Halloween Carnival

Tonight we went to a Halloween carnival put on by Easter Seals (the early intervention program in Nevada). We had a blast celebrating Halloween a week early!

Audrey is Walking

Don't just take my word for it:

One more reason I am glad I married Kirk

Every year for our anniversary Kirk writes me a poem, and every year it makes me cry. This year was our 5th anniversary and he took writing his poem a little further and made me a website of our lives together. Yes, I cried through the whole thing. He said he will add to it each year and I'm excited to have that become our new anniversary tradition. He seriously is the best. Check it out:

http://www.wix.com/croft50/igoththebestwife

"Teacher, my mom said rain is just water"

It is finally fall here in Vegas and this afternoon it actually rained! After opening all my windows so we could enjoy the smell we all ran outside to dance in the rain. Kirsten and I made it down the driveway before we both agreed it was too cold and ran back inside. Kirk and Audrey were die-hards and convinced us to come back out and catch a few raindrops on our tongues. The girls were so cute and pretty amazed with the water coming out of the sky.

After coming back inside the girls loved their dad tickling them until they were dry. PS Clearence rack at Target means matching outfits for my girls!

The costume search ended today at Target

We found the perfect Halloween costumes for the girls today. I figured we could pull off another year of matching costumes before we dive head first into princess costumes. Want a sneak peak? I thought so!

3 against 1

After bringing in the groceries this evening Kirsten and Audrey were playing with the umbrella stroller in the garage. Kirk brought the stroller in the house and strapped Audrey in so Kirsten could push her around. Devastated that she wasn't the one in the stroller Kirsten dramatically threw herself on the ground sobbing. Kirk eventually pulled Audrey out of the stroller and let Kirsten climb in and took her to get the mail. (There is a point to this story I promise) A few minutes later Kirsten is wanting help putting Audrey in the stroller so she can push her around.
Kirk looks at me and says "we could have saved a lot of drama if they would have gone with my idea in the first place."
To which I promptly respond "they are girls and don't want to be told how to do anything."
He didn't miss a beat " oh I know, I'm married to you"

funny Kirk

But the girls had fun and it was cute, see?

Young Love

Audrey and Adam hit it off instantly. As soon as they had the chance to crawl around on the floor together it was apparent their relationship would be a constant game of catch and release. But leave it up to my Audrey to make the first move.

It was a couple months ago, when they had only known each other a few weeks. I was on the floor changing Adam's diaper when Audrey crawled over to him, took his binky out of his mouth and leaned in for a kiss. Oh she didn't kiss him at first, she's a flirt and knows how to make him want it, but she only kept him waiting for a second because before I knew it she was planting a big open mouth lots of tongue kiss on Adam. Oh he really liked it! Yes I am jealous, she never comes up to me and gives me kisses. Boys are already causing drama in our house.

Audrey's first word? "ada" as in Adam. Anytime I mention his name she gets really excited and starts looking around for him. When his dad drops him off in the morning Audrey is ecstatic, complete with giggling, smiles, and shaking limbs. She then crawls over to his car seat and tells him hi babbling like crazy still with the giggle and smiles. He is excited to see her too and doesn't mind that she likes to take his binky in and out of his mouth a hundred times a day. She wakes up from her nap before him and as soon as she hears him wake up she says "ada" and starts crawling to his room before I have time to blink my eyes.

I love having these two crazy babies crawling around my house all day. They are always getting into the fridge and like to feed each other grapes. They are each starting to walk taking about 10 steps at a time, trying to out do each other. They love to climb up the stairs and slide down. It's a mad house when Adam is here and by 5:00 I'm usually flat out on the couch waiting for Kirk to come rescue me. I have not figured out how to have a clean house with 3 kids, pretty sure it's not possible. Anyway we love Adam, and I couldn't be more thrilled in Audrey's choice in men!