Trick or treating for the first time! In our new neighborhood, no less.
Waiting to go out
Our tiny dinos, in a wagon in the front yard
Mama witch and her wagon full o’ babies.
How do you get this off?
Ben with Grandma
Nathan and Maddie
Judging by the fact that everyone’s up past their bed time, and Ben’s still asking [...]
Today we move to our new house. Ben and I have been awake since 4a, too excited to go back to sleep. Time to start the last-minute packing, which includes shutting down the computer..
Ben and I spent some time in the garden this morning while Maddie was napping.
While I was weeding, we noticed that our dill plants are covered in these Black Swallowtail caterpillars right now:
Technically they’re pests, but we’re not eating much dill anyway, and Ben and I really enjoyed seeing them. We looked at and talked [...]
Not getting kick backs from Little Tikes, I swear. The walker, which has a slot on top for play letters, was our main find at the Austin Mamas garage sale. Best 4 bucks I’ve spent in a while. Ben and Maddie fight over whose turn it is to push it.
Maddie’s pushing and walking behind the [...]
Somewhere under that layer of beans is the beautiful Maddie Roo:
Now to go finish hosing off the kitchen.
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his eyes closed
“My orange!” he cries out
a nightmare
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Maddie takes
half from the middle
of our bed
Maddie wants to do whatever Ben is doing, pretty much all the time.
Ben is beginning to read board books to himself by memory or by labeling the pictures out loud.
His current favorite book for us to read to him is a pop-up book called Corduroy Goes to the Beach. He asks for it several times [...]