Halloween

So yesterday was Halloween and let me start by saying that I am actually glad that I was so busy. For those of you who don't know...my mother's bday is Halloween. For the past 4 Halloweens I have taken Emma and Rachel (girls I watch) trick or treating and I originally thought it was going to suck but as the time went on I realized it's actually pretty fun and serves as a wonderful distraction.

I miss buying Halloween birthday cards and I miss buying her gifts and adding a little Halloween extra with it.....it really sucks. So I look forward to the day when I have a house and can overload it with Halloween decorations each year. I think I will buy myself something new to decorate with every year and make it like I'm buying her a bday gift.

I was pleasantly surprised yesterday morning when I woke up and had a text from my 18 year old niece (who is my niece from my husbands side)....she said "Happy Halloween and Happy Bday Mary!" I couldn't believe she remembered. It was so touching that she thought to send that to me. Courtney had known my mom since she was 3 and like everyone else who my mother came in contact with Courtney liked her a lot. It was just sweet that even though she is grown up now a child that I will always see as my baby niece remembered something so important. I didn't know at the time how important it would be.......turns out she was the only one who remembered. We talk about how other people just forget that the person even existed...well that's how I felt.

I was telling Scott later on about it and truthfully the reason I was telling him was to say "you jerk..this child remembered such an important day and you didn't." He of course asked how I was feeling and all that but it would have been nice if he had remembered on his own.....although I can't be mad at him too much because he doesn't remember his OWN parents bdays half the time. Oh well...maybe next year.

Anyway on a lighter note Scott and I went to the NYC Village parade last night and let me tell you it was interesting. There were freaks of all varieties out and about and I just know that many of these people wish they could dress in costume all year....some of them just looked a bit TOO comfy in thier costumes if you know what I mean.

We were almost trampled by a crowd when a fight broke out and later on I got my ass grabbed by some group of jerks as they ran by. Overall it was an interesting night. We are actaully contemplating JOINING the parade next year.

Halloween!

Yesterday was obviously Kiera's FIRST Halloween!! I was never so excited...besides her Christening, this was our first holiday with our peanut and I loved every minute of it! She spent the day in her Strawberry costume with Aunt Nicole, Uncle Dennis, Roman and Nico as they went Trunk-or-Treating at Roman's school. Then Sean and I went over to their house after work to go Trick-or-Treating with them, Letitia, Michael, and Aly. We had such a great time! Kiera was her smiley self...too cute. I, being a 3rd grade teacher, also dressed up...this was definitely one of the best nights of my life!

Melissa

AAHH I'm a freaking human weather machine

Just wanted to add to Melissa's post about the snow. Last night around 11pm I was taking the dogs to pee and I was just looking at the sky and admiring the peaceful feeling I had outside....ya know the feeling you get around Christmas when it's late and you just know it's going to snow (ok maybe its just me).

So I went inside and told Scott how I felt and he thought I was nuts. I told him about the quiet and the feeling of the air....how it's my favorite time of year...not a sunset or a new spring day but the total silence of the night when it's cold out and I guess the clouds sort of act like a blanket muffling any other sound or light. I don't feel like I am doing the feeling justice here. Maybe there are no words to explain it. Ever since I was little I would love going out in my pajamas and coat and boots to just soak up the feeling and just KNOW when I woke up there would be snow.....to this day I have never been wrong. Scott still thinks I'm crazy.

It's Snowing...

I had to put it out there that it's SNOWING in New Jersey today, October 28...3 days before Halloween...it's SNOWING! What the??!! This was the one time that I allowed my kids to FREAK out and run to the window when they saw it because I wanted to freak out and run to the window too!! Insanity!

Kiera's first snow :) And I'm not with her to see it...sigh.

Melissa

Cranky McCrankerson

It's funny because my friend Jess just wrote a blog about her crankstar and I was in the middle of thinking up this one!

Kiera is on solids now three times a day and loves them :) However, about every 7-10 days she gets constipated and freaks out. It breaks my heart!! You can tell that she's in pain and I hate that!! I just want to go in that little body and push it all out myself...lol...

So this morning she woke up at 4:30am screaming...never happens...normally when she wakes up at any time she's all smiles and giggles. She will usually play with her blanket for a good 20 minutes before I get up and get her...but this morning it was all screams and I ran in to get her to find her trying to push push push the tiniest bit on nonsense out of her person. We brought her into bed with us after a nice diaper change and she grabbed her blanket, thumb, and a small bottle and fell asleep again. Phew! But so sad.

I spoke to Nicole just a moment ago and, of course, Kiera is an angel...she's leaving all the Fussy McFusserson for Mommy :)

I've been finding that, besides the constipation fun, she's becoming more and more opinionated. She knows what she wants...and it's usually something we don't want her to have like the remote or the phone...or a can of Coors Light...and she gets very upset when her wants aren't met immediately. She's also started to look for things that we hide after she wants them...that's too much! We have a mirror above our couch and, because I am the corniest person alive, when I lift her up to see in it I say, "Kiera in the Mirra"...stop judging me! And when you hold her on your lap below the mirror and say it, she'll LOOK UP!! It's so bizarre that she could know that already...and she's getting the lifting of arms when you say "so big!" I can't stand that she's growing up so fast!!

Just some randomness for today :)
Melissa