Beads

AJ and I went to Claire's today and got her some "jewelry". She loves playing with mine. Which is more than frustrating when I have to search the house everyday to find where she'd hidden things. When she went after my wedding ring, I decided it was time she had her own accessories.

I bought her a set of 5 pastel beads. At first she was very excited about wearing them, even showed them off at the grocery store to the checker. Then we got home she took them all off and played with them for AN HOUR! It was mind-numbing. I'd give a million dollars to know what was going through her head :)

Happy Thanksgiving

Stewart was off ALL LAST WEEK! Not to worry, we survived. We spent alot of time playing in the backyard, courtesy of the BEAUTIFUL weather we've been having. HA HA to those of you wading through 12 feet of snow :)

We also went to Chuck E Cheese on Black Friday, thinking no one would be there. This plan worked until about 11:00 when all the crazies were apparently done shopping and decided to visit CEC. Allie was LESS THAN impressed with CEC. She clung to me the whole time and when I dared to put her on this seemingly harmless ride, she freaked. This picture is seconds before said Freak-Out happened.

Yes...Miss Thing is in dire need of a haircut

Halloween

The kiddos had a great halloween. Stewart ran from house to house and we managed to keep up. Allie on made it to one house and as soon as they opend the door, she ran to the wagon and hid there for the rest of the night.

Allie went as a Princess (Stewart picked out her costume) and Stewart went as the Grim Reaper.

Allie's Tower

This is Allie's newest obsession: building a tower of blocks. She gets in the zone while she's doing it and there's no reaching her :)

Allie Stuff

Ok enough about Stewart, now for Allie. Still not talking actual words yet, but she has alot to say in her own language.

Here she is bumming ice cream off of daddy.

On my mom's old rocking horse with her brother's firemen's hat on
Miss AJ is quite the little accessory queen. Her favorite thing to do is wear hair bands as bracelets.

Kindergarten Graduation

Despite our doubts, Stewart graduated from Kindergarten. As Stephen would say Halle-freakin-lujah!!! In the class shot, you can see Stewart at the back of the line, not paying attention as usual. :)

Wild Animals

For Stewart's birthday, instead of having a party, we loaded up the minivan and headed to the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch in San Antonio. If you've never been, GO! Its a zoo that you drive your car through and the animals come right up to the car and you can feed them! Aside from the psychotic ostrich that tried to eat Allie, it was so much fun!