Trick or Treat!

I took the kids trick or treating tonight & here are some of the pictures I got. I'll post more tomorrow.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Whatever's on my mind

Here's a picture of my little sleeping angel, & one of his cute little pumpkin booties. :)

I love this poem, & so I thought I'd share it with all of you.

Did God Make You
A little girl was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again. Finally she spoke, "Grandpa, did God make you?"
"Yes, sweetheart, " he answered, "God made me a long time ago."
"Oh," she said, and then "Grandpa, did God make me too?"
"Yes, indeed, honey," he answered. "God made you just a little while ago."
Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, "God's getting better at it, isn't he?"
Author Unknown

My Baby is 6 months old already!

Hey everyone, so I took AJ to WIC today & he weighed in at 18 lbs, 12 oz. We all thought he was bigger than that, but they said he's growin good, so that's good. I have been sick the past couple of days, for those who have nursed, I have mastitis, which is very painful! I've had a fever & hurt so bad I could hardly move for 2 days. I am feeling better today, but I still have to call the doctor about it. Aaliyah stayed at my parents house while I was sick, & my mom says she was so good for her, she even slept through the night in her own bed. I'm so jealous, why won't she be good for me? She was a little angel until I came to get her today & then she started bouncin off the walls & totally changed back to her bratty ornery self. I guess I'm glad she was good, I just don't understand why she will behave for my mom but not for me! She hardly ever sleeps a night in her own bed here at home, & she certainly doesn't go to bed at 9:30 like she did for my mom. Ugh! She's just so frustrating! Two-year-olds certainly have lots of attitude, let me tell you, she is definitely a little mini-me, but even I wasn't that bad at her age. I guess it's payback. Anyway, AJ is teething like crazy right now, but still no teeth are through yet. I'm sure we'll be seein them any day now. I hope this whole constant poopin stage goes away soon! Anybody else have that problem with theirs? I swear the moment I change him he does it again, & his diapers can't seem to contain it all, so we go through several outfits a day sometimes. We all know I don't like doing laundry that often, lol. He is doing well with eating the rice cereal, so I think I'm going to go to 2 times a day now. I wish he would take a bottle, but still no go, no matter what. I'm thinkin of tryin the playtex bottles to see if he likes those better. As of now, he will simply not eat unless I nurse him or feed him cereal. The last time I left him with mom for an evening, I left a bottle, & he wouldn't take it, instead went 8 hours until I got back to feed him. I felt bad, cuz he took them when he was younger but not any more! Well, that's about enough rambling for this post, I need to go put him to sleep anyway. Oh, I did take some pics the other night, even managed to get a couple of Alex & I, even though they aren't great. Here they are:

And a couple more of AJ

Independence Park

AJ swingin

Aaliyah drivin the fire truck

Aaliyah swingin & sliding

Alex & AJ

First October picture

AJ is growing so fast! Here he is sitting up by himself, & so happy about it. He can do a pretty good job of it now.