2nd Star to the Right...and Straight on till Morning!

 Warning: potentially long update ahead...depending on how much free time I have to write.  But given that it is Sunday night and Yay yay! is here, I'll have plenty of time.  P man headed to bed, BML is hooked on fantasy football, and Yay yay! can't get enough of holding and rocking sweet L to sleep.  So here I am. 

I think it's kind of funny (interesting funny, not ha ha funny) that this post will cover Halloween where we dressed as Peter Pan and my 30th birthday...speaking of Never Never Land and not growing up...oops.

We'll start with late October and picking out our pumpkins.  P picked up almost everyone of these mini pumpkins to inspect before picking out 4 perfect ones.  He loves the pumpkins & has begun his usual matching game, finding all pictures of pumpkins and bringing his real ones over to sit on top of the book, or coloring sheet, or whatever.  He's pretty hysterical.

We got out our frog painting set (which I have to hide when we finish with it since P wants to paint outside all day every day regardless of the weather) and set to painting our pumpkins.  We got paint on absolutely everything - P took his painting VERY seriously.

So here we all are, smallest to largest, all painted by P man himself.  I put them up on the windowsill and attempted to take them down today.  P basically said "not so fast" as he picked them up from the floor, yelled "up! up! up!"and as I picked him up he put them right back on the windowsill where they belong.

Halloween....I saw a sweet Peter Pan costume on pintrest.com and thought, my guy would be an incredible Peter Pan.  The woman who posted about it made her costume.  No problem, I thought.  So, I made myself a costume....omitting the sewing part.  The hat and the top took me about 2 weeks to finish making since I pretty much could make one cut with the scissors before either P or L called for my attention, but I did it!  I am actually pretty proud of myself, I may even recycle and use it again next year.  Robin Hood?  Oh, I also made a felt knife for Pan to wear in his belt - that didn't make it into any of the pictures.

First we went to a neighborhood Halloween party where there was a pinata.  In typical P fashion, our sweet boy just watched all the other kids take their turns whacking for candy and when it was all over he swooped in, grabbed some kit kats and starburst and took off to his little corner of the yard to consume his stash in peace.  He is so pleased with himself.

Below is the required "I'm flying! Flying!  Look at me way up high, knowing I can fly! Wendy, Michael, John, TInkerbell, come on!" picture.  He's not sure what is happening. Oh look!  The knife I made, and unfortunately the kitchen knife he preferred to carry...don't call child services.

  

I wish I had pictures of the actual trick or treating.  BML and I weren't sure how our timid, tenderhearted boy would do.  Once he discovered that there was candy at the strangers doorsteps he was all over it.  He walked straight up to the candy bowl, picked out one piece of candy, dropped it to trade it in for another piece, and waved goodbye.  No words were spoken at all during this exchanged, but he still managed to be a pretty polite trick or treater.  Here Pan is with his Dad showing off his loot.

and here he is hoarding it....

can't really believe all this candy is his!  (he forgot about Halloween by morning, so I get his chocolate).

Birthday time!  Honestly, I was kind of bummed to not be spending my 30th with my favorite womb buddy, FTD.  But BML, P man, L girl, and yay yay!  all made the day extra spectacular.  BML picked up a delicious flourless chocolate cake - P loved it.  We all loved it.

and even sweet L girl got in on the action, showering me with lots of love on my big day.  BML and I were able to go out for a bit and celebrated at Level in downtown Annapolis.  We had one fantastic drink (a bourbonapolis for me....with pumpkin puree....so good.) and then B embarrassed me to bits by telling the bartender it was my birthday.  The embarrassment was so worth it when the bartender called "birthday shots for everyone!!"  I felt like I was 21 again...though I can't wait for FTD to blog about her big birthday.  I am sure they were quite different since when I was calling it a night at 9pm EST she was just getting started!

That is about all I can muster at the moment, and dinner is being served so I leave you for now!  (look at how big MLL is getting so fast!  she is trying to hold her head up, smiling and laughing, and waking up to the world!  7 weeks old...goes by so fast)

p.s.  i am not proof reading  - please be kind with your grammer / spelling checks - I am talking to you FTD and nitadee!