Octoberfest

Well I wish I could say that I'm behind on blogging because we have been so busy but the truth of the matter is, we didn't do jack. There has been nothing to report, honestly! Swimming, school, OT, library time. It's all been bloggoed before, it's still the same. But now...we have HALLOWEEN to report! What what!! (FYI, that's Cooper's new thing to say. He walks around saying "What! What!" all the time.)

So here's the scoop...the boys where Sharks (courtesy of ebay), Harps was a mermaid (courtesy of her Mommy and pinterest), I was a jelly fish (courtesy of Martha, herself) and Jonathan was a fisherman (courtesy of the fish sticks we had for dinner a few nights ago). I LOVE Halloween, a holiday that we get to play dress-up and wear glitter? That's what I'm talking about! So here's some of the stuff we did in the week leading up to All Hallow's Eve...

Actually, first....a couple of randoms...

I went into Harp's room to get her for the morning because I heard her stirring and this is what I found. Ridiculously cute and slightly concerning for Harper's future safety.

 A little impromptu photo shoot while we were at Thatch's OT. She was a thug with her hoodie on.

My pretty baby.

We went to the Spooky Train one weekend at Alaska land (No, I will not call it Pioneer Park. Like, ever. Write a song about that Taylor Swift.) Kids dress up and we ride the train around the park in the freezing cold. It's not so bad, really. There's a fake zombie graveyard manned by teenagers, some aliens (also teenagers, same thing really), and some pirates, all who decided it was too cold so they went inside to warm up during our ride, which left us pretty much just riding the train around the park in costume. Good times, the boys loved it.

The shark boy.

Sharks eat cupcakes. True story.

Jonathan's shark face. Coops is more lifelike though.

Good shot of Harpie's eyes...not quite brown, not quite gray. Completely awesome though :)

And here they are getting their photo taken at the train. Coop's stole this from some kid or prop, it wasn't ours.

So that night, after we drove around all over town looking for "THE GREAT PUMPKIN!!!" we carved it up, Yarsley style. We were going to have the 4th annual pumpkin carving party but people in Alaska don't like to RSVP and I don't like to clean my house, so I cancelled it and it was just us. Next year we'll do the big shin dig again.

Here's the Coopster. He has a super fat lip from falling at McDonald's playland. He lived though.

Their faces speak for themselves.

That's a gutsy move there, Cooper.

Here's our Mickey Pumpkin. He's a work of art.

And of course, what is scarier than a shark attack?

Hehe.

So with the giant pumpkin I did a little photo shoot with the Harps. She was pretty pissed off at first, and I shall spare you those photos because she wasn't using her pretty crying face.

This is just funny, so I had to add it.

I love this one!

This would have been awesome if I could just learn to use my freaking camera. 

Woa, scary flash.

And here's the Coopster, unable to stay still for the camera. It's kind of a cool picture though!

So on to Halloween night we go...

Thatcher had some trick-or-treating at school so we kind of took it a little easy on Wednesday night. We went to family night after OT and then hit up 4 houses and went home. Fret not though, they still didn't get in bed until 9 pm. Small victory for the munchkins.

Harpie was a mermaid. The most beautiful mermaid there ever was. Little known fact: Mermaids like Cheetos  True story.

A picture is worth 1,000 words. Here's one though...Ha.

This is Corva, Cooper's lady friend. They have unpromted kisses. It's serious.

And here's me. I was a jelly fish, remember? Scientifically speaking, this would be a picture of me eating Mermaid Harper.

And here's the whole gang. Thatcher referred to us as the Ocean Family. I concur.

And so onto today...
I realized I didn't take an 8 month picture of Harps. Or a 9 month one. I suck. Better late than never though!

When we were at the store, she said "Mommy, I need this shirt. It says your name in glitter!" I coudn't say no to that kind of logic. Anywhoo, here's the first picture. Sort of a good one, but I needed to get more.

She's a squirmy little beast.

I mean really, does she not understand what I'm trying to accomplish here?

And finally, it's a little blurry but you can truly see how big she is getting! She weighed in at 20 lbs 2 oz yesterday.  She's slowed down on the weight gain, as she's a lady and watching her figure now.

So there you have it, what we were doing during our October. We don't have many plans for November, other than maybe painting my bedroom and probably laundry. Yeah, definitely laundry.

I hope you enjoyed!!

XOXO,
S