They Sure Grow Up Fast...

Catchin' up, catchin' up...

A few weekends ago Marsha and her boys came to stay and play for the weekend.  Halloween is a really big thing with little's, which is something I kind of forgot about until this year.  It's a lot of fun to do all the little crafts and just help build up the celebration.  So we added a building block to the celebration by painting pumpkins and letting them run around in their costumes super fun!

It's not everyday you get to cook dinner with a butterfly and Superman!

Not only can THIS Superman leap tall buildings in a single bound he can also share toys and mix a mean batch of upside-down chocolate fudge cake :)

Love, love. LOVE. <3

Who loves candy?

Pony rides with Daddy/Uncle Ryan

Karrie and her little's also stopped by for a little bit and they were running the loop in the house...then suddenly everything got quiet...I walk down the hallway and find them piled in my bed, Rachel (who literally could not look MORE like her mommy) is reading a story out-loud to all the other little's.  My heart just melted.  Sweet, sweet stuff!

My little book worm :)  

Just. So. Excited!

All ready to go.  Now!

The following week was the Child Development Days at school...boy oh boy was she excited about going to school!!!  We had to get her backpack ready to go...granted she really didn't need it but she really wanted to take it.  And she just kept saying, "Going to school, going to school."  
 Here is a montage of her quasi-first day of school...

 

Overall it was a great experience for both Naomi and for Ryan and I.  We learned a bit of a base level of where she is in her skill set as well as what we should be working on in the next year.  I think the highlight of the time for her was just the concept of going to school...the down fall was a little boy smacked her with a dinosaur toy so of course what she is remember is that "Naughty boy" from school. 

It seemed crazy to be taking her in her little shoes, with her little back pack into that big school but the reality is that it is not far off at all.  Cra-zy.  I hope that school is a great place for her, a safe environment to expand her knowledge, keep an open mind and start to shape her as a person and keep her own unique little self intact.