Here is the most updated picture of my pregnancy, 23 weeks. Luci loves pretending that she has a baby in her belly and wanted hers in the picture too.

Saturday we spent the day in Pittsburgh. Our main intention in going there was to get new tires for Kirk's bike at the REI (his were stolen about 2 months ago). Since we had made the three hour trip, we wanted to make it worth the drive. So, after getting the tires we had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and then headed off to find the Children's Museum. Luckily we still have my Dad's GPS and it wasn't hard finding the general location. The hard part was finding parking and then figuring out how to get there from where we parked. We eventually had to ask someone how to get there.
The Children's Museum was a fun place with lots of little areas for Luci to play in. The ridiculous part was that they charged Kirk, Luci and I full price ($11 a person). To add to the excitement Luci pooped and we didn't have any spare diapers with us. Because the museum was going to close in a half hour we didn't want to waste any of our precious time and continued dragging her around, fumes and all. All in all in was fun, we just wished we had more than an hour to explore. It might have actually been worth the price.

A Giant Lite Bright!
Kirk was enjoying it more than Luci.

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood

Luci had no idea what everything was and didn't like this area as much.

Making Paper

Sand Art
Luci could do this for hours.

Every Halloween I try to make a fun Halloween themed dinner. It isn't usually much, you just need to use your imagination. This year we had monster fingers that could be dipped in blood (breadsticks with slivered almond fingernails and pizza sauce) headless hens (just that . . . obviously they have no head), mashed mummy brains (mashed potatoes) and the scariest of all (at least for Luci) a really healthy salad topped with heart halves (sliced tomatoes). It turned out fun, but I think it will probably be funner as our family grows and gets more excited about it. Luci actually thought I was serious about what I was serving and was a little scared to eat it. So I had to spoil the fun and tell her what they really were.




Luci had two Halloween costumes this year. On Thursday we went trick or treating at the mall and she was a garden fairy. I even made her a wand out of a wooden spoon, but she didn't want to carry it. On Saturday we were cleaning out her closet and found a Cinderella dress and she decided she wanted to be that for trick or treating. It's fun getting her all dressed up, but a lot of work.