happy halloween.

may your halloween be full of cute costumes:

and also:

{thanks for the *awesome* party angela, you rock.}
and cousins:

and fun-ness:

have a great halloween!

thinkin' about it thursday.

addiction: an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences.
so, my fam and I have been playing "words with friends" on our phones.  it's a word game like scrabble.  i play will.  at the same time i play with rebecca and a separate game with rob.  will plays a game with rebecca and a separate one with rob.  rebecca and rob play each other.  at the same time we are all playing separate games with mom and angela.  who are also playing each other.  my mom is visiting my sister, tilleea, so i get to play with her, too.  so, all day long we play scrabble.  it is fun.  way fun.  too fun.  and competitive.  very competitive.  my mom called me on the phone the other day {an actual real talking phone call-not text or e-mail} just to accuse me of cheating.  addicted?  i think so.  and i love it.  thank you family.  
{and if anyone wants to know.........i am the best one at this game.}

thinkin' about it thursday.

{pretzels and m&m's}
cy's favorite food ever is m&m's.  he also loves, loves, loves pretzels.  so yesterday i gave him a pretzel m&m (me and will's favorite food).  i'm thinkin' i'm gonna get a best mommy award for giving my offspring a combo of his best-loved foods and instead he has his head in the trash can gagging.  what?!?!?!?!?!
pretzels and m&m's: they've got me stumped today.

seven{th heaven}

seven months old.
this has been an exciting month, what with crawling and all.  lane thinks he's older than he is - he stands really well and keeps pulling himself up to a standing position with the help of whatever is nearby.  i have no clue why he is in such a hurry.  it's so fun to watch, though.  and nice that he has some independence.  i was determined that his favorite food was going to be green beans just like cy's was, but it definitely is not. sweet potatoes is by far his favorite.  he also prefers cheerios over peach or strawberry apple puffs......weird.  anyway, here's our monthly shots:

crawl, baby, crawl video.

thinkin' about it thursday.

crawl, baby, crawl.
we're mobile.  i've been waiting for at least 2 weeks to write down that the baby is crawling.......because he has been soooooo close for that long.  well, yesterday he crawled across the room.  yay!  my whole world has changed.  
again.

thinkin' about it thursday.

influences, influences.
there are good ones and there are bad ones.
we left cy with grandma wendie the other day.  the whole next day he kept saying, "ha ha, too funny, too funny."
it was super cute and made me laugh. (except when i was exercising--then, not so funny.)  i supposed he picked this up from my mom because he started saying it the day after he spent all day with her.  i've really been thinkin' about this lately.  what if cy had picked up something from being with a not-so-good influence?  not cute.  not fun.  cy picks up on so much and repeats a lot.  {he picked up a barbie and gave it to grandma and said, "grandma, princess fiona!" i've GOT to turn off the tv!}
i'm so glad my kiddos have good influences in their lives.  thanks to all who are a part of that!  i'm grateful.