So I wanted to update before all of my pictures go out of date. Updating has just been sucking for me lately. I am just horrible able making sure I get updated even monthly is a challenge. I think with face book it’s easier just to put a blurb on there rather than actually taking time to write something exciting… not that my entries are all THAT exciting.
Well October was here and gone in a blink of an eye. Nikolai is crawling like a champ and he has found a way to pull himself up. Now he isn’t cruising yet but I don’t think it will be long before he gets that figured out. He also has managed to say “mama” and “dada” but doesn’t know who they are yet… he says it when you look at him so we are working on “bye bye” too. He likes to wave his arm up and down when you say bye bye… but he also does “hiiiii” when you say hi to him… so it’s hard to say what he’s actually trying to say and what he has learned.
He is defiantly a little mover though. He wants to be with his siblings in the worse way and he has found chasing them in his walker is pretty sufficient. The little Neighbor girl comes over and plays with him all the time to and the girls get super mad at her paying attention to their brother instead of them. But she’s an only child and has only grown ups to play with, so it’s fine.
Well it has been a good October even though this month flew by. We went to the pumpkin patch, got Niki’s 8 ½ month pictures done, acquired 2 guinea pigs, and went trick or treating. It has been definitely a fast month.
Niki’s pictures were a lot of fun. I wanted him to be in a diaper and some kind of theme and really struggled with trying to find the right theme like the girls had… but what I got was pretty good. And when I got to the studio that had a great set up as well so it worked out really well for what I needed it too. I add some pictures of that.
We did go to the pumpkin patch the weekend before Halloween, it was PACKED compared to last year where it was dead, of course it was raining the last time we went but hey it was good times. They had this inflatable rubber thing which the girls got to jump on. Everything that was “worth” anything cost money so we paid for them to jump on this thing for 3 minutes. We didn’t do the hay ride or anything like that but they did do some jumping.
So we did get the girls a couple of guinea pigs. The girls really wanted to get a pet and let me tell you they begged for MONTHS and so finally we had them save up money to get one of them. The second one we got for free on Freecycle in our area… The girls only renamed one of them. The first one they paid for was “Elephant (Elle) for short” and the second once was “George” but they renamed them to “Audrey” Both are males just so you know. Everything I read about guinea pigs said that they are VERY social and that they need another campaign to truly be happy… so that’s why we have two… now we have put the two together and well… let’s just say they didn’t really like each other, so the two are side by side and they talk to each other and it’s all fine. We can only truly hold Audrey and he is just a sweetie. He kind of talks when you hold him. Elle is still pretty young and so he doesn’t really allow you to hold him very much. When we change his cages we have to hold him to move him and he doesn’t really like it. So we are still working with him. We got Elle from a coworker who didn’t want him any more and the lady from Freecycle said that her son just didn’t play with them. The girls really like them; they want to hold them so we are okay with them.
The kids were fun for Halloween this year. Maya was a Lion, b/c we had a lion costume and Lehna was a Cheetah b/c we had a cheetah costume. Now Niki my plan was to make him a skunk but I could NOT find the outfit for him, so we had the duck outfit and he wore hat instead. He didn’t care and I didn’t really care so that’s what we did. Now I was prepared for 300 trick or treaters every year we always go through about 15 bags of candy and this year, I was READY but this year we ONLY had like 15! It was HORRIBLE so I had a ton of candy to kind of get ride of it was AWFUL. So I have been bringing it into work and have been giving it out to all of my express employees. So it’s been working out. I get rid of it before I eat it all!
We are into November I have some shopping done got everything written down I want to get for the kids. I’m still waiting n my list from my husband, but mine is safely written and given to the right party
So November will be over shortly and we’ll be into December. There are only 4 paychecks until Christmas so we must plan accordingly. I have to say I HATE Dave Ramsey he’s brilliant in his teaching about money but it still sucks. I have learned quite a bit about myself as far as spending habits and I have to say those DIE HARD too.
So we had some scary news this month as well as happy news. Tim was laid off at the beginning of October and I have to tell you Tait and I was very worried. We were worried for a couple of reasons but I’m happy to say that Tim has FOUND a job and is starting in a week. I know he’s excited and so are we!
Well this has been an update of October… hopefully another will follow come November… maybe.
My project
So I have big 8x10 on my wall at home and I loved this picture of Niki so I decided to do one of the girls too... I have Maya's done just need to get Lehna's shot and up!
