A very "TANGLED" Halloween!

Halloween Eve we made a festive "Jack'O'Pizza", carved and painted pumpkins, roasted pumpkin seeds, and rode our Belle quad up and down the hallway while we laughed hysterically!

We chose the Tangled theme for costume this year since this past year has been pretty full of Rapunzel! My parents bought Essie the Disney store dress, shoes, and light up wand. I will say the quality of the Disney store dresses is amazingly better than those you can buy at walmart!

Essie looked so beautiful in her dress. She wouldn't wear the braided headband my dad and I made for her so I clipped some yellow ribbons into her ponytail.  My dad also made this super cute Pascal out of pipecleaners to ride on her shoulder. He also made the magic golden flower for her to carry!

Travis found some things at the Goodwill that worked for a Flynn Rider costume. I thought he looked pretty darn good!  I had planned on wearing a red cape/black wig and going as Mother Gothel or "Ever" as Essie calls her. But when I put it on she freaked out and yelled "no mommy! Take it off!". Knowing she was already going to be on edge I opted out of wearing it. 

At first she was quite afraid of trick or treating but once she realized she was getting candy AND compliments she was all about it!

Ghosts of Halloween Past!

I love looking back at old Halloween photos to see how much our life has changed in the past few years.

Let's start back in 2008...I was preggo with Essie Claire only by a few weeks in this pic! The pups were RedWolves fans that year!

Then in 2009 we had our lil cutesie Monkey with two bananas!

2010 was the year of the bumblebee and our first real trick or treating adventure!

This year we are gearing up for all things TANGLED! We have the dress, the hair, Pascal, the magical yellow flower, Flynn, and even Mother Gothel! I cannot wait for trick or treating tomorrow!

fashionista and lots of randomness

We have quite a little fashionista on our hands.

The other night she wanted to pick out her pajamas. So I let her. And she chose a princess night gown with Belle socks and gold glitter shoes.

This past Thursday was purple day at her school so she looked ADORABLE in her purple dress, boots, and big bow!

Her school is also having a superhero themed Fall Festival so we dug out this Batgirl costume from her dress up tub...we tried it on just to make sure it fit....

And here is her very first school picture! I think it turned out so cute.

Friday night our friends "RaRa", "Matt-Matt", and "Poopah" came to visit! They got her really late friday night. Essie tried very hard to wait up but didn't make it. Yes, she had one shoe on...she's obsessed with shoes right now.

Saturday morning we all got up (yest we all stayed at our 600 sq ft apartment) and went to Stoby's for breakfast.

Then we went a town over to the pumpkin patch. I got only a few pics then my camera died so I will do an official pumpkin patch post once Sarah sends me her pics!

Then Sarah and I made Cooper's smash cake for his one year pictures..I can't believe he is going to be one next month! His party is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse themed..I thought we did a pretty good job! He is already walking around....Essie was so excited she yelled "Poopah walking!".


Then Saturday afternoon we all drove to Heber for a birthday party. It was such a cute party and the kids had a blast jumping in the bounce house! After all that excitement this was Essie on the way home...

Essie. Essie. Essie.

I stopped doing Essie's monthly posts once she turned two..I couldn't imagine doing the whole "look who's 28 months today" mess anymore. But it makes me sad to not write about her special happening each month. So here is a little post all about Essie and what she's up to these days!

Essie Claire you are currently almost 27 months old! You weigh 26 pounds and you are 36 inches tall! You are such a growing girl and you amaze us constantly.

You love daycare. This makes momma and daddy very happy. You have become so independent and social since you started! You have a "boyfriend" Jack and you tell us each day who you played with outside. Your teachers tell us you love to slide and that you are very funny at school.

You love to sing. Right now you sing "ABC's" and "Twinkle Twinkle" pretty much exclusively! You quite often combine the two in fact!

You love to hear us read bedtime stories. You even have started to "read" them to us and you are so good at making up words to the books when you don't know the real words!

You are sooooo dang funny. We laugh at you all the darn time. Last night I was applying medicine to your eye (you were fighting it) so I said "Essie Claire. What did the doctor say?". Your matter of fact, innocent response was "No more Monkeys jumping on the bed!". :)

You love to dress up and want a dress that twirls out when you spin. You give every single dress a "spin test" and get quite upset if the dress doesn't flare out!

You can count to 15.

You have been sassy free for a month or so now. You never mention your sassy or the sassy monkey unless you meet a new stranger. Then for some odd reason you insist on telling them "the monkey took my sassy." Your teeth have completely changed since you stopped taking the sassy...you look like such a big girl!

You love to play on our cell phones and can work them completely on your own..you amaze us!

You say "I wanna hold you" when you want us to pick you up. I hope you don't change this anytime soon.

You are beginning to develop fears. You say "I scared Razorbacks" and "I scared beeeitches" (witches). You saw a big blowup Razorback that frightened you one day and a witch at a parade. Although you are afraid of the Razorbacks you can really call those hogs!

You say "oh sorry" all the time. If you think you've done something wrong you always say it.

You are beginning to clean up after yourself really well. Thank you daycare.

You love to say "MINE!" and "Stop It!" Thank you daycare.

You pee-pee on the potty consistently!

You eat fresh apples for breakfast every single morning and you love "donut friday". The other day you asked if it was "Donut friday". We said no so you said "okay, popcorn Saturday?!" haha.

You are the center of our world and we love you so very much!

a parade, princesses, and a teaparty

Tuesday afternoon was the Faulkner County Fair parade. Each elementary school makes a float and the teachers walk in the parade.  The theme was "Movie Madness" and there were so many cute floats! I loved seeing our students along the route as we walked! Right at the end I saw Essie and Travis so I got to watch the rest of the parade with them. Essie loved it but was scared of the witches she saw.

Thursday afternoon I got a call from Essie's school that she was running fever and had a really bad diaper accident so I left at lunch and picked her up. She also has a terrible stye on her eye that will not go away, a cough, a runny nose, and poor thing fell on the slide at school and busted her top lip! So we had a much needed doctor's appointment. Doesn't she look just pititful when I picked her up?

Friday Night we had tickets to go see "Disney Live the Tale of Three Princesses".  Essie chose to dress at Snow White again (along with a million other little girls!). She had a blast and was mesmorized the wholel time. She was sooooo into it. It had Cinderella, Snow White, Belle and of course Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy.

Then this morning she wanted to have a tea party so she set herself up......

then we thought she needed a few friends to share her party with!