Late Fall Picnic

Just enjoying this warm weather before winter sets in. Although last year we were at the playground in January, so hopefully "winter" will repeat itself.

Sticky Fingers

Ethan is giving this saying a whole new meaning...and it's not just fingers, but hair, face, ear...he decided that his plate of pancakes and syrup would be better on his head than on his high chair. Sweet dreams all.

Pizza and Hot Chocolate

I am a single parent this week. Going from a weekend with no children to having them all to myself 24 hours a day has been exhausting. Therefore, we are eating easy this week. We made our own pizzas. The kiddos were pretty hungry after a morning of playgroup and an afternoon of running errands that they wanted to eat the pizza before we baked it...yum.

We decided to have a little hot chocolate before bed since it has been a cold, rainy day today.

Enjoy the pictures!

Sorry no pictures today...

boo hoo...I know. I will take some tonight...promise. Now, when I will post them, who knows, but trust that they will be safe on my camera until another moment like this when both my kiddos are asleep!!

I just wanted to take advantage of this brief moment of silence and record some of Ethan's recent accomplishments:

He can now say the following words:
Mama - yes, he no longer looks at me and says, "DA!!"
Dada - he's had that one forever
Apple - he pointed to them at the store today and said it clear as day
Bananna - well, it's more like BA but he points to them when he says it, so it counts in my book
All done - sometimes sounds more like "ah do" but we know what he means
More - which is always spoken in a loud groan so it sounds more like "MAHH", but again, we know exactly what he means
That's about it for now, but I think now that he has mastered walking, the words are going to start multiplying like crazy!

He is also waving bye and understands almost everything we say. Ask him to go get something (his juice, paci, etc.) and he will bring it back everytime. We aren't training him like a dog, really, I promise.

Fall Fun!

Playing catch-up...Since I missed most of fall during our blog hiatus, I will fill in now. We had a great Halloween day. We spent the day with Uncle James and Auntie Barb (and Wynn too, of course). Ellie actually knew what was going on and was asking all day if it was time for trick-or-treat and if she could put on her costume. I didn't get any good pictures of them together in their costumes and Ethan didn't want to wear his hat at all and that was the main part of his costume! Oh well. We are really enjoying our loot now. Ethan had developed a fondness for lollipops and Ellie has been enjoying twizzlers. They shared the reese's peanut butter cups with daddy since he had to miss all the fun to volunteer at the firehouse. Such good kids.

We are having a rough time adjusting to daylight savings. Both kids were up before 6am today - Ethan at 4:45! I am hoping that they adjust in a few days or they might just kill me! Enjoy the new (and old) pictures.