Abby is 2!

For Abby's 2nd birthday, she got...

 

 lots of presents,

 an ice cream cake,

 

and her very first balck eye!

 

preschool with Molly

 counting candy corn in a muffin pan

 peanut butter cracker spiders

marshmallow snowmen

 

Molly and I still work on preschool stuff during the week while her sisters are at school.  We've done tons of fun crafts, and made a bunch of yummy treats!  i've gotten to be very creative with ideas, and Molly is making awesome progress!  She's learned to read and write most of the letters of the alphabet (we're on the letter U), and we're starting to work on numbers.  She might be a little ahead of everyone when she starts kindergarten in a couple years...

halloween and molly's birthday

 

This Halloween, Lucy was a cowgirl, Jayne was a lalaloopsy (that wig did not like to stay on), Abby was a cupcake (loved this costume), and Molly was a pink frilly superhero (that's so molly).

 

 

 samurai richie (i love his awesome talents)

 

 

 

Molly's birthday is the day after halloween.  She got the lalaloopsy she's been waiting for!

 

Molly and i worked together on her birthday cake.  i frosted, and she sprinkled.  it was a lot of fun!

Ward Pumpkin Carving

i just love this cupcake costume!  she's just so stinkin' adorable in it!

excited to carve a pumpkin!

 

the pumpkin before...

 

 

 love the face!

 

 

the goo inside the pumpkin (the kids did have my camera for alot of the time)

 

 washing the goo from inside the pumpkin off their hands

awww...such a cute kid.  even if she does have a filthy face...

after

what the kids did for fun.  they called it "olympics" this looks like the belly-slide.

 

 what i did for fun

 

getting our baby fix with my newest little niece, Elizabeth

 

some of the pumpkins we were up against

 

 

we got the prize for "most traditional" (incase you couldn't read that)!

Molly's Monster Mash!

 

 some nutty ghosts

 

 

caramel apples

 

 

witch's wands

 

 

 

 

toilet paper mummies

 

 

painting pumpkins

 

 

 digging for eyeballs in spaghetti

 

We had Molly's halloween birthday party today, and had all the local cousins over to help celebrate!  I made tons of festive food, and we played a bunch of festive games, including monster mash freeze dance!

pumpkin patch

 

 i'm not sure either one of them know how to pose for a picture without making a crazy face!

 

We went to the pumpkin patch toward the end of their visit, and the kids were a hoot!  We had so much fun with everybody here visiting!  Maybe we can go visit them next time!

birthday boy!

 

opening his present!

 

Brittany's little boy turned 2 last month, but since they were in Louisiana, we wanted to throw a mini party for him here!  so, that is what we did!