The Chicken and the Ballerina

So this year we just headed over to our friends house here in Atlanta for a fun gathering of little costumed people and pizza, candy, etc. for everyone. It was lots of fun and it took Abra 2 hrs to fall asleep that night despite our limiting her candy intake to just a few pieces.

Neiv might be the cutest Chicken yet.

Abra and Juliet were really into the M&Ms. Not into making them into shapes so much.

Juliet showing Abra her princess dress.

This suit fit Abra like a glove at 8 months but was really big on Neiv at 10 months. :-)

Keeping me busy...

Our little princess ballerina. I was trying to get her comfortable with the idea of wearing the tutu to Juliet's house on Saturday but it turned into a ballet-dancing obsession. Now she wants to wear the tutu all the time and watch youtube videos of 3 yr old ballerinas. I have to admit though, she has some pretty good moves when she decides to bust out on her own.


Today we weaned the ballerina from the paci. We met Mary, Lucy, and baby Elle for lunch and gave the pacis to Elle as a gift (since only "babies" need pacis and not "big girls"). It went really well and Abra seemed to be completely on board. She is skipping her nap in there right now but at least not crying hysterically. Hopefully she will be so tired tonight that she will fall asleep without too much trouble. I am glad to have those pacis out of the house though. Down to just one baby with pacis.


Look at this cutie pie. She likes to prop her foot up while eating. Her favorite new food is broccoli and she has decided that she dislikes most other food (except bread of course). Always the tyrant. Darn cute though.

Aunt Beth and Uncle Greg come to visit.

Aunt Beth captured Neiv's 2 massive teeth coming through on top.









Neiv tolerating Abra.















Abra can't get enough of Uncle Greg.

























Neiv not sure about the hayride.

Pumpkin Patch round 2

It was much colder this round.

As good as it gets for a picture of the two of them.

We spent a little cash this time - $2 for mini pumpkins and $3 for boiled peanuts. Tried to convince Abra to get some face paint but she would have none of it. :-)

Neiv was pretty sick this day believe it or not. The only time she smiled was
when we put her down next to the pumpkins.

Pumpkin Patch fun

We took advantage of one of the two pretty days Georgia has had since we arrived to visit the local pumpkin patch. The girls loved it and it was free! Next time we'll buy a couple little punkins to do our part. :-)

Daddy and his punkins.
Took some coaxing to get Abra on the hay ride but she loved it in the end.

Not hard to get a good picture of this cutie. Can't you just smell the cider here?

Abra loved "sittin on the punkins lika chair." I thought Neiv's face was funny as well (click on the picture to see closer).

Just wouldn't smile for (or look at) the camera.

Farmer Abra.

Finally "playing" together

This N That

Sorry about the lack of blog-age. Alan has been hogging the computer. And I have been lazy. So there.

There have been many many funny things said recently by the older runt. She is getting pretty sophisticated with her sentences and it seems as though her speech has gone from a word here or there to a complete thought in the matter of weeks. It is a fun age (despite the constant whining and tantrum-throwing).

A couple weeks ago Alan and I were chatting playfully in the kitchen while the girls were at the table eating their dinner or whatnot. We didn't really think Abra was paying any attention to us until she piped up with "Mommy spanked Daddy." I told her to keep that one to herself. :-)

She is always pointing out how one thing resembles something totally different - like with the half-eaten sandwich being a boat or a dinosaur. Today we had our 6th successful poop in the potty. As we were going through the motions of dumping poo from Abra's potty to the "big" potty she said "Look Mommy- caterpillar poo-poo." We've been reading alot of the hungry caterpillar lately.

Now look closely at this picture and see if you can guess what she was painting a picture of:


Yep, I thought it was pretty obvious too. It's a picture of Jesus sliding down a slide.

You can't make this stuff up folks. :-)

Runt 2 is calling my name. Check back later for more.