The Girls

Scarlett writing her name with ketchup...it was K week!! my abc learning website is coming!!

 

I needed to take a shower before taking Scarlett to gymnastics... so she told me she would babysit Willow. I was a little nervous, but i gave it a whirl, and when I came out of the shower this is what I found. "Just watching Willow Mommy"

 

My girls and the "first bottle" for willow

 

Scarlett working on the letter K.

 

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Well, the other Jill is from Canada, so to celebrate with her for her heritage we had a Canadian Thanksgiving which takes place in the middle of October. I didn't get any more pictures due to the high maintenance of Willow that night.

Here we are at our feast... oh and our girlfriend Anna joined us!!

 

The grown-ups in the kitchen trying my first PECAN PIE ever. I was so proud of myself for actually making a pie, that i called Amy and she informed me that its the easiest pie to make .... way to burst my bubble, i thought i could make any pie after that...

 

Another picture of everyone enjoying the pie.

 

Random Shots

The Very Hungary Caterpillar Day was in early October. So we invited over a few friends in honor of Eric Carle. Instead of Scarlett's learning time that morning, we had a bigger learning time and she loved it. We did books and paintings. I barely had time to get any pictures though!

 

My girlfriends Michelle and Jessica whom I used to work with at TLC preschool came over for some pizza/salad. They brought their kids and EXTRA clothes.... just so happened Michelle had an extra bunny outfit for Scarlett. However, we had already had our halloween outfits and this bunny outfit would have been WAY TO hot down here.

 

Willow is always getting so much love and attention!!

 

Maren just loves little Willow!!

 

October

October has rolled around and i can't believe it..it is my favorite month (usually) right now i am a little overwhelmed.
Scarlett has been enjoying little willow...
we have been going to playdates, gymnastics, doctors and having friends over
Ryan was gone all week so it was a long week...my girlfriends down here have said to ask them when i need help and i broke down and did on Wednesday, it was midweek and i usually don't send Scarlett without going with her but i just needed a few hours

here is Scarlett and Kira playing at her house...thanks Mindy!!

 

 

 

here is a picture of Willow i took later that ngiht after her bath, scarlett lotioned her up and she was ready to go out on the town... we just went to bed!!

 

other notes:
--joy, sam and kora lily are home from Germany
--nicki and regina are coming down on Wednesday .... so excited
--amy and joy, maybe joanna and a few kids are coming down the following week
--katrina and joel and girls are coming down the following week after that..although they will mostly spend time in sarasota...we are going to adventure down there too
--we are going to ohio around the 13th of nov and my nose surgery is scheduled for Dec. 3...ouch...not looking forward to it
--looking forward to watching a few buckeye games up north
--i love weekends because ryan is home to help out...love it...not sure how single moms do it
--having Canadian thanksgiving with the other ryan and jill on sunday
--my ob appt could have been on america's funniest or most embarrassing hours of someones life... after 3 hours of misery we finally made it home alive...i won't share the pain with you all...
-- bumming that ryan had a 5+days trip planned for our anniversary at the end of the month, his mom was going to come and babysit, then we (or i mean i)shortened it down to 3 days and now it has turned into about a day, so we decided not to go anywhere...how do you like that one... simply put, as much as we need a weekend getaway, i just wasn't ready to leave willow overnight

Happy Birthday Jackson

Scarlett peeking at Jackson's birthday cake...his party was at McDonalds

 

Scarlett and Mr. Jackson... he just turned 5!!

 

Willow's outing ... she was attending her first birthday party... she was a grocery baby and it was awesome... as some of you know, she doesn't do that very often!!

 

Scarlett being very patient while Jackson opens presents

 

Do you know how to keep a child quiet in the car... mmm...give them some lipgloss

 

Willow Grayce

 

Another shot!!

 

daddy and Scarlett on Fridays on their way to the golf course

 

Scarlett and daddy

Loving the golf cart with daddy

 

Scarlett dreaming of someday talking her daddy into owning a dog...

 

daddy took scarlett to the zoo aka.."pet store"...lets her climb and do anything

 

Scarlett was really needing a new gymnastics outfit and daddy caved in and got her one!!

 

Snapshots

Here are a couple snapshots that i pulled from Scarlett's "Abc learning" time...

i will be posting the blog soon...

 

 

 

 

Manic Monday

Scarlett and I made cupcakes that looked like spiders...so we shared them with her little friends, Grayson and Jackson.

 

Scarlett at dance class

 

Scarlett enjoying dance class

 

Scarlett after dancing class being brutally honest... we are not usually allowed to be in the room with our little dancers... well, the instructors birthday was that day so she shared cupcakes, however, scarlett continues to inform the little blond in the front of her that "she is really messy" and the girl that is beside her "that she is throwing a fit, and to stop being so winey" ... we had to talk afterwards that when mommy tells scarlett these things, they are just for scarlett...it doesn't mean that scarlett then says them to other kids, so now i am going to have to reword some things (here is the thing, she was being brutally honest) as you can see from the picture that i took minutes before i thought i would hide in willows carseat

 

tubby time

Willow Tubby Time

 

Scarlett is all about Willow's tubby time...

 

recently we adventured to the daytona art and science museum... it was national free day, so we went...here are a few pics of what we did

 

 

Willow in front of a 100,000.00 bear

 

Scarlett pretending to be a dr.

 

Daddy helping Scarlett, it looks like he is mad at her in the picture but he wasn't...he was listening to her talk.

 

Scarlett and Daddy making pizza

 

you will have to ask Ryan about his family fun days...he just loves them!!