Mendez Musings: Mid-November Mendez News

Hello all!

Yes, I'm late this month. And I'm going to keep it short and too the point or I will never ever get this done.

It's just been that busy here this past month. My homework for the online class I'm taking is kicking . my . posterior. Now I remember why I didn't go back to grad school. It's an extremely useful course, I'm learning so much, but gee whiz. I am so sick of the homework. I'm always behind.

What else did we do in October, besides the farm trip (pictures in a different post)? Oh yeah. HALLOWEEN.

Man what a trip Halloween was. Abby was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, complete with a Toto and red ruby slippers. She loved those shoes. In fact, "shoes" was her first real word. She would talk about "sews" for hours. The first time I tried on her costume and her shoes, she wouldn't let me take them off! She walked arounnd in just her diapers and her shoes for two hours. It was too cute for me to do anything about it.

Then we went to the Embassy Halloween party, where we got jipped on the costume contest for the second year in a row (the under 3 crowd didn't get judged this year. Figures.) But Abby had a blast. She even got a bit of candy, which Mom and Dad prompty ate for her (it didn't even make it through the ride home). And on Halloween night we went trick or treating at a couple of houses.

Besides Halloween, we've had our normal daily activities. I have my Bible study on Monday mornings and several moms with kids about Abby's age come over for that. The kids play while we do our thing. We're doing the book, The Power of a Praying Parent. Great book.

Plus Abby and I go to playgroup on Thursday mornings, and swim class on Friday mornings. I have yet to get pictures of that since I'm always in the water with Abby. Oh but she has such a great time in swim class. Mainly at her age it's splashing around and not being scared of the water, but we have a good time.

I've been working on my scrapbooking as well. I'm far behind where I want to be, but I'm gotten up to May of this year in our family album. I still haven't started Abby's baby album yet. If this class wasn't killing me, I'd be caught up by now, but oh well. I've been inviting a friend and we've been doing marathon scrapbooking sessions on Sundays after church, while Abby and Joel watch football. And sometime Joel plays football, using Abby as the football.

Abby is really growing up a ton this past month. She's at least a couple inches taller, got several more teeth, and is talking now. Real words too, not just baby babble. She's quite chatty. So far she says "shoes" and "no" for nose, which is quite different when she is saying "NO," which she also says quite well! She's really into Animals at the moment. She says "meow" for Puzza, knows that Cows moo and sheep say baa. She also likes to roar like a lion. Her only Spanish word at the moment is "papo" for pato, which is Spanish for duck. She happens to love the rubber duckies in the pool at swim class.

She's also growing quite an attitude. She wants what she wants, how she wants and when she wants it. She's also started screaming and throwing little fits. Man, I thought we had a couple more months before this started. Oh well, my little baby girl is growing up.

November has been quite a busy month as well, and will continue to be so since Thanksgiving is coming up next week. I can't believe that's already here!

Anyways, I'll keep all that to talk about in the next installment. Here are some picture to tide you over until then.