The Graham Cracker

Bella just asked if she could watch the ballerinas, but not the ones with the graham cracker, just the ballerinas. By graham cracker, she of course meant nutcracker.

Now I'm really interested to see how she likes The Nutcracker when we take her for her birthday...hmmmmm....

Brickles

Bella just informed me that she smashed her brickles like Daddy does. By smashed, she of course means popped. And by brickles she of course means knuckles. Of course.

Taking pictures

I think Bella is taking after me...

Just so cute...

Sleeping on Dad

Halloween

I know, it was more than two weeks ago and I am extremely remiss in posting pictures. But here is the photo journal of our halloween.

We carved the pumpkin (Bella thought the top was "like a flower")...



Bella introduced piglet to the pumpkin...


And though Bella did have fun trick-or-treating with Grandma, her favorite part of the evening was passing out the candy. See her here watching out the window for more ghouls. She was singing, "People...come heeeeeeere...I have candy for you!". She'd sit patiently (and musically) with handfuls of candy, just waiting for people to give it to!

So Many Faces...

Eva has so many cute faces and I feel compelled to capture them all on my camera, but I didn't want to bore you all with post after post of a slightly different angle on her cute face. So here's a bit of a collage of some of them.

Lip Chewing

Eva makes this adorable face now where she sucks her bottom lip into her mouth. Sometimes she follows it by opening and closing her mouth in this position, making her look like an old man who has inadvertently forgotten his dentures. What's funny is that she knows it's cute, and she has the hardest time not smiling through it.

Birthday Steak

I found in me (somewhere, buried deep) the energy to do the traditional "week long birthday celebration" for Andrew's birthday this year. Regardless of how tired I am, I know Andrew is more exhausted and could really benefit from a week of extra-special treatment. Beside the daily gifts, he also got to pick his favorite dinners for the week. Here's the steak, made using Grandma June's recipe...

Big Smiles & Blue Eyes

The New Arboretum

I took the girls to Finch Arboretum a few weeks ago to explore the fall-ness of it all. Unfortunately the early cold snap we had scared most of the flora into going straight from green and lush to dead and brown with no pretty colors in between, but we had fun anyway. Here's a bunch of random photos from our adventure.

Blueberries vs. Raspberries

This morning's conversation:

Bella: Mom, I was doing a blueberry for Eva yesterday.
Me: Do you mean you were giving her a raspberry?
Bella: Nooooooo! (pause) I mean, yes. I was doing a raspberry for Eva yesterday.