November 4th

Hard to believe that October is already gone and November is here.

Last week was Halloween. We were planning on having Eddie's family over to trick or treat. Things didn't go as planned. Eddie's mom was sick, so she couldn't come, and then they decided to reschedule Halloween because of "bad weather". The weather in town was not (in my opinion) bad enough to cancel. So one of Eddie's sisters came over (with her fam) and we had spaghetti for dinner.

Friday we went to Mulberry and did a little trick or treating. It was not good. There weren't that many houses handing out candy.

Saturday was when they rescheduled Delphi's trick or treating for, so everyone came over then. My aunt came over and had some presents for Vallerie. I think we've finally gotten Vallerie to stop using the pink dog on her bed! One of Vallerie's presents was a soft fluffy blue pillow, and a super soft (I want to steal it) blanket. Vallerie didn't want to use her dog after she got those... (yay!) She also got a robotic shark fish, which she LOVES. She named it "Water". It's actually really cool. You put it in water and it swims around for a few minutes, then you need to take it out and out it back in the water. She got a few other things too.

Back to Halloween! Vallerie painted my Aunt's face with eye shadow. It ended up looking like a giant bruise, but at least she had fun. Trick or treating started at 6pm, but we had to wait for everyone to arrive. So the kids were literally lining up down the sidewalk to knock on our door. I think Vallerie had almost as much fun handing out the candy as she did trick or treating. She'd say "Here you go" and then drop it in the kids buckets. One little girl dressed as Minnie Mouse, and Vallerie said "You don't see that everyday". It was cute.

We ended up running out of candy within about 20 minutes. By that time everyone had arrived and we were ready to head out the door. We had a pretty good time. The kids were well behaved.

Sunday we went to town and helped Eddie's sister load/unload a new coffee table. We also had lunch at the HuHot. I liked it, Eddie didn't. I think that was the same verdict we had the only other time we went there. It was a little pricey though. After that we did a little shopping. We went back to Target to buy Vallerie a dinosaur costume (like her unicorn costume) but they didn't have any left. I think we waited too long.

We bought Vallerie's Christmas present. It's a wooden stove and Fridge. I am so super excited to get it. We also bought some wooden food to go along with it. I am making some felt cookies for her (they are adorable). I'd like to get her a nice little tea set (aka not plastic) to go along with her kitchen. We're either going to buy one, or add it to her Christmas list for other people, I haven't decided yet. I am hoping that we can keep the kitchen a secret until Christmas. Last year she found one of her presents before Christmas and was so excited about it! Then we had to take it away, and after she got it at Christmas she never really played with it again. I am pretty upset about that actually. Not that she found it, but that we made her wait until Christmas to have it again.

Weighed myself today... not a good idea. Heaviest I have ever been. Very very upset.