Happy Halloween!

We had the Trunk or Treat at church last night. Our Apopka ward sure can throw a party, I can't believe how many people showed up for that! So here is a picture of our entire family. It's not the greatest. Poor little Ian was blinded by his costume, but it's the only one we got. Clara is a pink princess butterfly, Ian is a caterpillar, and Adam and I are butterfly catchers. However, everyone thought Adam was Indiana Jones!

Adam handed out candy AND since he's a dentist-travel size toothpaste. Believe it or not, the toothpaste was a hit!

Backlighting

We took the pumpkin in during the day to try and prolong its life. One day we found this.This picture is a little blurry, but I thought that you could see the haunted house better! So what we found was this flashlight sitting in the top of the pumpkin. Apparently Clara decided she wanted the pumpkin to glow and figured out a way to do it!

Pumpkin Carving

So my brother Paul and his girlfriend Niky decided to babysit our kids so Adam and I could go out for an evening. And they figured since they were going to be here already they might as well make it a fun event. So a pumpkin carving activity was planned. My sister Carol and her husband and well as my mom and dad came. It's kind of funny that two kids had six babysitters! Now, if it were me I would have said two triangles for eyes and a half moon for a mouth would make a great pumpkin but they decided to let Clara pick the design and she apparently picked the hardest one, a haunted house! It turned out nicely. Unfortunately, because we live in Florida, the pumpkin only lasted about four days. But it looked really good while we had it!

Cute Moment

We have Barbie in the Nutcracker from Netflix this week. So we have seen a lot of it. It's not so bad by the way. So yesterday, she was watching it and didn't know that I was in the room behind her. It was at the part where the prince is dancing with Clara (Barbie) at the end after everything is resolved. And Barbie does this move, like a split. (There is a picture below). My Clara says, "Woooo, that's a big kick!!" And I could see her little brain thinking about her dance class and having to do something like that. I thought it was so cute and funny.

Sick, sick, sick . . .

You haven't heard from me because the Barr family has all been battling a bug. Yup, all four of us are sick. I think it is the worst when the mommy AND the daddy are both sick because guess who gets to take care of everyone? You guessed it, the mommy. (Although Adam really has been a trooper). Since it isn't really encouraged to give little children any kind of over the counter medicine anymore, and I am nursing, I have been trying all kinds of natural things to help. Vapor rubs, a neti pot, humidifier, lots of Vit C. But mostly, my main tactic is to wait out this bug. . . I hope that I am more stubborn, because I need some sleep. My kids aren't sleeping as well as usual.

Ian and Papa

Some of you may have already seen this picture in an earlier blog. But I had some technical difficulties with it and had to remove it from the post. As I said before, my grandparents were visiting today and Ian was holding Papa's hand. It was really cute, so I took a picture . . . and then played with it a little.

Happy Birthday Baby.

My Clara turned 4 today! I can't believe it, our baby is not a baby anymore. We didn't have huge plans for the day. We had general conference for our church and didn't want a party to conflict with anyone's plans. But we did our best to make the day special for Clara. We had a special breakfast of rainbow pancakes and then we picked Clara's best friend Ava up for a little park time.

I even got a picture of Adam playing (he thought it would be a cool picture if he and Clara were both hanging in this net structure, but she wasn't into it).

We had a few visitors throughout the day (who brought presents). And although it was a simple birthday, I think Clara felt that it was her special day. Tomorrow we are getting together to do a little more birthday stuff.

My Little Ian

Ian is growing so fast and getting so strong! I have been trying to really focus on tummy time lately and his development seems to be taking off. He can push himself up on his little arms to look around and then roll over onto his back. He almost has the from back to tummy roll down. He is such a sweet little guy. He coos and looks around, he is so interested in everything! I just love this little guy.