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Christopher had his first taste of  "sort-of-real" food!  First on the baby menu....PEAS! 

This is how it went...

That was our first and last successful taste of peas pretty much.  After that it involved gagging and refusing to open up period. 

We are moving on to the next menu item...

From one holiday to the next!

Halloween weekend was good!  Busy but good!  Mickey and Minnie went on several candied adventures with many costumed friends!

Starting with Vampire Kenzie & Kitty Ella!

Next was a party with Dragons and a Princess!

And finally trick or treating at Grandma's house!

Minnie had a blast...

And Mickey was a trooper for his first Halloween Adventure Weekend!

And in my true Holiday Freak Flag Fashion, after we had trick or treated our hearts out and accumulated more candy than any dieting Mama and 3 1/2 yr old would EVER need...November 6th, we moved right on to the next season....CHRISTMAS!!

And I learned something about myself this year...The whole spirit of giving hasn't extended to MY Christmas tree.  That's right...this holiday freak is NOT self-less enough to hand over all tree decorating to her daughter yet.  I still enjoy hanging ornaments way too much, and so our tree decorating this year consisted of Carly and I bickering over which ornaments we get to hang and silent races back and forth to the ornament box to claim as many tree baubles as we could.  And while some of you are probably thinking that I am pathetic (I won't disagree on some level) and that I sucked the fun out of it for my girl.  I ask you...does this look like she was having a bad time?

And when it was all done (and the squabbling ended), it was my girl who said, "MOM! Lets turn out all the lights and see the tree!"  And so with pride in my heart that she was capturing the magic of this tradition, I got this...

Count down: 35 days