We had so much fun this year that is was almost too much. I'm glad I was able to enjoy things this year. I've repressed last years memories to the point that I barely remember what Kendi was dressed up as. Thank goodness for blogs to refresh my memory.
Aydri sure loves her vegetables. I got to take part in the pumpkin carving this year and thouroughly enjoyed it.
I ended up cleaning out all the pumpkins guts by myself. This is about as far as Kendi got. Jared was busy drawing the templates for the pumpkins. My mom and I did the carving.
Kendi was Cinderella for Halloween so we helped her carve a princess in her pumpkin.
Aydri wore her teddy bear suit for Halloween. It was cute enough and very warm. Jared saw this picture of Tigger online and thought it was cute enough for Aydri's pumpkin. Sorry for the blur. We only had the point and shoot. Our candle were a little weak so I stuck a bunch of match sticks in the wax to get a really nice, bright flame. They looked great. We left them on the porch and went inside to watch a movie. We got too tired to finish the movie so we all went to bed and completely forgot about the pumpkins. I was mostly worried about them being frozen, but when I went outside to check them in the morning, one of them was charred. Apparently it caught on fire. I'm glad it burned itself out without catching anything else on fire.
Kendi sure was a good helper with the sugar cookies. I got tired of baking them so I let her make the rest of the dough into one big cookie. She thought that was great fun. I love how she insisted on having a pink pumpkin cookie.
Here's what the rest of them looked like. We took some to people Jared home teaches and to a friend that just had surgery.
This is the only good picture I got of the kids on Halloween together. I forgot the
camera and the one I keep in the diaper bag died after I took this picture.
Actually, the camera had just enough juice to take a picture of Kendi trick or treating. Aydri was tired so we left her with my parents while we took Kendi to a Trunk or Treat at the church. A lot of people were dressed up really scary at the Trunk or Treat so after about 10 cars Kendi decided she didn't want to be there anymore. We visited Gma Vera. Gma Vera always has her house decorated with lot of "Spooks." We spent the rest of the evening at my parents house. The funnest part of the whole day for Kendi was watching the other trick-or-treaters. She sat outside on the porch swing eating her candy watching them all come and go.
Sometimes Jared messes with the
camera and doesn't put the
settings back to normal. I don't realize it until after I take a few pictures so these next ones are what I've tried to salvage with
Photoshop.
It was so fun to get
Kendi all dressed up and put a little makeup on her. Her whole demeanor would change and she would act like a proper little princess. I didn't have to spend any money on
Kendi's costume this year. The dress is the one I made from a bridesmaid dress earlier. I found some scrap pieces of fabric to make the sleeves, gloves and details on her dress. We barely had just enough. We used some beads my mom had left over from another project and we made the wand out of whatever we could find.
Kendi and I had tons of making it together.
I love this picture. This is
Kendi really laughing like she does all the time. I'm glad I caught it. This is after I realized the
camera wasn't working right. I told
Kendi not to eat too much candy because it would give her night terrors. When we finally got home and I was helping her get ready for bed she was so tired and so sugared up that she couldn't stop sobbing. Finally, she asked me, "Mama, why do we just cry?" I couldn't help but laugh and then I tried to explain what makes us sad and how to try to be happy again. I told her to try to think of different things and then I told her some funny, made up stories and she finally cracked a smile. It was one of those precious moments. That night she had some awful night terrors. She was completely
delirious and more Jared tried to help the more she would scream. We're
definitely going to ration the candy from here on out.
Every little thing she does it magic.
I know I'm going to miss seeing these little feet peeking through the
crip bars when she's asleep.
I was trying to figure out how to use the camera so I put in a movie for Kendi so she would hold still. It was still hard for her to hold still. Out of dozens of pictures this is the only one that she wasn't pulling a face.
I love how Kendi wraps presents. I'm going to miss this when she's grown. I love how careful she is and its a good thing that I got the tape for five cents a roll. She put them all over the house. I hope I remember to grab all of them on Christmas Day.
This is her face after pulling too much tape. Whoops! Love it.
Aydri's favorite thing to do is climb on everything. She's gotten the hang of it way too fast. What will she be doing next? Here is a sneak peek of the couch we reupholstered. I just finished staining the wood parts yesterday. Hopefully we'll put it all back together soon.
I let Kendi decorate the tree by herself. I don't have enough ornaments for it so I figured if I left it the way she decorated it I wouldn't have to get more and we can't decorated the bottom of it anyway. I actually thought she did a pretty good job. Aydri claps whenever she likes something. I've been trying to get a picture of it for a while and here I finally got it. Funny girl.
You know your house is tiny when it only takes one strand of mini lights to go all the way across the roof line. All of our lights are hand-me-downs so we work with what we have. I thought they were pretty with the snow. While it was snowing I told Kendi to look at how big the snow fakes were. She looked outside and said, "Wow, they are very necessary."
Does anyone else feel like they are just barely hanging on til Christmas Day? I don't even know why I feel that way. I need a vacation from my Christmas vacation.
