Happy Thanksgiving

We decided not to travel for Thanksgiving this year, so it was just the four of us in our own home. We had a very low-key day full of laughter and lots of napping! I am so grateful and thankful for all of the blessings in my life. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Pictures

Practicing sitting up and playing with his play mat.







Little Boy Blue is protecting his modesty during his bath. What's a little boy to do?






The three of us after the bath. The Pink Princess pretty much ALWAYS wears this tiara. Everywhere. Just so that people will know and love her princess-ness.

Happy Halloween!

We had a Tinker Bell and a monkey at our house for Halloween this year. Unfortunately, the monkey proved less than cooperative for pictures, so Tinker Bell is on her own in these shots. However, it is my plan to re-create Halloween at some point this week in order to get those pictures. Hope you all had a great time, too!

Little Chomper

Little Boy Blue just popped a tooth today. I didn't know a 5-month-old could do that. Perhaps this is the reason he couldn't sleep last night (which of course meant I didn't sleep last night, either). He definitely seemed uncomfortable yesterday, but there was no accompanying fever to give us a clue, so I didn't even think to check for a tooth. He's been chewing on stuff and drooling like a little mad man, but that's totally normal and I was expecting him to do that for at least two more months before the advent of actual teeth!

Water Park

We went to a nearby water park about a week before school started. As you would expect, we bought a water-proof camera at Target for the occasion so we wouldn't ruin our "good" camera. Well, wasn't that a waste of $10? Out of 27 pictures, only 1 was half-way decent. At least it's a shot of our girl rather than a random shot of a crowd....and she had a blast. Our boy? Not so much. He cried when we put him in the water. Ah well, maybe next time!

AAAAAKKKKKK!!

I can't find my camera! I'm ticked off and devastated at the same time. The Blue Mini is doing all kinds of cute things that I'm not getting pictures of. And so is the Pink Mini, for that matter. Not to mention that my memory card on the camera has pictures for at least the past 9 months. Aaaaakkkkk!!!


4 hours later.....okay, I found it. Yay!

Nature Girl

The pink mini found an abandoned Robin's nest last week. I know it was abandoned because two of the eggs were on the ground, crushed and I hadn't seen the Robin in over a week. Since that was the case, I let her hold the nest and then move it to another location (it was in a bush that was right where the painters needed to be). She didn't understand that the egg would never hatch, and I decided to not explain it to her. Sometimes, it's just better to keep the smiles on her face rather than try to explain the less pleasant aspects of life and death with her.