Halloween

A few Halloween Photos:


We picked up Viv's costume when we were in Mexico in February. Rob challenged me to actually find a use for this dress I insisted on buying for Viv so Halloween was an easy victory for me. :)


The even greater victory was talking Rob to dress up like mariachi to complete the package.




Viv and BFF Will




Trick-or-Treat!


Some Post-Halloween storytime with Tom

Why I Love Being Vivi's Mom

1) She calls squares "crackers" and triangles "chips"
2) She has randomly started adding "ee" to the end of words/names (i.e. cheese is cheesy, phone is phony, Alec is Ahkee, Anna is Annie, Pop is Poppie, etc.)
3) She goes to Rob's closet almost every day and emerges with a tennis racket pretending to play tennis saying/asking "tenni Daddy?"
4) She calls the shower "water high" and insists on "water high" every time she takes a bath.
5) She calls every gray-haired man with a baseball cap on "Pop/Poppie"
6) She has started referring to herself in the third person ("Vivi fall", "Vivi sad", "Vivi run"
7) She calls the Halloween skeleton in Trader Joe's "Foony Eye" (funny eye)
8) She knows and asks for EVERYONE by name including all of our friends at church, music group, our neighbors, etc. My favorite is to hear her ask for our Hungarian neighbor Mikilosh. "Where Beekohsh go, mama?"
9) She calls chicken "kitchen".
10)She lectures any inanimate object that "hurt her" (i.e. that she runs into). It's not uncommon to see her bump into the corner of the table and then proceed to glare at it while simultaneously stating "no, no, no!" She then rufuses to be consoled until I lecture the table as well ("don't hurt Vivian anymore!")

Our House During a Football Game

Not sure whose remote is the functioning one...