October 18th

Not a whole heck of a lot has been going on lately.

Yesterday Vallerie went into the bathroom and turned on these little pumpkins we have. One lights up red the other lights up blue. After she turned them on, she put them next to each other and said "They make purple". I was so proud! Some kids her age don't even know all their colors and she is telling me how to make purple?! Awesome!!

Vallerie has become a skilled negotiator. We've been telling her how many minutes she has before bed time (it saves us a tantrum... sometimes) The other day after her 5 minutes were up she said "3 more minutes" I told her that if she got 3 more minutes that she would not get a story. She said "ok". I did go over the deal a few more times just to be sure she "understood". She said that she understood and that's what she wanted to do. Well, come bed time she totally freaked out that I wouldn't read a story. I felt terrible (you're horrible Lauren, how could you deny your child a story!), but I really didn't want to go back on the deal we made. She needs to learn the consequences of her choices. So Eddie ended up putting her in time out for a little while. Surprisingly, she stopped crying in time out pretty quickly. After she was out we explained why she didn't get the story and why she went to time out. She was ok after that, but it was a headache. Last night she tried to negotiate time again, but I said no. I didn't want to go through that again.

Tomorrow we are going to get our Halloween pumpkins. I am pretty excited. Eddie's sister and her family are going. I don't know if his other sister and her family are going. I think they are mad at us for not going last weekend when they had their daughter for the weekend. Oh well. Honestly I'm sick of making plans around people. Eddie and I are going to make family plans and if people want to go then great. If not. Oh well. It's not easy to try and make everyone happy. Normally it makes us unhappy.

After we get the pumpkins were inviting everyone to our house to carve them. Once that's over if there's time we're going to meet up with my cousin. The Bicentennial train is in town so I think that would be a cool thing to check out. Hoping to take lots of pictures this weekend. We might even get Vallerie her Halloween costume. I guess it all depends on how hectic everything is.