Simply Living This Mommy Wife Life: November 2014

We started out our Halloween this year by getting new haircuts (the little boys anyway). I have been saying for a few weeks that I need to give Owen a haircut and yesterday at breakfast was the breaking point. I figured I might as well trim Gav up too while I had all my haircutting stuff out so both boys have fresh, cute cuts! We ran a few errands uptown after we did haircuts and had CJ and Steph over for lunch since they are in the process of moving (daddy helped them all day yesterday move stuff to their new house). As of yesterday, they are also temporarily living with us while they work on renovating their new home so the boys get some extra play time with cousin Addie! For lunch, Gav decided he wanted to eat outside (even though it was cold!) so I bundled them up and out they went. I seriously don't know what we are going to do once it gets too cold to go outside. Poor Gavin might go insane! Yesterday afternoon, I also got my new stash of cloth diapers I ordered the day before (Thanks Cotton Babies in St. Louis). I was not expecting them to arrive so soon (24 hours soon!) since the website said 5-10 days for delivery, but I'm thinking since they came from St. Louis and only had to travel an hour is why they were here so soon. I was pretty excited and spent the afternoon getting them washed and ready (well about 10 minutes of actually opening them, putting them in the washer, and hanging them to dry. I let my washer do most of the work!). He got his first cloth diaper put on before we went out to the Halloween party and I must say, he looks ADORABLE with his fluffy butt! Two things that I was nervous about with cloth diapering were diapering overnight and dealing with the *cough* poop. Well I'm happy to say that we have dealt with both experiences and have had favorable outcomes! Yay! Owie went all night without any leaks and dealing with the poopy diaper was a lot less of a hassle then I had imagined. Alright, Enough about cloth diapers (I'm sure I'll do a whole other post on that sometime after I get into the CD routine), lets get back to our Halloween fun! After we ate supper, we headed up to CJ and Steph's church for their Fall Harvest Party. Gav had fun jumping in the bounce house and eating all kinds of treats he doesn't get on a normal basis. We also went to the Calvary Baptist Church "trunk-or-treat" and trick-or-treated at some friends houses. It was pretty chilly out so we didn't do a whole lot of outdoor trick-or-treating but Gavin really had a blast and when we were coming in to the house for the night he said "Mom, that was SO fun!" This morning he's even asking "Is today trick-or-treating?" What a disappointment that it only comes around once a year!