Thinkin' Halloween

I'm already in full Halloween mindset mode. I was wanting to hand make costumes this year and I need more lead-time than the average crafty mom (which I totally am not) My mother in law is awesome and said she'd like to make Emma's costume this year. Yay! Wyatt is a bit more difficult. Thank the Lord that he has not suggested "Thomas the Train" for a 3rd year in a row. No no no..... First we have
"A carrot."
"A Carrot ? Wyatt, who do you know that has been a carrot costume before?"
"A man from Russia."
"A man from Russia?"
"Yea, and he came to Racine to trick or treat all the candy, then went back over to Russia and called everyone in Racine to tell them thank you for all the candy. Then he put the phone back on the charger. So yea, I want to be a carrot."
"Oooooook."

Then.... we have...
"A Circle."
"Just a plain circle?"
"No, I'd like to be a big yellow circle."
"Ok, so a smiley face?"
"urgggh, No! Just a big yellow circle."
"Alrighty then."

So that's what I have to work with. Any suggestions ?
Ha!

Summer Flew by

Baby Emma is now Two. (Emma, mommy has a letter to you about turning 2 in her journal... read it when you are older, k? Thanks.)

She is finally spewing out vocabulary is random bursts. Not quite sentence forming yet, but we are working on it. It occurs to me that Im not doing nearly the amount of projects with her that I did with Wyatt at this age. I've come to realize its because Im holding onto her being a "baby" and Babies don't use glue...

Something I need to get over and fix straight away.

Emma is very monkey see monkey do these days. She wants to do everything she sees big kids to including jump from the high point of playground equipment. The day when she has a sense of fear instilled in her isn't coming soon enough for my taste.

But yet, it keeps me on my toes in a heart attack inducing sort of way...

My Wyatt will be starting full day Kindergarten next week. I'm not ready... he is. I don't think I will cry, but I will feel a resounding sadness and I'm not exactly sure why. I still look at him as if he's a baby and Babies don't go to full day kindergarten....

The summer has been very unstructured and relaxed. I figure once school starts Wyatt will have plenty of structure, so why not have a lazy summer, right ?

The one thing he's asking to do still is "go to a water park" he'll probably get that labor day weekend though.

I've been keeping a journal of all the things the kids do/say when they say/do it so I don't forget between journal posts. Then I had surgery and couldn't descend the stairs (stomach cut open in 8 places) and haven't been able to write at all. I'll have to bring my journal down here and make a whole post on Wyatt quips and Emma follies these past 2 months.

Till then...Ta

This is Wyatt after his summer haircut. HE WANTED IT SPIKEY! When the lady actually did it, he was super brassed off!

This is Lil Miss M on her 2nd Birthday. Wearing a handmade birthday dress by TiTi Lisa.