I let her decorate her own cupcake

There's a good half inch of sprinkles on the top there.  She thought it was great. 

The cupcake was one of several dozen that I made for the primary kids.  Mim helped decorate the cupcakes that the kids got, too, although she was much more closely supervised.  We had the program on Sunday and it was wonderful.  They sang so loud and did so well, I had a big permagrin after the first few songs because it was so great.  I love being in primary.  I hope music leader is my calling forever. 

Go to the hospital, get a baby!

Here's a little interview I tried to do with Mim.  She loves telling me the story of Eleanor's birth from her perspective.  She talks about how Grammy and Grandpa came over and she went in Grammy's car (which is red) to Grammy and Grandpa's house and Lexi was there and then they went to the hospital to get the baby.  She threw in some new details the last time she told me and I thought I better try to get it recorded, here's the attempt(s):

 As you can see, she wasn't too interested in telling me all about it.  I need to keep the camera handier so the next time she starts to tell me about it I can whip it out.  I need to keep it handy so I can get some more of her dance moves, too.  What you see in the second video is only a tiny sample.  We usually have several dance sessions a day, and she goes for it whenever she hears music.  I love it.

Tummy time champion

She rolled!  The first time was Thursday, I believe.  She did it once and I rolled her back, then she did it again almost immediately and it surprised her and she got her big sad face.  So funny.

I took this video Friday, she had already rolled once.  Oh, and that's me telling Mim to go put a shirt on midway through the video. 

Don't mind the Super Why.

Laughing?

Yep.  On Saturday, during bath time, our little Ellen-door had her first laugh.  She's been so close for a few weeks and she finally let loose.  We didn't get the best ones on camera, but on this clip you can hear her get really close.  Sooooo cute.

She loves baths.  Mike got a few stills of some of her biggest smiles on Saturday, too. 

{This one's my favorite.}

{Not really smile, but still a cute face.}

Happy Happy Halloween!

Most of you have probably already seen this via facebook, but here we are at Mike's work party for Halloween:

I know, I know.  It's pretty much the same as 2 years ago, all I did was make a turtle (technically a koopa) costume for the baby.  I just knew there was no way I would get 4 new costumes finished, what with still figuring out how to mom 2 kids.  I did make Mim's hat a little easier for her to wear (she still was sick of it by the time we were making our last visits). 

I have to say, Mike's work party was pretty much the ideal audience for these costumes.  A bunch of computer guys and their kids- we didn't have to explain to anybody who we were.  Mike even won an honorable mention in the costume contest.  I'm pretty sure that if they had done it after me and the girls got there he would have won.  I'm just sayin'.

Anyway, for next year we're planning on an all new theme, so just you wait.