we went to lenexa's enchanted forest thursday night. lucy was pretty spooked by the people dressed in head-to-toe animal costumes :)

& friday was spent at the farmstead. we're having such a warm october- summerlike some days!

saturday was ballet. the theme this week was angelina ballerina's halloween. perfect trick-or-treating practice!

kinlee & lucy <3 lucy's super excited for kinlee's birthday party this weekend. she turns 2 ON halloween! is that not the best birthday?!

jon hung up eloise's newborn canvases. this wall has quickly become a shrine to shannon lockwood of baby day photography, who has been photographing our family since i was pregnant with lucy :) again, slowly but surely, we're turning the house into our home. we've picked out new kitchen appliances- we're getting rid of the electric oven & switching to gas + adding a hood. we're changing the backsplash in the kitchen & changing our fireplace from tile to a rocky stone. i think we'll have a home project going on at all times for the next several years... i, as someone who likes everything done at once, am learning to embrace the journey :)

eloise will be 5 MONTHS new tomorrow! i honestly can't believe it. time speeds up once you have kids. she's happy, laid-back, still loves the moby & is ready to be on the MOVE when she's down. love this little pumpkin so so SO much. 

we brunched at lauren's parents house yesterday for the chiefs game. the boys had devin's bachelor party saturday, so were happy for greasy food. catch my drift? :) the royals lost last night, but we still believe! game 6 is tomorrow night in kansas city & kc is ready to take the crown at HOME! i seriously can't believe how into baseball i am all of a sudden- total bandwagon fan! 

we spent all morning at the park- a gorgeous warm, windy day. lucy is napping now-surprisingly. she didn't nap all weekend, and has been sleeping from 7PM-8AM. with devastation, i hate to say i think she's slowly giving up naps. 

some lucyisms for the road:

"this is the BEST DAY EVER!" -said by lu...everyday :)

lucy's 2 favorite phrases are "i don't!" & "let it go!" [frozen] welp, she's started combining them & now says "i don't let it go!" all day. everyday.

"mommy, hold you!" "mommy, rock you!" "mommy, CHASE YOU!" ["you" of course means "me"]

xoxo,

-ivy