Where did October and November go?

Happy Holidays friends and families! I hope you are all doing well. Since we last spoke - which seems like yesterday - we have been fairing pretty well here at the Peaster household. We battled another rough football season (ouch) but had a great time with our friends at the games. We have survived the stomach bug, allergies, the ER for high fever, sinus infections, and are still teething for almost 3 months now and, yet, don't have teeth :) Morgan and Barret are still so crazy about eachother it is almost humorous. Maybe that means they will never fight and we'll never have to draw a line down the middle to separate them and I will never have to pull over and get out of my car to get a switch off of the tree - right, mom? Morgan is going through a huge, and I mean HUGE, problem with separation anxiety that we hope will pass soon. I think my sitter may not come back after last time. And Barret is still grinning and laughing all of the time, as long as you are talking to him. He's most happy when he has company and most unhappy when he doesn't. I know he's not spoiled. But I do know he has grown a foot! He is so tall that he had outgrown his infant seat in height at 4 months (ok, what do you do about that????) He is sitting up on his own (for the most part) now so maybe I will put him in the Britax rear-facing soon. I think Santa is bringing him a shopping cart cover so we'll wait on that for now. We have quit choir on Wednesday nights - due to the separation anxiety issue - but I have picked up a bunco group and a cookbook club and Jeffrey has found out what it's like to spend a night alone at home with the kids. Which, by the way, usually isn't too bad. Especially if they are tired! I think he got a couple of hours of facebook time in last night - lucky him. Maybe I should leave him with the kids and my list of neverending chores to keep him busy. But then again here I am on the computer.
I do have most of my Christmas shopping done - the kids are DONE - a little later than usual. I hope December won't go by quite as fast as the other 2 months have and I can enjoy the season. We started out Monday, Dec. 1, with an introduction to our new advent calendar and elf on the shelf (which we were afraid might really throw morgan for a loop being that she sleeps on the couch bc she is afraid of deer, wicked witch, santa, bully, etc.) but she LOVES him. And she was even more fired up to see the elf at Harper's house too. I am liking the elf, just wish I would have invented him.
uh-oh barret's crying - I will post pictures soon. Have a great holiday season and enjoy!