Summary of October 2009

Check out Mama's new toy from Stampin' Up: My Digital Studio. It's so much fun.

Our Halloween spread

This was what we had prepared for our trick-or-treaters. Unfortunately we forgot to turn on our porch lights when we left for Auntie Lisa's, so the spread was pretty much intact when we got home. (Daddy noticed that one Butterfinger bar had been taken.)

Mama forgot to bring her purse when we went out trick-or-treating, so more pictures will be posted later.

Play-Doh!

This is the first time that Mama gave Cups any Play-Doh to play with. Cups made carrots. She also made water later.

Trick-or-treating warm-up

Daddy rang the doorbell and hid.



Cups adjusted her bee hat and didn't say trick-or-treat when Uncle Michael answered the door. We called before hand, so uncle knew to prepare for an one-day-early trick-or-treater.

Trick-or-treating at Tideworks and SSA Marine

Daddy picked up Cups from daycare early to take her to his work for trick-or-treating.



Uncle Don. . .



Auntie Arlene. . .



Auntie Sue. . .



Auntie Cynthia. . .



Auntie Cindy. . .



Cups found a medium-sized calabaza. . .



and a baby one.







Auntie Darlene hooked Cups up with a bag-o-goodies.



Auntie Erica only had a Cup-o-Noodles. Thank you, Auntie Erica!





Auntie Li-Jun tricked Cupcakes to sing 'Little Bunny Foo Foo'.





Break (water and apple). . .



Daddy has four pictures of Cups at work. . .



Uncle Tuan and Uncle Peter. . .

What Cups had to say about trick-or-treating at Daddy's work for an hour was, "My legs hurt from walking a lot."

Bear!

Cups puts on her new jacket from Auntie Natsue in Japan. The hat can be her wig. She feels like a bear with the hood on!

Garlic action

It's not funny when Mama asks for a picture.



It's very funny when Cups puts a couple cloves of garlic on the cutting board. Uhh. . .

Andy visits

Cups reading the ads from Babies R Us. . .

Cups' pumpkin

We got Cups a pumpkin. Instead of carving, we were going to draw on it with a marker. Before we got around to helping her, Cups already got busy with her crayon. She looked like she was having fun.

Duncan's 3!

When Duncan's mom asked whom he'd like to invite to his birthday party, Cups was the first on his list.



Cups has told us that Duncan was her boyfriend, and we saw that it was not unrequited love on her part. They've always played along really well at Marji's. This scene forwarded Mama to Cups' first prom picture.



They played the Irish game of passing the present. When the music stops, the one holding the gift got to unwrap one of the many layers of wrapping paper.



There were about ten children at the party.



Cups got paints! Georgia got the last gift — markers!!



Cups smiled for Mama before she had pizza.



It was time for cake. Watch how Cups had matching facial expressions to the birthday boy until the candle was blown out.







Cake time!!



Duncan's up to bat. . .



Cups got three pieces of candy.





Ruby. . . Cups has been asking to go back to see Ruby. Ruby is a 13-year-old Westie.



We had a great time! Happy birthday, Duncan!!