Happy Turkey Day!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We had a wonderfully relaxing one around here! Full of parades and Turkey and pie! And once again, having issues with the new post editor, and just have no time to really mess around with arranging pictures and stuff, one of these days I will figure it all out and be able to do a somewhat coherent post with pictures in the right places and all ;) Until then, forgive the out of order pics and text.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Mmmm.

Monkeys, Ghouls and Astronauts

The kids were really excited for Halloween this year! We let them pick out their own costumes. Duncan had originally picked out Captain America, which was really cute, but Mike got him a really cool flight suit from the Air and Space Museum on his trip to DC, so Duncan was anxious to be an Astronaut.

Beatrice loved her ghouly costume ;) though she didn't want to leave the mask on, and the gloves we ended up pinning to her shoes because she didn't want to leave those on either! Dylan was a monkey. Maria decided not to dress up at the last moment, she was going to be a vampire, but the fake blood tasted awful ;) They all had tons of fun trick-or-treating and then we all had fun eating a bunch of candy when we got home!!

Gettin' Ready for Halloween! :)

I've been up to taking tons and tons of pictures again ;) Well, I guess I always have, but it just seems like the kids are always up to something cute these days. And I keep forgetting that uploading photos isn't as much of a hassle as it used to be.. so get ready for major cuteness! ;)

A super sweet hug ;)

Dylan's turn to get Beatrice

And back to her turn

These two have also been up to wearing out the "Time Out" bench!

Uh, yeah, we had our first snow of the season already. On October 10th!! Of course it melted pretty quickly. Then we've had a few more days of flurries and such... Grrr...

Sitting together watching TV :)

These days she loves hats, as long as I don't *want* her to wear one!

Sharing a little chair ;) And there's Maria in the background, reading one of the Twilight books for about the millionth time!! We're anxiously awaiting the next movie coming out next month!

Duncan fell asleep with his Lightning McQueen hat on

He's been having fun helping Dylan with tummy time

Look at that smile!! Flirt!

Beatrice also likes everyone else's shoes... won't leave her own on

In the process of making some festive wear for Dylan!

That Dora pillow is about as big as Beatrice! I've actually mistaken it for her in bed a few times!

Ah... the sling ;)

And I just made this one last night! It's a wrap, more hands free than the pouch type sling (above) and it holds him all close and snug :) He actually slept in it the whole way through the store today (which only took about 3 hours!)

I was really tempted to post pictures of Duncan and Beatrice in their Halloween costumes! But I'll wait until Halloween. We let them pick out their own costumes this year - they had a lot of fun picking them out and trying them on. And they are really looking forward to trick-or-treating! Maria decided to dress up this year - can you guess what she's going to be?

Fall Already?

Amazingly we've already had a couple of hard freezes here! Brrr!! And the leaves have been falling for at least a couple of weeks now. Seems hard to believe that it is that time of year again already.

Things have been busy and chaotic around here as usual. But I finally decided a baby sling was in order ;) And it's helped me to actually be able to do a few more things on a daily basis. Dylan is still colicky, but he's becoming more manageable. Especially if I carry him around all day in his sling!




We actually harvested some of our apples from the apple tree in the backyard this year! We were able to harvest enough to make 6 pies before the hard freeze! We plan on being more on top of it next year!

Beatrice is as rambunctious as ever these days :) She's talking more and more clearly by the day! I actually caught her counting to 14 under her breath the other day, thinking no one was listening to her! ;)

Maria is getting excited about her friend's annual Halloween party next weekend! But she is now "officially" too old to dress up ;)
Dylan has this little tuft of hair that will not stay down! We think it looks like Ed Grimley from SNL (80s?).
Duncan has been doing a great job with the potty training! And he's really looking forward to trick-or-treat this year!

Sweet :)

Getting to be so big!

All the kids are still pretty sweet on baby brother :)

Beatrice thought he might like to play with a couple of her Dora dolls!

And how about a funny one? Beatrice eating lunch ;)