Randomness

October Randomness

This month, we discovered that Katy Ellis LOVES sink baths. She is really stable and able to sit up well in the sink. For some reason, she cannot sit up in the tub... too much lunging for pool toys! She will sit and splash and splash and splash!! This girl loves water.

Thank goodness I live in the South, because I surely love some sibling matching.




Blakely has only recently learned to "cheese" for the camera (and it is not always pretty). We went almost 2 years with NO SMILES for the camera. This picture cracks me up, because Blakely was so upset that Katy Ellis wasn't smiling. "Mama, she no cheese! She no cheese."

Love them in these adorable GG Creations!! One of my all time favorites.

The weather has been magical this month. 70 and partly sunny most days... I love fall!!

Crazy girl picking up acorns.

KE loves to be outside. She can be fussy inside, and then the breeze hits her and she is instantly happy!! My outdoor loving, granola baby.

A girl and her Daddy finding some shapes in the clouds. This girl seriously loves her Daddy.

These girls are really starting to love one another. Blakely can make KE laugh and giggle like crazy, which in turn makes Blakely giggle! It makes my heart happy to see these two sisters loving each other!

PUMPKIN TIME!!

October: Pumpkin Patch and Pumpkin Carving

Blakely is a girl after her mother's heart... she loves holidays!! She gets super excited about twinkly lights, costumes, fall leaves, scare crows, and above all pumpkins. For weeks now, when we would pass the road side stands, she would point and yell "MAMA! MAMA!! PUMPKINS!!" This happens every...single... time... without fail! So I knew we HAD to get this girl a pumpkin... STAT!

Last Friday, Rich and I took the girls to Sease's farm to pick out a pumpkin and take some pictures.

 

Blakely was so excited when we got there!! She literally ran pumpkin to pumpkin yelling "how 'bout dis one?"

 

My sweet little pumpkins.

Blakely was also really excited about all the sunflowers!
"Oooo, pretty mama. So pretty.

Don't worry, PopPop will find my flower child.

GG and PopPop came to help us make these monkey's smile.

Katy Ellis loves pumpkins too!

Wheelbarrow ride!

At one point, Blakely was actually kissing a pumpkin. She crazy.

Children of the corn

This girl love her GG!

This one "SO BIG!"

Blakely loved finding the little gourds. Had to bribe her with two to get her to sit down for MORE picture.

Magical. FINALLY the perfect pic.

So... we went to the pumpkin patch to get a pumpkin but they were WAY too expensive!! Like $20 a pumpkin... robbery! So we told Blakely that her pumpkin had been sent to Publix!!

These two cuties were so good, they got two pumpkins!! $5.99 is a MUCH, MUCH better price.

I think KE's pumpkin might weigh more than she does!!

The next day, we attempted to carve pumpkins with Blakely.

She liked getting to see the insides and watching Mommy and Daddy carve the pumpkin, but unfortunately there are too many knives involved with pumpkin carving for Blakely to actually do anything.

She named this one "Katy Ellis"... I think its that one toothed grin.

Because she didn't get to do much carving, I let her finger paint the pumpkin with the "B" on it.

Stylish.

Not sure why she wanted to sport a "Mr.Clean" pose for this picture, but she was super proud!!

That night when the sun went down, we lit out pumpkins, played barefoot in the grass after dark, lay in the yard and watched the stars. It was a magical night. I think Blakely think these events are part of our "holiday traditions," because every night now when the sun goes down she wants a repeat. It has been really fun and really special.

LOVE MY HOLIDAY LOVING GIRL!!

 

 

My FAIR lady

October 11th: Let's Go to the SC State Fair!!

This is the first year we have taken Blakely to the fair. We are taking her to Disney in January, so we thought this would be a good trial run to see what kind of rides she likes, and to see how adventurous she is. To say she loved it is just too mild a description. She had NEVER been to a fair, but when we pulled up and she saw the Ferris wheel and lights she started yelling "So pretty!! I go fair too! I go fair too!!" We knew we were going to have an amazing night, and she did not disappoint.

This girl would have rode EVERY ride with her daddy! Thank goodness she's still less than 42 inches or we would be broke!

Started off kind of slow; didn't know yet how she would react.

SHE LOVED IT!!!

Blakely was super excited to meet a "real" fairy!!
Rich and I, on the other hand, view this moment as the only mistake of the evening... glitter and toddlers...bad idea.

 

Cotton candy!! You can see that she is COVERED in glitter!!

Blakely loved the Chinese Dragon rolled coaster!! It was super fast, and all I could catch of her is her bow and a little bit of Rich's head. This ride scared me, but Blakely got off and said "another one!"

That cute little bow sticking up!! Tiny, but fearless!!

Rich is all the way to the right in the yellow t-shirt.

I rode the Dragon with her.... it was terrifying! There are two drops and it turns REALLY quickly. My brave girl!

We even managed to squeak in some pig racing! It was an SEC match up and GA won (BOO!!); I'm not bitter.

Magic show.... actually pretty impressive. I wish we had caught more of the show.

Tea cup ride.... next time it'll be in the Magic Kingdom!! (Shhhh!! Don't tell her! ;) )

Blakely all the way over to the left.

Attempted to get a family shot, but it was a little challenged. KE was also at the fair.... but did not make it in to this pic. Poor KE... it's tough being "bottom bunk" in the stroller.

You can barely make out Blakely in this picture. You can see her red bow next to Richard riding the Caterpillar roller coaster.

Banks had gone to the fair 3 nights before us, and Auntie had sent us a video of him riding this roller coaster. Blakely watcher it over ... and over.... and over... and over again! We were two rows over and riding on the swings, when Blakely yells out "That's B's favorite!!" Oh and you know she wanted to ride it too!! However, she did inform us that the Dragon was "Blakey's favorite."

Didn't want to slow down to eat, so Blakely and her daddy shared a funnel cake while waiting in line. You could say she liked it. ;)

A little blurry, but this is me and my girl riding the swings.

We went and checked out all the animal exhibits. Blakely couldn't understand (after our last experience on the farm) why I wouldn't "catch one" for her. Ha!

The fair also had an awesome petting zoo that included a zebra!

They also had an opportunity for you to ride an elephant!! WHAT?!?! It was the same price to ride the ponies, a camel or an elephant... NO BRAINER!!

Blakely was so excited, and she waited so patiently in line.

Blakely sat in the front and the elephants ears kept flapping on her legs. Rich said she would apologize to the elephant every time, "Oh sorry elephant."

Blakely petting the elephant and telling it "I love you, Elephant."

She rode EVERYTHING she was tall enough to ride!!
Two roller coasters, tea cups, motorcycles, trucks, swings and an elephant!

   We had a magical family night at the fair, and I cannot wait for January at Disney. My fearless roller coaster riding, princess loving girl is going to absolutely love it!!