Phew!

I took Ellie in for another hearing test today. She passed! Her eardrums still don't move as well as they should, so we'll just keep watching that. She also pulled herself up to standing in her crib this afternoon. We'll have to keep watching that too.

Here's Edd, walking the baby. Our little one crawls fast and quickly reaches the end of her feeding tube. She's only on the pump for 35 minutes now (every 3 hours), but she can cover a lot of ground in that time. Good thing big sisters and brother are on top of it!

I was looking through old photos last night and found this lovely one of our third child. It brought back some fun memories. You can tell by the hair that she and Ellie are sisters. I'm not looking forward to the toddler years, but, bring 'em on anyway! Bath time anyone?

Halloween

Here are a few pictures of our Halloween happenings:

We grew these monsters (both the orange ones and their carvers)!

Grandma and Papa came for trick-or-treating and for scaring our poor little heart baby half to death with their masks.

Big brother drew stitches on Ellie's skeleton heart.

Edd wanted to be an anime character. She wanted her makeup done so that when she closed her eyes, you would see big cartoon eyeballs.

For school, the kids had to go as a character from a book and bring the book to the "literacy parade." I didn't know Halloween also had to be politically correct. Can't people just celebrate holidays like they used to? My little ham here decided to go as Calvin (with Hobbes, of course) 2 days before the shin dig at school. This was the best I could do. Drawing black lines on a red t-shirt is, however, one of the easier requests he has made. He acted the part of his character well (note the tape to upturn the nose).

Our Hermione, who also decided last minute what she wanted to be. The other option she presented to me involved a big box and training wheels (???), so I'm glad she chose this one.