Thursday, October 30, 2008

Pumpkin Carving time.....and a check up....

So today I took Lila to our pediatrician for a check up on her Collarbone, it is still bent pretty well, looks a bit strange and sore to touch, although Lila has not been acting in any pain and she still climbs on EVERYTHING.....Lila is doing well and it will take about 4 more weeks to heal.....so she is still has to wear her sling, but now she likes it, so it must help....We did learn she is a skinny girl who just shot up a few inches in a short amount of time....She is 33 inches tall while weighing in at 20lbs 9oz (3%)....Our doctor is not concerned about her weight because of how active Lila is, I just need to keep giving her instant breakfast in her milk and yadah, yadah, yadah.....She seriously only gained 1 lb in 6 months....but she is getting to the age of growing a bit slower.....

Tonight we finally carved our pumpkins.....we have been busy around here, Shawn went the Spurs game last night, and so today was the only chance we had to do it. I must say I totally have "GIRLY" girls.....I was assuming they would love cleaning out the pumpkins, boy was I wrong....I asked MJ to clean out the inside of her pumpkin and her response was "But Mommy, I will get my hands all dirty".....Holy Cow did she just say that....Get her hands dirty....Wow.....So I did manage to get them both to clean them out, but it took some coercion......Last year we let them draw faces to cut out on the pumpkins and planned on doing the same this year, but I bought a pumpkin carving kit that had patterns on in it and they liked them so much that they picked out what they wanted carved......It was fun....and they love the end results......Some pics for your viewing....Lila is not wearing her sling cause she dipped it in the Homemade Tomato soup at dinner and in some of the pics you can see that we didn't even wipe their faces after dinner.....too funny...Hope everyone has a great Halloween!
Pumpkin Carving Fun...

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great Pictures, I love what you did to the pumkins. Good Job Harper's.. Have a great Halloween.
Love Mom

Erin said...

33 inches...tall little girl...i think cole was only 32??? i hope she starts to feel better soon...with her collarbone! what a little trooper! love the pumpkins...we haven't done ours yet...ha...tonight is the last night...so that is what we are doing for halloween...pouring down rain - ugh...not fun for trick or treating!

5 Cougs said...

My boys weren't too thrilled about the gunk in the pumpkin either...at least at first!

Molly Hannan said...

Hey, just wanted to let you know that Darby lost 1 pound between her first year appt. and her 18 mo. We did no supplementation or anything, just didn't worry about it. She was thriving as I'm sure Lila is. Darby didn't even eat much solid food until 18 months. She is now obviously a healthy and hearty 4 year old.

Great pumpkins! How do those carving kits work anyways?