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 :)