A visit from the great uncles!

I have been slacking in my photo taking responsibilities. The pregnancy is starting to take over and I do feel like I am phoning it in more often these days. However, here are a few good pics from the first half of the month.

Kaylee & Rowan tackle Loofy on the chair. Its a good thing he's mostly good-natured.

Rowan really liked Halloween, she's more into dress-up now than ever before. Her new persona: a witch.

"I'll get you my pretty...ahahahahahahahaha"

The great uncles came for a visit this past weekend. The girls are still asking for them, they had so much fun. Chuck & Buddy are so tolerant of the whims of a 2 and 4 year old. Here Daddy, Uncle Chuck and Rowan catch some fish.

Kaylee teaches Buddy the ins and out of a computer.
Chuck and the girls hide from Buddy in a rather epic game of Hide and Seek.
Amazingly patient, Buddy plays catch with Rowan...for a WHILE.
So long, in fact, that even Chuck and Kaylee had to get in on the action.
Then it was time for a rousing round of "keep the balloon up in the air."
And of course, its always fun to play "Cave." Although Rowan was apparently suffering from some claustrophobia.
At last only Buddy remained in the Cave.
What a silly game.
We had a 'great' visit. Nyut nyut nyut. Yup, I'm lame, wanna fight about it?
And that, as they say, is that!

some Halloween events

Daddy and Mommy love Halloween, so we try to impart that love onto Kaylee & Rowan. Mommy also doesn't mind getting lots of bang for her costume buck...so we've had some Halloween events this past week...and that's not including another Halloween Party and Trick or Treating on Sunday!

On Thursday we had the MOMS Club Trunk or Treat party...the girls had fun snacking...

and playing with all of her costumed friends!
Trunk or Treat is when all the moms line their cars up along the street and put some non-candy treats in the trunks for the kids to gather. Rowan had to stand on her tippy toes.
Kaylee didn't want to wait so she went ahead with all of her pre-K buddies.
Also on Thursday, was Kaylee's pre-K's Halloween parade...Rowan waited patiently for her sister to march through.
A smile on our pirate princess' face? She liked her parade.
She even brought Rowan into her circle to parade for a little while.
Rowan had her gymnastics Halloween party this week...she showed her teacher she could do her somersaults "all by herself!"
Swinging like the monkey she is.
Trampoline / bounce time is her favorite time at gymnastics.
Climbing down from her obstacle course.
Rowan also is starting to walk the balance beam without assistance...not too shabby!
Time for some balloon fun!
And some parachute dancing as well.
Last week Kaylee's preschool had a Halloween dance...that we all got to go to.

And, perhaps not surprisingly, Rowan is the one who partied hard at Kaylee's shindig.
Rowan and her pal Princess Shelby.
These girls know how to 'get down'...yeah, that's right, I went there.
Hula Hoop Contest...Rowan didn't win, but she was sole Gifford participant.
Finally Rowan coaxed Kaylee out onto the dance floor, even if only for a minute.

Look, Minnie found Mickey!
And they had a little dance too.
Rowan dragged mommy out to dance.
And a daddy/daughters dance...how cute!
Phew, I am exhausted by Halloween, and its not even Halloween yet. I am sure there will be more pictures to come!

Some silly October pics

This was Rowan's latest, and by far her best, dress-up adventure!

After looking for quite a while on Craigslist I finally found that step 2 roller coaster for the girls...and for what it is am much happier paying $20 for an old one than $100 for a new one.

And was it worth $20?...check out the smiles, and you tell me.








And those pics were taken late yesterday afternoon so that is about as caught up as I can be for the moment! Sorry for the lack of stories to go along...but pictures are worth 1000 words right?

All Dolled Up

At the end of September the girls had a very "Fancy" party to go to, so they got all dolled up.

And posed/danced for the camera.
I wish Rowan were looking, cause I love this picture.
Same here, but now I wish it was Kaylee that was looking...oh well!
Yay for fancy birthdays.