October in Review

These are sort of in reverse order, but here's what's happened this month:

Grandma and Grandpa Williams came to visit yesterday.

The babies have just started to notice each other. They will lay on the ground and look at each other and talk to each other. It is so cute!!! I love it when they laugh and coo! Yay, maybe I'll have a little more freedom while they are awake now!

On Saturday we had a Halloween party. Aaralyn loved playing with all her friends. This is her with Jack, our neighbor. They are quite the pair! While at the party they kissed! It was cute though! It's so fun to have kids her age in our neighbor hood that she can play with.

Annie was a black kitty for the party. I didn't get any pictures of Jack because he took a nap during the middle of the party, so I'll have to get one of him on Halloween. His costume is a tiger.

This was Aaralyn and her friend E.J. He was also a tiger, along with his little brother, so we had three little tigers!

Jenni and Jarom made dry ice root beer. I love it! Aaralyn was fascinated by it. I made soup with bone shaped bread sticks, but the didn't look like bones as much as I was hoping... oh well, they tasted good enough. We had lots of friends come and everyone brought such good food! Thanks everyone that came!

We got Aaralyn a "princess fairy" costume, as she calls it. She was pretending to be a butterfly and was "flying" around the house.

Aaralyn loves all things "princess."

Aniston has become such a chunk!!! I can't believe it! I think she weighs like 2 pounds more than Jack now! I think it must be because he is so wiggly and works it all off, while she is content to just lay still on the floor and look around.

Jack is growing too, and is going to have a six pack if he continues to wiggle and squirm like he does! He loves to lay on his tummy and lift up his head and arms and legs and kick around. He will wiggle around until he's completed a 360 degree circle on his belly.

I have been trying out some new hairstyles on Aaralyn's hair from some of the hair blogs I have seen. I thought this one was pretty creative. It looked cute with her costume too.

Annie is a happy baby! She loves to laugh and smile at us.

Annie has grown most of her hair back. It was really weird, she lost all the hair on top of her head (I swear it was all in one day) and she looked like a bald old man, but then it grew back in a couple weeks. She doesn't have as much now as she did when she was born, but at least she's not bald either. Jack still has plenty of hair and I think I need to trim it a little because he has some spots that have really long hairs!

The babies had their first taste of rice cereal this month. I wouldn't have given it to them this early, but sometimes I think that I am not giving them enough because they will eat and still be hungry. That's not so bad for Aniston because she can take a bottle (which is probably another reason for the weight difference), but Jack won't, so I tried the cereal to see if he would be satisfied. They both seemed to like it! I think they will love eating baby food in another couple weeks. Surprisingly they weren't terribly messy either... hopefully it stays that way.

I have been busy with all sorts of jewelry and craft projects. My newest one is trying to refinish a little kitchen hutch for Aaralyn. It was my mom's when she was little, her great grandpa made it for her. It's been painted several times, so I had to strip the paint and sand it down.

This is what paint stripper does, it bubbles all the paint up and then you have to scrape it off. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be.

Here's what it looked like before we painted it. I still have to do a few more coats of paint. I painted one coat, then I decided that I am probably going to have to prime it and then paint it again because it didn't cover well at all!!! Also, because it is so old I think I'll just antique it after I've painted it so it looks like it's supposed to look old, and not that I did a bad job painting it. Oh the joys of this stuff! I'm crossing my fingers it turns out!