Yup, another month has gone by. I don't have to remind you that it seems to fly by when you are having a great time and we truly are. Allegra is growing up with each new day. She was 16 pounds at her 6 month check up and had grown six inches since birth. She has taken to food and enjoys joining the family for peas or applesauce. Siena has tried her hand at helping out with feedings. She is also up on all fours and rocking back and forth - she will be mobile by Christmas, I am sure.
We had a great Halloween!!!! What a fun time of the year to dress up and ask strangers for candy. We have had so much fun developing traditions around this colorful time of year such as our church's Hoedown and our pre-festival tailgating with our small group from Wednesday nights. Though it was challenging with 2 kiddos running around, from bounce house to bounce house to cotton candy stations (Strangely enough, they act about the same on sugar - still full of intensity), I have never been so glad to have one content in a stroller who didn't make a peep the entire afternoon. Carson was asleep before we hit the stoplight on the way home that afternoon.
And may I introduce to you: THE INCREDIBLES!!!!! Mr. Incredible, Elesta-Girl, Violet, Dash and Baby Jack-Jack. We took the family around the town square and around a family friend's neighborhood on Halloween evening and God even held off the rain so we could enjoy watching the kids run down the sidewalk with their friends. The kids loved dressing up more this year than before and they relished being superheros.
Siena has had no problems with her school work at Black Fox Elementary and she has become the teacher's helper. She has mastered her sight words and loves to write anything she sees. We have scrap pieces of paper ALL over the house with random words on them, written in markers. We have joined her for lunch a couple of times and the weather has been good to us to allow her playtime outside after school.
