Caddie and Laila

Just wanted to tell you a little about how Caddie and Laila are doing!

Laila is so adorable! She is starting to run a little bit and can now eat completely on her own with a spoon or a fork. She loves fruit and milk and all animals (real or stuffed). She also loves her sister! You can not separate them when Caddie's not in school. They get along great!

This is Caddie and Laila's dress up session and tea party.

They made cake and cookies and tea with "extra salt!".

Laila's outfit is especially lovely. She actually picked it out herself! And of course they had to invite their bears to the party. Caddie named them "Bear" (the girl) and "Cub" (the boy).
Caddie is really doing well in school. Her teacher says that she is very bright and is doing mostly everything at the 4 year old level. She says she wishes she had more like her! She has a ton of friends, two of which are named Isabella (kinda strange). She loves school, she loves the bus and her most recent note home said that she loved oranges (also strange)! But this is a picture of Caddie's name (obviously). But she wrote this all by herself. She didn't even need me to tell her how to spell it. And she's brought home other papers from school where she wrote her name by herself. Pretty impressive!

Halloween

Halloween was a long time ago, but I'm going to blog about it anyway because the kids looked sooo cute and Brendan and I looked completely ridiculous.

In case you couldn't guess, we were Jersey Shore people. My hair was so high, it touched the roof of our car! It was fun, but I felt totally ridiculous the whole night. Surprisingly, there weren't a lot of Jersey Shore people out....I only saw one other Snookie. But I did get a lot of compliments on my costume. I went to RiteAid and bought the darkest foundation and powder and bronzer they had ( which is how we got our amazing tans). It was a little sad that this was the darkest color they sell in St. John's but that's a topic for another blog. Anyway, we had lot's of fun and it was good to see Claire on her B-Day!

On Sunday, we all got dressed up as Peter Pan characters. I was princess Tiger Lilly, Brendan was a lost boy, Laila was Peter Pan, and Caddie was Tinkerbell. I made all of the costumes myself. It's become a tradition for me to make the Halloween costumes. I've made a dragon, Woodstock (from Charlie Brown), Abby Cadabby (sp?), Elmo, Mr. Noodle, Maria, and this year's costumes. But it's been fun to let Caddie pick out her fabric and then wake up in the morning and it's a dress! But they were so cute and got A TON of candy!
Caddie as Tinkerbell.
Laila as Peter Pan. (It was her first time trick-or-treating! She did great and was not shy at all!)