Kayla Fuller

Happy Halloween

The big day is finally here! No more, “How many more days until trick or treating?” The girls were all really excited about dressing up this year. And we were excited to introduce Kayla to this thing called Halloween. Time for the big costume reveal….Introducing Princess Snow White!

We started off our day early at our annual trip to the Denver Zoo for Boo at the Zoo. It is always a really crowded event but the kids don’t seem to mind.

This year we invited our friends the Sandovals along for their first trip to Boo at the Zoo. The girls always love having some friends along to share their experiences. And the parents love it because the friends factor keeps everyone occupied and less whiney. Here’s the whole gang dressed up and ready to go get some candy.

Kayla especially had a blast. She loves critters of any kind these days so she was super excited to peer into the cages and find some little guys to scream at.

And of course she is a professional walker these days so she took to the whole trick or treat thing pretty fast. Although, she would start eating the candy as soon as it was acquired, package and all.

Kayla and this guy made quick buddies. I think it was their coordinating colors. The baboon wouldn’t take his eyes off of Kayla. As she walked around his eyes would follow her, very funny.

As the day went on Kayla was eating way too much candy so we started confiscating it. She figured it out and started running away from us. Luckily the zoo has all sorts of caves and secret hiding places built just for little ones.

After the zoo we went home to work on our pumpkins. Reagan requested King Boo from Mario of course. It was a little bit more difficult as I had to “skin” part of the pumpkin to get the whole effect. Wasn’t so bad. I think he turned out pretty cute. Sydney did her fist Jack-O-Lantern completely by herself. I think he turned out pretty cute as well.

Trick or Treat, smell my feet……Here we come!

Second Grade Field Trip to Miller Farms

Today Sydney’s class had their first field trip of the year and Mom got to come along as a chaperone. We were heading to Miller Farms. This would be a new place for us. We had heard of it many times but never actually made our way over. The big attraction of this farm is that they take you out to several of their fields and you get to pick as much as you can carry of the various vegetables.

Mom was lucky that Sydney has such a sweet teacher who offered to hold Kayla on the tractor while I ventured out into the picking fields with Sydney. I think her teacher has been to this farm about a dozen times before so the distraction was good. Not to worry, the kids showered their teacher with hand picked vegetable gifts. After a bit Kayla was needing to stretch her legs so I plopped her out in the middle of the carrot field. However, she was only interested in Mrs. Hoffman’s marker. After a bit she found her own carrot and started munching away on it instead. A bit dirty but still tasty.

During play time the big kids were off being crazy. Kayla took this chance to chase some chickens and peek through some big pipes. I think being the baby sister has some perks. Especially when it comes to field trip time.

Leadville

Another weekend in the mountains. Driving? Whatever. I just sleep.

Back Home at the Cabin

Another weekend at the cabin. We are all starting to feel at home here. At first it always felt like someone else’s home. But as we spend more time here, fix up things, bring in furniture, and just clean it feels like ours.

This weekend we rented a U-Haul and brought up some furniture we had bought in previous weeks. Its not everything yet. We had to place it all in the basement for the time being as the house gets painted. But it felt good to be getting things together.

We walked through Frisco on the way back from buying bedroom furniture and spotted this cute little shop with handmade furniture. It was also packed with stuffed creatures. Such as an amazingly huge Moose. Which freaked Mommy out. But, we managed to grab this cute little guy. Meet the new greeter for the Fuller Cabin.

Kayla watched the girls practice reading the welcome sign and decided to give it a try as well. She would stand in front of the sign and point at the words while saying “Ba Ba Ba Ba.” You probably had to be there, but it was really cute.

Another huge accomplishment this weekend…the girls finished their “boats.” They had spent the last few weekends creating these boats, one for each girl. And finally were able to clear enough twigs and gather enough decor (otherwise known as litter) to complete their new play area. I think they did a great job! Too bad they will probably under a few feet of snow by the time we get back.

Pumpkin Time

On the way home from school today we spotted a cute little pumpkin field and immediately got the itch to go pumpkin picking. We had been so busy up at the cabin for the last few weekends that we never made it the big pumpkin patch this year. But, luckily this place worked out just fine. Since it was so random I only had my iphone for pictures so they turned out a bit orange but you get the idea. Here the girls are with their pick of the day.

The big girls would need help picking their pumpkins so I had no choice but to plop Kayla down in the field for a few. She didn’t seem to mind as there were lots of snacks within arms reach.

In the end though Kayla picked this monster of a pumpkin as her own. I think they weighed in at about the same too!

Walking

Its been a month in the making it seems. Our kids are usually walking by age 1 but Kayla is held a lot by her sisters so she doesn’t have to use those feet too much. We kept taking video of her progression. I was behind and hadn’t gotten it posted as it happened. So now since she is walking all the time, I figured I might as well show you the progression over a 5 video series. So sit back and enjoy!

Aug 16th

Aug 25th

Sept 16th

Sept 18th

Sept 29th

Slot Car Racing

This weekend the girls were invited to their buddy Alejandro’s 6th birthday party. He was having a party at the local slot car raceway. This would be a new adventure for the girls being that they are “girls.” But hey they were excited to give it a try.

It was hilarious. Give 10 kids a remote and tell them to “slowly” begin accelerating the car around the track. And take the curves a bit “slower” then the straightaways. Yeah right. What you instead get is 10 kids constantly crashing their cars around the curves. And parents trying to get the cars back on track WHILE their kids still have their fingers on the accelerator. I’m sure the employees were getting a kick out of watching us.

Kayla loved the cake and ice cream but wasn’t too sure about the actual time spent racing. She loved watching the cars fly by. But, she didn’t like the fact that she was getting no attention from the big kids. They were busy. So she took to trying to sabotage the cars. Just a little bite and….

Thanks to the birthday boy for the fun party. We’ll see on the track again soon!

My Purse

I have discovered the joys of walking around the shops with my purse. I don’t know why I am drawn to this thing or the shops but my Mom tells me I have inherited this trait from my Grandma’s. Apparently it skips a generation.