We had Frankenstein and Spider Girl living with us for most of October. We visited a few pumpkin patches, trick or treated in Frisco and partied with school friends at the Summit Cove Fall Carnival.
Casey and I also fit in a trip to DC to cheer on Aunt Marcy while she ran 26.2 miles in the Marine Corp Marathon. She finished strong!!! While in town we got to stay at Aunt Kel's new house, had a nice lunch in DC, made a quick trip to the zoo and hit up the Burke Pumpkin Patch/Playground/Spooky Hayride with Grandma Gail. Before leaving for home, we celebrated Uncle Stuart's birthday with bbq and pumpkin carving with Grandma Gail, Grampa Tom, Aunt Kel, Aunt Marcy, Lily and Jack. Good times!
Arapahoe Basin Ski resort opened in October and we went opening day and we (including Casey) took 1 run.
Casey is settling into Kindergarten. She is sounding out words and learning her sight words quickly. She loves books. We have been reading The Magic Treehouse series at night and she is great at keeping up and recapping the story to us, since we trade nights putting her to bed. She can speak a little Spanish, "Mi llamo Casey. Por Que?" Her favorite class, PE, is even more favorite, now that they are doing Gymnastics. Yes, she is comfortable at school and still loves it. She did tell us she fell asleep during computer class a couple Fridays ago..."I was just really tired."
As for Garrett, the big news is...he no longer uses a pacifier. We stopped cold turkey 2 weeks before his birthday. The first day I put him down for a nap, he cried for about 5 minutes and the rest was history! He now jokes about it, asking, "Pathy, Pathy." I say we don't have anymore and he just laughs. Garrett is talking more and more each day. "Pancake peeze. More sausage...peeze." "Ah treat." He is also more active in the crib. He has escaped from his crib a couple times. We had to remove the pillow pet, which gave him just enough height to escape. Also, every once in a while, I'll go up to get him from nap or in the morning and he is standing there pant-less, holding his diaper. He hands it to me and say, "Poopy." Luckily they have not been poopy...yet. However, everything is "ah poopy" to him. He constantly says he is poopy, when he is not; all the dolls are poopy; his cars are poopy.
So there is October...
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| Early morning in the DC metro on our way to Aunt Marcy run the Marine Corp Marathon |
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Marcy's marathon fan club
The last .2 miles and she is still smiling... |
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| Cousins at Aunt Kel's new house |
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| at the Burke Pumpkin Patch with Grandma |
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| playing |
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| picking a pumpkin |
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| how do you like our pumpkins |
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| who's the horse head? |
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| being sweet at the pumpkin patch |
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| do si doh |
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| Connor/Batman, Casey/Spider Girl, Dillon/Iron Man, Garrett/Frankenstein trick or treat |
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| Trick or Treat or Rock Stars |
