I will call her, Princess Tiger Lilly

 

Each  year our church has a congregation Halloween party. All the kids dress up and we "ooooh and aaaaah" over the cute babies, laugh at the funny costumes, congratulate the inventive ones and silently mock the "what were you thinking" ones. Naturally, Norah was honestly the cutest one there. Everyone loved our little Indian.

 

However, the night did not go how I had in mind.

Our little Indian was pulling on her necklace, tutu, feathers...really anything touching her. Daniel captured the perfect photo to sum up our (my) evening.

Me: I made this damn costume and you're gonna wear it whether you like it or not

Norah: Nooo, No, No, No, NOOOOOO

 

Luckily as time went on, we let the little Indian run wild and that seemed to please her. Sometimes we just need to learn to let it go. I'm still learning...

 

By the way, I miss homemade costumes. I don't think I ever had a store bought costume growing up and hopefully, I can help my kids be imaginative with their costumes through the years. Because really, look how cute this is (and simple).

 

There you have it folks.

End of the night, all smiles. Well... one smile and a cookie. Good enough :)

 

 

Fall has arrived

 

Are those leaves changing colors???

I THINK SO!

 

I must say Fall is a beautiful time in West Michigan!

I love the changing of the leaves, pumpkins, apple cider, light sweatshirts, boots, layers, return of my TV shows...it's a glorious time!

 

And Norah thinks so too.

Here we are on a gorgeous Autumn afternoon, setting out our pumpkins we just bought out of a wagon off the side of the rode, $2/pumpkin. That's the way to go folks! 

 

I do, however, fear what comes after Fall.

The darkest, deepest, saddest despair you will ever know...

 

Chi Town 2013

Usually when Dan travels it's to far away lands where wives and babies are not aloud. But last week he had a mini conference Thursday and Friday and you bet your blue bottom dollar Norah and I crashed the party, Chicago style!

Norah and I got downtown Thursday night just in time for dinner with Dan and his co-workers. Of course the 5 star, fancy-smancy italian restaurant they chose wasn't best suited for a cranky, hungry baby so after waiting an hour (just to get our food) we kindly took ours to go and scarfed it down in the hotel room:)

Friday morning Dan headed off to the rest of his conference, while Norah and I cruised Michigan Ave! The weather resembled a delightful crisp fall air! After window shopping all our favorite stores (Norah was particularly fond of an american girl biddy baby doll), it was back to the hotel for naps! 

Dan was finished with meetings mid-day Friday so we continued shopping and decided to take in the view from the Hancock Building. My ears were popping the entire 42 second elevator ride to the 96th floor(I think that's right).

WHAT A VIEW!!!

 A lot of our time was spent deciding on what food we were going to eat! Friday night it was Chicago deep dish pizza. Fabulous! Saturday morning was chocolate croissants and salted caramel hot chocolate. Is your mouth watering yet? It should be.

It was a fun weekend getaway and we wished Daddy Dan traveled domestically more often so we could tag along and take advantage of the free room service :)

We got home Saturday night, just in time for bed. Look who got brand new Snow White jammies from the Disney Store?!?!

We are already  planning another weekend in Chi Town! We would love to go to Shedd Aquarium, the Zoo, Navy Pier, all the other fun stuff we passed on this trip! Until next time...:)