Mess-free pumpkin carving!

I love to decorate the house with crafts that Chase has made, especially my home-depot orange kitchen (which will be changing by the way). Chase loves to glue, so we did our fall leaf project a couple weeks ago. This morning I cut out pumpkins and faces for Chase to glue on them. Not only is he using creativity and eye-hand coordination, but I am learning how to let my kids be messy. I will say that I let him glue all the pieces on by himself. I got this idea fromScissorCraftsForKids website!

Growing & Learning!!

Yesterday I caught Mariah building towers with her blocks. I couldn't believe how tall she was able to build it and how still she was able to keep her hands. She was so intently using her eye/hand coordination to accomplish her goal. One thing I notice about her is that she has more patience than Chase does, Chase is quick to be frustrated and easily angered, but Yaya has much patience and perseverance. Sometimes I forget that she is only 14-months old, I call her my little 2-year-old!





(Sorry if you look to close, they both have after-snack yuck mouths!)




Yaya has now discovered the magna doodle, and loves it!!!

Chase's Halloween!

Jordan and I have decided that we are not going to celebrate Halloween with our children. Since the kids are so young, we didn't feel the need to explain to them what Halloween is. On the way home from church this afternoon Chase stated that he couldn't wait until Halloween, and so I asked him what he thought Halloween was. His response was quick and with great belief, "Halloween is when I dress up in a costume and go pick pumpkins in the dark!"

Presents and Popcorn!

Aunt Jacklyn surprised Mariah with a belated birthday card the other week and so we headed off to Target the other day to use it. We found her the cutest doll stroller. It will be perfect for the doll Jordan and I are getting her for Christmas! She has so much fun pushing it around, and being push in it by Chase. Chase will say to her "I am the daddy, yaya, you be the baby!" Thank you so much Jacklyn!!!
















My little princess is growing so fast! I just love her personality that she radiates through her face, and her shoe fetish!!!




Wednesday, while I was at work, daddy and the kids had a movie date on the couch. As you can see both of them can chow down some popcorn.

Fun Pics!

I am so glad that Mariah has turned into such a lady!! Hmmm. . . .






Mariah and her new rain boots. Grammy thought these would appease her shoe fetish.







Another one of Chase's fall crafts, painting pumpkins.

Pumpkin Patch and fall flowers!

Jordan and I took the kids out to the pumpkin patch on Saturday, which turned out to be a beautiful and hot day. Even though it is only 10 minutes from our house, I feel like we are in the country. I think I love it as much as the kids do. We spent an hour walking and running through the fields, and searching for just the right pumpkins to display fall on our porch. Jordan found one and Chase found the other! Mariah spent most of her time rummaging through the dirt for rocks to jam in her mouth, but she did manage to stop and push out a stinky party favor for us (did I mention how hot it was, which made the smell even worse). It was fun to see the kids out enjoying Gods wondrous works.














I even had time to make a fall centerpiece for the table!!