Happy Halloween!

Praise be! The rain stopped for one afternoon of Downtown Trick-Or-Treating! (The term "Downtown" being used loosely.) Tessa is sans antenna, they "hurt her brains".


We had our traditional viewing of Hocus Pocus and ate lots of goodies. Surprisingly, Cory spent most of the weekend with us! He's been on-call since Thursday, and generally Halloween is a VERY busy Hospital Holiday (right up there with the Super Bowl ;), but he's only had to go in for a couple hours of Rounds each morning. He did get a special disgustingly, delightful Halloween procedure on Friday. I'll leave out the specifics, but lets just say it was a Boil taking up a Basketball sized portion of a man's back, that had to be Lanced, Drained, and Stuffed with Gauze! Cory was extra grateful his nose was stuffed up (due to a cold) and that he couldn't smell, because the nurse was holding back multiple heaves; although, just the sight of handfuls and handfuls and handfuls of puss was nauseating!
Oh, we can't forget my sister's awesome costume! Can you guess who she is?

Astrid from How to Train Your Dragon

Tessa's 3rd Year

Tessa Elaine:
Lover of Drama, Getting in Trouble, and Fights!

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

For your enjoyment

We were having too much fun with glow sticks, and when you have too much fun with glow sticks, someone is liable to get punched in the face.

My baby . . .

On 10.10.10 Tessa turned 3 years old! We love this chiquita a lot, but she is, most definitely, the drama of our family. She and I butt heads like nobody's business, I can't even fathom what's coming in 10-11 years. Seriously.

Our Laner basked in all her birthday glory, enjoying waffles for breakfast, sharing mini-cupcakes in nursery, tater tots for dinner, and birthday cake and ice cream with the Marcus Family. She got Beauty and the Beast, a Fancy Nancy doll, a little pet, money - to be put towards a dance or gymnastics class, and CANDY, which was all she wanted. The CakeShe is such a poser; most of the pictures are blurry because I was laughing so hard.This funny little girl loves to ride in this on my bike. She always wants to have a friend over to play. She is so loving and affectionate and I love her little person talk. "Yes, Momma, that is exactwy purfect for me," or "You are a bad servant, Mom," when I don't give her what she wants. She's a blankie lover to the end and misses Kirby "so, so much!" Happy Birthday, little sister!

Visitors

We had our first visitors this month! Cory's sister, brother-in-law, niece, and Grandma came for quick stay as a result of a football game being near-ish-by (Thank goodness Nebraska killed Washington!). Cory was finishing up an intensive care rotation in Portland, so we met up with him later. In a short rundown we went to the coast, walked, picked berries, made jam, shopped at the outlets (Grandma holding a $480 Coach Bag), had our first Oyster Shooters, and got stuck in HORRIFIC Duck and Beaver traffic. All in all it was good, rainy fun and we basked in the glory of having our Mahal around. "I miss her everyday," Tessa says.Thanks for coming guys!!!

Don't you love it when...

Emory was practicing her "Sharing Time" monologue for Cory and I. It went as follows:

Emory says:
(Holding her newest, and most beloved book)
Here is my body book.
My Grandma Cookie gave it to me.
It helps me learn, so I can be a doctor someday.
Some of my favorite pages are: brain power, pumping blood, and eating and erecting.

(The page actually said "eating and excreting", but who cares about specifics. "They start with the same letter, Mom.")

Cory is working nights for 2 weeks and the girls are baffled by his weird behavior.

Emory: He works all night?
Tessa: And sleeps all day?
Me: Yep.
Emory: He must be a bat.

Later that night, Emory prompted Tessa to say this during family prayer:
Emory: Help Dad to not be a bat...
Tessa: Help Dad to not look like a bat.
(Emory now wants to be a bat for Halloween, and checked out Stella Luna from the library.)