Black and orange

Amelia had black and orange day at preschool in Tuesday (I'm less than a week behind!)

She picked: black leggings with silver stars, an orange "ghouls just wanna have fun" shirt with a sparkly ghost, and orange ribbons in her hair,

Pre Halloween fun!

On Saturday, we were invited to a neighborhood Halloween party. So, the kids dressed up and off we went! We played games and chatted with friends.

Amelia wasn't loving the bigger kids in their scary costumes. At all. Her dace was so sad and she absolutely refused to leave my side. So, daddy took her home. Gemma and William enjoyed themselves very much. William even mustered up the courage to go through an extra spooky haunted house! I was pretty nervous, but it turned out okay!

William agreed to be a pirate and the girls were both tinkerbell. Somehow, Gemma didn't make it into any of my pictures on my phone from that day!

The heidtbrow

All the Heidts can do this THING with their eyebrows. I can't seem to do it. Gemma can. Outperformed by the baby ....

Hey guys!

What's up? Gemma has been working hard at sitting up for the last 2 weeks and she now has it mastered well enough to have me take pictures while she is doing it (and I'm not afraid of her sustaining a head injury)

She loves being upright and being able to see what is going on around her. She is so sweet and fun! How can you not love all the rolls on her legs, dimples on her arms, and those fat cheeks?

Mom's night

Snow White (Amelia) and I attended her presshool's Halloween themed mom's night last week. She and I danced, sang, played games, crafted, listened to stories and had a great time. My girl certainly loved the attention! She doesn't get to be center stage very often lately OR have one parent all to herself. Both of us enjoyed the night out very much!

More marathon

Some more pictures from the marathon weekend!

Amelia and Hank drove the digger at the magic house.( picture #1)


The next day, Jessica and I took the kids to the park while Chris ran his marathon. Amelia and Hank rode the swings together for quite some time. Amelia was quite the little mama to poor Hank....he got more mothering than he needed. Amelia was very concerned about where he was and what he was doing all the time. It would have been sweet- but she was not as gentle as I would have liked! We have some work to do before Gemma gets to be big enough to be mothered around.

Chris finished his run around lunchtime and we all met up at home before heading out to the pumpkin patch! I'll be honest, this wasn't my best idea ever. It was close to 90 degrees and we waiting in a line for close to 30 minutes to get a parking spot. It was very crowded!

So: whiny kids plus hot weather plus tons of people meant we didn't stay for very long. But, it was long enough for me to get our annual pumpkin patch picture for our family calendar! Sadly, all those pictures are on the big camera and none on my phone.

After the pumpkin patch, we hit up a restaurant for dinner. I took a terrible picture with my cell phone to show what a trooper my husband is! He somehow ended up sitting with William next to him and the 2 three year old girls across from him. Then, while I was trying to get my food set up to eat, he held Gemma (and then I took her back). What a guy!

It was wonderful to have our friends here for a visit and to catch up! Thanks for making big trip!

Happy Halloween

William: "Hey Mom, who is the boogie man?"

Mom: "He is a pretend monster that comes and boogies in your house."

William: "Is it a monster that comes and leaves boogers in your house?"