Chicken Little

Look at those drumsticks! YUM!!!!

Playing Around at Mia and Papa's

Snow White and the Dragon

Snow White With An Attitude

The Dragon

Trick-Or-Treat

With Halloween on a Saturday this year, we decided to spend the afternoon visiting some of our favorite people and showing off our costumes...

Pumpkin Carving

The weather this fall has been rainy and cold, which put a damper on our usual fall festivities. Joe and I were also busy with our own activities, so didn't get a lot of family time at home either. But the one thing we weren't going to pass up on was pumpkin carving. The kids were SO excited to do it, that I wasn't even allowed to shower before we put scalpel to orange flesh.

Watching TV With Friends

The kids got new puppets and the 10 of them have been inseperable ever since. The puppets have names (Betsy's are all named "Dawn," but it's still a name!). They sleep with them, eat with them and even watch TV with them.

A conversation from our dinner table...

ELLIOT: "Mama, are you going to be a grandma when I'm 20-years-old?"
ME: "I hope not."
ELLIOT: "Well are you going to be a grandma when I'm 14-years-old?"
ME: "I REALLY hope not!"
ELLIOT: "Yeah, cause then you'd be really old."

From the Archives...

February 2008


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Next She'll Ask for the Car Keys

Today when Betsy pronounced her brother's name, she very clearly said "Elliot." I was so shocked, I asked her to repeat it a few more times. Each time she very clearly said "Elliot."

Normally correctly pronouncing another person's name is a good thing, but I'm really sad. It means she's growing up. She used to pronouce his name "Ahh-Yacht" (say it fast and you'll understand what I mean). And I loved that she said it that way - it was a sign of her babyhood.

Better enunciation is just another sign that my babies are getting bigger, learning more and inching closer to becoming teenagers (and wanting NOTHING to do with me).

*sigh*