Halloween 2009!

Happy Halloween!

It may have been a cold and windy day, but that did not stop us from enjoying a little candy and some flower power this Halloween!

Loralai at first did not like her costume at all. She cried and cried while trying desperately to take it off! But we stuck it out, and a little trip to the park helped distract her enough that she actually started to enjoy wearing it. The costume was then a hit for the rest of the evening!

So we have a TON of candy and chips left over. We had only about 20 kids stop by, and because this was our first Halloween we were not sure what to expect. My parents live about one block away and they had over 75 children trick or treat on by! I think what happened with us was that Todd and I both wanted to go out with Loralai, so we shut our light at the height of the tricker treaters on our street.

Loralai loved having the kids come to our door, she actually very much disliked when they left and cried every time until she got the jist that they were not coming by to play! lol. She is just too cute for words!

16 Month Fun Facts!

Loralai is 16 months old 0r

491 days old 0r 70 weeks and 1 days
Which is 1 years and 126 days,
(= 1 years, 18 weeks and 0 days.)
Therefore, she is 1.35 years old.

(This picture was taken on Thanksgiving part II which we celebrated on Sunday, we were playing at the park on the beautiful clear sky afternoon)


Fun Facts:

Loralai wears 12-18 month clothing
She knows where her eyes, nose, belly, head, and toes are.
She understands some requests such as "go and get your shoes", "bring (item) to Mommy", "Pick (item) up".
She can say about 19 words, and uses 13 of them very regularly, and uses them all the correct context.
If she sees a doggie or if you ask her were is the doggie she makes a barking noise.
If you count she always puts her index finger up for the #1.
If she sees a baby she always says "awww"

A couple of crazy stories:

One day at Loralai's Godmother and daycare provider Carrie's house Loralai's teeth were bugging her so she went and got the chair, pushed it over to the sink, climbed up and got the cloth so that she could chew on it. Of course Carrie watching all this did not allow her to actually use the dirty cloth but got her a new one. I just thought that for Loralai not even to indicate that she wanted a cloth beforehand, but just thoughtout the process herself and went for it. I think that this is such a great trait to have, it is also a trait that is bound to keep Mommy busy as well!!

Daddy and Loralai were playing on the floor in a little alcove that we have, and I guess Loralai decided it would be much more comfortable sitting aginist the wall with a pillow behind her back, so she got up and retrieved the little pillow and brought it back down the two steps and placed it behind her back. Well Daddy making a joke says to her "Oh yea you are only thinking about yourself" well Loralai proceeds to get up and walk up the two steps gets the bigger pillow and brings it back down to Daddy, while Daddy and I watch in amazement! She even went up to him and tried to pull his shoulder forward (I kid not). I would have never believed it if I did not see it for myself. Obviously I get that it may have been a coincidence that Todd said this and she was going to do it anyway, or I definitely do not give her enough credit for how much she actually gets...I think that it maybe a bit of both!!

Pumpkin Farm

Getting into the Halloween mood Daddy, Loralai, Aunt Mindy, and Mommy, decided to head out to Chappell farms and have what turned out to be a little muddy, little scary, pumpkin picking fun!

My cute little pumpkin! Chappell Farms is actually a really fun place to even take Toddlers too! They have a petting zoo, a train and pickup truck made out of wood, a large sandbox with lots of toys, and a little park. Now next year when Loralai is a bit older we will also get to enjoy the hay and corn maze, and the jumping castle that they also had there. Of course we did take a fun tractor ride out the pumpkin field and got to pick out the perfect pumpkins for us!

Aunt Mindy and I tested our courage and went through the haunted barn, and I was not expecting it to actually be as good as it was. Most of the haunted barn was in the complete pitch black, and you had to climb through the back seat of a car before you reached the exit, definitely something that I have not seen in a haunted barn/house before!


It was a beautiful day to enjoy sometime at the farm, mostly after it has rained almost solid for the past week and a half. Loralai was so excited to just get out there a run and explore. Now we can take our perfect pumpkins we picked and paint and carve them for Halloween! Happy Fall!