The Little 5 Month Old

Isaac is such a happy boy

He is such a Momma’s boy and I love it…. most the time – Going out is hard to do.

Smile!!

Just had to show off Ahnna's new outfit from Grandma Spinelli. So Cute!! She is sucking in her stomach here - I swear I feed her...

Halloween

Ok I really liked our Halloween costumes so I made this banner for the blog and had it up for about a day.  Well Nathan and I both decided it made us look a little (or a lot) extreme.  We like sci-fi and all but we aren’t crazy people about it.  Halloween was way fun.  This was the first year we took Ahnna out to trunk or treat.  Once she caught on to what was going on she had a blast.

Gone insane be back after potty training

So the hardest part about parenthood up to this point has got to be potty training.  I totally stressed out from the get go.  I’m just starting to relax a bit but whether she is starting to get it or not is completely unknown.  She does not quite get the reward system yet and every time she sits on the potty, if she goes or not she yells “WOOHOO!!” when she gets off.   She actually goes in the potty maybe half the time.  We are only a few days in and I know it can take a few weeks but every time she has an accident I melt down and want to quit.  Pathetic I know.  The only thing that has made me not quit is knowing that it is bad to start training and then stop over and over and I have tried a few times already so I HAVE to follow through.  Man this talk about them “being ready” applies more to me in this case.  My mom is sending me this book about using a doll to help train them.  I think she will do well with that because she always liked to change her doll’s diapers.

Ahnna’s Halloween Costume

Oh how cute!! - but this isn't Ahnna's Halloween costume...

Adorable!! But this isn't Ahnna's Halloween costume...

This is Ahnna's Halloween costume!! We're making sure she never gets a date by turning her into a nerd young.

Two things my little boy does best

Foam at the mouth from all the lip bubbles

and splash around in the bath. He does not have a ton of expression here but he LOVES the bath.  If I knew how to do the little sensor blur I would have filmed his legs too, that is where all of his excitement is, splashing his sister with his kicks.

Ahnna’s Birthday

Ahnna turned TWO!!

She opened two presents before she got to the ones with the shoes...

And then she was done opening presents, left the rest to mom...

Then she got into her birthday suit and had some ice cream cake

And the best present of all…..

I never would have guessed.

Pumpkins!

MMUuuuuuuWaahahahah

BOO!!

17 Again

Rented this movie a little bit ago.  It was actually a really good movie.  I thought it was going to be all cheesy but it was really funny and it had a really good moral.  The rich sci-fi nerd was the best.

My First Turkey!

I didn’t take a picture which is sad because it was beautiful.  I cooked my first turkey.  I had a roommate that made cooking a turkey sound like a big deal so when I made one yesterday I felt very proud of myself.  It was even moist and delicious! I was sure it was going to be dry like 90% of the turkey out there.  Cooking a turkey is actually really easy,  I don’t know what I was afraid of before.  Except I kind of have a thing about handling meet,  especially beef.  It can just really gross me out and the closer it looks like something that was living at one point makes it worse.  I usually get all meat boneless and skinless for that reason.  When you prepare a turkey you have to pull out the neck and the bag with the organs and giblets… I wasn’t a huge fan of that part but I did it – and then I let my mother in law take off all the extra meet from the carcass when we were done.  I’ll do that part another time.

Excited about the Alphabet

It sure seems to me that most first kids have the alphabet down and even know the sounds of each letter be the time they are 18 months.  Honestly, this makes me feel like a bad parent since I have not been overzealous about stuff like that but we are working on it.  I have to remember that Ahnna started talking later than some kids (which can also make me feel like a bad parent) so she is just now getting into learning the alphabet and she is pretty happy about it as shown below