Picture Post!

Maddox and Faye on Nov 7th. Maddox loves to hold his baby sister!


It snowed a little bit on the 7th and Maddox insisted on going out, pronto. He doesn't have snow boots yet.


The snowflakes on Faelyns lashes melted before I could take a pic.


Maddox playing a Monster Truck game on the Wii. His hair was getting so long. I wanted to cut just the back and sides of it.




They made me cut all of it though.


As you can see, Kaden is in town!


Other people made him get a hair cut...


Yesterday was Maddox's birthday. He got this AWESOME toy from Mommy and Daddy.


I didn't really get any pictures of him besides the one above. My camera died. It always does that at the most important times.

Tons O' Pictures and Hip Update

First, I'll start with Faye's hip. She had her appointment on the 17th (yeah, I'm a slacker) and it went great. She had an ultrasound and then we went to see her doctor. He said that if he didn't know she was a baby with DDH, he would never have suspected it by looking at her X-Ray. He said "If I didn't know she had DDH, I'd look at this X-Ray and say 'Wow, that kid has gas.'" Poor thing was full of gas, lol, but no more Hewson brace! He see's her next just 5 days after her first birthday for another X-Ray and after that, she should be done!

Now for the pictures! I made this pocket sling for her when I was still pregnant. When she was a newbie she was still too small for it. She fits in it good now!


Faye on the 10th. 5 Months Old!


Next to big brother Maddox






Faye loves her toes!


And her thumb. And to look at use funny...


Balancing on scrawny legs and a big round diaper...


Her eyes are the biggest thing on her body!




Her new smile. Maybe tring to prove that her mout is not tiny?!


She's also very serious...


But not for long.


Does this diaper make my butt look big?

Breaking News!

Faelyn took a nap by herself today! From around 12PM to 2PM. I'm not sure if it was really that long but it WAS a decent nap. I got her to sleep, laid her down and she stayed in bed all by herself for quite awhile! Awesome!

She was still a crab today... of course. But YAY for a nap all on her own!

Rocking Out!

At school on Thursday, we were talking to two of the teachers before we left to go home. Mrs. Gellner (the teacher) was saying that they sang the itsy bitsy spider and Maddox said "Yeah! It was a rocking out song!" and I asked him if he rocked out and he said yeah and was showing me some of his dance moves. His teacher thought it was great (especially since he was so excited about it and Maddox is pretty quiet at school) and said that they would need to rock out again some time. The other woman, don't know her name, she's a special ed teacher for one of the boys in Maddox's class said that it was pretty awesome! They both really enjoyed him and his little rock fest and Maddox was SO excited that day after class!

Yes We Can!

15 More Days

Faelyn has an orthopedic appointment on the 17th. She will have an X-Ray done and then an appointment. If her doctor likes what is on the X-Ray, Faelyn is a free lady! She will be so pleased. She is so sick of sleeping in the brace.

In other news, Faye can sit on her own for a short period of time.

Happy Halloween!

I guess we have alot to show you!

Saturday, October 18th, We went to the pumpkin patch. I, personally, was quite disappointed. It was SO packed. Jam packed. There was a line of 30ish people to get into the gift shop and little cafe that never got shorter. The weather was OK and I was OK with all the people (especially since I couldn't eat any Apple Pie or Ice Cream anyways), but when we got down to the pumpkin patch, I saw that there was only one small aisle plowed down for pumpkins. The corn maze took up a lot of space and the rest was just weeds. It was a real bummer. We had a hard time finding pumpkins too.

Maddox and Faye already had pumpkins that our wonderful neighbors brought over for them, but he wanted to pick out a big one anyways. Clayton found a pumpkin and Maddox claimed it, so we had to find Clayton another one. I found a cool green one and than I found Clayton a small warty looking pumpkin. After we picked out and paid for our pumpkins, we walked down by the front of the building. We got Maddox a bag of popcorn because we had promised getting him some food before we found out that it was horribly packed. The line to get into the main store was going very fast, so we decided to go in and get the Strawberry Rhubarb Pie that I wanted so bad. We got the pie and a half a peck of Haralson Seconds for homemade Apple Pies!
























I made three Apple Pies. One on October 22nd and Two more on October 25th. Two had a Streusel Topping and one was a regular double crust. Here's the one I made on the 22nd.



Pumpking Carving was done in three stages. Stage One: I cut open two pumpkins and cleaned out one. Clayton had to cut open and clean out the rest - Faye woke up and was being a turd! Stage Two: Carving of Designs. I carved Boba Fett into my pumpkin. Clayton carved Uniqua into one of Maddox's pumpkins and a kitty into his pumpkin... for Faye. Maddox carved a hole in his pumpkin, but he did it all by himself! Faye crabbed and my pumpkin carving experience a lengthy one.














Stage Three was Stuff Faelyn in a pumpkin! Our first try failed, our second try was successful!




















And here are our pumpkins!





Oct 30th, Maddox got to dress up to go to school! He was Anakin Skywalker for Halloween. They had a little Fall Party the last 30 minutes of class and I dressed Faye up for it as well. She was a Lady Bug for Halloween.



This year was the first year we celebrated Halloween with out my sister, Amy, and Maddox's cousins, Dante, Ariana, and Kaden. I was pretty bummed out, but Maddox was too excited about the prospect of getting candy to notice. I'm happy that he wasn't bummed and really, he probably didn't even remember. We got home a lot sooner and we went to a lot less house, but it was pretty good. We just went down our street. Just 2 Blocks down our street. Maddox got a small bucket of candy and decided that he had enough candy and it was time to go home. We did not argue one bit, but we did suggest that maybe we should go to our neighbor to the north of us because they were the only house on our street that we didn't go to.


















Waiting for Trick-Or-Treating





I only took one picture TOTing. Our neighbors to the south of us. The one that bought Maddox and Faye pumpkins.