Sorry kids . . . . . . Mama is CHEAP!!

Mariah is in love with the movie Tangled, in fact sometimes I think she believes she is Rapunzel (Oh to be 3 and have an imagination). She wears her Rapunzel dress daily and I was looking for some hair for her.
Well my mom did buy her one (aka: 5 feet of long tangly mess that are still to be found all over our house and in Ayla's diaper, Oh yes!!) which after 1 month turned into an enormous hair ball. It was later disposed of while my pretty one was sleeping :).

I found a few yarn alternatives that were beautiful but I still couldn't bring myself to pay 30.00 for. SO . . . . one must get creative. Walmart yarn, hot glue, and .99 flowers = Rapunzel hair for 2.79 and I probably have enough to make fifty of these. And she loves it, and that's all that matters!!!

Teeth

Ayla is getting teeth at an Incredible Rate, I feel like she gets a tooth every week. So far she has 6 little pearly whites shining through! And like all of my munchkins so far, they are so random in how they come in, not at all like the charts I was forced to memorize in hygiene school. All of Ayla's teeth are on her left side, weird huh!! I am just loving these cute little chicklets when she smiles, but I am sad to think that losing that gummy smile is just another notch on her way to becoming a toddler.

Pumkin Patch

One of my favorite things about Fall is PUMPKINS!!! I love to eat them, cook with them, smell them, paint them and most of all pick them out! The kids look forward to picking out just the right ones. Chase is very quick, and Mariah wants to peruse the merchandise before making her selection.

(And the hunt is on!!)

(Mariah's prize after about 45 minutes)

(Trying to carry sisters pumpkin)

(Ayla was uninterested and quite annoyed that we uprooted her from her playroom and dropped her down on the dusty earth with these big orange things - she basically wanted to be carried and inspect her pumpkin from the arms of daddy )

(My 3 lovely's and their pumpkin picks)

(Yes, I was actually able to be in a shot)