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If you could tap into the smell of this blog it would have three scents: baby lotion, sweet apple sauce and fresh pumpkin. You will understand the reason for the three flavors as you read on.


First of all...baby lotion. I can't say it enough...I love little girls! As I went through Ellary's clothes that no longer fit her, those dainty little summer outfits painted pastel colors and embroidered with ruffles, I couldn't help but recall just how small she really used to be. I also thought about some of my first memories of her and just how fun it was to dress her in a new outfit every day. It may sound cheesy and almost superficial, dressing her as if she were a doll, but maybe it's just a mother's way of reenacting a childhood activity that has now become a reality. Anyways, I took a picture of some of my favorite outfits (most provided by my mom, Nana, and the girls' adopted grandma in Bloomington, Grandma Stangas. Thank you!)



While I packed up Ellary's old clothes, Alyson and Kourtney played checkers on the floor of Alyson's room...in their tutus may I add. What fun it is to be a little girl! Playing dress up and participating in a friendly competition with your sister...How much better can life really get?

Now on to apple sauce. A couple days ago Kris was holding Ellary and eating an apple at the same time. She pulled his arm close to her so she could get a taste of the juicy apple and guess what...She loved it! She couldn't get enough of it. Thank goodness she doesn't have any teeth yet otherwise she would have taken a huge bite of the apple the way she was going at it.

Kris fed Ellary some baby apple sauce after becoming ferocious with the apple. She gobbled it all up. Ellary is really enjoying solid foods, and she really loved having her daddy feed her.

On to fresh pumpkin...Like most of you, we carved our pumpkins this past week. Alyson and Kourtney both drew faces on their pumpkins and Kris and I cut them out. It was a fun Family Home Evening activity that I am sure will be repeated next year.

Happy Halloween Everyone! Hope you have a safe and fun time trick-or-treating. We will be sure to update you on how ours was, and also fill you in on the ward activity we had this past week in which Kris dressed up as Merlin and was the M.C.