THE Halloween Costume

Okay for those of you still with me, forgive me it has been awhile since my last post.

I shall give you some insight into my crazy, crazy mind. Sit back relax and laugh.

I have known for sometime what Anora's Halloween costume would be. I had it picked out in early August.

So I purchased a cute little treat bag to coordinate with her costume.

Then I had these shoes special made on Etsy to match her costume.

Now drum roll please...............

THE costume.

Isn't it just magnificent. I mean really could it be any stinking cuter? Okay so I put off buying the actual costume until October the 1st when technically they went on sale. Previous to that you could only pre-order. Well I got my first taste of being a parent and not realizing that you have picked the most popular item on the planet for your kid. October 1st came and everyone, and I mean everyone everywhere was sold out. Only a few places were still even taking pre-orders "just in case" they got another shipment. No guarantee. My heart sank. I just knew how adorable she would be in this costume and I suddenly felt like I had failed her. Now I know she has no idea about Halloween or what it means she is only 21 months old for cripes sake, but that didn't matter. I was set on seeing her in this costume and having everyone else see her in this costume.

So as I said I put in an order for a backorder paying just as much in shipping as I did for the costume itself, just to give myself more time for the costume to come in and get her in time. I crossed my fingers and prayed.

In the meantime I went out and got her another costume that I am not at all that pleased with. It is some fairy costume, but I bought it on the off chance that if THE costume came through then this could be used for dress up throughout the year.. I had to do something, I mean she could not NOT get dressed up and go trick or treating right??? Then of course I had to buy a coordinating treat bag. I couldn't very well use the one I already had. It has paw prints, Hello paw prints and fairies DO NOT mix. Then I had to buy coordinating shoes. Did you see the poodle on the high top tennis shoes people... High top tennis shoes don't go with a fairy costume either. Not too mention if i put her in that hodge podge outfit I felt like someone might figure out my dirty little secret. I felt it SCREAMED "I screwed up and am not a perfect Mom".

As most of you know I finally got the costume this week on October the 26th. The day it arrived I opened it in front of Anora and as soon as the box was open she gasped and said "CU" which is how she says cute. It was the moment I dreamed of. I took it out of the box and handed it to her still on the hangar. She turned and showed it to Grandma and said "cu, cu". I am still beaming; she loves it as much as I do. Then I take her to the bathroom and stand her in front of the mirror so I can put the hat on her. She is so excited and keeps saying "cu, cu, cu, cu over and over again. I stopped myself there because I wanted to wait for Daddy before I tried the rest of it on. I didn't want him to miss any more of this. So I went back to work dreaming about the 2 of us coming home to share this magical moment when we put her costume on and she runs around the house all happy and we hug and beam at our "fricking adorable" baby. Well for anyone who has had kids knows they run hot and cold. So for the entire night I keep asking her to put it on and she says "uh uh", she is cranky and I fear that if I struggle with her to put it on now that she will not want to wear it on Halloween so I back off....a little anyway. I asked her the next night for about an hour and then let it go.

Well when I was home today for lunch she was in a great mood so I tried and she let me put it on. She was excited and happy to see it on. She wanted to put it on in front of the mirror so that she could see. I had to take pictures and video since Daddy wasn't there. Sorry Daddy I couldn't pass up the oppurtunity. I hope you forgive me >

I know not a great pic but its with my phone so I can't really hold still enough.

And now for some video...

And now her shaking her butt so that the tail wags.

Keep your fingers crossed she is in a good mood on Sunday and I get a picture perfect Halloween.

Well thats all. I hope you laughed a little along my long winded journey.

Love,

Craigslist find

I have been on the hunt for a preschool climber for Anora since she has started with the climbing. Daddy has been checking craigslist everyday for this climber most of the time people wanted $400 dollars for this thing USED. I know it retails for $600 but come on she is only probably gonna use it for 18 months 2 years tops before we get her a full sized swingset. Anyway we found this one for $200... much better I can live with that even though I still think it is way too much money. Anora loved it and we almost couldn't get her inside for dinner.

This is my favorite picture of her that I got that day.

Just chillin on the bridge

She liked sitting on the stools in the little kitchen clubhouse.

Too cute she is standing on her tip toes playing with the fold down table.

Thinking about going down the slide.

Fun with my hat

Anora found this hat in her closet from last winter. Obviously it was too big last year but I think it will be just great this year. Too fricking adorable!

Sorry no pictures

I felt I needed to put up a new blog but I have no pictures as I can't get my new laptop to cooperate with my camera. I will figure it out soon though. Anyway wow how time is just flying by, she is such a big helper and has gotten almost all of her teeth. She has been on a teething spurt as of late and when she does they just come in one after another. I guess its good on one hand because it is over faster and not so drawn out. On the other hand it means she doesn't eat very much nor take very long naps all of which lead to a very cranky baby.

She helps with everything now, laundry, putting her toys away, cleaning up, sometimes she gets a little over zealous and does things that mommy and daddy don't want done.. like turn the fan towards the wall, something Grandma does at naptime. She sees you do something one time and she is ready to jump in and help. Like I was putting my clothes in the hamper and Anora started rounding up any piece of clothing she could find and putting it into the hamper. I tried to explain to her the diference between dirty clothes and clean clothes but I believe it went over her head as evidenced by the blank stare on her face.

I have much more to update but I really like to post pictures so I will try to get them uploaded soon.

'til then

Fathers Day Weekend 2010

Anora playing in the sprinklers

Time out to play with Duke and Daisy next door. I think that is Daisy sticking her head through.

Anora asked Papa to read her the fairy book, he ate it up.

Pose for a picture guys.

Fun with Grandma

I came home yesterday to find Grandma had dressed my Tink in this crazy outfit. It is a top that has a cute pair of capris to go with it but Miss Tink got her lunch all over them. So Grandma put her in a diaper cover that said "Princess" of course and her fuzzy muckluck boots. It was 95 degrees out yesterday. She was just so cute in her fur boots and bare legs I just left it. After all it was 75 degrees in the house which is where we were gonna be hangin out.

Family

We had a long overdue visit from Papa and Grandma Patty this weekend. Grandma Patty hadn't seen Anora since she was born. Her and Papa both graciously offered to stay in our room that night and take care of Anora. They saw that we were so exhausted from no sleep the previous night that there was no way we could have cared for her that first night. If they had not have stayed she would have had to have been put in the Nursery and been away from us the first night of her life. Thank you both so much for that you will never know how much that meant to me.

Anyway back to the visit. It really was nice to spend time with them. They live too far away to see them as much as we all would like but that just makes the times that we do all get together that much more special. Papa and Grandma Patty brought Anora her birthday gifts since they weren't able to make it in to town for her Birthday, they got snowed in. Anora loved the gifts from Papa and Grandma Patty. Thank you!

Sarah, Kielyn and Donovan came over to hang out with the fam. I miss them too. Donnie and Anora always have a good time together playing and Kielyn is so good with Anora they have some special bond. Poor Sarah, all she wants to do is scoop up Anora and hold her and love on her and Anora is such a poop she cries every time. I do belive Aunt Sarah got to hold her once or twice though.

Kielyn and Ray made the best batch of Chocolate Chip cookies while we all watched Avatar. That is a really good movie, long but good. I did laundry and hung around in my jammies all day. You can only do that with FAMILY.

We love you all and wish we could do it more often.