We should have taken some pictures, Halloween was great. Archer refused to wear his monkey costume (even though it still fit), and instead wanted to wear his tiger costume, which Aunt Patti gave to us a couple years ago and its WAY too small. The legs end around mid-calf on him, and the head of the costume doesn't fit up over his head anymore, and it doesn't zip up, but he loves it anyway. Every time the doorbell rang he ran over, opened up the door and greeted the kids with a great big "ROOOAAARRRRR!!!!!" I tried to tell him to be careful not to scare the kids, but he said he was a friendly tiger and I couldn't really argue with him on that point, I mean, he WAS handing out treats, so that would put him in the category of friendly, not scary, right?
P.S. Shell is now walking EVERYWHERE, she takes 5 or 6 steps at a time, her arms out to the side, the first couple steps are confident and then as she progresses she gets more and more wobbly until she finally falls forward or sits back with a thud. All of this is driven by hating to be left behind, hating not being part of the action, and hating not getting to eat whatever the rest of us have. She's constantly grabbing my leg and looking up at me, her eyes saying "why are you leaving me behind? Why can't I have some of that? Why can't I help?"Part of me is really terrified at the thought of trying to handle TWO kids walking around, fighting for toys and attention (Archer's started pretending to be a baby lately, gosh I wonder why...), and the other part of me is amazed every day at how blessed I am to have these two beautiful children in my life.
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