Happy Halloween

Another Halloween in a foreign country :) It was great though. We went trick-or-treating at the embassy and I think Jay took home WAY more candy than he would have in the States. Every office was decorated and gave out candy to the kids. They had so much though that each kid took a huge hand full from every office. The only problem for mom and dad is that the candy is mostly Chilean candy. Not nearly as yummy as U.S. candy. I guess it's probably a good thing in the end.

Chicken little.

 Scary face :)

Bgawk!

My little ghost.

Ooooooo!

 My little skeletons.

Trick-or-treating.

We only have 2 days left here in Chile. We are going to miss it here but we're excited to get back to the States too. Last night Jay got the stomach flu and threw up for about 4 hours straight :p Mike and I had a "true parent moment" when he first called out to us around 10 pm. We ran into his room because he was crying pretty hard. When I asked him if he felt sick he said yes and I asked, "Are you going to throw up?" Then just like that I cupped my hands underneath his mouth and he hurled right into them. Mike, not wanting it to get on the bed, cupped his hands underneath mine and then allowed me to pass the puke to him then ran into the bathroom and flushed it down the toilet. The love for a child really transcends anything you can imagine. Luckily he's feeling much better today and we're praying with all our hearts we don't get it too. Especially Tuesday night when we board a 9 hour plane ride back to the States. Please no!

Lucky # 7

Amaya turned 7 months old a few days ago and it marked her first official time sleeping through the night. She actually slept from 7:30 pm to 6:45 am. WOW!!! Mommy is very happy! She is SO wiggly now. She is always trying to wriggle her way off my lap and onto the floor. She's not crawling yet but she's on her way. She can scoot herself backwards pretty well and around in a circle. She can also flip back and forth from her back to her tummy very easily. Unfortunately she has been pretty unhappy lately because she's had to get a lot of vaccines and she's seriously cutting some teeth. In fact, her very first tooth poked through 2 days ago! What a big girl.  Here are some pictures of my beautiful one.

SO funny!

Jay's teacher gave me a pin drive with some pictures and one video she had taken of him at school. When I watched this one I couldn't help laughing out loud. Poor little dude! :)



Here's another video of me and my babies eating breakfast together this morning. I also included some video of our newest school project - Jay's family tree!

Jay's 4 year old pics

While our friends Jessie and Tally were here visiting Jessie took these wonderful pictures of Jay. They truly capture his little 4 year old personality. Thanks Jess!

A few funny things lately... the other day Jay and daddy were in our room and I heard Jay say, "Daddy, when I grow up will you share your shoes with me?" SO random :) Another night we were having family home evening and we were talking about baptism. We had a really good discussion about why we get baptized and what it was like for mommy and daddy to get baptized. Jay was very focused on the conversation and really participating. Then he got a look of real concentration on his face and he said, "Mommy.... umm. Well. Ummm... ummm..." He was really trying to think how to ask his question. We were gearing up for something very insightful. "Mommy, ummm... There are a lot of chairs in this room!" LOL. Apparently he couldn't figure out how to ask his question and seeing that we were waiting on him he decided to make a very insightful comment about the room instead :)