Fabulous fall funtivities

Now that the holiday season has begun, let's do a wrap up of October and November.  The year is flying by and I'm so excited that Christmas is around the corner.  It is my FAVORITE time of year.  I could just have Christmas all the time — I love everything about it!!!
      So what did Fall bring us this year? A hurricane that brought us cooler weather and lots of rain, and lots of sickness! I'm going to have to say that October beat November in the fun memory activities.
     In October we got to pick pumpkins, bake goodies, stay inside for a 3 day storm watch and have school and church canceled. We also started Solana in gymnastics 2 days a week and soccer 2 days a week! She loves them both! And even though gymnastics comes more naturally to her, she still really enjoys soccer so far.  Plus I love how busy the mornings are with fun activities.
    November has been a rough one. First we lost the election! And at the same time that they were announcing that Obama had one Ohio, Solana started throwing up everywhere! (And Adam was at an intramural football game, that they lost!)  Oh it was a depressing night for sure!  After the flu, she ended up having a cough and cold that lasted weeks, that turned into an ear infection (her first one) and Adam had to take her over to urgent care after he dropped me off at work, where she cried and fell asleep on the exam room bed.
   I on the other hand had been the day before to urgent care for my soon to be bronchitis.  Let's just have a round of antibiotics for everyone! November was a hot mess for sure.  Good thing we are finally getting better, and Thanksgiving was relaxing and enjoyable.  Now Adam starts finals and then in 3 weeks we are off to Utah for a fabulous 3 week vacation!!

Here are the the highlights!

Halloween:

Waiting for the donut eating contest to begin.  He might have won it.  (Clarification: Adam says he did win it.)

All dressed up for the halloween party.  Adam went as an occupy wall street protester and I went as the top 1 percent.  We thought the irony was pretty funny. 

 For the halloween party at the church, she wanted to dress as Angelina ballerina.  She even brought her stuffed mouse (it was mine as a kid) and she had so much fun.  Of course my favorite thing about the costume is the mouse ears.  I stayed up so late one night making these things (after driving all over town trying to find something) It was my first halloween craft. Gotta start small right?

This face just cracks me up, I have no idea if this is her new smile, but I had to make her laugh so she would stop smiling like that. She is one silly girl. 

This one is much better. 

Her favorite costume of course was Ming Ming the duckling from the Wonder Pets show.  For like 6 or more months we really thought she thought she was Ming Ming.  I would call her name and she would correct me and say, "No I'm Ming Ming!" as a response to everything. 

Here is my daughter's role model in case you don't know Ming Ming. lol

Out trick or treating with friends—she is obviously very proud of her candy.

She finally got to go trick or candy with her best friend Abigail.  They ran around holding hands all night.  It was pretty darn cute!

November: 

What do you do when your not feeling well? Make some cookies.  Lately Solana has been asking for cookies, when I tell her we don't have any, she simply says "Well...make some, Mommy."

Usually she requests chocolate, but I have no desire for chocolate, so sugar cookies it was, and she was so great about helping me bake them.  She even sneezed on the dough to claim which ones were hers.  

I love that when she finds my phone, she either goes to the Netflix app or takes photos.  I didn't even know she had taken this one.  Just another paint project.....my new desk!

This one is her best yet.  I think she was actually trying to take of a picture of her shoe, but I figured in case she had good aim I better make it count.  She actually got me in there, and it was not blurry! 

 

Thanksgiving day was so great and relaxing, but last minute I decided to make a table arrangement that required some leaves and sticks. So Solana was very excited for the task of finding such great things.  

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!