Owen Four Month Stats

We had our 4 month well check yesterday!  Owen is perfectly healthy and growing very well.  He was 16lbs and 27 inches.  The doctor we saw was a new resident again, but this time around when I said Owen was my 4th baby he didn't bother going through the whole "you can tell I have never done this before" thing.  Instead he just asked me if I had any concerns and then let us go.  It was GREAT!

So happy for a healthy boy!

Cady loves him...

And he really loves her.

Rory said it best.  After dropping Cadence off at school in the morning, Rory looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "Mom, Cadence is an AWESOME big sister."  It's true.

Cadence is so grown up.  She often picks Owen up for me and will rock him, cuddle him, and talk to him for me.  He laughs and grins and giggles for her (and all the girls really).  It's so sweet to watch them together.

And here is a rare smile.  He smiles and laughs a lot actually, but the second I get the camera out he gets his serious face on and stares that big black thing down!  :o)

Halloween 2012

Halloween was super fun this year!  We had a Minion (from Despicable Me), Merida (from Brave), and She-Ra Princess of Power (from the TV show She-Ra)

Cadence made my life easy and bought her costume this year.  I'm glad she choose this route because I barely finished the other girls costumes on time!  

 

She didn't want to wear the red wig that they had available to purchase (it was itchy so I don't blame her) so we bought a can of red hair spray and curled her super short hair.  I think it turned out great though it did take three rounds of shampoo to get that stuff out of her hair.

Rory has been begging to be She-Ra for Halloween for most of the year.  She watches the show on Netflix any chance she gets and we have several foam swords that make acting like She-ra very fun for our girls here at the house. I knew that I was going to have to make this costume and it wasn't super easy. 

This is the first time I have used the applique stitch on my sewing machine.  I bought the leotard, appliqued the star/flower thing on and added a blue stone we found in the jewelry making aisle at Michaels.  The skirt and belt weren't too hard (I attached them to each other).  Heck even the cape was pretty easy (it attaches with velcro on the shoulders).  The wrist cuffs were the second hardest part to sew.

The headdress/crown thing was a bit harder.  I lucked out and found a foam crown at Michaels in the glittery gold and found some 8x10 sheets of the same gold foam on the next aisle!  I cut the pointy parts of the crown off and made the wing shapes and then hot glued them to the crown.  Add the red stone (also found at Michaels) and we were golden!  ;o)  

I was pretty surprised by how many people knew who Rory was.  Most of them were of my generation or older and it was cute to see faces light up and say, "Hey! It's She-Ra!!"  

Beckah was easier in the sewing department.  Couldn't find a yellow hoodie for her in her size anywhere so I made one out of some fleece.  The goggles were a whole 'nother story.   Lets just say that I got lucky with these steam-punk googles we found at Nobbies.  They had black lenses in them that I popped out.  I was just happy that she kept them on.  

Pretty much everyone knew who Beckah was the moment they saw her.  Everyone LOVED her costume and I think she is the darn cutest Minion I have ever seen. Despicable Me is her favorite movie right now.  She will sit and watch the whole thing over and over again if we let her.  It's handy for when I need to get things done...like sew a minion costume.  

My girls.  They brought home more candy than we bought to give out.  It was insane. 

Owen stayed in this halloween and didn't have a costume.  Next year he might be a Minion...