Your cup is out in the yard.....

This morning, R decided to demonstrate one of his famous temper tantrums while going to daycare. We entered Fran's house screaming and continued to lay on the floor unhappy and kicking until Fran started pouring milk cups. She gave E the usual cup but for R, she said "R, you have a new cup today because yesterday you left yours out in the yard and now we can't find it." This immediately caused the temper tantrum to end and R sat up as quick as possible and had a look of complete surprise on his face! That snapped him out of it and was the start of a day full of surprises for these two.

Today is Halloween!!!!! The kids were excited because we brought their costumes to daycare where they had a huge Halloween party! Then we went trick-or-treating with our friend Karen & son then off to several other houses of some of our closest friends at church. They honestly were the two most popular trick-or-treaters out tonight in our neighborhood. Everyone loved them and wanted us to stop at THEIR house. :) After about 2 homes, E&R caught on to the fun and LOVED every minute of it and every piece of candy (especially suckers) that were dropped into their candy buckets. We now officially have enough candy to supply a complete grade school with treats........ok maybe not quite that much but it is a lot!!!!

I honestly don't know who had more fun, them or I. This was definitely one of the most memorable highlights in our short time together thus far! Unfortunately, daddy couldn't join us because he had to work the late shift today. So he missed out on quite a good time.

And now the Halloween pictures!!!! (yes, that's 4 full buckets of candy)

Whoa Cow!!!

This past weekend, Grandma W came & visited us! We had fun with her - played in the park, went shopping, read books, all kinds of fun stuff!

After Grandma left on Sunday, we went over to Aunt Shelly's. We put on our costumes and took pictures with our little friend K. They were all holding or playing with pumpkins and were so cute!

R has also started getting my attention by going "mommy, mommy, mommy!". For now, he is just as cute as E doing it.......give it 6 months and then it'll probably be driving me crazy! :) Also, he's been playing with the older boys at day care too much - he has taken to wrestling with E for a toy or whatever. He's getting more and more rambunctious!

E&R like to ride horsey on mommy's back. So I tell them "whoaaaaaa horsey". E then promptly responds every time: "whoaaaaa cow"!!!! When you think about it, makes sense. If you want to stop a horse, why not a cow too? Of course, maybe she's calling me a cow????? Who knows!

E's Busy Day

Today was a very interesting day for E. First she demonstrated all morning while we were getting ready that she has moved from grunting or pointing or whining to get attention to what she wants to going "mommy, mommy, mommy, MOMMY". I guess I've been telling them all along that if they want something to ask mommy so I guess she's taking me up on that! It can get pretty funny.

Then on the way to Grandma L's for the day (we do Thursdays there vs day care) she decided to join R & me in singing Wheels on the Bus. Not only does she know all the words and can pronounce almost all of them, but she knows the little actions I taught them to go with it. I was quite impressed to say the least!

Lastly (even though all of this happened before 8am) when we got to Grandma L's, she took a tragic tumble all the way down the stairs into the dark basement. Grandma L & I didn't even hear her go to the stairs (which usually has the door closed to avoid this issue) until we heard the thuds and scream. Thank God she wasn't hurt at all, just shaken up and all 3 of us were scared. We think she was chasing the cat and when he went downstairs, so did she. R was nervous too as he was the quietest I've seen & heard him be for 10 minutes straight! She went right to eating breakfast and then playing like crazy all day. So she's fine! But a bit clingy tonight which I can't blame her.

Poor R, all that happened to him today was a nip by Jake the cat for grabbing his tail too hard. Well, maybe that's good that nothing else happened!

Wheels on the Bus

Our favorite kid cd has Wheels on the Bus and Old McDonald Had a Farm. R loves to sing with me in the car to both of those. He may not know all the words but usually gets the last word of the sentence right: old mcdonald had a FARM, eieio. Actually any song that I make up as long as I repeat the same word a lot he loves to sing with me!

Today though, E started singing with us and she knows a lot more of the words she just hasn't chosen to show us that before!

Pig Tails Part II

We tried wearing pig tails to daycare today. And R along with his cohort at day care spent the entire day pulling at E's pig tails......our babysitter said whenever she heard E crying or screaming she knew what it was about! Those boys!!!

The bad news? We gave up and turned on the heat today after E&R cried like crazy because my hands and the wipes were cold as ice this morning getting them dressed! oooppppsssss.

Pig Tails!

This was a busy, fun weekend. We played in the park for nearly 2 hours with friend Karen & her son. Then we headed off to Grandma L's to for dinner and D's uncle & aunt from Ohio were visiting and got to meet E&R for the first time. E&R also had tons of fun playing with their 2 cousins.

Sunday found everyone going to the botannical gardens then for a bbq at Grandma L's. More playing with cousins and eating and treats. Then off to our first Halloween party at our adoption agency. We put on our costumes for the first time (official costume pictures will have to wait until Halloween......) and played with all of our friends there.

After all the action, we came back home to recover. So, E & I played with her hair and we did pig-tails for the first time. E looks SO cute and she loved having her hair done. We'll work on this more so maybe we can wear them on a more normal basis. Now that E finally has enough and longer hair, we can start playing around.

Well, tomorrow is Monday and back to the weekly routine. Whew, because we're all exhausted!

What fun we're having!

So I've decided it's time to enter the 2000's and start blogging, especially now that we have two special someone's in our family to blog about. Reading about what D & I do would be really, really boring......but reading about the things that E&R do?????? Now, THAT'S entertainment!!!!

It is hard to believe that as of October 4th, they have been home with us for 6 months. Unbelievable how quickly the time has flown. It is also so amazing at how far they have come in 6 months from bonding with us, learning a new language, catching up in development and height/weight, to starting daycare! They are two great kids that D & I are enjoying every minute of (well maybe not the 2-hour temper tantrum!).

Tune in regularly for updates on our Freeman Family Fun! Halloween is just around the corner and the kids have totally fallen in love with pumpkins. Everywhere we go, we manage to see pumpkins. We have two mini-pumpkins at home that they hold and kiss good night every evening before bedtime. Can we get more obsessed????


Fun things this week: E can now put both shoes & socks on by herself, R caught a large bouncy ball 5-6 times in a row by himself, we tried out a new grocery store cart that allows them to sit high up and face forward while I push (was a BIG hit), and now that it is cold, they love to wear their jackets all zipped up with hoods on and they REFUSE to take them off! Well, better than refusing to wear them huh? They are just toooooo cute in them. And yes, I am a sappy mother and they have look-alike jackets except E's has a pink stripe, and R's has a blue stripe.

Happy weekend!!!!


Loving the jackets!!!

















Playing in mommy's shoes.