Halloween

Too Cute!!

Visit with Cade & Claire

While Walt was hunting I went down to California.  Amy was in a half marathon the weekend I usually go down so I went a week early and got to see some school events and one of Cade's baseball tournaments.

Crazy Hair Day at school

I showed Claire how to tie tulle on a waistband and she took off.

Halloween 2014

Too cute!!

Cade's baseball tournament (two days - 4 games)

 Boy have these guys improved since the first time we watched them in July.

Cade got hit in the leg by the pitcher near the end of the game, he's still flexing it here.

 This is what Claire does during the games.  She's with some of the other sisters and her cousin, Emma.

Brooke's baby bump

6 month

Ellie visits Gram and Pa

Since we go over to Brooke's every Wednesday to watch Ellie they don't get to Gram's house very often.  Chris is gearing up for an art show the end of October so Brooke decided it was a good time to get out of town.  She and Ellie came over Saturday to visit Gram and Pa.

 Brooke's driveway is sloped so Ellie doesn't have a good place to ride her tricycle

Gram has a perfect spot

 Of course, Doogie and Kitty had to ride along

 We had Chinese Chicken Salad for dinner,  Ellie liked the Sesame Seeds

 And then there were the Tupperware dishes from 1980

Wednesdays with Ellie

October 23 - 28

After a week with Cade and Claire I went to Ellie's for a week.  Chris was in an art show and Brooke and Ellie were going to be all alone during the days, so I kept them company.  Brooke went into work on Monday so I didn't have to drive all the way home and then back on Wednesday.

So these pictures are sort of 'Wednesdays with Ellie' pictures.

 Ellie is now too long for her baby blankets, so I made a quick big girl blanket.

She gives her dolls and animals hugs a lot

I think she might be changing Bob's diaper here

I got to go to Ellie's swim lesson with her and mommy

 She even took a shower

She helped Gram make some punkamon cookies

But I guess I didn't fix her hair after her nap.Yikes!!

Help might not be the right word

We played with her play dough and she traced all these letters on top of letter cards.  She loves to spell zoo, zoom, Ellie, and Lulu

She also loves spaghetti noodles, don't they all?

Does this costume look familiar?  It was Cade's and then Claire's now Ellie is the right size to be a monkey for Halloween

'Punkamon' carving time

 A family that carves together....

See Cade not to yucky.  These pumpkins had a lot of seeds

Very Cute!!

And what would a visit be without a time for Legos?

October 1 - 2

 This week we built a tent out of their big chair

Ellie loves it 

and we played her game where you roll the cube and get

a color on top, then choose a card that color and act out what 

it says, this one said to make a horse sound 

 we also played Legos. The kids and dogs rode the school bus to the

Lego classroom.  Then Ellie started having each one come up and 

say the alphabet.  

 Even though this is a Melissa & Doug doll house it still fits the Fisher Price dolls

Bob and LuLu live in the house with their dogs, Goldie and Peyton
the Melissa & Doug people have moved out

 Ellie didn't feel very well when we were there but she still had energy to play Legos

Such a cutie