What a slacker ;)

It seems like I'm posting more and more infrequently... At least not as infrequently as Ally ;) (no new post since like June or July?)

Anyway, we are getting all geared up for Halloween here! I'm sure I will take bunches of pictures and post them sometime this weekend. We will be carving our pumpkins tonight! Nothing like waiting 'till the last minute eh? Of course we got the pumpkins a few weeks ago and had nothing but good intentions. And I've been meaning to go look upstairs for our Halloween decorations all month, but somehow I lost track of time. I kind of doubt we'll have any trick-or-treaters anyway. We haven't the last 2 years.

What else has been going on around here? Well, little miss Beatrice learned how to climb into the rocker and is completely thrilled with herself :)


Duncan enjoys his time in the rocker too... looks kinda like a big sandwich.And did I mention that Beatrice is my major attitude baby? ;)
And Maria is just as happy as ever! :) She's really looking forward to Halloween! :)

And did I mention that it snowed here this week? There was a dusting on the ground Monday morning... and then it flurried all day! It was cold! But luckily the snow didn't really stick. I'm just not looking forward to the snow!

Just a Little Something

Maria went to her early Halloween party this past weekend. She had lots of fun. These people really go all out for Halloween. They ran around in a cornfield and played games and had tons of snacks. We let her stay the night this time so she wouldn't have to leave early and miss out on all the real fun :) They ended up staying up until 3am! She was a little tired on Sunday when I picked her up. But she did have lots of fun!

I just love this picture of Duncan. He looks so pensive :) Doesn't he look like such a big boy? We have been working with potty training for the past few weeks, and really he's not doing too bad. Of course a lot of times I'll ask if he want to go use the potty and he will tell me "oh no. later mommy. oh no. tomorrow." But some days he will actually go quite a few times in the potty chair!

Beatrice is doing really good with her solid foods. And boy does she love her pizza crusts! See how tight she's clinging on to it with her bottle there? She's getting that walking thing down pretty good and is just about running around :) And she's become quite the climber. She figured out how to get herself into the toybox ;)


Mmmm. Whip cream and chocolate syrup on ice cream! :) And Duncan wears it so well.


And did I mention that Beatrice likes to climb? She can get halfway up the child gates. But now her latest craze is climbing on to the couch to jump. Several times I left the room to come back and find Duncan and Beatrice gleefully jumping on the couch. Many time-outs for Duncan and many putting the couch cushions back on later I figured out who the real culprit was. I came back into the room a little sooner than expected and caught Beatrice getting the cushions off. And this is how she does it :)


There is an Eagle's nest across the street in one of the neighbors trees. I was able to catch a picture of this guy here who sat in that tree looking at us for a really long time. Beautiful.

Anyway, so that's our latest :)

Harvest Time

The weekend before last was the beginning of the cranberry harvest for the tribal cranberry marsh - which Mike's brother Pat runs. Amazingly, Maria and I had never gone by while the harvest was going on, so we made a point to go by this time.
It was pretty neat. They drive this big machine around that knocks the berries off the vines. You can see in the close up picture that the water looks red because there are tons of cranberries floating around on the water.






























And I just had to share this cute picture of Beatrice sitting on daddy's lap and hugging her Eeyore.