October

We had a great heat wave lately - 70's and 80's, real summer weather - but have now returned to more season-appropriate weather. Since summer was on the cool side, this heat wave has made me less grumpy about heading into autumn/winter. I'm looking forward to hot chocolate... Halloween... Christmas... not so much the idea of darkness falling at earlier than 5pm and the 1385 layers the children will need and not being able to go in and out of our garden at will.

E has been enjoying his preschool. He's been bringing home lots of paintings and other little projects. The joy of having a very verbal 3 year old - he's able to tell me a fair amount of details about his day. I feel good about the place he's going to. It's only 3 hours per morning but it's become important in our lives.

C is developing in leaps and bounds, although she still only has two teeth. She also doesn't sleep very well. A good night for us is when she's only up 3 times. A bad night can be 9+ settlings. B helps me a lot otherwise I would have crashed and burned by now. But she's a smart little lady so I try and count my blessings. She cruises now (holds onto the furniture and sidles along), claps, waves, sticks her tongue out at you and goes "LEBBLE LEBBLE" in her baby voice, and loves it when you copy what she's doing. Also dances (in a rickety, baby manner) when music is on. And laughs at her big brother. Crawls away at warp speed while sticking forbidden things in her mouth and looking smug.

So... photos... one, at least.

Brother and sister on the little trampoline. She was actually bouncing (not jumping, obviously) but bending her knees and going up and down with big grins.

Ok - one more picture:


Still need to blog about the CA trip. Right now we're counting down the days until Halloween... that's the next fun landmark.