Boo!

Halloween was magical. When we woke up on Halloween morning it was pitch black downstairs. As we rounded the corner of the stairs, Olan actually gave a little gasp. My wonder-mother had snuck down before us and lit the pumpkins that Mer and I had carved the night before. He was totally blown away. He spent the remainder of the time before we left for school re-enacting the moment. He'd go over to the stairs, bang on them and say "Olan come downstairs... WHAT Olan see? Olan see PUMPKINS! Olan see ELMO!!!". It was priceless.

He had a great day at school, as a scary, scary skeleton. We popped our heads into a couple other rooms just so he could yell "Boo!". And although he has technically trick-or-treated in past years this year marked the realization that people were giving him candy and ALL he had to do was bang on their door and yell "Trick-or-treat!!!". Yelling, banging and candy... what gives? After the circuit, starting with Martha and John, who were his first Halloween visit two years ago as chocolate bear, we hung out at the end of the driveway in front of the toasty bonfire and had hot chocolate and smarties which made for a totally blissed out boy. And mommy got to have a cigar :)

The end of another chapter...

Well this week marks the close of my role as a breastfeeding momma. It's surprisingly sad.

In the beginning there was Joan the breastfeeding guru at the Mom and baby clinic. She showed me the wonders of breastfeeding lying down and made all the necessary adjustments to make sure that we were doing it the right way. Hell, these days you could pretty much hang me by my right toe from a crane 200 ft in the air with one hand tied behind my back and I could breastfeed at the same time, with ease. Pffft... someone SHOWING you how to breastfeed??? It's so eeeeeasy.

We've come a long way Olan and I, and its been an incredible thing to nourish this little growing body of his.

The week also coincides with Olan moving to the big kid room at school and he's quite puffed up and proud to be "a BIG boy". This has helped the transition immensely.