The Johnson Clan

This year is a year of many firsts for Ruby and Cora, as this is the first year that they show any excitement for holiday fun. Today we carved their first pumpkin! They loved standing on the table, and they loved dipping their spoons into the pumpkin, but they were not big fans of the actual pumpkin guts. So after a few minutes they wanted to get down, and I finished scraping out and carving the pumpkin.   We have many Halloween parties coming up. Our neighborhood trick or treat is this Saturday, the ward Halloween party is on Wednesday, and the library’s Boo Fest is next Thursday.  We’ve been packing up our house and consolidating. It’s such a long process. We’re less than 3 weeks out! 

Ruby and Cora are a year and a half old. They each weigh a little over 20 lbs, they’re averagely tall for their age, and they are all developmentally caught up to their age group. They say many words, they’ve made up a few of their own that they use consistently for one thing so that Clayton and I know what they mean when they say it, and I’m convinced that they have their own language to talk to one another. Finally, FINALLY, they like going to the gym day care. I’ve never in my life been so motivated to go to the gym as I am now that I can get 2 hours of free babysitting every day at the day care. So we go almost every day. Sometimes I go to a exercise class, sometimes I meet up with a friend and talk, and sometimes I just go sit in the hot tub all my myself. It’s fabulous. We also go to story time at the library, play dates with our church friends, and of course run the day to day errands. Clayton’s last day of work was last Friday. He’s going to Atlanta this week for a in person st