Great Day...Cute Stories!

I was off work today and decided to catch up on some much needed chores around the house so Elly and I hung out at home all day and had a fabulous time! First of all, she let me sleep in until 8:30 and woke up in such a sweet mood. She's been sick so when she woke up in the middle of the night last night, I let her come into our bed. Her favorite word at the moment is, "boo" so this morning she woke up saying "boo" over and over! Guess you have to see her do it, but it really is cute...she really thinks she's scaring you. She'll hide behind things and then pop her head out and yell "boo" and just laugh and laugh! Anyway, we had breakfast and started cleaning away! I got the whole house clean and laundry done before noon! All of a sudden, Elly has become scared of the vaccuum cleaner. I left her in the living room with Sesame Street on (her favorite show) while I went and vaccuumed her bedroom and when I came out, she was sobbing, real tears and all! Now the cutest thing was that Lacey (our lab) was standing right beside her and kept licking her face like she was telling her, "it's ok, calm down"...again, super cute! I had to be a little extra creative to finish vaccuuming the rest of the house but we got it done! After that, we went outside to put some mums in pots that I bought last weekend from a nice little Amish lady and decorate the porch with the corn stalks, straw, and pumpkins I bought last weekend too on our great adventure we had with Lindsay and her family (& Amanda too). Elly was playing so good when I looked over at her to discover the almost empty bag of potting soil on her head! She thought it was hilarious...me not so much at first! She was covered in potting soil...all in her hair and down her shirt, in her eyes and ears. Needless to say, she got an early bath today! I had to shampoo her hair 3 times! She took a nap after that while I made a 3 layer pumpkin spice cake with cream cheese frosting! Yummy! I made a casserole from a new recipe and we finished our day with a long walk after dinner...the weather was just perfect today!

I am so looking forward to this weekend! I am off Friday and Monday for Columbus Day and then Tuesday is my normal day off so I get a super extra long weekend! It's SIU's homecoming so Saturday we're planning on going to the parade, maybe a little tailgating, and then the big game! After that, my mom is having a little get together for her birthday which is 10-10-10 this year...how cool is that! She made the cutest invitations with the Dancing With The Stars judges holding up 3 10's! By the way, that show is totally not keeping my interest this year...at least not yet. Sunday, may hold the pumpkin patch after church and hopefully lots of relaxing with the hubby! Him being gone all the time is already getting old and it's only the first of October! Oh well, it's just part of it I guess. I have lots of little projects planned for my days off including getting pictures organized and finally up on the walls. We just got our beach pictures in the mail that we had done in Daytona this summer and they are so good! I can't wait to show them off! Also, I'm going to attempt to make apple butter in the crockpot for the first time....sounds easy, so we'll see how it turns out. I am really hoping I get around to working on Elly's baby book too...I feel so bad, but I am yet to write anything in it...yes that's right, I said anything! I have kept good notes in my calendar and a few other places of when she hit all her milestones and stuff, but haven't recorded any of it in the baby book. That was part of my motivation for starting this blog...to serve as a sort of baby book for her since I'm obviously not very good at doing it the way most people do! Oh and one last project...I've decided to make Elly's halloween costume...well just part of it. She's going to be Abby Cadabby (from Sesame Street...I'm suprised at how many people have no clue who she is). She already has a headband that looks like Abby's pigtails and a wand. I'm going to make a tutu for her! Never done it before, but I've heard how easy it is and I just want to try it. I have no idea how to sew so making her a no sew tutu might be the only way I may ever make a Halloween costume for her so I figured I better take advantage of it! Then I'll get her some wings and some sort of shirt and we will have an Abby costume! We'll see how this turns out!

Hope everybody has a great weekend and enjoys this awesome weather we are going to have!