Now, on to Halloween....
Unfortunately, it was rainy and yucky here on Halloween, so we didn't get to take the kids out trick-or-treating, but we did grab a couple of photos of them together. Earlier this fall I let Allie pick out her Halloween costume from a catalogue that had lots of different costumes. She chose the monkey....she loves monkeys. I wasn't planning on dressing Will up this year, but rather I was just going to put a Halloween shirt on him. A week or so after I ordered Allie's monkey costume, I got another catalogue of costumes and found the perfect costume for Will....a banana! So, here's our little monkey with her banana.....
The day before Halloween, Allie had a Halloween party at school complete with a costume parade, pizza party, and decorating cookies and pumpkins.
Will continues to grow and change every day. He's such a big boy now! He's becoming a good sleeper like his big sister. He usually goes to bed about 5:30-6:30pm, then takes a bottle at about 9:30pm, and doesn't take another until about 6am. This past Friday night we put both babies to bed at 7pm. Will took a bottle at 10pm and another at 6:30 am, and then I HAD TO WAKE HIM AT 9:30AM! I guess he was planning on sleeping all day. Allie, of course, slept until 8:30am....that's not unusual for her.
Will is also smiling and laughing a lot, and he has began to coo. It's very sweet. I expect that he will find his hands any day now. I'm also thinking about starting his move out into his big boy crib soon. He took his first nap(s) there yesterday. I'm not sure that he loves it just yet....he slept about an hour for his first nap, but his later two naps were only 20 minutes each. We'll keep working on it though, and I'm sure he'll learn to love his crib as much as Allie does.
Allie is such a big girl now! Her favorite thing over this last week is reading. All day long she brings me books and says "read, read, read". Now, I'm thrilled that she loves books, and I'm more than happy to read to her as much as I can, but I really wish that she wouldn't make us read the same book over and over and over. I'll ask her to go get me a different book, which she does, but she'll only let me read 1-2 pages of the new book before she takes it out of my hands and gives me her "book of the day".....again!
More evidence of Allie growing up.....she gave up the pacifier last Thursday! Well, I guess I can't really say that she "gave it up". I took it away from her, but she didn't really put up a fight. Allie only used her paci at nap and bedtime, but she did love it. We were encouraged by Allie's pediatrician to get rid of the paci by 18 months, so I decided that last Thursday was the day. During her morning nap, she cried hard for ~15 minutes yelling "Mommy, Mommy!". After 15 minutes (my heart was breaking), I went in to her room to reassure her that I was there. I told her to lay down and go night-night....and she did! Not another tear. She didn't cry any more...not during her afternoon nap, and not at all at night. She has not cried another tear for the paci. And, she hasn't even tried to take Will's paci from him! She has asked for paci a couple of times when getting ready to go down for a nap or go to bed at night, but I just ignore her and hand her a stuffed animal. She's such a big girl!!!!
As always, Allie has been entertaining us over the last couple of weeks. She seems to be experimenting with taking her clothes off when she wakes up in the morning or from naps. Two out of the past three mornings, David has found Allie with her PJs completely unzipped when he gets her out of the crib.
After her morning nap today, this is what I went in to find.....
Not sure what she is up to, but it sure is funny to walk in and find a half-naked baby in the bed.
As you can see in the picture above of Allie in her unzipped PJs, she is carrying around a toothbrush. Allie LOVES to brush her teeth, and many times during the day will start yelling "teeth, teeth!" wanting me to get her toothbrush for her so that she can brush her teeth. I guess there could be worse things, huh?
Allie's also re-discovered her sunglasses this past week. She wants to wear her "gasses" all the time....she doesn't always get them on the right, but she tries!
There's so much more....but I don't want to bore you....
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