Happy Halloween!

This year for Halloween, Y dressed up as Abby Cadabby!  For those of you who haven't seen Sesame Street in the past few years, she is their newest (2006) addition to the show and she is a 3 year old fairy-in-training.  She has a segment which Y absolutely loves called Abby's Flying Fairy School.  It was super easy to get her into her costume, all we had to do was tell her it was time to put on "Abby's dress."  She loved wearing it with the exception of the wings, she pretty much refused to wear them until I told her that she had to wear them in order to get candy.  Then she let us put them on her but that only lasted about 15 minutes.  Anyway, here are some pictures of her in her costume at home and last night at our church Trunk or Treat activity.  I should also mention that she won a prize for cutest little girl in costume!

The October Rundown...

I can't believe October is ending already!!!  It has been a whirlwind of a month but somehow not so much has happened in the month.  I started a parenting class at the beginning of the month and I have really come to enjoy it.  I have gotten tons of ideas from other moms which will help me find better ways to redirect Y.  I think Y is an amazingly mild-mannered and well behaved angel most times but she does have her moments which can cause me to feel a bit overwhelmed.  Mostly I am taking the course to help me in the future to learn better parenting skills in the case that she does one day become a more "active" and "trying" child or for those as-of-yet unborn children which we hope to have...they can't all be angels, can they?  But overall I think it's really helping me but it's an on-going process.

B has been working a lot though he did manage to get our anniversary off work.  We took the opportunity to go up to Birch Run and do some shopping at the outlet center there.  We didn't have the opportunity to go up to Frankenmuth but hope to do that on another trip.  This past week our home was turned into an infirmary.  Y began vomiting on Tuesday night and we bounced back and forth between it being a stomach flu and food poisoning.  We eventually decided on food poisoning because she never had a fever during the whole time.  She vomited a total of 6 times that night: on the kitchen floor; just after her bath as I was getting her dressed in her bedroom, it was all over her changing pad, changing table, carpet, me, and the clean laundry I had just washed but neglected to put away; the next victim was our new couch; followed by the sink in her bathroom, the kitchen sink, and the sink in our bathroom respectively (we smartened up after the carpet and then the couch)!  By Wednesday at noon all was well again and she was literally running around the house as if nothing had happened at all.  Friday afternoon B informs me that he started vomiting at work after lunch and was convinced it was food poisoning, I was beginning to have my doubts as to the whole food poisoning thing but just went along with it.  He kept trying to eat something and as a result he kept vomiting and having chills but there was no fever, finally around 9 or 9:30pm he finally went to bed.  All the while I had been feeling a little sick myself but never really had the urge to puke, well that is until about 10:30pm and it was all downhill from there!  No matter what I did I could not get warm and to top it all off Y woke up at 11:30pm with diarrhea!!!  It was a horrible night!  I tried to think of another that would have been just as bad but all I could come up with was the night after Y was born and I was still relatively unable to move because of all the medications they were giving me (not because of the C-section but because of the unexplained fever that wouldn't break) and those boots that they made me wear to prevent blood clots.  But as I thought about it I realized that at least during that night all I had to do was hit a button and I had a nurse by my bedside.  Friday night I had no magic button and no nurse to help!  Fortunately it was a fast moving bug because by late Saturday morning we were all better!

5 Awesome Years

Five years ago today at noon (okay it was supposed to be noon, but I was late as usual so I'm not sure what time it was really but since it was scheduled for noon...we'll go with noon!)  I married my best friend, my confidante, my love, my life's greatest blessing, my eternal companion, and if I believed in such a thing I'd even call him my soulmate.  We've had good times and bad times, prosperous times and times that were not so prosperous.  We've gone from having very little to having more than we thought possible and to a lot of people that still not be much but to us it is everything!  We've had very few "real" arguments but that's mostly because B just refuses to argue with me and I really hate fighting all by myself.  We've created a beautiful child who lights up our world every second of every day and we have plans of doing it all over again!  We both have little quirks that sometimes wear on the nerves of the other but we truly believe that "love conquers all" and so we redirect our focus.

The past five years have flown by and they have really been the greatest of my life thus far.  I know that as we continue on our journey together things will only get better and the love will only get stronger.

Each year on our anniversary we take a picture of our family and place that photo in our wedding album so that we can look back over our years together and see how our family has changed.  Here is our picture from this year:

New Tricycle

While we were home in NC my parents bought Y a tricycle.  They had already bought my niece, G, one and they found that she and Y were always trying to take it from one another so they went to the store and bought Y her own.  They did this with the intention of either mailing it to us later or bringing it when they came for a visit.  I, however, not knowing when their next visit would be and wanting Y to get some use out of it while it was still somewhat warm outside, had a better idea.  They bought it from Wal-mart so I told them to return it (it hadn't really been used that much and when it was used it was indoors), instead of getting a cash refund get the refund put on a giftcard and mail us the giftcard at which point we could go and buy it at our local Wal-mart.  That is what they did and this is Y riding her tricycle!  She knows how to pedal but still insists on being pushed, and B is happy to oblige!