Happy Halloween!

What a fun October we had! James adores Halloween and all the candy (doesn't eat any of it, just sorts and plays with it) although it did take him awhile to warm up to the idea of getting dressed up. It wasn't until I got him in front of a full length mirror did he realize he was dressed as a monkey and was finally willing to put the monkey face hood on his head. We went trick or treating at Farmer's Market on Thursday night (walked around for about an hour going into all the stores) and then we crashed a kid-friendly neighborhood Halloween night. Boy did we hit the jackpot-- it was off the hook! Little did we know that they celebrate Halloween like no other neighborhood out there! Definitely will be our stomping ground in the future as well.

Cate giggles and laughs and rolls onto her side (c'mon, make mama happy and roll already so we can hit that milestone "on time"!). She's definitely daddy's little girl now that mama is at work all the time, although she does seem to miss me at least a little because she no longer sleeps long hours at night unless it's the weekend when i'm home with her-- otherwise it's every few hours "hey mama come visit me again so we an rock and cuddle! you don't need sleep!"... oh but little one, i do! she's getting really good at holding up her head and sitting up and she adores her brother James.

Happily enough, James still plays with his trains that we got him for his birthday (thought for sure we'd buy them and then he'd immediately lose interest). His favorite thing to do right now is set up his bridge with track on one side so he can lead his engines up the incline and right off the edge into oblivion-- he calls it "being careful"! Okaaaay... but then again, when i think about it, all the thomas the train videos are about the trains crashing, or falling off bridges, or running into stuff, so maybe he gets it after all!

I think what melts my heart the most though is when he says "mommee i miss you all day"... oh sweetie i miss you too... i'm going to start working half days on fridays to see if that helps me ease back into work better since we're so slow at the office anyway... i want to keep making memories together!