Halloween Weekend

We celebrated Halloween like most people did on Saturday and started it off by going to my parents house.  They LOVED seeing Lydia in her Super Girl costume!  My dad actually got excited about my costume as well when Kelvin mentioned that I ought to borrow my little brothers air soft gun to go with my "Kissin' Kate Barlow" costume.  So my dad decided that just a gun wouldn't be enough.  He got me his holster and then filled up the back of it with his bullets for his 22.  It looked really awesome and my mom just kept telling us that we can't go anywhere public with those on my holster.  She was really nervous that we would get in trouble.  We later went to Heidi's house for Heidi and Jennifer's annual Halloween party!  It was a lot of fun and there were some great costumes.  We stayed there for a few hours and when it started to rain we decided to head back home.  Luckily we did because it got a little bad in Murray right after we got home.  We rested for a bit and then I made Chili for dinner with Adrian and Aaron.  It was such a GREAT night!  We ate dinner while watching Myth busters (boy's choice) and then watched Clue.  By the way, did you know that our parents have been right all these years?  Turning off the lights when you leave a room is cheaper than leaving them on even if you are only going to be gone for a min. (Myth busters is very informative.) My dad will be happy to know that!  It was a great relaxing night and we had a lot of fun.

The Bailey's all dressed up and ready to party

The cutest little super girl!

 

Ready to take off flying.

If you look closely you can see the bullets in the back.  Kelvin and my dad thought it was pretty cool.

You know that babies can start doing things fast right?  Well, Lydia started to figure out how to sit up this last week.  So on Saturday morning we decided to lower her bed a notch.  I was worried that I wouldn't be able to pick her up since sometimes she is lying down when she wakes up, but those worries were to no avail.  Not only can she sit up by herself but as of today she can STAND UP by herself!  I went in on Sunday to get her from a nap and she was standing.  I about died!  I have since found her standing 3 times in her crib today (sometimes when she was supposed to be sleeping) and have watched her about 5 times pull herself up to a standing position while she was playing.  She sure picked that up really fast!  She showed no signs that she would be starting to do that soon.  I'm so glad that we lowered the crib when we did otherwise she would have fallen out.

The crib all lowered with the new fun toy that Grandma Marta got for her.  She really likes the Mickey doll.

And what would a post be without a fun video of my two favorite people having a blast together.

Along with Lydia standing up by herself she is starting to become aware when we are talking.  I can tell that she is paying attention and listening to our words and actually tries to talk back but it still comes out as babble.  She still enjoys when we respond to her though.  She also knows that people pay attention to her.  Everywhere we go we get stopped and told that she is such a beautiful baby.  In fact on Friday at the grocery store we were stopped 3 times!  Lydia has noticed it and when people start to pay attention to her and make smiley faces at her she knows it's her cue and gets all sorts of cute with her smiles and laughs once she has deemed the situation to be safe with mom right there.  The people love that she responds to them and I just laugh because I know she is manipulating the situation to her advantage.  Such a funny girl!