A Quick Recap

Lots and lots of things have been happening.  I have a ton of pictures to share and stories to tell.  The kids are both changing and learning new things every day.  Ryder is talking so much now... he is finally communicating in a way we can understand (most of the time, anyhow).  Oh and Savannah, she is excelling in school.  Her enthusiasm for school makes me so happy and pushes me to work even harder with her and her studies.  These last few months have been some of the craziest of my life, and some of the best.  

Savannah brought home this masterpiece from her art class at school.  I am in love with it.  It is a self portrait and I think she nailed it.  Beautiful Savannah.

We also had our first major homework assignment of the year... a community diorama.  Each kid had to choose an establishment in their community that they wanted to build a diorama of.  Little miss chose the library... and not just any library, a rainbow library where princess go to read.  Perfection.

We somehow managed to squeeze a trip to the State Fair in.  Same ol', same ol'... rides, fried food, animals, and lots of tractors.  Ryder loved all the tractors, especially the little ones that he got to ride on. Happy happy boy.

There hasn't been a whole lot of time for new house stuff.  The only two rooms I managed to get done are the kids' rooms.  Ryder's was easy... we just did a light grey, nothing fancy.  Savannah's was not so easy.  She wanted a whole new color scheme than her old room and I wanted something that was bright and bold.  This is what we ended up with.  It turned out fantastic!

Savannah before school one morning.  Every day I swear she looks older and older.  She is also getting better with the whole dressing yourself thing.

Post family pictures... a quick snapshot of the kids.  We haven't done pictures as a family since Ryder was born, so I was very excited about this session.  I can't wait to see the proofs.  

He is still doing well in his big boy bed.  As you can see he brings everything he possibly can to bed with him.  Boy loves his stuffed friends.

One of my favorite parts of Halloween... the carving of the pumpkins.  Savannah was a huge help cleaning out the pumpkins and choosing what we should carve.  Ryder had no interest at all.

State Fair of Texas 2012

As always, we had a fantastic time at the fair this year.  Savannah rode all the rides she wanted to, Ryder love seeing all the animals and the ride on tractors, and Eric and I ate more than enough fried food than we probably needed to.  I seriously look forward to the fair all year long.  One of my most favorite Texas traditions.  

Ryder loved these face hole cut out things.  He knew just what to do when he walked up to them.  Eric had to pick him up and take him away so other people could have a turn.  Pretty sure he would have stayed there all day sticking his head in each and every hole.

Lucky lucky girl... the giraffe in the petting zoo came and ate from her cup.  She was so so so excited.  Side note, giraffes are not as soft as you might think... kind of rough.

Ryder and his GF Bella inside the kissing booth.  Pretty much the cutest pictures ever.  He loved on her nonstop.  She was clearly not as interested as he was.

Obstacle course that Southwest Airlines had set up.  Savannah begged us to let her do it.  I thought that she would be too little, but she was just tall enough.  I'm not going to lie, I'm that mom that was secretly hoping that my kid would get knocked down...  a good laugh would have made up for the long line and ridiculous waiver we had to sign just so she could do this obstacle course.  No fall though, she made it through without and slip up.

Not sure if she will be doing this ride by herself again.  She had to lug that heavy sack thing all the way up to the top and then she flew down that thing so fast.  The video cracks me up, serious face all the way down.