"Leaf" Us Alone Winter, We Love Fall!!!

          We are thrilled to have a tree in our backyard.  We love the shade and, as we found out the last couple of weeks, Taylor loves playing in all the leaves.  But I think what Cody and I might love the most now that its fall is that there is only one. :)  Raking leaves is a lot of work it turns out!
           It has been amazing weather this last little while and we have been trying to get out and enjoy it as much as we can.  We have been playing in the leaves and the sandbox a lot in anticipation of cold days to come when we will be stuck inside.  Though luckily now our 'stuck inside' wont be bad because we love our house!!!  Tay loves getting a running start and jumping into the leave.  She also liked throwing them up in the air and having them float down around her and she definitely got a kick out of being able to bury us with piles of leaves.
        We also went for a walk to Octagon Springs, which is just a couple of blocks from our house.  Its the same idea as Hooper Springs.  There is a little pavilion where you can go see the spring.  Tay loved putting her hands in it cause the water felt bubbly on her fingers.
       Also Wyatt started eating rice cereal and he loves it!! He is a little champ, he just slurps it up as fast as we can shovel it in!! This week we are going to try starting him on some other food, I am excited, I think he will be a good little eater!  We also bought an old entertainment center at the D.I. that we will be making into a play kitchen for Tay for her bday ( I will post pics of our progress throughout the weeks) and she has loved 'helping' us work on it.  Good thing she is little enough that she can see her presents now but not really know what is going on and still be surprised later ;)

Sibling Diaries Entry #3

     This week our entry isn't based on jealousy, sweet or funny as it may have been in previous weeks.  Tay loves to do hair (not for real.  it is hard to do her hair in a socially acceptable manner).  She loves putting all the headbands, flowers, and clips we have in her hair and in anyone who happens to be around.  The other day we had her all decked out, she was having a blast and looked like a tropical garden had sprouted on her head.  She noticed Wyatt didn't have any and she didn't want him to be left out, so she helped us, gently as she could, deck him out to.  I LOVE that they are FRIENDS! 

Rub a Dub Dub, Two Kiddos in the Tub.

     I am having a hard time knowing what to post about.   Last week was just a pretty relaxed week, we didn't really do anything out of the ordinary.  Well I guess we did actually, we had family pictures taken.  The photographer is still editing them though so unfortunately I don't have any that I can post today.  Wyatt cooperated really good for the pictures, we were actually able to get him to smile but boy howdy! Taylor was not in the mood I guess.  So I really hope there is at least one with all of us looking at the camera and as a bonus perhaps even smiling!

                                                             
                            Sibling Diaries Entry #2

     Taylor has waited a long time for Wyatt to be able to bath with  her, so now that he is big enough most nights they take their bath together.  Tuesday night we did things a little different.  Cody bathed Tay while buddy and I cleaned up dinner. 
    
     When we were finished we went in the bathroom, Tay was just getting out and was wrapped up in her towel.  But... when she saw me start taking Little Guys clothes off and filling up the little tub she sensed that she was about to miss out on something fun so she threw her towel down and hoped in the tub.  

     The baby tub.  The baby tub usually meant for one baby.   So they both had a corner and Tay was just loving it.  So much in fact, that when it was time to get out she let us take Wyatt out but she refused.  She wanted to relive her glory days as the only baby around I guess.

Official Installment of The Sibling Diaries

    Miss Kiniki loves her buddy Newt so much and vice versa.  However... they have their moments :)  They truly enjoy being with each other and Tay has been awesome at dealing with Little Buddy coming in and stealing half of the attention away from her.  But sometimes she remembers that all the 'baby' things we have used to be hers, and all of our attention used to be hers.  I tell ya, us oldest kids really have it rough emotionally for a while :).

     Anyways I decided to start documenting those little moments.  And as you can clearly tell by the title of this post, I will be calling them 'The Sibling Diaries'.  I hope you will find them as entertaining as I do.  I will try to post one every week but hey turns out kids are unpredictable and stuff, so we will just have to go with the flow on this one!  Last weeks incident was really entry #1 into the Diaries but since I hadn't really started it yet.... Here is the official first entry into our Allen Family Sibling Diaries.

    It started out like last week, Tay was just having a good time coloring when all of a sudden she sensed something wasn't quite right.  As she turns and looks behind her she sees Wit playing on the floor.... on something that she thinks is hers (pretend its a gender neutral colored toy ok?).  However this week there were no tears, tantrums or meltdowns.  She just said "Hey!" and crawled right on in with her buddy.  She played for a minute and then decided it wasn't as fun as she had remembered after all and crawled back out to go about her business.   Meanwhile Wyatt is just thrilled to pieces to have his Tayto girl sitting by him and playing with/around/over him.

                                                        LOVE THESE KIDDOS!!!
(also for anyone who cares, or if anyone actually ever looks at this... I will try to have a new post up each Monday or Tuesday)