Sam will most likely reprimand me, but I couldn’t help it. Ziva has the CUTEST little toes (I love baby toes!!!) And I was having a difficult enough time resisting on my own, but when Vienna asked to have her toes done again (she’s VERY conscious of when the paint has come off) and then BEGGED to have Ziva’s toes done too… I caved! I did however resist putting sparkles on Ziva’s toes!
Sometimes you just gotta have more than one stuffie to find that comfort you really need!!!
Halloween has got my baby spooked 
She’s in a fearful stage right now… I sure hope she grows out of it soon… but the good thing is that often she will say “mommy, we need to pray to Jesus” ahhh… warms a mommy’s heart!!
Last month (Oct 27th to be precise) I FINALLY had a chance to get together with my friend Krista and her son Matthew. We went up to Wilsonville and had lunch at Red Robin, soooo great! We need to make that like a monthly ritual! After lunch I wanted to check out a park I had driven by earlier because I had gotten to the restaurant too early.
The park was actually pretty cool! It had this HUGE volcano slide type thing… (I wish I would have taken a far away photo of the whole thing, but maybe another day) where the sides of the mound were red and made of spongy material (the red mountain made me thing lava/volcano, hence the terminology, so this park shall now be called Volcano Park — I think it’s actually something like Memorial Park but.. yeah.. boring!) anyway.. then down the front of it is a huge slide! 
It’s pretty slow as far as slides go, but it was great fun taking the kids up and down it!!
Vienna did well climbing up sliding down. 
Baby Matthew even made it up all the way by himself!! (I was right behind him in case he slipped, but his use of the “bear crawl” was outstanding!!) 
It was fun! Krista and I took turns helping the kids and minding Ziva (who was none to pleased to be stuck alone in her stroller alone!) 
I LOVED the train action… Ready… Set…
…SLIDE!!!
It may have been a short time at the park (we had to get home to meet Miss Carmen) but a good time was had by all!!!
the end…. 
I’m not such a big fan of Halloween right now… we’re still struggling with “I’m scared” from all the Halloween cartoons and commercials Vienna has been exposed to… man I wish I could just shoot my t.v. and wasn’t so addicted! But I digress.
We had a very fun Halloween. In the morning we three girls got dressed up and went up to the high school to visit Auntie Joany (My brother’s lovely wife). I had thought that we would have a short visit with Joany and then head to my mom’s house (like two blocks away) and be basically done with Halloween. Well, Joany wasn’t in her office when we arrived, she was in the gym giving blood. Before we even left Joany’s office to head to the gym, Vienna was given two trick or treat candies!!! As we walked the halls to the gym Vienna soaked up all the “aw’s” and “how cute’s” coming from all the “big kids”, she was loving the attention in her little princess costume. It was about this time I regretted not bringing the stroller in for Ziva… wow, she’s gotten heavy!! Vienna was sure to show off her “makeups” she was sooo excited and proud that she was allowed to wear makeup with her costume. I even broke out my makeup from junior high staff days and let her wear sparkles all over her face (even a touch of mascara!) she was in heaven!!
Ziva was toasty warm in her lion costume, by the time we got to the gym I had to open it up to cool her down!! In the gym is where Vienna made out like a bandit!! The technicians gave her treats, Auntie Joany gave her some peanut butter crackers, she got to have a juice and some trail mix in the cantina, she got Oreo’s from some of the kids as she was leaving, oh yeah, she loved it!! She even danced a little at the mid court line!
Back in Auntie Joany’s office she found that Auntie Joany was giving treat bags to kids that came in… she had set aside an extra full one for Vienna!!
Sam decided that we’d got my parents house that night and risk the trick or treaters (Many scared her last year). Our thought was, she’s dressed up, maybe she’ll realize they are dressed up too. She did VERY well! We did have one boy come to the door dressed with a scary grim reaper mask, but he saw Vienna take serveral steps back and put her hand to her eyes, and he quickly pulled his mask up to the top of his head (nice kid!) By far it was the alien costumes that scared her the most, but she did figure out that it was just kids under the costumes 
So that was good. It was fun as far as Halloweens go. Ziva slept in my dad’s arms through all the door ringing and shouts of “Trick or Treat.”
Ziva was quite compliant with her costume and quite sleepy!
Are you a prince? Do you need a kiss?
I took my first nap in my big girl bed (notice daddin forgot to put up a barrier, she did find herself on the floor later, but did go right back to sleep)
Yes, I realize Ziva has no socks, I did fix that before we left!!
Now I have to start thinking through costumes for next year!! Oh what shall we do!?!?
I know it’s really on the late side for this, but here’s some election info I came across today and really liked.
Voter guides: Value Voters Guides
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