A bug mommy's not scared of.....

OK, OK., it's been a while since the last update. Been pretty busy up here, getting ready for winter and all. A taste of winter actually came early. We had a record setting 6 inches of snow in October... of course since the ground wasn't frozen yet, it didn't last more than a day. It was however enough to go ahead and break out Carly's new winter coat.


About three weeks back was Andrew and Wendy's wedding in Rockford. It was nice weather and a lot of out of town family were able to attend. It was a great time. Carly does alright in hotels, and enjoys the extra towels.


The wedding itself was in a little town about a stone's throw into Wisconsin. Nice little church. Carly was very well behaved for the majority of the service. (Animal crackers help considerably.)






At the reception we took an opportunity to catch a quick family picture since we were all dressed up.




Then bring on the dancing. Carly had such a great time. She was so exhausted by the end of the night. Well... our night... the party went on a while after we left. Early in the dancing she was out there non-stop. Bouncing and running. After about an hour of dancing, she wanted to be out there for the beginning of every song, but soon she'd want to be picked up. But she'd hear a new song start and want down again. This went on for quite a while too.








At one point she only wanted to be held by Uncle Brian. Not sure what brought this on, but he didn't seem to mind and she really enjoyed it.


I thought we should start getting her trained to do these updates herself! She doesn't mind.


She wasn't sure what to do here after she got to this point.


And now for the title piece....

Many of you know Carly's favorite book is her 10 little ladybugs book. It's read every night, whether we're home or not. So.... for Halloween, we found her a ladybug costume. She really enjoyed it. Surprisingly she even left the bonnet alone when we put it on. These two pictures are from the party at daycare.




For Halloween, Carly was invited to go trick-r-treating with cousins Ellie and Isaac in Dixon. We were in Illinois for another event, so this worked out well. She had such a great time. She started out doing very well on her own, but by the end of the night she was content to be carried.




That's all we have for now. Hope you're all well. We'll be home again around Thanksgiving and then planning for right before Christmas. Take care!