Major slacker updating here

Oy. to think that my last post said "I wonder what i'll do with all of my free time?" Clearly from the lack of posts, i've kept plenty busy. Papa D commented on my LAST post so it was a bit of a kick in the pants to do another one. Almost like I was put on notice. SO thanks dad!
Cold and flu season has started at our house. We've all been turned into booger monsters and we are deeply contemplating an investment in the Kleenex corporation. DANG! We've gone through a lot of kleenex and lysol. We are all on the mend and happy to report that our consumption of snot rags has decreased.  While we had our miserable colds, we had a plumbing incident where apparently the previous owners flushed some sort of shop rag and it blocked our main pipe out of the house. We had to call a plumber with a snake (which was HUGE) and rent a carpet cleaner to hopefully suck all of the water out of our carpet. For a good week our house smelled wet and musty but the carpet/pads seem to be drying. It was just a rough couple of days, that is for certain.

Kaelyn is still doing well in school. Only 2 or 3 accidents in a whole month and usually just off of the bus. She knows all the names of her classmates and enjoys the themed weeks they've had. One was "Mary wore her red dress" (click it. )its the cutest song the first 300 times you listen to it. And the fun part is that Kaelyn is starting to show a lot of interest in singing along to music. Her current favorites are "All about that Bass" (radio version to edit out the cuss words) and we also like Fancy by Iggy Azalea and Shake it off by Taylor Swift. She knows certain parts from those songs and sure sings them loud. Kaelyn also enjoyed the Pete the Cat Unit where it was based around "I love my red Shoes".

They recently had Fire Safety day at school and did Firetruck art and saw a firetruck! She was so proud of herself to show me the art they made and said "Like Tammy!" (Papa Dustin, when you read this, be sure to tell the Mrs!)

This last week has been super busy. We had company come up on Tuesday night. My mom, sister Chelsea, and nephew X came up to visit for a mini-vacation before Aria's 2nd birthday party this last saturday.  The cousins enjoyed so much time together, playing and cuddling and watching movie. And it was very nice and so appreciated to have my mom and sister here to help with the pre-party cleaning and food prep. We got to go trick or treating together and Kaelyn was Doc McStuffins, Aria and X were matching monsters. It was very cute. I'll have to pull the pictures off of my camera and add them into my next post. The kids did well in the chilly weather and X walked most of the way. Such a little bundle of energy he is.  Saturday was little sister Aria's 2nd birthday party. Someone must have mentioned how much we like art because man oh man did she get art stuff! We are all set for a long and blustery winter indoors. We even broke out the paint dab markers and did some letter art because the girls wanted to do art and it was the first thing they grabbed. We have squeezie paint brushes, the dot art markers, regular markers, crayons, color books, paper, homemade scented glittery play doh (thanks Auntie Jen! We can't wait to bust that stuff out very soon), play doh fun factory (so you can squish allof those FUN shapes. Aria also got clothes, a new jacket, stuffed animals (webkins). But I think the hit of the weekend was her very own Grandma Nancy blanket. Kaelyn sleeps with the one we got at our baby shower and is unwilling to share her "Nancy blanket" so GG Nancy sent my mother in law to the party with a blanket for Aria and she sleeps in her own bed now (as opposed to climbing into Kaelyn's bed) and we are all much happier for that.

Yesterday was just a day to tidy up a bit. My mom, Chelsea, and X left yesterday and my girls were so sad! But Kaelyn cuddled up with her daddy while i took the birthday girl to urgent care thinking she had an ear infection. Nope! Turns out she's just full of wax that needed help to get itself out. So now we are going to do some mineral oil drops as suggested by urgent care and hope that she doesn't have issues like I did when I was little.

Well, Here are a few pictures to tide you over until i can get a hold of the Halloween pictures.

Thanks for reading and come back soon!

Lara, Kaelyn, and Aria (and daddy too!)