October 2010

Happy James- 6 weeks old

Chloe's BFF's Christian, Allen, and Gavin at the Pumpkin Patch. They have know each other since they were babies!

Chloe with her pumpkins that Grandpa carved for her

Chloe and happy James

Chloe

James' trip to the pumpkin patch with Mommy and Me class

James (7 weeks old)

Going to a Halloween Party as Cinderella

Cinderella and Tinkerbell

3 Cinderella's and 1 Tinkerbell

Camping Trip in Julian with Gavin

James' first camping trip (2 months old!)

8 weeks old

On our way to another Halloween Party

Chloe and Allen

James' Halloween party at Mommy and Me class dressed as a pumpkin

9 weeks old-very strong lifting head and chest

Pumpkin Patch in Julian

At the pumpkin patch

Pumpkin patch

Julian Mining Company panning for gemstones

Julian Mining Company

Julian Mining Company

Halloween night- Chloe -Snow White and James- Pumpkin

Going out Trick or Treating with friends

Chloe gives this Halloween a big thumbs up!

Matt went back to work in the middle of October so it was very difficult for me to get adjusted to having two kids at home all day and figuring out how to leave the house with two kids. Matt and I made an effort to spend individual time with Chloe. Matt took her to see Disney on Ice as her last special day out with daddy. I was able to take her to the pumpkin patch with her friends and out to lunch. Because of this extra attention, Chloe had a difficult week at preschool the same week he went back to work. She didn't want me to leave her and would cry every day. Luckily she has great teachers that were very supportive and the next week she was back to normal. We were very busy with Halloween festivities this month. Chloe seemed to really understand what was going on this year for Halloween and was so excited that she would be getting candy. She decided that she wanted to be Cinderella for Halloween, but for Halloween night decided that she really wanted to be Snow White instead.  Halloween night was a great time for her with her friends. Her favorite candy was nerds and a lollipop and by the next day Mommy and Daddy mysteriously lost her candy so she forgot about it. I was finally able to get Chloe to take naps again by the end of the month because we were back to our busy schedule again.

James really seemed to grow a lot this month. By the end of the month he was 12 pounds and very smiley, happy, alert, very talkative, lifting up his head and chest from his tummy, and found his hands. He sucks on his hands a lot. He was 2 months old this month and we took him on his first camping trip! We went with Chloe's best friend Gavin and his family to Julian (about an hour from San Diego) for the weekend. It was very cold at night, but I think James was the warmest because he was wrapped up tight and slept right next to me. He was sweating when he woke up the next morning.

The highlight of the month was taking the kids to Julian to the pumpkin patch and then the Julian Mining Company. Since the temperature in Julian is a little colder, it really feels like fall there. Chloe loved mining for gems at the mining company!