Bill and Spencer

The Kids

Thumb Sucker

We have a thumbsucker!!! Although I think it is sooo adorable and it is very convenient (he can calm himself down and no searching for missing binkys or having to keep putting it back in when it comes out) I just see us a year or two down the road struggling to lose the habit. Although ditching the binky is hard, at least I can control that. I would just hate to have him sucking his thumb in school. So we are trying to prevent it, by pulling his hand out and replacing with a binky, but he just won't take the binky. We've tried a few different styles still with no luck. Hopefully one day it will take, or at least he'll get over the thumb sucking.

Aliyahs Photography

Aliyah loves to take pcitures. Think she has any talent as a photographer?

Halloween Time

Aliyah has been excited for Halloween for a long time because it meant she could wear her Cinderella dress again. I had been saving it for the Princess Ball and Halloween.

However, last weekend she went to a birthday party where as part of a treasure hunt, the birthday girl's 11-year-old uncle jumped out at the kids with a scary mask. Most of the kids were pretty scared. Aliyah cried and was shaking for the next 30 minutes. Luckily she got over it and was fine.

Then that afternoon we went to Bill's work's Halloween Family Picnic. She saw a boy dressed up in a pretty scary outfit complete with scary mask. He just walked past her and she started screaming hysterically and was so upset and again her whole body was shaking for quite a while. The rest of the day she was so on edge and would freak out for no reason. (It probably didn't help that all she had eaten that day was sugar--fruity pebbles, a cupcake with LOTS of sprinkles, and cotton candy--I couldn't get her to eat anything else with all these treats around.)

After that she was not excited about anything to do with Halloween. She did not want to get even close to her friend's house that had scary decorations.

On Monday, we were carving our pumpkin and she didn't want to do it. She was convinced that there were scary things in it. Luckily we had our neighbors over to carve with us and she saw that their pumpkin wasn't scary and eventually joined in.

Tuesday we had our ward's trunk or treat and she didn't want to go. She sat on our laps or made us hold her during dinner and we barely convinced her to do the trick or treating. She loves treats so much, I was shocked that getting a whole bucket full of treats wasn't making her excited about it. She was so excited to go home.

Then Halloween came around and all day she said she didn't want to go trick-or-treating. I thought maybe she would change her mind towards the evening and especially when she saw people coming to our house collecting candy. But it didn't. So we didn't go trick-or-treating this year. Bill passed out candy, I did laundry, and Aliyah moped around the house whining and being clinging.

Better luck next year, I hope!

Fun With Grandpa Willman

When my sisters and I were little, we loved to "do" my dad's hair putting millions of clips and rubberbands in his hair. One evening a few weeks ago, my parents came over while Aliyah was doing my hair. This reminded my dad of when we were little and he confessed that we were pretty rough when doing his hair and it usually hurt pretty bad, but he would just smile and say he loved it. What a good dad!!! So Aliyah and I did Grandpa's hair and then he in turn did Aliyah's. I am sad I didn't take a picture with his hair all done up, but I did get this cute one with Aliyah and Grandpa.