so cute! The girls just loved her so much. It was fun to see them interacting, and made me so sad that we are way out here in Maryland.

Seriously, look at that cute face!

And this cute face.

And Marc had a birthday. 

Happy Birthday to Marc! We are sure glad he was born thirty-one years ago! Teresa thought that sounded very old. Don't worry, I told her it was only a little bit old. 

 

This is the best picture, ever. T was just devastated that Marc blew out all the candles without her help. Oh, she was just so sad, it was hilarious, but I felt so bad laughing at her. We re-lit a few of the candles and let the girls help the second time.

And we think Finn is so cute. He got weighed when we took him in for his little cold the other week, and is already just over 13 pounds and 24 1/2 inches. 

   

October

We went with some friends to a pumpkin patch a few weekends ago. We completely forgot to bring our camera, which is totally unlike us! Our phone was able to manage a few pictures before its sad little battery gave out.

Pretty much every time T smiles for the camera lately she sticks her chin in the air and flares her nostrils, silly girl.

And, of course, our girls were so excited for Halloween this year. They cycled through several costume ideas before settling on being a zombie ballerina and a mermaid. Teresa really loves all things Halloween/spooky/zombie-ish, so it was no surprise that she picked what she did. And we've been watching quite a bit of The Little Mermaid lately, so that helped Nora out. Luckily she had a pretty fluid idea of what Ariel could look like, so I was able to use some shiny purple fabric I already had for her skirt and then we found the perfect mermaid top on sale at Wal-mart and she was ready to go. I had big plans, pretty much from the time I found out I was pregnant with him, to make Finn a cute sushi costume, but I got mastitis two weeks before Halloween and had a little bit of a freak out about being able to get his and Nora's costumes made in time. So when I saw a little fox costume on sale I got it for him instead.

The girls got way too much candy between the trunk-or-treat at church and trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Nora was so cute during trick-or-treating, she was just so excited, she would exclaim "Happy Halloween!" and wave at everyone we passed. At one point when we were walking she just kept singing "Happy Halloween to every-one, Happy Halloween to ev-er-y-o-ne!".

This one was before the ward activity: 

Cute little fox bum: (and Marc)

And then these were from Halloween:

My sweet little mermaid:

And my very scary zombie ballerina. She was a little worried that her make-up would be too scary for people. Didn't Marc do a great job on her make-up?

And poor Finn got no pictures taken of him on Halloween, so we dressed him up today and got a few pics of our little Finn fox. And, seriously, I narrowed it down the best I could, but the girls wanted to be in the pictures too, and now that there are three of them it's so much harder to pick one where everybody looks good. So. That's why there are so many of these. 

I'm so sad Nora was blocking Finn's face in this one!

I'm pretty sure we should have had T dress up as a lion this year - she totally has the mane for it!

This one of Finn and Nora is officially my new favourite picture. 

  

    

 And you know this had to happen:

In case you didn't get on the internet at all last month, and don't get that reference, watch this:

Nora really wanted to try his costume on when it came in the mail. I was surprised that she was able to squeeze herself into it, as it's a 0-6 month size. I was pretty sure there was no way it would fit Finn after seeing it on Nora, but luckily he is a gigantic baby, so it worked out.