Walking!!!

Well it's official now. Ruby has finally let go of my fingers and gotten off of her tiptoes and she is walking! I cannot tell you how happy this makes me, and her.

Sweet & Funny Lyda

Lyda occasionally leaves me notes around the house like this:



I love these notes. She's even gone so far as to cut a rose from over the backyard fence just for me. And then we talked about taking things that don't belong to us.

So Ruby has recently learned how to change television shows on our DVD/VHS machine. And she thinks it's funny to watch Lyda & Kode react. The other day Lyda got so frustrated and this was the result:



Lyda found a nearby laundry basket, put Ruby in it and pushed her over to our time out corner. I got a good laugh out of that. Ruby wasn't crazy about the idea.

And finally, Lyda's prayers have been cracking me up lately. Here are a few of my favorites:

"Please bless my dad that when he drives home from work today that there will be music on the radio that he likes"

"Thank you for telling my mom to invite our friends over to watch the Tinkerbell movie and eat popcorn"

"Thank you for the air conditioning in our car"

"Thank you for a silly mom and dad that make me laugh. Like right now when my mom called my brother a cry-bag"

"Please bless my brother that he will stop talking during this prayer"

"Please bless me and my brother that we won't give my mom a hard time"

"Please bless that my brother will stop being a booger"

What a fun and wonderful girl we have living with us. Love you Lyda!

Halloween

Halloween began with pumpkin carving for Family Night. The kids thought the innards of the pumpkins were disgusting. Kode refused to ever put his hand inside of one and Lyda eventually consented and then decided that we should start a pumpkin cleaning service which would bring in so much money that Steve could stay home from work more often. These were the final pumpkins. The one in the middle is supposed to be throwing up pumpkin seeds and all the goo, but we never ended up getting it out there before it had to be thrown away. And the one on next to Kode is none other than Avatar Aang. I know we are ridiculous.


Lyda got to wear her costume to school on Halloween for their parade. This is her and Zoey holding hands on their way to school. They had so much fun wearing beautiful dresses, makeup and sparkles in their hair.



Pictures from the parade. Lyda won for best costume in her class. Thank you Aunt Dianne for not being able to resist buying her costume this year.





So Halloween night finally came and moments before we were heading to the ward party, Lyda said she felt like she was sick and might throw up. She was devastated. She had been looking forward to this moment for months. So I, being the mean old mom that I am, decided to follow her with the camera to snap of pic of her with the throw up bowl. She wasn't happy. Fortunately her stomach issues disappeared as quickly as they started and she had a fun night.



Kode was Aang. Surprised?



And Ruby was a sweet care bear.



This is the only shot that I could get Lyda to sort of smile in. (Her stomach still hurt and she was afraid that she would have to stay home). So it's the best shot of all three kids, and it's pretty terrible. Maybe next year I can stay out of the picture.



We went to our ward party, we knocked on a few doors and we attended a friend's birthday party that night. Overall I think it was a fun night for the kids. And after about a 24 hour sugar high, they have somehow forgotten about the rest of the candy. Hooray!