After the Adenoids...

Kaitlin is home from the hospital and doing well; she's a little groggy still, and feels a little sick (probably from the anesthesia), but she's doing just fine! Thank you for your prayers.

Me and Kait waiting in her "room" for the anesthesiologist. She's showing off her nifty bracelet.

Here she is in her little hospital gown all ready to be taken back. She did so well; I was so proud of how brave she was!

All she would say in the recovery room was, "I want to go home." That's exactly where she is now! It's amazing the change that just an hour has made. She's already been eating a little and really perked up when she found out Daddy had gotten her a surprise! If you look closely, you might see "Ratatouille" in the reflection of her eyeballs!

A Prayer Request From Kait...

Kaitlins surgery is scheduled for Wed. morning. I'll let you know how it went. Thanks for your prayers! It makes a mommy nervous seeing her baby put under...

And The Candy Overload Begins..

This year we went trick-or-treating with cousin Wyatt and Kaitlin's 'lil friend Christian. The kiddos had a blast; well, mainly Kaitlin and Christian had a blast. Wyatt kept trying to give the candy back (such a good little sharing man!) and baby Doug spent the whole evening relaxing in his stroller. Mom was WORN OUT by the end of the night. As with any holiday, I'm so glad it's only once a year! I love seeing all the kids looking so cute in their outfits, though. This year Kaitlin was a butterfly (you've gotta love a four dollar consignment costume), DJ was a puppy dog, and Wyatt was a cowboy.

Here's the back of my little butterfly. She picked out a hair-do from a picture online and mommy did her very best to match it. Kaitlin was very pleased with how pink she was. You'll see in the next picture that the front of her was COVERED in sparkely pink and white make up.

Here she is all ready to fly around the neighborhood! She informed me that tennis shoes were NOT what a butterfly would wear. But, I'm mommy, so I'm still in charge! I'm sure that by the end of the nights excursions her little feet were thankful.

Howdy! This is the world's cutest cowboy. Although not the intention, I still called him "Wyatt Earp" all evening. He did SO good keeping his hat on. We thought for sure it would be off within seconds! When his mom, Holly, put his hat on him, we took him to the mirror and showed him how handsome he looked in it. After that, it stayed on! Now to get him a pony...(by the way, this was one of the few pictures I got of him. He wouldn't stand still long enough for a picture! I know his mom got some better shots, though!)

I tried every way I could to justify spending the money on buying him a costume this year. I finally settled on, "he'll be out with us while we're trick-0r-treating" as my official justification. Then, when I decided that he would be a puppy, it was even better. That's right, he got to be called....

Puppy Doug! I'm sure he will thank me for this humiliation for years to come. But really, how is a mother to resist? He was adorable!

When Pumpkins Go Bad...

Our first pumpkin carving experience was....an experience. Lucky for us, Doug's best friend, Tracey, was in from out of town celebrating Doug's birthday. I say lucky for us because come to find out Doug had never carved a pumpkin either! We let Kaitlin draw a face on the pumpkin with markers first, and then Doug and Tracey took turns cutting out their interpretation of Kaitlin's self portrait pumpkin. Perhaps next year we should opt for a pattern and not a drawing!

Mistake #1: We set ourselves up for a hard time carving by allowing a four year old to render the pumpkins face.

See what I mean? How do you cut THAT out? The boys were stumped so I suggested that they layer the cuts so that the light would shine through in different dimensions. Needless to say, I am genius. (Easy for me to say, I didn't have to do the cutting!)

In the end, Kaitlin was quite pleased with her "scary" jack-o-lantern, and that was really all that mattered!

If I were to take a picture of the pumpkin for you today, you would see that all of its' engraved orifices are completely covered over with mold. Too bad the trash man won't make his rounds again until next Monday! Apparently there was some sort of preservative we were supposed to put on the pumpkin to prevent this from happening so quickly. Guess we know now for next year!