E. Street Times: Hello 2013! Lets Catch Up

Yes! We are still here!!!

We are all alive and well. We celebrated all of the Holidays in the last three months of 2012, we rang in the New Year, and we even went on vacation. But maybe you don't know about any of this because I have not blogged AT ALL. Not since like, October!

So, although there was a lot that I wanted to post over the last few months, let's just hit the holidays. And I'll spare you (or really maybe me) a lot of words. Since we have so many great memories to cover let's just do a photo wrap up. I'll break it into a couple of posts so that it actually gets posted. Here we go!

HALLOWEEN

Attia got into Halloween a lot more this year, and she even enjoyed her costume. Over the last few months we had found that one of her favorite sounds to make was a bear growl. This led to lots's of "What does a bear say?" Followed by "Rarrrr." Giggle, giggle. So of course she had to be a bear. We went with polar bear since I had several of the pieces on hand. And of course we added a little snowflake polar bear tutu for good measure.

Our first Halloween activity was the 1st Annual Mugridge Halloween Party. They are great hosts and it was lots of fun!

My little Polar Bear

Decorating her pumpkin

And eating snacks - a favorite activity :-)

Dipping is the best

Collecting Halloween cutouts.
Did I mention that Carrie Mugridge is a teacher? :-)

Collecting more cutouts.
That is little Madilyn Mugridge in the background.

Manning the wheel

And just being cute while she does it

She was very interested in this pool of spider rings,
but when she got a little closer it really scared her.

I handed one to her and she reached for it,
then jumped backwards shaking her head,
"no." It was hilarious! She realized it was fake
after a minute, and now she loves the spider ring.

Next up was the "Mommies for Mondays" Halloween Party. "Mommies for Mondays" is the facebook group that spun-off from the mommy group that I was going to at the hospital after Attia was born. We still get together with them for events throughout the year.

At the end of the month we got the tandem out and made a trip to Schaake's pumpkin patch. It was only a week or so before Halloween but they still had plenty of good pumpkins left for us and lots of fun little activities.

Attia helped daddy pick out the first pumpkin

But it was a little too heavy for her to carry

She picked out the second pumpkin
all by herself

It was just right

She had a lot of fun 'helping' to carve the pumpkins later that evening.

And after all of this, there was still Halloween Day! To celebrate, Attia and I headed down to Mass. Street to do some Trick-Or-Treating with throngs of other Lawrencian children (and adults).