November has passed so fast! Joe and I are excited to welcome the newest member to our family, Elsa Maxine was born on the 16th. She is adorable and we can't wait to meet her!

Thanksgiving was great and Leah enjoyed spending lots of time with family. We hosted my side for dinner and then played a couple of rounds of Scene It! My sister brought the Simpsons version and surprisingly the girls almost won. Who would have guessed? Crissie, Steve & Jenni took the girls to the Thanksgiving Day Parade downtown, Steve took all the girls to Monkey Joe's one day and Crissie and I took them to the City Museum. It was a full week!

I will leave you will the latest from Leah.

-Do you need to go potty before your bath?

-No, I'll just go in the bath.

Funny girl. So of course I made her sit on the potty until she went.

Leah's First Concert

Leah's daycare had a Fall Harvest concert on Tuesday night! I wasn't sure if she would be included because she hasn't been there long but she was. It was all very cute. Below is the link to the videos - someone walked in front of me, so it is in two clips. The second clip in the album is actually the first part. Anyways, this is the first time I've done this so I hope it works. Let me know if you have any trouble so I can try something else if I need to.

http://www.vimeo.com/album/145803

This weekend Crissie, Steve and the girls came down to visit. It was great, and the kids had a lot of fun together. We have been letting the big girls have slumber parties whenever we stay together, and Leah was great at Crissie's. I guess being at home is different for her, Leah was a party animal! She was not going to sleep. They even orchestrated their own pillow fight. So I ended up moving Leah back to her crib, but she was happy with that.

Friday we had a mini-celebration for Katie's 4th birthday and Saturday we went to the zoo and enjoyed the wonderful weather. That night Jenni, Joe and I watched the girls so Crissie and Steve could go out for her birthday. Elaine did great even though she isn't a fan of other people. :)

2 more weeks until Thanksgiving!

Halloween

Leah was a skunk this year for Halloween - Little Stinker. She loved it, she loved having a tail & telling people to say "Eww!". I put a little face paint on her nose too and she got a big kick out of that. I really thought Leah would only be interested for a few houses, but she actually made it almost the entire way around the block. Also, candy is a HUGE motivator for her. She loved watching all the other trick or treaters and the decorations, and she said "trick or treat" and "thank you" just like she was supposed to.

We carved pumpkins on Saturday morning. Leah thought that was great. She liked the seeds & goo inside and talking about how she was getting messy. Joe made a scary pumpkin, Leah called it the tiger pumpkin because of the sharp teeth.

Jenni's birthday is November 1st so before we headed out we had her family and my parents over for dinner. My dad went out with Leah and I and my mom stayed back with Joe to give out candy. Leah liked having her grandpa there to talk to & he took her up to some houses, too. When we got home she helped grandma give out candy until we ran out.