56 Month Update

Miss Harper Adele went on her first plane ride to meet all of her family and friends in Chi-town. She did absolutely wonderful on the plane with only a few bouts of screaming and crying at the top of her lungs and freaking out everyone around us! If I could only video tape us walking to our seats down the narrow aisle with a 4 1/2 year old and unhappy infant.  You get a mix of emotions...that include looks of sympathy (poor mother traveling alone with two kids) and looks of horror (omg please don't be sitting next to me for the next 4 hours). It is quite comical!

Owen, Harper and I had a wonderful 2 1/2 weeks visiting with family and friends and as always I kept our days busy with various activities that included a trip to the Brookfield Zoo, Planetarium, Skydeck at the Sears Tower, sleepover at Lauren's, trip to Uncle Jim's cottage with the girls, block party and pumpkin carving at Mi-Mi's, sleepover and playdate at Gi-Gi's, pizza night at Grandma and Papa's, meeting Aunty Mel and Morgy and Jack and ended it with an amazing weekend in Michigan City to celebrate Grandma and Papa's 50th Wedding Anniversary. WOW!

Owen continues to be an amazing big brother to his little sister and showers her with sweet kisses, gentle touches and still wants to hold her and sing her songs to make an unhappy baby feel better at times. She seriously is so lucky.  Owen has been doing great in school and is learning a lot. All of his friends and teachers were so happy to have him back in class after a 2 1/2 week departure. It was very sweet to see such a warm homecoming for him when I dropped him off at school when we got back.

Well we are sad to leave all of our family and friends but happy to get back into a somewhat slower and less hectic schedule of life again...and of course we all missed our dad! Darren was very happy to have us back. Let's ask him again in a week after the excitement of us coming home wears off!

We celebrated Harper's first Halloween and dressed her up as a sweet little giraffe in a warm and cozy costume and Owen was transformed into Sir Knight McCarthy - he played the part extremely well and kept his two special maidens safe and sound!