"more candy please"

Trick or treating was a total success! I was on the fence about taking the girls, but the weather was nice so we decided to go. They LOVED it. After one house they knew just what to do. I couldn't get either of them to say "trick or treat," but Taylor would ring the doorbell and say "more candy please." As soon as they got a piece of candy in their pumpkin they would both say "thank you, you're welcome" and run off to the next house. They never asked to eat any of the candy but they sure had fun collecting it. I'm so tired from chasing them around the neighborhood, they lasted 2 1/2 hours! Alright I'm off to bed! We have a big playdate with our little Vietnamese buddies in the morning. Then Chloe, Taylor and I are heading up to Washington for Olivia's first birthday party. Hope you all had a good halloween!

Punkins Punkins!

Jake took the afternoon off work and we carved pumpkins. Mine was way better but I let Jake think his was the best. :) The girls weren't really sure what to think of it, but after about 5 minutes they were elbow deep in pumpkin goo. Here's a few photos of our first pumpkin carving adventure!





Taylor with Daddy's pumpkin



Mommy's Pumpkin



**(Okay so maybe I found that pumpkin on flickr)

Coby

It's official, Coby is no longer a baby. He heard that big kids just take ONE nap instead of 2. So for the last few days he's only been taking one nap. The problem is he wants to take a really long morning nap and no afternoon nap with the girls, which means mommy doesn't get a break. But he's been so cute lately so I guess it's okay if he messes up the schedule.

What's for dinner?

Three Chicks and Two Hicks

Step away from my baby!

Cutest thing ever. Yesterday we were at the park near our house. It's a small park so the girls usually run off and play as soon as I let them out of the stroller. Coby usually stays near me and kind of toddles around. Coby was drinking his bottle and another little boy, about 15 mos, came up to him and snatched his bottle away from him. He immediately burst in to tears. Chloe was about 50 feet away and she suddenly stopped what she was doing and ran over to the 2 babies. She ripped the bottle out of the snatchers hand and started chewing him out. It sounded something like this "deeboodoo deBOO. NO, NO take Coby Baba. BeeBABOOO! Cheebchooboo. Bad Baby, NO, NO, NO!!! She then turned to Coby, gave him back his bottle, cocked her head sideways so she could look right in his eyes, and gently patted the side of his head saying, "It's okay baby, all bedder, all bedder." He smiled at her and then she smiled back and ran off to play with Taylor. Are you kidding me??? She's barely 2!!!!

A trip to the zoo

Sisterly Love

Chloe is one of those kids that's always trying to get other people to do stuff for her. She refuses to take her own shoes off when we get home. I've stopped helping her because I know she can do it herself. The other day she asked me to take them off and I said "No Chloe, you can do it." And then Taylor said "I'll help sista." That little stinker.

Thanks Taylor!

Mr. Big

So Coby just wanted me to do a quick post about how big he is now. He walks down the stairs like a big kid (I told him I'd photoshop out that "helping hand," but just ignore it). Anyway he does NOT like to be held when we are out doing errands and no strollers for this guy. He just wants to walk everywhere, and don't even try to hold his hand in public. He'll have none of that!

Our Pumpkin Patch Playdate

Here's our trip to the pumpkin patch on Saturday. We met up with 3 other families. The girls had a great time with Priya, Stephen-Paul and Josie. We got there pretty early so I took a ton of pictures before our friends arrived, but I did manage to get a few cute shots of everyone.

Come on Taylor, lets go to the pumpkin patch.


Waving to the big dragon.








"Just between me and you, Taylor's the bacon eater."







The hay maze!






Check out this HUGE slide. Two slides. The perfect baby race!

Chloe's in first place.

Taylor takes the lead!

Taylor wins!!

Chloe doesn't mind being 2nd.

Group shot minus Josie(she was too busy to sit on some hay).



Is it possible to get cuter than this?!?!?!?!?!?


Hey Josie, wanna hold hands?





"This is the pumpkin I want."

"How the heck are we going to get this home?"

Maybe Chloe can pick it up? Nope

Coby can do it!