The busiest weekend ever!

Whew, am I glad this weekend is over! It was fun but man oh man did we pack a ton into three days. Traveling out of town (twice) to visit family, an (adult) costume party, trick or treating with the kids, and general life busyness of being a family of six.

On Friday, we drove 2 hours and spent the day with B's mom (and family). The boys call her Yeuy, and she had yet to meet Miss Sweetcheeks so it was top priority.

 Is she not the most precious little girl you have ever seen?

On Saturday we had a kinda lazy day. Driving to visit family on Friday was fine but we knew that on Sunday we were going to be visiting the grandmas so we took a lazy kinda day. Saturday evening, B and I attended a friends 30th Birthday/Costume Party. (Let's skip the fact that when all your friends are turning 30 it means you're right around the corner. Eek!) It was really nice to get out of the house and be with ''grown up's" for a bit. Granted because Sweetcheeks won't take a binky, let alone a bottle, she attended as well.

On Sunday, Halloween, we drove the kiddos a little over an hour to visit the grandma's and show off their costumes. They were super excited!

 Cousin Belle was there as well...

Ms. Sweetcheeks was wide awake as well.

Looking pretty cute sporting her Halloween headband and Pumpkin costume

Sunday evening, we took the boys Trick or Treating. Well, Sweetcheeks went too but she hung out in the carrier...obviously not eating any candy. We only took them up and down our little street and they still managed to fill their buckets! The boys, well they were pretty ''spooky"-

So that was our Halloween and weekend!

Happy Halloween!

Our little Men...

a skeleton, Pirate and Mummy

 

  

  and from the Halloween party last night...

Sweetcheeks was a newborn baby, B was a Geek/Nerd

 Can you tell what I was?

Yup, a Teen Mom

From our family to your, have a safe and Happy Halloween!

Pookie says...volume 3

"It didn't just grow arms and walk away" said to his older brother while Bubba was looking for a toy that ''was right here"

"Are you freaking kidding me?"

"Booyah!!"

"I can't clean up my toys because my hands are too tired"

(you can find the original pooks says : here)
(volume 2 is here)

3 weeks old

(and 3 days late posting this...)

Sweetcheeks, how quickly you are growing and changing! Here you are at three weeks old:

 You are becoming more and more alert these days. Whether it's watching your brothers or watching your mobile, you are content just being awake. Really, that about sums it up...you are a very content baby. As long as you're fed, you don't mind if you're being held, if you're in your bassinet, swing, carseat or crib.

You are eating like a champ and I can't wait to take you for your 1mos appt to see just how big you are. Right now you're still nursing every 3 hours (or less) for 20-30 minutes at a time. You caught on to breastfeeding very quickly and you like to eat. Usually you eat so loudly that even your brothers can hear you gulping!

Your vision must be improving daily because you are starting to really stare at our faces and will even follow with your eyes. Your hair is growing and Mommy can't wait til hair bows will stay in. So far just the hair on top is growing and yes, it's growing in a slight faux-hawk/comb-over but at least you have hair! It's much finer and lighter than any of the boys' ever was...Mommy is very curious as to whether it will stay that way or if it will all fall out only to grow in thicker and curly. {If I could choose, I'd want it to stay light but be curly}.

You still love getting baths, even having water poured over your head doesn't phase you. In the last couple days you have even started to "coo" and "talk". You do this the most while in the tub. One of these days mom will have to get a bath with you in the big tub...I know you would love it!

Boo!

(I am terrible about finding the time to blog...I apologize! Things are hectic and we have some big changes happening at the Tic Tac household...more about that later though.)

one again, I took a pic facing the sun and no one wanted to look

Leaves are falling, temperatures are dropping and Halloween is just around the corner. Halloween in my favorite holiday and my kids are following in my footsteps. They decided last spring that they wanted to be Scooby Doo for Halloween. Well eventually that evolved to being the 'bad guys' from Scooby Doo. A Mummy, a Skeleton and ''The Ghost of Pirate Redbeard'' to be exact. Well on Saturday, they're costumes were debuted to them...Mommy had finally finished making them.{with the exception of Peanut's...his was Bubba's old costume from 2 years ago} If I had been thinking, I would have made up a tutorial for Pooks' mummy costume but I didn't think ahead...sorry!

On Sunday, we took the boys to the Zoo for their annual Halloween Trick or Treat trail. They were beyond excited to show off their costumes and "be spooky". So without further ado:

The Mummy

The Skeleton

Ghost of Redbeard (aka, a Pirate)

and while I don't have a picture, Sweetcheeks was a tutu-wearing Pumpkin :) She was super tired and everytime B would hold her up for a pic, she'd start screaming. We'll work on getting her pic this week...it will definitely happen though. 

The kids had an absolute blast at the Zoo. They raked in a ton of candy and compliments. We saw one other skeleton, one pumpkin, quite a few pirates and no other Mummy's. It was a gorgeous day and I'm really glad that we ventured out. It was our first real public outing as a family of six and it was a success. (I'm not counting quick grocery trips). 

 As if a group of six wasn't enough, we actually went with Hollie, baby Aubrey and Landon (above), in addition to one of Hollie's good friends and her 2 kids. Total we had 8 kids, 4 and under and they all did wonderful. No tantrums or meltdowns...it was a lot of fun!