The start of the season...

After much thought, Lee and I decided to try and take Maren's pictures for our holiday card ourselves...

hmmmmmm....stay tuned to see if she gave us a break and showed the camera some love!

Little Monkey

Maren was happy she had such a warm costume to wear last night! The wind died down, so there was just a chill in the air. She hit 7 or 8 houses and was very excited people kept giving her things! We had practiced "trick or treat" and saying "thank you" and "bye" but she decided to stay quite silent the whole night. Unless, of course, you tried to take away her bucket to get her strapped in her carseat! All in all, her first trick or treating session was a success!

So what do I do with this?

Maren has shown an interested in "dipping" her food lately. Honey mustard, ranch, cottage cheese... So I gave her some sour cream with her quesadilla the other night. She seemed to like it. But then I think she made a connection between the cream we use often on her diaper area and lotion after bedtime, and assumed this cream should too go ON her body, not in it.

Things just got worse when she decided to rub it in her eye...ouch.

The finished product - a real life art project! Who promptly got a bath after dinner.

Pumpkin Carving

Pumpkin carving was a success! Maren and I chose to carve "glamour kitty" and Daddy chose frankenstein. Maren wasn't too keen on the cool "guts" but she did have a great time playing in the seeds!

Pumpkin Patch

It was sunny and...kind of warm...so we went to the pumpkin patch today! Maren is much bigger than those pumpkins this year. She picked her very own small one and a little white gourd.

Maren helped her dad pull the wagon and it was heavy with the pumpkins in it!

We saw the ponies and horses on the farm, too. The wind was a little much though and it wasn't long before we were all ready to head home.

Chips

Maren enjoys stealing things from the pantry when the door is left open. I was busy making biscuits for dinner this afternoon and she got the fritos out. I could see her trying to open the clip to get into the bag, but it wasn't working. So, she went to the cupboard and took out a bowl. then she turned the bag upside down and shook it to get the chips out. She tried many different times before asking me to open it and when I told her she couldn't have them she gave up - but went back to the pantry to ask for fruit.

Potty?

Here's Maren testing out her royal chair, while eating a cookie, and Izzy's watching. Believe us - we have NO high hopes for this new chair right now, but she is interested in potties and diapers...so why not? She said "wow" when she saw the box and then "open....open....open!" and sat down promptly when it was out of the box. Now to teach her what to do when on it...