Trick or Treat!

After dinner, we headed over to Stacy and Neil's house with Sara, Sadie, Dave, and Sadie's Mimi and Zayde who were in town. They have a great neighborhood for trick or treating with 2 toddlers. Lily was a little unsure of what to do at first but after watching Sadie for a few houses her toddler hoarding instinct kicked in and her little hand was reaching for candy like all the other kids.

"Hey adults! I'm all ready for trick or treating!"

Stacy had special treats for 2 of her favorite trick or treaters - goldfish!

"Sadie, are you sure someone is home here?"

"Daddy is a good trick or treater!"

"Ooh! Candy!"

"I got a lot of candy! I got a lot of candy!"

"Argh! This won't open!"

"Thanks for opening the mini oreos Mommy and Daddy!"

Halloween Day Care Party

Let me start by saying these women are BRAVE. I would not have volunteered to put a bunch of almost 2 year olds into costumes that honestly, a lot of them didn't want to wear (at first). But then there was a parade (fun) and cookies (really fun) and dancing (really fun and really cute).

"Parades are fun!"

"Cookie!!"

Raking Leaves with Daddy

Lily LOVES to sweep. She's been spending time in the 2 year old room at daycare and the teachers commented to me that they think that Lily wants to use the potty... until I showed them that the reason she was in there all the time was that she was trying to get the broom and dustpan! Here are some candids of her "helping" Jake rake leaves.

"First, help Daddy make a big pile of leaves."

"Then you have to get the leaves on your broom, just like Daddy does with his rake."

"Then you get your broom up to the bag, just like Daddy does it!"

"Now my leaves are in the bag!"

"Time for more leaves!"

Football Sunday

Here is a picture of Lily and I in our Superbowl gear. In case you can't tell, because we're dressed like twins and all, Lily is on the right and I am on the left. :)

Halloween Decorations

Today after school Lily and I decorated for Halloween. She picked the decoration, I put tape on it, she stuck it on the door. Repeat x30.

"I put this one up all by myself!"

"See my Halloween decorations? Didn't I do a good job?!"

Solo Ring Around the Rosey

As you all know, Lily loves "Ring around the rosey," or as she calls it, "ashes." (As in ashes ashes we all fall down.) As you may not know, one of her current favorite "games" is to bring in all the toilet paper and paper towels we buy from Costco from the storage room. As some point, these two games merged into a version of ring around the rosey that resembles dizzy bat.

Take one:

The problem here is that she really wants to see the video on the camera screen. So I tried for a while to capture the whole song.

Take seven:

I wear my sunglasses... in the basement.

Toddlers are funny...



And she wasn't actually calling for Jake by the way. Don't want you to think there is a new way to say Daddy.

Apple Picking

Last weekend, we took Lily to pick apples at Homestead Farms. Lily had a great time helping to pick apples, eating apples, seeing the farm animals, and choosing a pumpkin.

"The apples goes in the basket, right?"

"This is the best apple ever!"

"Baa!"

"Animal!"

"My pumpkin, isn't it cute?"

Ryan's Birthday Party

This weekend, Lily went to her friends Ryan's birthday part at My Gym. She had a great time playing the games with the other kids.

"Hattie!"

"This is a neat car, I have a similar one at home"

"Ball!"