It's Candy TIME!!

Well we can definetely say that Mollie has trick-or-treating down this year! She had so much fun last night and got a ton of candy. We stayed in our neighborhood and were out for about 2 hours. My parents came over last night to hand out candy at our house so John and I both could go with Mollie. The first few houses she was a little shy but when she started realizing that she was getting candy at houses with their front porch lights on, she was one happy little girl. Since she was a "scaredy cat," John would have her tell the people what a scaredy cat says. (BTW: it says "meow" then "boo!") It's so stinkin cute!
Our weekend was nice and slow since John's game was on Thursday so Friday night we had family time, Saturday I worked in little man's room and John worked in Mollie's play room and Mollie did who knows what around the house. That evening we went to Victoria's school carnival and then to our friends Stephanie and Dale's house. Everything was going really well until John went running outside with Mollie because, poor thing, was throwing up. We ended up taking her home and she was up and down till about 2 the next morning sick. However, she must have known what yesterday was as she jumped outta bed like nothing was wrong. I felt sure that trick-or-treating would not be something we would be doing last night but she proved us wrong. Anyways, she had a wonderful time and it was so neat to see her start understanding what's going on. Who knows what next year is going to be like????

Checking out the treasure chest our neighbors had.
Mollie and Carol, her babysitter. Carol surprised Mollie and came over for a bit!

Mollie surprising Pappy at our house. We had to go back to our house to unload before we kept on.

Mollie taking the easy way and riding in her wagon. We've taken off the ears at this point.

Daddy and Mollie heading up for more candy.

Me and my girl going to our next destination

Getting ready to head out.

Daddy doing Mollie's make-up.

Zoo Time

Last weekend we made our annual trek up to Boo at the Zoo. This is a really fun event they host and it's usually not too hot. However, last weekend wasn't that cool. In fact, you will notice that we are all in shorts. Who would've thought that 2 weeks before Halloween we would still be wearing shorts on a regular basis? Even though, Mollie had fun and that's all that mattered. Mollie getting her "Tatzoo"
Chillin in her wagon ready to see the sights.

Waiting in line for the carousel with Mr Jason and Chloe and Christian. Jason is to John's right.

Trying to see how much she can spread her arms compared to an eagles wings.

Mollie and Daddy looking at the otters. She loves this ever year!

Me and my girl at the elephant exhibit.

New things happening around here

We have been so busy (plus a broke camera) that I don't even want to know how long it's been since I've updated the blog. However, things are going very well around here. Last Friday was a big day for Mollie as we decided to break her of the Binky (aka pacifier) and she is doing so well! She's asked for it a few times but we just tell her it went bye-bye and she's good. We have also started potty training. It really helps that they work on it at school so she's getting it around the clock. She's in pull-ups now and loves to go sit on the potty. Unfortunately, she goes right for the toilet paper and likes to throw it into the toilet before she's even tried but it's a start.
John's football team is doing really well. They have only lost 1 game in district and even that one was a close one. We have 4 games left and then play-offs start and his volleyball team is doing well also. He's pretty busy with Junior High football once, maybe twice, a week then JV/Freshman football on Thursdays and Varsity football on Friday nights. However, he's not nearly as busy as he was at his old school.

Go Gators!

Hanging with Pappy after kick-off. It was very hot so she had to wear her shades!

Chillin' out during Daddy's game.

Here HE is!

Today was a very big day for all 3 of us. We found out this morning that we are having a BOY! When the tech told us I think John and I teared up a little bit. We love Mollie so much and would not have minded at all a little girl but having a boy is going to be fun. Unfortunately all of my friends that have boys live far away (except for Gretchen and Joe) so I'll be making lots of phone calls looking for advice. We couldn't be happier and can't wait to meet him in January.Meet Baby "H" Sorry his name won't be revealed until January.

I'm already trying to figure out his shoe size.

Need I say more?
One more of his cutie face.

Pictures

After her nap.

Mollie at the tailgate before the game. During halftime, about 2 seconds later she was out until the end of the third quarter.

Must apologize

I must apologize. We have been so busy with school starting, football and just getting back into the groove of everything that the blog has been looked over. Well hopefully now that things are getting into a routine I can blog a little more.
Mollie:
She is doing SO good in her new class. We love her 2 teachers and has even learned to count to 10 in Spanish. Imagine the looks on mine and John's faces when she busted out with that one night at dinner. We are so proud of her. She's gone to two of John's games (including one scrimmage) and gratefully my mom has come so that helps since I'm almost to the point where bending over and picking stuff up will not be an option for me. Mollie doesn't understand quite yet why Daddy can't come and see us all the time during the game so we make sure we see him pre-game and post-game and maybe halftime. The stadium at his new school is so nice and I can take an elevator up and then walk down about 10 rows to my seats which is much nicer than walking up 35 stairs to get to our seats. As you probably know, Texas was playing Rice yesterday in Houston so we (or I) felt that since we were going we could take Mollie to her first college football game. She did so well! We tailgated with my parents and my good friend Nancy and her brother and she even snuck in a nap during the third quarter.

John:
SUPER BUSY! Granted he's not as busy as he was at Clear Brook with events but he really likes it. I haven't seen a fire like this in him for a very long time and it's nice to see him enjoying himself and with what he's doing. It's been a long time since I've seen this and I'm so happy for him. He usually has late days where he doesn't have to go in till 9 or 10 because Jenna (his work wife) comes in and does the morning treatments so on these days he takes Mollie to school. This really helps me out but I find myself running late on these days! :) Besides that, Dickinson is 0-2 for the beginning of the football season but we're not in district play yet so no worries and his volleyball team is doing very well.

Me:
Getting bigger is all I can say. I've really been able to feel the baby move the past week and hopefully in the next few days John will be able to feel "Baby H" also. My school year started off great which is a nice change from last year and I'm really enjoying my classes. I have 4 GT classes and 2 Regular Ed classes and one advisory. I have a lot of siblings this year so at open house it felt more like a reunion than anything for me. We have set the baby's due date to January 18th and will do a c-section again. I'm still on month-to-month appointments and won't start every 2 weeks till November and then every week in December. So I'll come back to school for 2 weeks after Christmas then will take off until the end of March/beginning of April. The baby will go to the same day care as Mollie and I'm so excited about the ladies that work in the nursery there. They were so good with Mollie so I know they'll be awesome with our new addition.