It's almost Spooky time!

I tell Cady almost every day that "It's almost Spooky time!" As most of you all know, we are big, correction, huge fans of Halloween! Just come look in my basement...10+ boxes for Halloween and 2 for Christmas. Sick I tell you :)

As you can see in the picture, Cady is going to be a dragon for her first Halloween! She actually seems to like the costume...for now. We are going to take her to a few places so she can see everyone and hopefully be able to give some candy out at our house too. We weren't able to last year, so we're hoping this year we can.

As of today, Cady is 11 weeks old! I tell you she is growing way to fast! I am trying to take a picture (or 50) of her every day. I have some really cute ones with her sporting her really cool shades :) She can't wear the hats because they are too big on her but she'll wear her sunglasses all day!

Finally getting back into the groove of things at work again. I am really surprised that I remembered how to do everything! I have such a bad memory, even before getting pregnant, that I just knew I'd forget everything!

On a sad note, my stepmom, Donna, who passed away last year after a 4 year battle with cancer, her mom passed away on Monday. Helen Long, age 66, is now with her daughter. We are going to the funeral tonight and unfortuneately have to take Cady to it. My little sister, Ashleigh, is coming in for the service and hasn't met Cady yet that's the only reason she is going, but sadly this will be Cady's second time going to a funeral. Seems like that is all we ever do anymore.

Bundle up, stay warm and get out of the Halloween candy!

Such a good girl!!

So yesterday was Cady's 2 month checkup and for you mom's out there you know what that means...yep, it's time for shots!

The check up started out nice enough...she was weighed (a whopping 12 lbs 10 oz!!), and measured (24 inches long). Then the doctor came in (the best doctor we could've ever gotten for her) and checked her out. Said every thing looks great.

Then the nurse came in (enter dramatic music here). Larry made me be the bad guy and hold Cady while she got her shots. So the big bad nurse (who was really quite nice) gave her the Rotavirus vaccine first, a sweet liquid, so Cady liked that. Then she brought out these needles. I was holding her hands down and the nurse had her legs. The first shot went in and Cady's eyes got as big as saucers! Then the next two were over before you know it. Cady let out one big scream and one giant alligator tear and that was it. Larry took her (again, making me the bad guy) and just loved on her. She fussed for a second before we realized it was feeding time and that was it. She did wonderful and we couldn't've been prouder of our sweet little Cady.

I called the sitter a bit ago and checked on her and of course she was a little more sleepy then normal, but Tammy said that every time she's woke up, she's been very pleasant and her normal happy baby self.

On a happier note, we have bought her first Halloween outfit! She's going to be a dragon! Larry's idea, not mine. I wanted her to be a spooky spider, but noooo, Daddy wanted a dragon. Either way she will be just precious. I'll take a million pictures and post them.

Besides for that, all is normal in the Hall house. Getting ready for Cady's Dedication at church. We're really looking forward to that. She'll have lots of family and friends there to support her and her Godparents will be standing up with us.

Until then, Happy Haunting!

Back to work...

Today was my 3rd day back to work after 10 weeks of being home. It hasn't been as big of an adjustment that I thought it would be. Of course, I'm not really a stay at home type of person anyway so it's good for me to have somewhere to go every day. However, that does mean that I have to leave my sweet little Cady behind at the sitters, but she loves Tammy! This morning I left her giggling and smiling...which makes my day much easier knowing that my baby girl is happy.

Speaking of baby girls...Cady turned 8 wks yesterday!! Can you believe it?! On Tuesday October 7th she will turn 2 mths old. But that is a good day to turn 2 mths because it will be Larry and my 8 year wedding anniversary :) 8 years, unreal. It has been such a wonderful 8 years (with the exception of the inlaws drama, of course). We aren't able to go on our annual trip this year but are planning something fun for next year. Maybe we'll just wait again and do something really big at our 10 yr. OMG, 10 yrs!

Tonight we are heading to our first Amherst game of the season...we are about 5 or so behind, but not without trying. For various reasons we haven't been to any games this year except for one and that was a Rustburg home game (they lost). Cady even went with us! She seemed to like the noise, however, Rustburg fans can't compare to us Amherst fans when it comes to noise. Tonights game is actually Amherst vs. Rustburg, in Rustburg, so we'll see who's loudest :)

Cady has a check up on Wednesday of next week...she starts her vaccines :( Not really looking forward to that. But she's such a good baby so we are hoping she'll be fine.

Until next time :)