We went up to the church fall festival, just like we do every year. It was so much fun and I just love that our church puts on this event for the community. It is a huge outreach and so many people that do not come to our church (possibly any church for that matter) come out, enjoy the fellowship, food and games, and get handed the good news. Thank you, Jesus, for a church that loves others and gives them what they need.
For the last 2 months Kirby has been ecstatic about "going to Halloween". We have been talking all about the holiday and preparing for her to dress up as Mrs. Kay and for Patton to be Jep. On Tuesday she announces she is going to be a princess … Sofia the First to be exact. What? Go to her closet and see what we can transform. She has plenty of dresses that could be "princess" dresses, but "Sofia's is purple, mommy, so I need a purple dress." Amazon it is. Prime membership proves good again. If ordered in the next 5 hours would get here by Thursday afternoon. Order and pray it gets here before we have to leave. Fast forward to yesterday … UPS man pulls in at 3!! We were heading out at 4:30 so we opened the box and went to town very quickly. Everyone was happy, happy, happy.
Anna Kate went as a princess too … anyone want to place bets that is why Kirby had a sudden revelation to be a princess?
So about leaving and getting everything on in a hurry. It is hard to tell, but crazy mommy didn't put her dress together properly. Poor Kirby. Ha. It was a 2-in-1 dress, so the 2nd part is attached to the front of the other dress, but not the back. If you look closely in the picture above you can see it. That dark purple part was supposed to detach, then Kirby was to slip into it so it would go all the way around her waist. I thought it looked odd and was fitting her funny, but I did it so fast. Didn't realize it until today when she wanted to put it back on to play. I told her, "Ohhhh goodness …. your silly mommy. I'm a nut, Kirby." Kirby's response, "You're not a nut mommy. You're funny mommy." And she squeezed my neck, put her dress on and said "whoo hooo" then curtsied across the living room floor. Thank you, Lord, for the hug on the neck, I sure needed it today!
So you see the girl to the left of Kirby? Same dress as Kirby's but worn correctly … still didn't hit me.
They had a cake walk, which is CR's favorite part, so he took her to do that. Can you tell he was in charge of this activity? He was all into the cake walk and Kirby just walked up, got a purple cup cake off the table, and stuck her face into it.
For Halloween breakfast we made a pumpkin pancake, with raisins for the eyes and nose, and marshmallows for teeth. She only ended up eating the teeth. So she ONLY had sugar for breakfast…which ended up being quite a problem about 2 hours later. Let's just say she had to make about 4 trips to her room to think about things and have her melt downs. I am a strong believer in the foods people eat playing a role on their moods, and yesterday morning was my perfect case in point.
On Tuesday we spent most of the day outside, and one of our activities was painting a little pumpkin. She took this job very seriously ...
I love how she likes to find ways to do things her own way. When we first started painting, I squirted the paint on a plate for her to dip her brush into before painting it on the pumpkin. She decided it was much more efficient if she were to squirt the paint directly on her brush.
Patton soon joined us and loved watching and swinging as sister painted the day away.
I can't believe October is over … it literally seems like yesterday we had CR's surprise party and that was 2 months ago! Slow down time.
One more thing, Kirby did not sleep all night in her bed Tuesday and Wednesday night, but she did last night. Twice in one week!! Prayers this gets more of the norm :)
"You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth." Ecclesiastes 11:9a
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