Peace and quiet......and LOTS of yarn!!

Both children are asleep. For the next two hours (hopefully!!) the peace and quiet will remain in this house. There is so much screaming and carrying on going on around here lately I may go prematurely deaf; and I would be 100% OK with that. It's been a long week. Bitty decided to get another double ear infection; but that second top molar FINALLY came through last night. That meant less sleep for mommy; but in the long run I'd like to be able to say the worst is over. Well.......with regards to ear infections and teeth coming in. Bitty sleeps through the night so long as no teeth are coming in, she's not sick, and she doesn't have an ear infection. When Bitty sleeps through the night, that means mommy gets more sleep. When mommy gets more sleep, it is much more pleasant around here. I will honestly admit when I have had little sleep I am definitely not the most pleasant person to be around. Usually if I reach true exhaustion I am actually more pleasant to be around because I am at a point where I just don't care.

Bug wants candy for breakfast? By all means have at it! Bitty wants to dance on the living room table? Knock yourself out sweetheart! The damned cats (I'M LOOKIN' AT YOU SHADOW!!!!) want to drag their stupid cat food all over our freakin' bedroom? Bring it on furballs!!! (I'll just suck you up, tail and all into the vacuum later.......) Speaking of vacuums..... I love mine. I fantasize about setting the roller on the shag carpet level and just running through the house picking up every little plastic animal, pieces of paper, pieces of yarn (Bug's new weird obsession.... *eyeroll*) CAT TOY mousies, ponyville pony miniatures, sequins, crumbs of cheezit and cheerios and CAT HAIRS that I can. It would be a glorious feeling to see my carpet bare again.

Sunday I went with Nicole to look at a house. (she and Josh are thinking of buying here sometime soon.) there was the absolute most fabulous room in that house. First off it was HUGE. I'm thinking comparable with Nanny and Papa's old living room kinda huge. (I'll admit Nicole and i ran in big circles around it.....) It was also kinda set off a bit from the other rooms of the house over the garage. There were some windows for light, the ceiling was at least 12ft high, and then there was the best part: a door that closed. And locked!!! teehee.... I let myself bask in the fantasy of what I would do with that room. heehee *evil little grin* I would install some sort of surveillance cameras, put all toys; children's and feline's in it, toss all three cats and both girls in, shut the door and let them go at each other. oooohooohooo! It would be glorious!!! *stares dreamily off in to the distance*

Ah, well back to reality. I've been crocheting like a mad woman lately. I finished some UFOs that I didn't quite get to before Halloween; my witches' hat for instance and a bigger candy corn colored bag for Bitty to trick-or-treat with next year. I've also started some fun stuff for the holidays too. That's why Bug is obsessed with yarn bits right now. She has been collecting all the extra little bits of yarn from my projects. (And I must admit i do leave a bit of a trail of yarn or thread when i do needlework projects....) It's quite a colorful little pile actually. The only problem is she and Bitty fight over them. I tried giving Bitty her own pieces but Bug stole them from her. So in return Bitty stealthily sauntered up and stole the pile of yarn pieces. And she went running away (literally!) giggling like a mad woman with two fist fulls of yarn streaming from her hands and dropping on the ground. Bug meanwhile is having a meltdown that Bitty stole her yarn. It was hysterical actually and I kind of sat back in amusement and let it happen. I finally had to intervene because Bug was becoming hysterical about her yarn. "She's taking my yarn mom!!! Mom she has my yarn!!!!" You should see what happens when Bitty takes Bug's silkie! (and she does it deliberately to get a rise out of Bug!! LOL)

Halloween Festivities!!!

Well, I hope everyone had a good Halloween! Ours was busy. Auntie Cole and I worked diligently pretty much every day last week to get costumes ready. Bug's was already made we just had to add embellishments to it and decide how we were going to do some of the decorations on it. Bitty's needed to be sized and finished a bit here and there. I crocheted stuff like a mad woman; Bug's treat bag, Bitty's treat bag, Bitty's hat, a cute little bag that would have been part of bug's costume but we made some last minute changes to her costume so it became a cute decoration for the house instead, and I attempted to get my witch's hat done but ran out of time. :( I'm still going to finish it though. Every Good witch needs a good hat. :)

Bug had a Halloween parade at school and we kinda decided that her official costume this year was just too pretty for her to wear to school. We didn't want anything to happen to it before the big trick-or-treat night. So we used her witch costume from last year with a few extras (her "perfect" pink sparkly shoes) and she looked super cute for school. :) We also dressed up Bitty in one of Bug's old costumes that day so she wouldn't feel left out. (When we got to school it seemed to be the thing to do with younger siblings who were hanging around for the parade....so, score one for Mama for being on the ball!)

We had trick-or-treat actually on Halloween this year!!! *GASP* I know shocker right? Nanny, Papa, Dee Dee, Grandpa Terry, Mimi, Uncle Logan, Uncle Josh (another *gasp* moment for sure), Auntie Cole, Lauren and her boyfriend Neel all came up and ate food and got to see the girls go trick-or-treating and just had a fun time. (Although Josh informs me he didn't have a fun time.....he's grumpy :oP ) Bug was sort of grumpy at the beginning so there aren't many pics of her because she was too busy being whiny and grumpy but I was able to snap a few. They are all below, so enjoy!! :)

Bug and Bitty on the day Bug had her Halloween party at school. Super cute both of them!! The third picture is Bitty running around the gym of Bug's school while we were waiting for their parade to start. :)



Bitty getting ready to go trick-or-treating.



Bitty waiting with all the neighbor kids outside while Bug finished getting ready.




Daddy and his girls. :)



The local fire station had a truck go around the neighborhood and the firemen passed out candy to the kids. It was really cool.

Finally! We got Bug to pose for the camera. She doesn't have her wings on but at least she's showing off her pretty dress and her "perfect" pink sparkly shoes.

Here's Bitty watching Daddy pass out candy. She was banging on the glass with the package of Goobers she has in her hand.....

This was just a really cute picture of Bitty. :)

The girls, now finished with trick-or-treating and out of their costumes with Auntie Cole watching Daddy take a picture. :)