White Onesies

Last night Ally had 2 pigtails under her cat hat. When we got home she wanted a tootsie roll. Normally she eats them right up. Not last night. Matt all of a sudden asked what was in her hair, I looked closely, nope not a turd, but a tootsie roll. So that is why her hair is so crazy in the pictures. The back of her hair is all stuck together from where the tootsie roll was.

Blessing dress

This Sunday we are blessing Cosette. I had to make sure the dress wasn't too small.
Ahhh
I'm smiling
If you look closely you can see that we have Ally's name on the bottom of the dress. We will add Cosette's name next to it and the next girl or my future grandchild. This way we've started an heirloom.

Halloween

I forgot to take pictures until we got home. Ally was SUPER tired when we got home. We stayed out the full 3 hours trick or treating. Unfortunately we went down 3 bad trick or treating streets. Our street had 3 lights on, my mom's street didn't have any lights on, and another street had 1 light on. So after going to one good street and the library, we jumped in the car and went to mom and dad Berlins. Then we went to another neighborhood. This neighborhood use to have one house that had hot dogs, popcorn, and cider every year. This year, it was not meant to be. I think they either moved or didn't have the money to do it.

At our library they had stations set up to trick or treat at. It was really cool. They gave you a bag when you walked in the door and you went to the check out desk and got candy, then to the childrens room and got to pick out 1 thing from each of the 3 boxes, then to the history center, and to the circulation desk. It was nice to warm up a bit.

I decided to put a headband on Cosette instead of the pumpkin hat that goes with her costume. That way we didn't have any confusions with whether she was a girl or boy.
So Cute!
Cosette, do you want a sucker?
The loot, we didn't get much compared to what I'd get when I was a kid.
Ally got a bouncy ball and a stress ball at the library. Daddy got to sit in class while we were trick or treating. My sister Tiffney came with us and that helped me out so much. Cosette needed to be fed, so Tiff took Ally to some houses while Cosette ate.

"Luvs"

Ally was so excited the other day when she noticed that Cosette had the same diaper as she did.
Ya, I'm cool!
We were at my mom's house the other night carving our pumpkin and my mom asked Ally to help her do the dishes. My mom put a stool up to the sink for Ally to stand on and Ally climbed right into the sink and started messing with the dirty dishes.
Then Ally found some friends. She had fun carrying them around my mom's house.

Okay, so I don't know if you can tell by the pictures, but Cosette is a pretty big girl. On Friday she had her 2 month well baby check up and she is weighing in at 13.13 lbs and she is 23 3/4 in long. When Ally was 2 months she weighed 11.10 and was 23 3/4 in long. So she was 2 lbs lighter than Cosette is now. Ally weighed 13 lbs at 4 months. Cosette is a very happy baby and adores Ally. She loves to eat and sleep. She has gotten a lot better about laying down and playing. Ally has been trying to share things with Cosette like- pretzels, sippy cup of milk, sippy cup of water, her babies bottle of fake milk, her pacifiers, blankets, books, dolls, and her cell phones. It's so nice that Ally is sharing, but when she shares with her sister, she does it by smashing the item in her face or shoving it in her mouth. She's getting better though.
As far as sleeping in her big girl bed...it's still a work in progress and probably will be for quite some time. Some nights are better than others for her. She seems to wake up 3-4 times a night when she's in her big girl bed (which means she gets out of bed and comes into our room to wake us up). Thanks for all of the good ideas with keeping her in bed and making bedtime smooth.

Having fun at Grandpa and Grandma Horns

Ally had fun riding (trying) this bike.
Then she had even more fun trying to walk on the treadmill.
Cosette layed on the floor and played while Ally was attempting the bike and treadmill.

Next Sunday Cosette is going to be blessed at church. We are excited and looking forward to next weekend.

Anderson Orchard

Ally is playing with her life-sized REAL doll.

Don't worry, I was watching them VERY closely.

So what does everyone think about the changes with stakes? It's exciting that we'll get to be in a brand new stake and have that chance to meet new people. We are excited about the new change, but at the same time, sad because we will be leaving friends in the Indianapolis Stake (Nehring Family). So does anyone have any idea where our stake center will be located?

Our Girls

Ally really likes to be next to Cosette.
This is how Cosette looks at Ally. You can tell she already looks up to her.

So big!
Smiley

Sleeping..

Ally getting ready for bed. If anyone has a great way to keep a kid in their bed, I'd be happy for the advice. We are in the middle of transitioning Ally into the twin bed from her crib. She thinks it's a game to get out of her bed once we leave the room. She will come running into the living room laughing. It starts to get really frustrating after about the 5th time of returning her to the bed.

On Sunday after church we went over to my mom's house, like we always do. This Sunday though we took a family picture with everyone. On the way back inside Matt was showing Ally how to play in the leaves. When we went back inside we decorated sugar cookies that were shaped as pumpkins. For as long as I can remember we've been decorating cookies every year before halloween. This is probably one of my most favorite traditions. When I was younger I really enjoyed it because my mom let us eat as many cookies as we wanted. The batteries in the camera died right after I took this picture, so I didn't get any pictures of decorating cookies.

With the rain we've had the last 2 days, we've been having lots of fun inside.

Today we went over to my friend/high school swim coach/I babysat for her, house. We had a good visit and Ally kept 2 of her kids quite busy. Ally kept taking their hands and leading them around their house. Then she started rearranging the pictures and knick knacks for them. Her kids are in 8th grade and high school and the other one is at Ball State.

Ally really likes suckers (tootsie pops are a favorite because I won't let her eat the gum from blow pops) and since she makes such a mess I only let her eat them in the tub. When she has a sucker in the tub, I only let her take showers, otherwise she'd be swirling her sucker in the water (that I KNOW she had peed in). YUCK.
We pulled the way fun fort out. I thought it'd be fun on a rainy day. Ally had lots of fun today.
She had her blanket, dinosaur, and two dolls in there with her. She would have had Cosette in there had I let her.

Cosette, boy are you growing to be quite the big girl.
Cosette has her 2 month well baby check up on Friday and I am SO curious to find out how much she weighs now. She is getting incredibly big. She is such a great baby. She is patient, sweet, alert, healthy, happy, snuggly, and oh so loveable.

So this is Cosette on the left at 8 weeks old and the picture on the right is Ally at 19 weeks. Is it me or is she a lot bigger than Ally was?

I have few pictures from yesterday and today.

We haven't done anything out of the normal, we've just been playing around the house.

Cosette is 8 weeks old today.

Cosette smiling at daddy.

Cosette was trying to take a nap on the ottoman yesterday and she kept getting hugs from Ally. You could tell she was getting annoyed. Ally wanted to sit almost on top of her to give her a hug, so I had to make sure Ally wasn't hurting her.

For the last few days, Ally has carried around her cat and pink fleece blanket everywhere around the house. Whatever she was playing with the cat and blanket went with her.
She has lots of fun wrestling with the cat. It's the perfect size to wrestle with.