Mia and Nicholas

Pumpkin Festival in McBee

In the corn maze

More from the fair...

Awww...what a sweet little couple!

Eating a funnel cake!

Wed. night at the fair with The Mills'

At the top of the ferris wheel

Chuck E Cheese

We went to Chuck E Cheese Friday night with Robert, Erika, Trey, and Lauren. There are no pictures of Mia and Trey together because they couldn't stay still long enough!

9 months and standing

Ain't he a cutie?!?

Sunday at the park

Handy Manny Tools

So, I realize that bribery is not the best parenting method, but it has worked really well for us (i.e. potty training, paci, ect). Our latest hurdle with Mia is getting her to go to bed on her own since she has moved into her big girl bed. It wasn't a problem when she was in her crib. We would put her down and she would go right to sleep. However, in her big girl bed, she wants us to lay with her until she falls asleep. We have appeased her for the last few months because she went through several major changes at once - losing her paci, potty training, moving to a big girl bed, and changing big girl schools. It wouldn't be so bad if she settled right down and went to sleep, but some nights it would take 30+ minutes. She is such a wiggle-worm!!!!!! So, I decided to take her to Target on Sunday to look at toys. I told her to pick out one toy she really wanted. It happened to be Handy Manny tools. I made a deal with her that if she started going to bed on her own that I would get her Handy Manny tools. Well, Sunday night didn't go so well. Neither did Monday. However, Tuesday she agreed to try on her on. It did take us going upstairs 3 times to wrangle her from running around upstairs, but she finally went to sleep. The next night we only had to go upstairs once. This was after hearing her little feet running around and then her banging her potty against our toilet seat to empty it.

So, she got her Handy Manny tools! She loves them! Tonight she has been down for an hour and Ryan only went up once. As soon as he hit the top of the stairs, she took off and jumped in the bed. I'm so proud of her. Hopefully, another milestone reached - even if it was with bribery!

Big girl funky hair!

Sitting in a tree and catching a frog

itsy bitsy frog

This weekend...

Friday night we did a little shopping and then headed over to Stan and Logan's for Gracie's slumber party. Of course Mia didn't spend the night, but we let her hang out with the big girls for a little while. She had a blast and they were very good about including Mia. Saturday we watched a lot of football and then papa came over to watch Mia while Ryan and I went to a wine and cheese party over at Chasity and Trey's. Today we went to church and after Mia got up from her nap we went to Target and then to the park. Here are pics from the weekend...

More pics...

Before fall pictures at school

Mia pulling Trey
Trey pulling Mia
Riding her tricycle

Bobby's party

Mia went to her first birthday party of a "new friend" from her "new school" on Saturday. She was so excited that she was up at 4:30 on Saturday morning!