Brooke's Birthday Party Pictures

WOW! Did I really forget to post these!

Walk, Baby, Walk

When Mike picked Brooke up from school tonight she took 4 steps to him!!! Unfortunately we weren't able to recreate it, but that is a start!!

Yes, I still owe several updates to the blog - but we are getting through a week of Reilly having confirmed Swine Flu, Mike having unconfirmed Swine Flu, and me having the seasonal flu (what a bunch we are!), so hopefully I will get a moment soon to make lots and lots of updates!!

Brooke and Daddy

Brooke has really loved playing with all her new birthday gifts. This ball toy is a fun one for the whole family ;-)

Halloween

Yes, we are a little behind on the blog. Life has been very busy lately. In fact, the video I am about to introduce was edited on a flight to Phoenix for work a few days ago. I am just now getting a moment to post it. ANYWAYS...

Halloween was a lot of fun this year! We had a little Halloween party at our house the week before for the girls and their friends. We played fun games and then joined the neighborhood party where there was a bounce house and outdoor movie. For actual Halloween we had a nice pre-party at our friends house and then trick-or-treated with some of our neighbor friends. The following video includes all of that. Enjoy!!

Reilly can read??

This morning I am wearing my Halloween shirt (see pic below) (yes, I'll wear it tomorrow too - don't judge me!). As I am getting Reilly ready, she looks at my shirt and says, "Mommy, that says Boo!" I about jumped out of my skin. "How do you know that?" I say. And she points to it and says "B -- O -- O...that spells Boo." She said it so matter-of-fact, like Duh Mom!! I knew she knew the letter B, but I had no idea she was starting to put the concept of words together. I asked how she knew that and she said "Mrs. Bogart taught me!" Hurray to Mrs. Bogart!!

Pumpkin Patch

Every year Mike and I look forward to going to the pumpkin patch, even back before we had kids. I think that excitement gets to be more and more though as the kids get older and share in the excitement. Reilly has been asking to go since the "patch" got set up a couple weeks ago. We decided we would go when Grandpa Sweeney was here. Since we have been going to this patch since Reilly was born, we are able to get some great pictures.

Reilly's First Soccer Game

Reilly had her first soccer game this weekend. If you haven't watched a group of 3 and 4 year olds play soccer before, you are missing out! Not only do they not understand the rules of the game, but they run the wrong way, walk off the field in the middle of a play, and stop to talk to the other players. But we were so proud to watch them! Reilly did a great job. She didn't want to play a lot, but in the few minutes she did play, she did a great job.

Daddy is coaching her team, and cheering her on this weekend were Grandpa Sweeney, Grandma Trudy, Brooke and me!