Before the festivities...and celebrating 16 months!

Before we have photos of tomorrow's dress-up to post, thought I'd take a few moments while Super Why is on (thank you, PBS Kids) and glimpse back at the past month.  Especially since our little guy is officially 16 months old today!

Ben enjoying a cooler day out in the front yard, scooting around the grass! But GOOD NEWS....he started walking on Thursday afternoon!

Little Miss "C" with her hat and safety goggles, out in the back yard helping Daddy with some work.
 

Little Miss "C" had some fun days at school this month, including Spider Day. Don't know if you can see it well, but this precious hat has eight long legs sticking out from around the headband. Too cute! She's all into writing notes & lists these days (only some of her letters are legible) and carrying them around the house. Any "project" with markers and stickers is also a fun past-time.

While Daddy was in the woods for a few days, we took off to the mountains to visit Papa & Nana.  Little Miss "C" had Scarecrow Day at school the morning we went, so she left her scarecrow costume on to "scare" Papa when we arrived at his house.

  Nana & Little Miss "C" in their funny hats having a good time coloring.

 As for Ben, he's a picky eater but he DOES like spaghetti! 

I imagine that over the next week Ben will gain strength and start walking more than scooting, which will be a welcome thing for me (I think)!  He's adding more words to his vocabulary....on the way to Nana & Papa's house, he spent about a mile of the journey "meowing" for some reason.  He says "choo-choo" and is very interested in trains now.  My friend Carrie says he's all boy because I complain that he goes from completely happy to pitching a fit in a matter of seconds.  We'll see how that all plays out!  He was pretty ill during the middle of October and awoke a lot at night with cramping & fever.  For some reason since then he's waking a lot during the night and crying - usually the bouts of crying are exactly 1 hour apart and last about five minutes.  Last night it was 12:45am, 1:52am, 2:56am and then 6:01am.  Don't know what's up, but Mama is getting SLEEPY!

We've got a busy day tomorrow going to Church, carving a pumpkin, playing in the leaves and getting dressed-up.  Can you guess what one of the kids will be????