Then...even though her swing works quite well on batteries...he decided he wanted to swing her. Why weren't my brothers ever this nice to me?
Holly looks like she has a little smile on her face in the picture! 
The food was pretty good...but don't ask Owen. All he would eat was the cranberry sauce! He is such a picky eater.
After dinner we drove out to see Bright Nights. That is the local park with the Christmas light display you can drive through and look at....after you pay a fortune to get in of course. Owen seemed to like it. Holly might have too...when we got home she was sitting in her car seat smiling away. Of course as soon as I got the camera the smiling stopped. 
So Thanksgiving 2008 is in the past...almost. Now on to my favorite time of year, the Christmas season! As for the straight hair....it's very rare that I will straighten my hair. It takes too much time. But I will be heading out bright and early for my first Black Friday shopping trip tomorrow! Usually I have to work, but not this year...so I'm going to see what all the hoopla is about. We are leaving bright and early, so I don't want to fuss with my hair...that's why it's straight!
A 10 second delay on the camera is not long enough when you are trying to get two kids to look happy on your lap! Where is Scott when you need him? We'll have to try this one again.
I did get Owen to hold Holly, but he kept making silly faces and Holly wasn't too happy about being held by Owen. Plus Owen's face is dirty...it's always dirty! Right after I get him out of the bath tub it's dirty...WHY?
Yesterday I had my 6 week postpartum doctor's appointment. It wasn't really something I was looking forward to. Does anybody really look forward to sitting in the OB/GYN's office? Not me. But something wonderful happened while I was sitting there waiting for the doctor. Holly looked at me, I smiled at her, and she smiled back! Not just a little smile either...it was a huge smile! Now she will always know that her first real smile was in the OB/GYN's office! Of course I've been trying to get another smile out of her since then, but these pictures show all I've been able to get. Oh well, soon enough she'll be smiling away for us!
Today was picture day, and oh what an adventure we had! I was really worried about Owen not cooperating, and all my worries came true! It was my plan to have them take 2 pictures of Owen, 2 of Holly and 2 of them together. That didn't happen. We decided to try both of them together first. Owen was sitting with his legs apart and we put Holly in between for him to hold. That's when Owen would bolt. No matter what we did he would not sit there. So we decided to get a picture of Holly and maybe Owen would see what was happening and sit down. They took the picture above of Holly. Then we decided to get a picture of Owen. He kept sticking his fingers in his mouth, then trying to run away every time we sat him in the chair. Finally we got a few good ones of him...the one below is the only one we kept. It looks blurry because I got it off Kiddie Kandid's website and I had to zoom in a lot to get it to where I wanted it. When I order the pictures it shouldn't be so blurry.
After that we decided to let Owen run around the store a little bit to see if he could get some of the curiosity burned out of him. I changed Holly into her blessing dress so we could get a few pictures of her in it. She did really well getting her picture taken!
There was another family after us waiting to have their baby's picture taken. So we decided to let them go and see if Owen would sit down with Holly after that. Pretty soon Owen came back with one of those popcorn popping toys that you push around. He had no interest in getting any more pictures taken, and by then Holly was getting really fussy. So we gave up. I guess there will be no pictures of both Owen and Holly taken this year, the grandparents will just have to deal with two pictures instead of one. We'll try again next year. 
Usually books made into movies disappoint me...a lot. But this one was fun. It followed the book very closely, and it was fun to see the book come to life. I don't think it is the best movie I have ever seen, but it also wasn't the best book I have ever read. I think as long as you aren't a movie snob and don't take the movie too seriously you will probably be entertained by this movie!
You're looking at the face of the newest criminal in America! Possibly the youngest too. Today was our weekly shopping trip. This was the first time I attempted to go shopping with both Owen and Holly. Owen had to find a new place to sit though since Holly's car seat goes in the space where Owen use to sit. Thankfully that have those dandy little shopping carts with the toy cars stuck in the front of them...problem solved! Owen loves cars and he thought he was so cool sitting in the little plastic car and beeping the horn.
We just got back from the doctor, and Holly is doing great! She weighed in at 9 lbs 6 oz which is the 54th percentile. She still has 15 ounces to go to catch up to my BIRTH weight though! She grew 2 inches in the last 3 weeks, so now she is 21 1/4 inches, which is the 56th percentile. Her head grew too, I can't remember the exact number but it was in the 67th percentile. Big heads run in the family, so I guess she was destined to get one too!Today at the doctors office she had her first fashion faux paux (I have no idea how to spell that, hopefully you know what I'm saying!) We were sitting in the waiting room and there was another little girl with the same outfit on! I don't think she cared too much though...she just blamed me for the whole mix up. The doctor thought it was great that she had two patients in a row with the same outfit on though.
Now she gets to take her first visit to the dentist...not for her though, for me! One of my fillings broke so I have to have it replaced. I really hate going to the dentist. They always ask you questions when they have lots of equipment in your mouth. Why do they do that? Oh well...wish me luck!
Today I decided to look back at Owen's pictures to see what he looked like when he was exactly one month old. When I saw the pictures I realized that I knew where the PJ's he was wearing in the picture were, so I decided to put them on Holly and try to restage the photo. People are always asking me if Holly looks like Owen did...so here are the pictures of both of them...in the same clothes...at the same age. I tried to get Holly to put her head in the same position, but she wouldn't. 
Tomorrow Holly gets to go to the doctor for her one month check up. So we will see how much she weighs tomorrow. I'm guessing around 10 lbs...but I'll let you know for sure tomorrow!
We've tried to get Holly to use a pacifier, but she usually isn't too interested. She usually just starts gagging on it. But don't worry, the pacifiers we bought aren't going to waste. Owen has decided to take up the binky habit! I don' t know what is worse, a pink binky or the two fingers that are usually in his mouth.
Watch for Owen on a Reality TV Dancing show in about 15 years! He loves to dance whenever he hears music, as you can see in this short little video I took of him.
After I stopped crying we went on the Internet to look up how to clean marker off a piano. Thank goodness for Google! There were a few ideas...one was to use rubbing alcohol...another was to use an eraser. They both work. We were a bit worried about the rubbing alcohol taking off the finish on the piano bench though, so Scott decided to use the eraser. I think that might leave an eraser finish on it though...Scott is working on it now...
I used the rubbing alcohol to get the marker off the piano keys...they both worked really well, just in case you are ever in the same situation. 
I decided to let Holly get in on the leaf action too! Doesn't she look like she's having fun rolling around in the leaves?
After all the fun in the leaves it was bath time. Owen and Holly both got a bath, but not at the same time. Owen splashes too much for Holly's liking. The were both so squeaky clean after that I had to get a picture. I actually got Owen to sit next to Holly...and put his arm around her! Of course he was watching a cartoon at the time, so I don't think he even noticed that she was there...but it's progress! I was thinking of going to get their pictures taken next week, so I'm glad he's cooperating a little bit now.
Holly dressed up in her pumpkin outfit, but she didn't go trick-or-treating. Somebody had to pass out the candy! So Holly and dad stayed home at first to pass it out.
Owen was a cute little dinosaur! He got the costume from my friend Claudia in Arizona...her little boy Ceddie wore the same costume last year. He got lots of compliments on it. Thanks Claudia!
Like I said, Owen really loved Trick-or-Treating. He would get really excited going up to people's houses...he would knock on the door until it was finally opened (I tried to stop him, but he knocked so quietly I didn't think the home owners could even hear it) and he always tried to make himself at home. As soon as the door opened he would try to walk into the house! I had to keep a tight hold on him. He got a ton of candy, and he wouldn't let me carry his candy for him. By the end of our trick-or-treating he was pretty much dragging it because it was so heavy! Owen also got a dollar while he was trick-or-treating. We were crossing the street and some random guy stopped his car and called Owen over...strange. I was looking at him and he held up a dollar and said it was for Owen. He said he had two granddaughters trick-or-treating so he wanted to give Owen something. It didn't make much sense to me, but it was a free dollar, so we grabbed it and said thanks!
After I thought Owen had enough candy I took him back home. Scott's mom wanted to take some pictures of Owen, so I sent Scott and Owen over to her apartment to get some pictures. I told Scott to take him trick-or-treating at her apartments too. Apartments are a great way to get a lot of candy fast! So they went, but they came back very quickly, I guess Scott's mom wasn't home. Scott decided to take him trick-or-treating some more around our neighborhood. So off they went. 
Holly and I stayed home and waited for some more trick-or-treaters. Actually, Holly just slept. It's what she's best at these days! We don't get too many trick-0r-treaters at our house so I got a lot of reading done. After Scott and Owen were gone for a few hours I started to get worried though, especially when I started hearing tons of sirens. They didn't get home until almost 9:00! Owen's candy bucket was filled to the brim. 
Owen probably would have ate all that candy last night if we would have let him, but we just gave him a few pieces. I don't think we'll have to buy him any candy until next Halloween though! I made him eat some vegetable beef baby food (it's the only way I can get meat in the boy) and instead of using the spoon I gave him he used his sucker to scoop it out and it eat! YIKES! I was just happy to get something besides sugar in him though.
Here is our little sticky mess at the end of the day. As you can see Owen had lots of fun. It was the most fun I've had on a Halloween in a long time too! 