Back to work

*sigh*

So here I go. I am sad, but I like my job a lot, and there's worse things in the world than returning to a good job that I love

We have started potty training in earnest with Madeleine. We put her on the toilet when we change her diaper, and 99% of the time she pees. She has just started yesterday actually asking to use the toilet. I'm not sure if she feels the urge to go or just the urge to get another sticker for her chart.

Noah just grows and grows. He smiles all the time now, and we think he's tried to laugh a couple times. He's definately taking purposeful swipes at hanging toys and sometimes our faces. He's solidly wearing 3-6month clothes now, and I have put away our last newborn sleeper for good. He's my adorable little monkey boy!

Here are some pictures!

Snuggling up with Homer for a nap

Noah and Craig Willmann (Craig is one week old, born a couple weeks early)

Madeleine helps with the laundry by hanging a sock.

Potty time. For some reason, she insists on being starkers to pee. We're working on that.

Noah and Dad

DDR!

She tries daily to put clothes on, sometimes with disastrous results.

This is definately Shannon's offspring.

Happy Halloween!

Got my camera back! Here's pics of our Halloween festivities! Madeleine and I made cookies on Saturday. We went to Longfellow's Garden Center to pick a pumpkin on Sunday with PaPa and Gramma, and then on Tuesday, we got our little fairy dressed and went trick or treating. We went to the Ramsay's, to Kelly's and to the Neudeckers,then we had dinner at McDonald's. We wanted to keep it short and simple, it being our first trick or treat experience.

Making cookies

Picking out a pumpkin and playing in the straw maze at Longfellow's

Trying on the costume (I don't know what the "Oh No!" pose was for)

Our little pixie!

Such a delicate little flower.

30 on the 30th

In honor of my sister's 30th Birthday on October 30, and Halloween, I present to you this nugget from the Ramsay archives, taken on Halloween in 1979:

Becca (3 years) in green as the Pumpkin, Me (4 1/2 years) in yellow as the Cat

Mom swears we wanted to wear them. I have never met anyone else in all my life who as seen these costumes. It's bad enough the inflatable helmet-type things were twice the size of any normal prechooler's head, but did they have to make them look stoned, too?

Here are my other two favorite photos of me and my fabulous sister:

Christmas 1976

November 2005

Cheers and Happy Birthday to you, Becca, my smart and beautiful sister. You're the best. I wouldn't have wanted to wear an inflatable Halloween costume with anyone else!