Too cute to be mad....

So yet another day of not napping. I think that she is not getting all of her energy out of her because she is trapped inside. This is going to be a LONG winter. At first I was really irritated with her, but it didn't last long. I went into her room to find her putting on her leotard. I asked her what she was doing and she replied that she was going to dance class. What a little dancer - I think she has a great future ahead of her!!!

I also managed to get her jumping off the ottoman.

Snow Fun!!

Today we had quite the busy day. We started the day off by shopping and visiting Santa. Liam was his normal laid back self and Ava was very good on his lap. Sometimes around strangers she clams up, but she actually told him a few things she wanted, then I had to finish for her. The best part was the candy cane ring pop that he gave her!!

Ava decided that she wasn't going to take a nap today, so we got our snow clothes on and went and played in the snow. Ava's favorite thing to do was to eat the snow. We tried making snow angels, but hers did not turn out too great. It is hard to get up off the snow when you are all bundled up!! I think Ryan and I had as much fun, if not more out there. We built a snow baby and were sliding down the yard. Check Ryan out doing his Pete Rose imitation!!

We even had time to do a family picture. Ava is not the best at letting me take her picture, so this is a rare occurance!!

Catch up.....

So a lot has happened in the Potter family in the past month. The kids have been keeping us really busy and entertained! Liam is now officially crawling. He actually got off his belly and started crawling on his 7 month birthday. He is starting to pull himself up on things, but is not too good at it. He comes home from the babysitters with war wounds almost daily. He has one tooth completely through, another one about ready to break through any minute, and his 2 top teeth coming in, so he has been pretty pleasant!!!

Not much is new with Ava. She thinks that she is so daring and loves to jump off of things. It started with her bed, now she LOVES to get on the ottoman and jump off of it. She is not enjoying Liam's freedom of crawling as much as he is. She realizes that they like to play with the same things. I can't wait until he is big enough to shove her out of the way. She has plenty of shoves due her way soon!

We have our Christmas decorations up. Ava had a wonderful time decorating the tree and is still enjoying decorating it by constantly taking ornaments on and off. Liam loves staring at the lights on the tree. I think this weekend we are going to attempt a trip to see Santa - that should be interesting!

As for Ryan and I.....not much. As always, waiting for our next break from school!

A beautiful start to November....

Unfortunately because we have not been feeling well, we had to bail out on the Ditty's on going to Bloomington today. So we decided to stay at home and get better. Today Ava decided she wanted to go out and ride her bike. Here she is on her bike. She rode all around the neighborhood today.....the longest we have ever gone. Check her out. She thinks she is hot stuff!

Trick-or-Treat

Today was an exciting day. I think a bug has been going through our family. Today Ryan was sick, so the kids and I ventured out for Trick-or Treating. Liam was content as could be and Ava wasn't into it as much as I thought she would be. She was ready to go home early. I really think it was because I told her to wait until we got home to eat her candy!

Pumpkin Funkin

Tonight we had so much fun carving pumpkins. Ava really got into it this year. She was digging the guts out and even trying to cut the pumpkin. She told Ryan everything she wanted - the shape of the eyes and nose and how many teeth. She is so proud of her pumpkin. Liam had to sit in his horse because he was trying to eat the seeds and when I moved him from there he began to eat the newspaper. I included a random picture of him so he didn't feel left out. So I have to edit this post because Ryan looked at it and I got in trouble because I didn't comment on how "totally awesome" his pumpkin is. In fact, it is pretty good...he did Frankenstein and I can even tell what it is. It really is neat Ry!

Catch Up Time

We have been really busy since September. Last weekend we went to the pumpkin patch for 3 hours. Ava had such a good time there that we didn't even have time to go on the hayride. They had so much to do there. We rode a 'horse' and a tractor...pet some animals, and got lost in the corn maze with daddy! We promised her we would go back real soon!

On Friday, we went to the ZooBoo with Joe, Amanda, Jacob, and Addison. We all had a great time and were bummed that the night had to end early. We had such a good time with them, unfortunately we don't see them as often as we would like to.

The kids got to dress up in their halloween costumes and see the animals. There were a few people there handing out candy - which makes the zoo even better! We had a tough time figuring Ava's costume out this year. I figured she would want to be what all 2 year old girls want to be - a princess or something girly. Not my child - she wanted to be a tree!!! I am not crafty enough for her to be a tree, so we settled on a mouse because it had a tail! Liam was a lion - which he looked so handsome in!