The Swing of Things

I'm not sure why blogging is so difficult for me these days, but I can't stand that I haven't written anything for three weeks!  Three weeks!  They've been a busy three weeks, that's for sure: I turned 29, my dad had his birthday, Halloween, Election Day, and various other life events.  Me turning 29 is a whole post alone, so I will start with Halloween.

Spencer wanted to be a princess.  I did not want Spencer to be a princess.  I tried to show her other costumes, but she was insistent that she had to be a PRINCESS.  In my attempts to not stifle her and impose my will on her for frivolous things, I gave up my quest for her to be something else. 

On Sunday night we went over to Sara's house and met up with another family that we are friends with that has a daughter Spencer's age.  There were a few hiccups and minor meltdowns along the way, but they had a blast.  This was the first year that we've gone to stranger's houses.  I've always just driven her around to people that we knew.  So this was a new experience for the both of us.  Spencer was not in the most cooperative picture mood and I didn't get that many good pictures of her, which was a bummer.  But I got a few.

 

 

This last picture was at the end of the night and Spencer's friend wasn't ready for the festivities to be over, so Spencer tried to comfort her!  It was a seriously super cute moment.  You can't tell in these pictures, but Spencer's dress actually had little lights throughout it. She thought it was pretty fantastic.

I am going to do my best to get back into the swing of things around here!  I promise.

Better Late Than Never

Show Us Your Life - Halloween Costumes

Halloween costumes is this week's topic on Kelly's Korner Show Us How You Live. Spencer's only been here for two Halloweens, so I don't have too many costumes. Luckily, during my first year as a mommy I couldn't decide on what Spencer should wear, so she had four costumes. But by the time I put her in the fourth one she wasn't very pleased with me- not at all! So I only have pictures of her in the three of them.

Last year she was a Chickee Poof and she loved(s) to wear her feathery tutu, twirling around and then falling down. She wasn't a big fan of the headband, and there were some struggles to get her to keep it on. Spencer won that battle and I gave up - you can't win 'em all!

This year she's going to be a piggie, but I don't have any pictures of her in yet. Usually once I put her in an outfit there's a large probability that she'll have an encounter with something that will stain it. That's why I'm holding off on the pictures until the big day.
So here are the pictures of all her Halloween costumes, starting with the first three that were taken when she was three months old.

My little Red Hot Chili Pepper

She was still a happy camper when I put her in the Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin ensemble.

And this was when she started to get VERY annoyed with the costume changes and my incessant photo taking- she wasn't a big fan of the Moo Cow

Last year as a Chickee Poof

Twirling around and falling down- you can see the headband in her hand.

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This is the only picture I have of her with it on- and of course she isn't looking at me, haha!

Just sittin' pretty, hanging out in the yard.

And that's it, I can't wait to take some pictures of her in this year's costume!

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Chickee Poof Halloween Baby!