Scenes from October

As usual the month of October flew by. Reese and I stayed very busy while Matt worked out of town during the week. We spent our weekends with family and friends.

Reese sported her beloved "buppy" shirt the entire month. She came to love pumpkins and fondly calls them buppies. Here she is bursting out of Matt's closet; one of her favorite pastimes! Where's Reese?...Boom opens the door and there she beams.



We enjoyed at least two breakfasts with The Sicinski's at our favorite locale.




After a Target run, Reese sorted and shopped on my bed and in the kitchen.

She also took a fancy to her shades and put them on herself.

She loves to point out people like Daddy and Gigi in her photo albumn.

She is very good at working her puzzle and she can make animal sounds like: Meow for cat, ruff ruff for dog, tweat tweat for bird, moo for cow, and naa naa for horse.

We spent one Saturday evening with our friends watching the kids and the A&M game at The Lee's. Reese played with sidewalk chalk and ate chocolate candy for the first time!

With her buds Harper and Lindsey.

Sharing was not on Reese's list that night. Luckily for her it was on Harper's.

Bobby hung a pinata and the kids had a blast breaking it open and digging in the candy. Reese didn't particularly like seeing the pumpkin get smashed (remember she really became fond of them).She ate a twix and milky way (that I know of).

One more piece and we're done!

Our next door neighbor, Rieta loves to visit with Reese. They played outside before Rieta headed to Sunday dinner with her family.

I thought this was a cute sleepy-eyed breakfast picture.

I liked this litte outfit and Reese liked the pumpkin necklace.

On Friday, the 30th, I went to Reese's school for the Halloween parade. As you can see, Reese didn't want anything to do with dressing up in a costume on Friday or Saturday...so we pulled out the t-shirt. My child has a mind of her own and there is not much we can do to change it sometimes. That is ok, it's good to be independent and strong willed!

After the parade, Ms. Nancy read the children a book in the Chapel.

Then we all danced to "The Monster Mash".

We had a busy Halloween day. We started off by going to the Houston Air Show at Ellington Field. The weather was perfect!

But the traffic was horrible! Luckily we could watch the show from the car on the way. Reese pointed to the airplanes and said "Whoa!"

Of course, she had to bring the pumpkin along!

We saw just enough of the famous Blue Angels before we had to head home to meet our company for trick or treating.

Gigi, Grandma Ruth, Aunt Jamie, Meghan, Maggie, Lauren, Jennifer, Chad and Brady all came over for the festivities.

Maggie showed Reese how to knock and say trick or treat.

Brady and Reese ran around on a sugar high. Brady also helped me hand out candy. He was very generous to the kids!

Tidbit: Reese loves to say apple juice, but she doesn't like to drink it. She calls apple sauce apple juice. So cute.