8 Months

We celebrated Lyla & Nixon's first Halloween this year by putting on their costumes early in the day so they could play in them and giggle at each other looking silly.  It was SO CUTE to see our little girls all dressed up gazing at each other and giggling at each other. They grabbed at each others costumes with confusion and excitement and thought it was funny until we took the costumes off later that night.

"Sister... is that you?!"

I'm a proud mama of my little Owl and Kitty Cat 

Step 1: Confusion & Awe

Step 2: Amazement- "sister-- that's you!!"

Step 3: Straight up giggle-fest

Step 4: Papa having to save Lyla from a giggle-fest-fall

 Since bedtime is too early for trick-or-treating this year, we took the girls out for an early dinner where they got bites of food off our plate (which they LOVED) and lots of attention from the waitstaff and other kids in the area.

Nixon-the-cat flirting with the table next to us at dinner

Nixon the Cat not happy to be shopping on Halloween 

Family Halloween selfie at the Mac store

Papa kissing his little Nixie-cat goodnight 

Aunt Carrie snuggling her little pumpkins

We had no Dr appointment this month, so we don't have official measurements for the girls, but they are clearly growing well as they are quickly growing out of their 6-9 month clothes.  Almost all the pants I put on them are 12 months.. even a few 18 months for length, which is UNBELIEVABLE! It makes me squeeze them a little tighter when I see them growing so quickly.

8 Month Happenings

This month, a very close friend of mine came to visit with her family from D.C..   Arielle and I have been very close friends and supported each other through the loss of our first children and subsequent birth of our younger children.  Lyla & Nixon are less than a month older than Arielle's son, Logan so it was a fun visit to see the kids interact together while the parents visited.

We went out to dinner with all 3 babies who did very well, for it being a later dinner than they are used to!  It was at this dinner that we learned that Nixon LOVES black beans! She ate almost all the beans off my plate AND some of Trae's! She was on a bean-giggle-high when dinner was over!

Arielle & I being brave and trying dinner out with the babies (past their bedtimes!)

We love you Logan!

A week later, Trae's good friend, Tate stopped by while in town to meet the girls. We adore Tate and his family and the girls immediately started loving on him giving him big hugs & baby squeals.

What a great month October was!!