Happy Halloween!

Here are some pictures of me from Halloween. I was a pretty butterfly fairy. I felt so big when I had my wings on :) Mommy and daddy took me around to a few houses to show people what I was dressed up as, but I didn't really care if they saw me I just wanted that candy! My favorite candy so far is M&Ms, but I didn't get to have very many. I was told I would be too hyper before bed. What's hyper mean anyway?!

Here I am with Kinly again. She was a cute little pumpkin.


Here I am trick or treating. I couldn't really say "Trick O Treat" so I just said "Peez" (please) so I could get some candy. It worked.


Looking at all the other trick o treaters outside the door. There were so many of them all dressed up in cool costumes! Mommy's favorite costume this year was Napolean Dynomite and Pedro. They came to Grandma and Grandpa's house hoping we'd "Vote for Pedro" I hope he won.


I got to help out candy when I was done Halloweening. I liked seeing all the other kids in their costumes.

Pumpkin Patch

Lainey here. Meema wanted me to write more often, so I will honor her request :) We went to a pumpkin patch last weekend and it was super fun! I loved it. Mommy and daddy pulled me in this red box on wheels (which is really super neat and I hope they get me one for Christmas). We went to the candy store where I enjoyed my very first sucker, took a train ride, played in hay and searched for pumpkins. Here are some pictures for you to look at from our trip.

This is me and my very first sucker. I did not want it to end :)


Quick group photo.


This is where you got to pick your pumpkins. That circle thing is a ferris wheel and it was just my size. Mommy said I couldn't ride it thought b/c I was too little. Humph.


This is my baby cousin Kinly. She doesn't do much but sleep, but she came anyway.


Here's the train I got to ride!


I was trying to say hi to this boy, but he didn't talk back. How rude! Then mommy told me it was a scarecrow and wasn't real.


I'm a big girl. I can pull my own red box with wheels.

18 months.

Lainey got her very own chair. Here she is with her two "nigh-nighs" just after getting up. Has her very own name on it.


A quick family photo at her first KU football tailgate.


A quick preview of her Halloween costume. It was too cute not to share. She was twirling around and pulling at her wings. She was quite proud.


She won't sit in her high chair anymore. Has to be a big girl and sit at the table. We have a pub table so if she were to fall off the chair it would be a longer fall, but she doesn't seem to mind.


If you look close here, you can see she has pigtails. I don't know why, but she would NOT let me see her face when I was trying to take her picture in her cute little pigtails. Maybe she was embarrassed?!

18 months!

So Lainey will be 18 months officially on the 10th of this month. That doesn't seem possible. Here is an update.
Last I checked she was 26 pounds and not sure how long, but I can update after her dr.'s appt next week.
She is talking a lot more now and is starting to say short sentences (I do, please mommy and NO!).
Walking is going great and now she wants to run everywhere.
She LOVES her blankets, which she calls "Nigh-Nigh's." And no, they are not night-nights :) She has two of them and brings them almost everywhere we go.
Still tyring to break the paci. We're attempting to cut her off cold turkey this weekend. That should be fun. I talked to her today about how she's a big girl now and pacis are for babies. We were driving later and she took out her paci, looked at it and said, "Babies" then stuck it back in her mouth. I told her she better enjoy one of her last car rides with her paci ;)

Quick family photo. These are hard to come by these days so this is the best we got out of about 5 pictures. She's too squirmy. If you click on the photo to enlarge it you can see us better.


Aunt Kelv, Daddy and my new cousin Kinly at her baptism.


Kinly in her baptism outfit.


Sitting on some hay bails. I really wanted a posed picture, again this is the best I could get.


Chasing kitties around the farm.

Parkville Days.

We had to go on the carosel three times and that still wasn't enough. Each time the ride stopped she'd look up at you and say, "more, more, more, more!" We finally stopped after the third time just in case her stomach couldn't handle it! The pictures look better if you double click on them to enlarge.












While we were there, a train came roaring thru town. She'd never seen or heard one before so she was obsessed with it. Had to watch the entire train from engine to caboose. Of course after it passed thru we heard, "more, more, more!"

Parkville Days.

Parkville has a festival every year called Parkville Days that is like a mini fair. They have all sorts of vendors come in with booths, carnival rides and funnel cakes. There was this moon bounce thing there Lainey wanted to play in. It was prety funny watching her run all over. She doesn't quite know what to think at first, then she's all over the place.

Here she is just trying to figure this thing out.


Again, now what?


This picture cracks me up. It totally looks like she took out this kid with the plastic pole behind her. She didn't, although it looks pretty incriminating. After we left we later found out this moon bounce thing was really a gladiator deal where two contenders get up on the "box" and try to knock the other one off with their poles!!


Here she is making friends with another little girl. See, she's not a gladiator :)



Her and daddy walking by the riverwalk.

Lake

Went to the lake a few weeks ago for a family reunion. Lainey was obsessed with the water.

Meema and Lainey checking out the scenery.


She loved this swing.


She looks like such a big girl!


Mommy and Lainey.


Daddy and Lainey at the boat dock.