Happy Halloween

We had a fun time and long night as we hit up all our friends and family members houses for some good ol' trick or treating.  

Symph was Alice and Bella was the White Rabbit.  Oh, the details...Symph knows everything and what I was making for Bella was not the White Rabbit to her, needless to say, neither was the Queen of Hearts!  I had to have a little talk about creativity with her :)

Our night ended with some Gallo Giro with my parents at midnight, and we were off to bed and ready to start another long day!  

Of all days, I forgot my stinkin' camera! ugh!

No Mean Tia...

Tia Jessica is known to rile up my girls, or the kids, to be exact.  Of course it's not to really get them mad, but just to play around.  My girls love her dearly, but sometimes, she's the "mean tia" as my brother calls her (jokingly, of course!). Well tonight she made it clear that she didn't need Symph's help separating the pumpkin from the seeds (just uping the drama of their prissiness).  Apparently this really hurt my very tired daughter's feelings, so she took the matter into her own hands as to how this situation should be dealt with.  Mind you my daughter loves to draw!  

NO MEAN TIA!

Of course my brother was beaming with her drawing, while the mean tia wasn't so happy!  Apologies were given, and of course, she is still loved and adored by Symphony :)

Pumpkin Carving

So tonight was the big night the girls had waited for...pumpkin carving!  My dad surprised the girls with a visit that included a toy (of course, he's always spoiling them!) and popcorn!  What visit could be better for a little one?  After they worked on opening those "easy to open" packages that the toys came in, we all enjoyed a donut and waited for tio and tia to come on over.  I was busy sewing (what's new?), and the show had to go on!

The girls picked out their design, and Symph got the go ahead from her tia to draw her pumpkins face.  Little did she know that papa had already had a few designs for Symph to choose from.  So off they went and cleaned out the guts, while Mike and Jess decided to make sounds as if it were torturing the pumpkin to do so.  Symph became a bit hesitant, but enjoyed it all for the most part.  It was so cute to watch her little face as she concentrated on carving her perfect pumpkin!  Bella made a silly pumpkin, I don't even know who drew the face on it  :)

As the carving came to an end Symph and Bella both finally decided to get their hands dirty by separating the pumpkin from the seeds.  This is a huge deal for my girls who can't handle to have anything on their hands that makes them dirty.  Not to mention, probably being a bit scared of what their tia and tio were doing with the sound effects earlier.

I decided at the last minute with the suggestion of my brother, to make a Jack Skellington pumpkin, and he came out cute!  Thanks brother!

Here are some pictures, please excuse the randomness of them!  I just got a mac and it's funky to learn for me!  I am also without my closest companion....Photoshop!  ahhhh....

Oh, A Hunting We Will Go..

That's what I thought until we arrived at the pumpkin patch in the high 90 degree weather.  I thought this was supposed to be Fall!  Anyway, we set out to pick our pumpkin but decided it was way too hot and sent Papa and Grandpo out for us.  They came back with some pretty white (yes, white) pumpkins, and my mom and I were super excited.  That was, until we found out they had picked them for Bella.  Not to fret, there were tables and tables of all the different types of pumpkins from their patch, er, farm!  My mom and I got to pick our own white pumpkins from the table, and Symph picked a humungous pumpkin...of course.  

The girls had a great time as we roamed the farm.  We all sat and had a water break along with super sweet ice pops to cool us down, Symph went into the jumper and bounced off the walls a bit, while Bella took a pony ride.  They topped their day off with the petting zoo where Nana took it like a champ with all those dirty sheep and goats!  Thank you mom!  The highlight of the girls time here was the monkey who would shake your hand for a ticket or $1.  If only I had caught their expressions, they were priceless!

We had lots of fun, and this has been our yearly tradition as a mommy and me kind of group, but this year it was saved for Nana and Grandpo!  Thank you mom and dad for such a fun and long day! 

A little side note, we drove over with my parents which is always a request of the girls.  My parents took us back to our casa and my mom spoiled us with a delicious spaghetti dinner!  We had one very blessed day!

Quirky, but I love it

in a strange way.  Symphony for some reason picked up this crazy little thing that comforted, soothed, relaxed, and caused her to go to sleep from the time she was about two.  As I think about it now, I am somewhat sad to say that she has grown out of it and now just "uses" me for her baby brother.  She used to call it "tickle", and if I wasn't around she would try to get her Vovo, Nana, Tia Jessica, Tia Marisa, or Auntie Jen to soothe her to go to sleep.

So, what exactly was "tickle"?  Well, she had to put her little hand on my belly button and push it in and out until she fell asleep.  Kinda quirky, but it was her little bond and way to be content to fall asleep.  Thank you to the women above that would go through this somewhat violating time with her just to let her go to mimi land.

Now she is more interested in just rubbing my belly and telling me how big baby brother is getting, and kissing him any chance that she sees the skin of my belly.  She is too adorable and prays for him every night, and wakes up and is there immediately to kiss him and talk to him about his night, "furniture", and "swimming pool"!

My Bella on the other hand has picked up something new too.  She just formed some silly habit where it soothes and comforts her to go to sleep by squeezing my arm all the way to my face in a very gentle little sequence.  It's kind of funny the way she does it, but it's also very sweet as she looks into my eyes, squeezes with her pattern and then falls right asleep.  How long this will last, I'm not sure, but I love it in it's funny little way.  I love it when my little babes fall asleep on me, it is one of the best feelings, and had I the time, I would hold them until they woke up again.

I am so very thankful that I have been blessed to stay at home with my little ones, and to have the opportunity to guard their hearts a bit longer than some mommies get to.

Oh My, Where To Begin?

Life has been hectic!

Here is just a brief update of lots of stuff:

• September 2nd-began homeschooling Symph for Kindergarten and she is doing amazing (a huge reason as to why I have neglected this blog world)!
• September 14th-Began ICAP Classes for Symph and she loves it! Not to mention Bella gets to go to preschool for free!
• BellaSymphony continues to get busier and busier with our online boutique, Etsy, Nanny Deprived , and new boutiques carrying BellaSymphony (I don't even have time to update new items right now!)
• My sewing room is almost done and it is amazing thanks to my handy hubby!
• I am 32 Weeks prego and ready for this kid to get out! Why do so many women insist on asking when I am due and telling me they thought I would answer this month? Come on, do you not think I feel like I should pop soon?
• October is here and we get to decorate for one of my favorite times of the year...HALLOWEEN! Not only do we get to decorate, but I get to make the girls costumes this year! Symph will be Alice and Bella will be the White Rabbit, and I think Dom and I may join in as the Mad Hatter and Queen of Hearts since we have a fun costume birthday party to attend for Isaac!
• It's time to start on my boy's hot rod room!