Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween everyone! Ellie loved her Super Girl costume this year, especially when Daddy made her fly around the house. She still doesn't get "trick or treat"-ing, but she loves the candy that she gets.






We carved pumpkins a week before and Ellie wasn't too interested in the carving part, but loved Daddy's carving of Mickey Mouse.





We spent Halloween weekend in Moses Lake with family, particularly Ellie's super hero cousins - Carter, aka Batman and Case, aka Superman. We made a couple of stops at Great Grandma and Grandpa Beierman's, Jessica and Dustin's, and Nana and Papa's.

Pear

Ellie: Pear.
Daddy: Take a bite.
Ellie: Cut it.
Daddy: Ok.
Ellie: Wash it.

Well isn't someone just a little smarty pants these days....not to mention a bit bossy.

Ellie's Art

Ever since the boys were her for pumpkin picking, Ellie has been really into coloring! She went to town this week making this masterpiece! She's gotten pretty good at naming some of her colors - specifically yellow.

Stealing Jelly Beans

Today we came back home from Moses Lake - Ellie was short on nap time today, only sleeping a little over an hour on the way home. Subsequently she was quite the pill this evening. Jared and I set out to carve pumpkins despite her attitude. During our carving adventure, I left one of the drawers open in the kitchen, that happens to have the bag of jelly beans in it. A little while later, we can hear her, but can't see her. I asked her what she was doing, and asked Jared what he thought. We both heard the sound of a bag rustling and jelly beans. Quickly after, the bag stopped making noise and the drawer shut. I walked over there, and she had about 7-8 jelly beans in her mouth, which I made her spit out. The temper tantrum followed, but we were both surprised by her intelligence to get in to the bag and put it away.

Big Girl Bed - Almost

Well Ellie's hit yet another milestone. She's transitioned in less than 1 day to a toddler bed. Yesterday Jared converted her crib to the toddler bed before her nap - she loved it. She did great at nap time, didn't try to get out of bed, but only slept about an hour. However, night time was a even better success! She went to bed, no fussing, which really doesn't happen all that often since we took away the puggy, slept through the night and even slept in til 7 am this morning. We're so proud of our big girl!!

Two Beers

So we don't drink a lot. Clearly right now I am not drinking at all. But due to having company and it being football season, we've got a pack of tall boys in the pantry. So Ellie kept trying to play with them earlier this evening and Jared told her no and that she could hurt herself. So just now we are sitting on the couch watching TV and Ellie disappears and comes back with two tall boys. She hands one to Jared and one to me and is saying Mommy and Daddy to us as she hands them over. Guess she wanted us to have some drinks. :)

Ellie has some exciting news....

....she's going to be a big sister! Probably not a shock to most of you that read this blog, but maybe a few of you still don't know. I'm about 19 1/2 weeks along - putting our due date at the end of Feb or beginning of March. The original due date based on timing is Feb 29 (yes leap day), and based on ultrasounds is March 2. I'll take March 2nd over a leap day baby. :) Also, we are fortunate enough to know we are expecting a baby BOY! We had our first ultrasound at 12 weeks and the tech at that point thought it was a boy and last Thursday we confirmed it at 99.9%.

Pumpkin Pickin at Green Bluff

This weekend Pop Pop, Grandma, Becky, Carter and Case came up to Spokane to go to Green Bluff to get our pumpkins for carving - not to mention all the other fun things we did. The weather was perfect! After an entire week of cold and rain, (literally Thursday's high was 48 degrees) we got 60+ degree weather, with sun and very few clouds! We headed up reletively early and missed the bulk of the crowd.

We started off at Knapp's farm where the kids picked their own pumpkins - notice how Case and Carter picked approrpiately sized pumpkins for them to carry and Ellie picks a big pumpkin. :) We also got to watch them shoot off the pumpkin cannon for pumpkin chunkin! And Carter ran through the hay maze with lightening speed.
























Then it was off to Walter's Fruit Ranch, one of our favorite farms on the bluff. Walter's has fruit trees, pumpkin patches, like all the other farms, but they also have a dried pea box - a non-messy sand box, play set, rides, live music, and the best frozen pies ever. Carter enjoyed the pea box, while Case and Ellie enjoyed the play set.






Thanks for a great weekend guys!