Sunday, November 3, 2013

October

We will just call October the sick month at our house.   The beginning of the month I got a nasty case of adenovirus that knocked be down for a good two weeks.  It was BAD. During that time Monty and Mia both got pretty nasty colds and then we finished the month off with poor Mia sick.  November is here though and we are all on the mend (well Mia's still getting there).
The second weekend in October my mom came down for the Gluten Free Expo.  Her and I took the Front Runner and tracks down to the expo center to check it out.  My mom was diagnosed with Ceiliac's disease probably 5 or 6 years ago and now has to eat completely gluten free.  I've seen signs for the Expo every year but this is the first year she's made it down.  My mom was excited to take the train because it was a whole new experience for her.  We had a good time.  They had so many samples you couldn't even begin to try everything and they had TONS of free handouts.  We had quite the pile of goodies. Everything from a t-shirt and water bottles to granola bars and fruit snacks, and grandma even brought Mia a banana from breakfast.
 Mia's favorite thing we brought home was her chicken hat.
 While my mom was here we also went and picked out pumpkins.
 Mia couldn't decide if she wanted a little one...
 Or a big one!
 Once we all got our pumpkins picked out it was impossible to get a picture with the whole family looking at the camera.  This was the best we got.
 Mia eventually decided on a medium pumpkin and was happy with her choice.
 One thing you should know about Monty is he absolutely LOVES Christmas.  He has definitely passed this love on to Mia.  Now that it's October, that means it's time to start thinking about Christmas.  Monty helped Mia write her first letter to Santa.  Seeing as it is only October we figured it was probably a little early to mail it to Santa so instead Mia delivered it to our neighbor Nick who just happens to be good friends with Santa.
Monty also put up our Christmas lights this month so we will be all ready before the snow comes.  Mia's not too thrilled that we can't turn them on yet but she's finally stopped begging for them.
We painted our pumpkins again this year.
Mia's been pointing out the paint in the closet for months telling me it is for pumpkins.  She was excited to finally be able to use it.
Monty hard at work.
Our finished products.  The A is for Utah State Aggie's for those who may not know.
We took Mia mini golfing for the first time this month.  She had a lot of fun.
She didn't quite get the concept but that's okay.  Most the time she teed off then picked up her ball, went and put it right next to the hole, and hit it in.
Mia and her Daddy checking out the awesome eye.
Mia enjoyed all the characters on the course almost more than the golfing.
In the end we hit our balls into the skeleton.  She still talks about going golfing and how at the end we hit our balls into the skeleton.  She has an incredible memory!

October also means Halloween!  This year we went to the FSA (Families Supporting Adoption) Halloween Party.  Doing Mia's hair and getting ready to go. 
 We used TONS of hairspray but the curls didn't last super long.
 Our little Princess!
 We had a pizza dinner with lots and lots of goodies.  They had a bean bag toss.  Mia got it on her first toss.
 They also had pin the eye on the monster.  Mia put his eye on his arm but still won a pencil.
 Then we did a mummy wrap and turned Mia into a mummy.
 A mummy who couldn't see.
 Then it was time for trick or treating.
 Mia was really cute.  At the first door I asked her "what do you say?"  She looked up at the person and said "Please."  I guess we spend more time trying to get her to say please than trick or treat.  After a couple door ways she figured it out though.
 Not too shabby for the first round of trick or treating this season.
We are huge fans of the TV show Big Bang Theory at our house.  Monty told me two days before the Halloween party that he was going to dress up as Sheldon.  I spent most of the day running around town trying to find a Flash t-shirt but no one had one so we had to settle for Green Lantern. I decided if Monty was going to be  Sheldon that I would dress up as Amy Farrah Fowler.  I hit up DI for a skirt and cardigan and got a wig and it worked out pretty good.  Sadly few people seemed to know who we were because they don't watch the show.  For being the #1 comedy 3 years in a row, not many people around here seem to watch it.
October brought a few nice days as well.  We were able to get back outside again.  We've done a few more bike rides.  Mia could ride around in her trailer all day.  I on the other hand cannot haul her around in the trailer all day.
We also did some more kite flying.  This time we only got out the Barbie kite. I have learned to stick with the cheap kites.
Mia likes helping to fly the kite.
I got out of the shower one day and Mia had made a bed on our floor for herself, her frog, and her teddy bears.  I thought it was pretty cute.  She had everyone tucked under their covers.
Like I said before Mia got sick two days before Halloween.  The poor girl had been looking forward to Halloween and going trick or treating so of course we still had to go.  Sadly it didn't go so smoothly and we were all ready to come home once we were on the other side of the block.  Someone asked me what Princess Mia was for Halloween (I'm guessing they were thinking she was a Disney character) and I just told them the Grumpy Princess.  I guess we are mixing fairy tales now.  Maybe she's what you get when you mix Snow White and the dwarf Grumpy.  Here we actually got a little bit of a smile though before we headed out trick or treating.  No denying even if she's grumpy she's still cute!