Kayla's 1st Haircut

Kayla had her first haircut this week! Her cousin Kilee trimmed her hair for the first time. Kayla wasn't sure what to think at first but she kept cracking a smile. She was excited to show Daddy and it looks so much better! Thanks Ki!








All done...and so pretty!

The Elf on the Shelf

For those of you with little kids, I highly recommend getting "The Elf on the Shelf". Or at least looking into it. It comes with a book and a little elf that you can name. We named our elf Jasper. The idea is that Santa has sent an elf to live at your house to keep an eye on you. He is making sure you are being good and reports to Santa each night on your behavior. You can talk to the elf but he was told by Santa that he is not allowed to talk to us. You are not allowed to touch the Elf either. The parents hide him somewhere in the house (where the kids can still see him) and he sits there and watches the kids. After the kids have gone to bed you move him somewhere else in the house. And when the kids wake up they try to find where the elf moved to while they were asleep. He can be anywhere! The top of the fridge, in the Christmas tree, on a shelf...you never know but he is watching and you have to find him! It's just a fun way to remind the kids Santa really does know if you are naughty or nice. And they have fun trying to find him each morning. I think it will be a fun tradition to start with our family!

Click on The Tradition under the "ABOUT US" section here for more info.

(They have it at Target and Barnes and Noble if you are interested!)

Trick-or-Treat

We went to Norwalk Sunday night to Trick or Treat. Kayla had so much fun. She went with her friends Zach and Shae. She was so cute. She would creep up to the door and get her candy and them come running back to us saying, "Mommy Daddy Look!!" and then laugh. It was so cute to see her so happy. She kept up pretty good with the kids but started falling behind after about an hour. So I told her to skip a few houses to catch up to her friends. She said, "But I want candy" in her sweet little voice. She was not going to skip a house. What was I thinking?!?! For some reason she thought she got two pieces of candy from each house. They would give her one and she would just stand there and stare at them until they gave her another one. It was pretty funny, but after I realized what she was doing I told her she only got one piece from each house. About the last 20 mins of trick or treating she instead held Daddy's phone and walked around listening to and singing her favorite song, "Tonight Tonight". She acts different around her "older friends". It's funny....(at this age).






Pics from Grandpa & Grandma's house and Hannah & Marcus' bday party: