Happy Halloween!

The kids had a lot of fun trick-or-treating tonight!

Little Miss Peacock

Little chicken caught with a mouthful of chocolate!

And, a few pics from their "Dress Rehearsal" the other night.

Sleepy Ballerina!

It was too cold to wear the ballerina costume (her first choice) on Halloween night, and sadly, she didn't get to wear it to her daycare Halloween parade either, since Alyse was sick that day and both girls stayed home.  But she was happy enough to prance around in it at home!

Practicing twirls!

Dinosaur ROARS!!!

A rare family pic, thanks to our neighbor!

Froggie Recreations

I am so easily entertained...

Beach pics -- finally!

Once again, I am crazy late with posting our beach photos this year.  I tried to use batch editing in photoshop, but most of them ended up looking worse, so I got frustrated and quit.  Two months later, I realize I'm never going to find the time to go back and edit all of the photos individually, so I'm just posting them as-is (maybe someday I'll get around to editing my favorite favorites.)  And since I'm kind of obsessed with keeping the blog in chronological order...you can find the posts (er...photo dumps) here:

http://watchcaldergrow.blogspot.com/2011/08/obx-2011.html

http://watchcaldergrow.blogspot.com/2011/08/beach-dancing.html

http://watchcaldergrow.blogspot.com/2011/08/beach-birthday-celebration.html

I love this kid.

Life is hectic these days, and I'm really missing my sweet boy now that he is in kindergarten.  I spent some extra time cuddling with him tonight at bedtime.  When I got up to leave he asked me not to make him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch tomorrow.  It's his favorite, so I had to ask why.  His response?  "Sometimes I like to sit next to Ava at lunch, and she's allergic to peanut butter and jelly."  I told him he was very sweet to think of another person's needs and promised not to put any peanut butter in his lunch, and he said "No jelly either, mommy.  She's allergic to jelly too."  :)

8 Months

I'm 8 months old now. Look what I can do!

Here I am on my 8 month birthday, wearing the same outfit my sister wore on her 8 month birthday!

I like blocks.  I especially like to eat them!

I am a happy, happy girl!

Last Day of Summer

On the last day of summer, we broke out the sprinkler and a certain little someone had just as much fun as her big brother and sister!