Fading Into Fall

This past week has been very busy! Miles finished up the week awesome at school. He didn't hit Wednesday, Thursday or Friday and he was good all weekend! It felt so good! He was good today too and even got 3 stickers! Last week I did buy "Hands are Not for Hitting" and we've read that a few times. He seems to like it alright. I had my eye on a few others on Amazon, but didn't get that far to buy them yet. I still might since I liked their themes. I am not thinking we are quite in the clear yet, but he's been great and really seems to be more aware the last week of his actions. However, on the flip side, he's had an accident every day the last week. I'm not sure what's really going on with him, but I'd rather a backslide in potty training over hitting any day.

I got a bad cold a few weeks ago and have pretty much recovered, but still have a lingering cough (no, it's not swine flu!) and sometimes have a coughing fit. Miles is too cute and comes and holds me to him, patting my back and saying "come here mommy, it's ok, you're ok" until I'm finished. He's such a sweet pea!

Miles is also still so adorable with my belly! He pulls up my shirt all the time and hugs the baby, pats it, and gives it kisses. He talks about when the baby gets bigger, it'll be able to talk to him and play "dunk dunk" (a.k.a. basketball) with him. He says how nice the baby is and how little it is. He pretends to take the baby and hold it and cuddle it. Too cute! He says he's going to have a little brother. We'll see soon enough! The other night, he put a ball down his jammies and acted like he had a baby in his belly too. It was very funny!



I also turned 7 months on Friday! I can't believe how time has flown this pregnancy. I think it did the first time around and this time, it's gone twice as fast. I finally had to take off my wedding ring and right hand ring on Friday too. I knew it was getting close, but all the sudden, that was it. :( Now I'm wearing my fake wedding ring!

Since time is flying and the baby's arrival is getting close, we decided we finally had to buckle down and work on the baby's room. So, we spent much of the weekend painting. We just have to touch up the ceiling and add some circles and then we'll be done. I'm hoping to get to that after I finish posting. We were going to do a horizontal strip around the room in two colors, but after working on that last night, for some reason (Ahmad says he understands why, but it baffles me), we couldn't get the lines to match up despite our best efforts and using a laser level. So, we scratched that idea and decided to do random circles. I'm pretty excited about it! Miles really wanted to help us paint, which we didn't let him do, but he did provide some drum entertainment while we worked!

We took a break and finally also carved our Halloween pumpkins Halloween morning. Miles did quite well considering last year he had about zero interest and wouldn't touch the insides. It took him a bit, but he did reach in there and take out some seeds. He had a pretty good time and tried hard to separate the seeds from the goop so we could bake them. Then he instructed me on how to carve them. The first two were supposed to be happy faces and then an "o" face and then a sad face. He seemed pleased with my artwork!

When we (my brothers and I) were growing up, our dad always had us carve lots of pumpkins because he really liked the seeds. It was very important to make sure we did a good job of separating the seeds from the guts and we had to make sure there were no seeds gone to waste. It became quite a tradition and I'm sure he misses our seeds now! I had to laugh because I found myself saying some of the same things and really trying to get Miles to not play in the seeds because he was spilling them. However, I know how tempting they are because they are so slimy feeling. The mess we made never would have stood up when I was younger!Finally, it was time to dress up for Halloween! Miles instructed his makeup, but was getting tired of holding still by the time I got to his mouth. He also wasn't feeling the bow tie or hat this time around, so those got left at home. I still think he made a very cute clown! I dressed up as well, kinda. I was supposed to be an 8 ball due to my bulging belly, but my message may have been confused. I had someone ask me towards the end of the night if I was supposed to be the Octo-Mom. I had to laugh and say no! Miles did a great job trick or treating and had fun looking for the houses with the light on. He said 'trick or treat' to everyone and followed up with a 'thank you'. Once it got dark, he was finished though and wouldn't get out of the wagon. I think the other kids all dressed up were a it scary to him. We came back and went trick or treating to daddy, who had left us a bit early to come back and pass out candy, and were treated quite nicely! He's
enjoying his candy stash very much!

We finished up the week last night with some Roots dancing, Miles leading the way through the obstacle course he set up. He had a great time, but I had to sit out a round or two!