Need an Airplane?

My only contribution to this drawing was running to get the camera, hoping he didn't erase it in the meantime, and snapping the photo. He drew this all himself. Holy fudge.

Halloween

Pardon the blurriness of the photos. I was trying to take them as the Usual Suspects were all over the place, along with the moms and Lucia's Oma trying to get photos, and Jeremy trying to help wrangle kids. All as we were seconds away from leaving.

This was the best Sophie shot I could get... she kept wanting to turn around, so I wasn't even able to get a shot of her turtle back. Luckily it's still in the car. After trick-or-treating two houses in our neighborhood with Lu and Pipes we hit up Pomper Drew's, a friend of Grammy's, and then the costume contest downtown. Dylan won Most Creative for ages 0-3!!! Then it was off to Grammy's for trick-or-treating, where the costumes came off and full melt-downs and denials of Halloween being over ensued. Despite the fact that when we were actually trick-or-treating, Dylan had no interest.

Newest Obsession

It sounds like it should be a perfume. But instead, it's Sophie's thing. The Cozy Coupe. The #1 selling car in the U.S. has attracted our daughter to the point of obsession. On a good day there are only 5 fights over whose turn it is, only one scream fest because Mom is removing Sophie because we have to go somewhere, only one running over of some body part. Sometimes she ends up under the car because she's still learning about edges. Sometimes she takes a hammer to it... apparently it's in need of repairs. But most of the time... she just tries to drive backwards. I should have never put her in the cart at Hannaford's that has the steering wheels.

How to Entertain Children

When it's 40 degrees out, windy, and yet Burlington's Church St is still crowded on Church St? Why, just step inside the mall, find the ridiculous ride-on things (what are they even called??), shell out a whooping 75 cents to turn one on. This = happy kids. Until its over, they want more and you try to explain that the machine just took ALL the quarters we had. Luckily they were in the same one when we turned the machine on... only after did Dylan discover the other three. Sophie could have cared less as long as she got to drive.

Leaf Pile

This only reflects a small portion of the leaves that Jeremy and I desperately tried to keep up with and then, finally, gave up on.