Halloween Week

Karen got Izzy this awesome costume for Halloween. She's a little 1950's sock hop girl with her name even embroidered on her skirt. For the 3rd year in a row we were able to spend the evening with Darcy & her daughter Lexi.

The girls did great together, even holding a pose long enough for us to get some great pictures. Lexi was awesome at entertaining Elizabeth so we even managed to have some adult converstion time. Steve wasn't there because he's deployed to Iraq for the 2nd time as a reservist, so please keep him in your prayers.

Elizabeth must have walked a half mile by the end of the night. She really took to the whole trick or treating concept and was a pro by the 3rd house. She'd walk up to the front door by herself and just stand there, sometimes she'd even knock. When the people would hold their candy buckets in front of her she would take a piece and put it in her little bag. Then she'd take another, and another, and... She was so cute doing it most people just let her keep going. Then we'd tell her to say "thank you" and she'd get out a quality "anks" and walk away with a multiple "byes" said to her new friends. We're kicking ourselves for not getting video of it, but didn't want to make other people uncomfortable.

We went up to LA for Karen's cousin Veronica's birthday party. It's been nearly 3 months since anyone there has seen Izzy, and last time we were there she was barely walking. Here she decided to play under the coffee table.

They also have 2 (little) dogs, and as usual Izzy couldn't help but take one of their toys and carry it around in her mouth. That really grossed everyone out, but we did get the toy washed off so it wasn't too disgusting.

She's trying to climb on everything these days, but in this case she decided it was really just meant to be a seat.

Part of her climbing adventures is to climb up into her stroller and sit down. Well this time she decided to climb into the basket. What you can't see is the cross bar that is just about where her butt is. She managed to squirm in, but couldn't get herself backed out. It was really fun to watch her worm her way it...

But she made it quite clear she wasn't having a good time after about 10 seconds of being trapped...