Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label halloween. Show all posts

Saturday, December 31, 2016

nine, ten, eleven months

The end of the year has gotten away from me. Sibyl is now 11 1/2 months and is almost running in her own baby way. She started walking around 10 months old, about the same time as Iris but maybe a week or two earlier. She is babbling a lot and says babble-y things that sound like "What's that?" and "All done."


October, 9 months

November, 10 months
December, 11 months

My mom moved to Ft. Collins (hooray!) and we drove up to visit a few months ago. On the way home we had to make an emergency potty stop so we unexpectedly had our first family trip to McDonald's.


Horsetooth Reservoir


First McDonald's outing

We had a short hospital stay in October for Iris. She had adenovirus along with some other viruses. Treatment for respiratory illness consists of pulmozyme (usually given to cystic fibrosis patients), a vest that jiggles her around, and regular deep suctioning and nasal aspiration.
Sister visits



Sister visits


She was able to get home by Halloween and even go to the dress up day at school. Iris was a koala, which was the same costume she wore as last year. At first she said she wanted to be a blue ghost but then kept changing her mind so I floated the idea of wearing a koala costume and she was totally on board with it.

"Koalas eat you-ka-lick-tus"

Doggie

We went trick-or-treating around the block with the Beckers, who managed to have a theme for the whole family: Pokemon Go. Iris loved trick-or-treating and then forgot about the candy she had gathered by the next day.

The first pumpkin I've carved in years

The Beckers are Pokemon Go themed

Pokemon Go characters









Thursday, November 5, 2015

halloween

This was Iris's first legitimate Halloween. We did dress her up last year (as a dog) and passed candy out to the neighbors. She didn't understand why we were so excited to get her dressed up but when we showed her herself in the mirror she tolerated the costume a bit longer. Really, though, we didn't do much to celebrate. 

Iris as a dog in 2014

This year we had our housemates to lean on for Halloween oomph. Troy and the kids carved a pumpkin, which put us light years ahead of where we were in 2014.

Gutting the pumpkin
We also took Iris trick-or-treating this year, even though we're not going to let her have any of the candy winnings. She dressed up as a koala and genuinely enjoyed dressing up. She is at an age where she wants to be EXACTLY like everyone else and so it's easy to get her to dress up if everyone else is doing it too. I'm not sure I love this inclination, though it does help with potty training.


A koala, Snoopy, a sunflower, a zombie marshmallow, and a mermaid.


The day after Halloween we asked Iris what she remembered about going trick-or-treating. She said, "dogs." There was a dog that scared her at one house. I asked her if people gave her anything when she was at the houses and she didn't seem to remember the candy...we left it at that.