Trick or treating

This is the costume they made at daycare. They had a little parade and then a party. Amazingly, they got all of the kids into their costumes and makeup on in half an hour. Isabella had wanted to put her costume on for several days, ever since they made them. It's from a story they read a lot that has a blue dog in it.

We've started putting her to bed an hour later in the hopes of getting her to take a nap at daycare. Seems mostly to be working, although not today. Oddly, going to bed later seems to lead to her getting up earlier. Hasn't stopped her from getting up in the middle of the night, unfortunately. We have a nocturnal visitor about every other night, and she's been wetting the bed. Which probably has more to do with her drinking lots of water from a squirt bottle just before bed...

Here's the collection of them with the candy collection. Molly's parents kindly had us over for dinner, along with a couple who use to live next door. Morgon and Molly were flowers. Rena and Jeremy also joined us for trick or treating (she's Minnie Mouse). The weather was wonderful, and the kids collected tons of candy. They were very cute walking around together holding hands. Of  course, once one had candy they all had to start eating some... They played afterwards for quite a while. Ian slept in the sling through the whole thing, and actually stayed asleep until 2pm.

Isabella has been sharing her candy with us - she gets out three pieces when she gets home for after dinner. Well, sort of after. She eats three bites then says she's done. Then wants to get back in mom's lap to eat the rest of dinner.

Ian's been making smiley faces and gooing. He seems to alternate between doing 40min catnaps during the day, and longer sleep stretches. He actually fell asleep twice! while just being held. Chris and I went down to the climbing gym with him. He fell asleep by being rocked in the car seat, woke up, nursed, then sat happily in the car seat. Screamed the entire drive back to pick up Isabella, though.

 She likes to hold Ian on the couch. He doesn't seem to mind.

We're going to try a new incentive strategy for getting her through the morning routine (she got so upset this morning about getting socks and shoes on that she threw up on my last clean pair of pants). Wish us luck!

Some photos courtesy of Nathan & Jennifer.