Dang Cute Pictures of Our Kids.

I've been wanting to record some cute things my kids have been up to. So if you can't handle the cuteness...move along.



Eric's dad took this picture of Lily while they were here and I love it. She looks so happy and beautiful. One of my favorite pictures of her.



I took this picture of Finn yesterday morning. Now that he can kind of sit up I can get much better pictures.

I feel so lucky to have such great kids. Finn is just so sweet and happy all the time. He just adores Lily and laughs at anything she does. Lily is so good to help with him. Her self-claimed job is to select his diaper. Her first choice is always a cookie monster diaper, but if those are out, then she will draw him on another cookie monster picture.



Last night Eric was telling Lily to hurry and come get in the bath. She was trying to hurry and finish a puzzle first and after he called her a few time she says to me, " Dad is driving me nervous!"

A few weeks ago, we were heading to the park with some friends. I let her eat her lunch on the way there and awhile later she wanted something to eat. I told her we ate everything I had packed. One of her best friends, Beckett, walks by eating some apples. Lily went up to him and said "Beckett can I have some?" and in total desperation she claims, "I have nothing!" So sweet Beckett gives her his last apple slice. She realizes he's out of food, so gets him to find some more. A few minutes later, Beckett comes up to me and says " Do you have any food?". He was going around to all the parents begging for food for Lily.

I hope Lily's relationship with Beckett doesn't reflect what kind of wife she'll be. If so, her future husband better buckle up. She's pretty bossy in general, but poor Beckett gets the brunt of it. I've seen her wiping his face after eating, blowing on his food and telling him he needs to eat one more bite. They were playing doctor the other day and she had him lay down. He looks over at Eric and says, "Can I get up now?" Eric says of course he can. But Lily tells him "Beckett, you're sick you need to lay down." So he submissively laid back down.




My mom bought Lily some cat pajamas and from the time she put them on until she took them off the next morning she was a cat. She would crawl around and only respond to us with a high pitched meow to anything we asked.

Finn can't even crawl yet and he can already get in to stuff. He has a way of scooting/rolling. I know I'll get tired of it eventually but already I've heard "Mom! Finn's eating my ...!" I think it's funny. Lily doesn't.

He also doesn't really cry. He screams to get our attention. Not like a crying scream like a AHHHH! Like Macaulay Culkin on Home Alone. Sometimes it sounds like he's getting tortured. We must seem like insensitive parents to others because he'll scream and most parents would go running, Eric and I laugh and keep doing what we're doing.

Halloweening

Lily was SO excited for Halloween this year and it has been a mild obsession for the past month. One day while she was taking a nap I was startled when over the monitor I heard "I am SO EXCITED FOR HALLOWEEN!"  She thanks Heavenly Father in her prayers for Halloween. She pretended to Trick-or-Treat with random objects instead of candy. When I put up my three Halloween decorations during her nap, she came down and said "Oh those skeletons are so cute!" I don't know where it came from, but I wanted to make all her Halloween dreams come true.

I always thought I had the best costumes growing up. In the era of plastic costumes, with a plastic mask, my mom made ours. She would take us to the fabric store and let us brainstorm costume ideas while flipping through the pattern books. I remember her painting my old church shoes with glue and pouring red glitter all over them when I was Dorothy. When I was Raggedy Ann she made me a yarn wig. My favorite part of Halloween (maybe even more so than the candy) was getting to wear makeup. To this day, the smell of certain lipsticks remind me of Halloween.

Raggedy Ann

Dorothy

Little Bo Peep

So when Lily said she wanted to be Tinkerbell, I was excited to make her a costume that looks just like the real Tinkerbell's. I made everything except the wings. They are twenty years old from when my sister Sarah was Tinkerbell.

So here is Tinkerbell,

 

Finn was the cutest Peter Pan I've ever seen,

 Eric was Mr. Smee,

and I was Captain Hook, ARRRRGH!

Lily with a mouthful of candy.

We had a church party on Friday night and on Halloween we went trick-or-treating in my parents neighborhood. After we had dinner Lily said "Okay, let's get ready to go Halloweening!" In their neighborhood a lot of the neighbors all join up on one person's drive-way, set up a fire pit and hang out while handing out candy. One group required every kid to perform some kind of trick. So Lily bravely sang Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to about fifteen adults. Another neighbor wore a Jason mask laid in a coffin and held a bowl of candy. I could tell Lily was scared, but she went right up to him, reached in the coffin and took her piece of candy. She reminded me several times throughout the night that "It's just pretend..".