Telephone Sheep

These clever creations are on display at the Museum of Communications in Frankfurt, Germany.

*Thanks for the heads up, Mom.

The Very Best Present a Girl Could Ask For

D drove all the way from Salt Lake City yesterday to be with me on my birthday today, what a guy.

These are a Few of His Favorite Things

Baby Beethoven











Plan Toys teether





Sophie














Goodnight Moon









Happy Apple












Razberry Teether








Skwish











Spatulas













Koosh





Trotter the Pony

Found Those Feet

Little Gobblins

We started out our evening down at our local Trick or Treat along the storefronts of our very wet and rainy downtown for about 30 minutes. E's really become quite anxious about adults dressed up, she skipped well over half of the doorways due to a ghoulish costume (and in one case a dopey man in an Eeyore get-up at the funeral home!).

Then we came home for a wardrobe change, and to meet up with Mabel for some kiddo pic's. I had to take quite a few to finally get one where all 3 were holding still...here we have Tinker Bell, Duckie, and a Ballerina.

It's the Great Pumpkin!

E's been inundated with autumn, pumpkins, and Halloween this last month. She's come home singing songs, reciting poems and tons of art projects! This morning I put N down for his nap, and we set to work deciding on a face for her white ghost pumpkin and then carving it up.

And we finally "lit" our pumpkin (with a flashlight) and waited for the doorbell as we ate dinner.

("H is for Halloween")

All Dressed Up With No Place to Go

E's really been back and forth health wise lately. School has added a whole new barrage of germs that her little system has yet to be accustom. It's runny noses, coughs, and on-and-off fevers that don't ever amount to anything serious. And of course today was no exception. When I picked her up from school yesterday her teacher mentioned that she was complaining of being really tired all day, so we had an easy evening, she got a good nights rest and seemed fine this morning. She put on her costume (did a quick video chat with Daddy), we painted her little kitty-cat face and mine and I sent her to school without a thought. But, when I showed up to help out at her class party, she was warm and pale, so I took her home early for a long nap and down time. She was acting fine, eating everything I gave her and keeping up on fluids, so I haven't really worried, but her fever was around all day. So I've been hesitant to really get crazy for this years festivities. It's hard enough to keep her away from her little brother, so we'll see.

I See the Moon and the Moon See's Me...

We're heading into the final stretch. D's been gone for 4 weeks, and we're expecting him at the end of next week. His tour van skimmed down the west coast, dipped along the southern regions, plowed up the east shore and into Canada, then finally made the turn to head west and home to us.

We miss him, and find our own special ways to stay connected. A few weeks ago while we chatted one evening after I had put the kids to bed and he was making the ever-so-long drive from Tucson to Austin I pulled back the curtains to glance out the window. I noticed how big and beautiful the moon was, and cringed as the theme song from the 1986 animated hit, An American Tail started playing in my head. I couldn't resist and asked D if he could see the moon, and he could. We were looking at the same thing at the same time, and as tacky as it may seem, it really did bring him closer.

E loved hearing this when I told her the next morning and she's been dying to do the same thing over the phone but to no avail. It's either cloudy here or where her daddy is, or we just can't get ahold of him before he takes the stage. So we wait, we video chat some mornings, we talk during the day, and I try to every once in a while shoot him a picture of the kids. We make it work. We wake up, take each hour as it comes, and then do it all over again the next day. It's too overwhelming to keep track of 'how much longer,' or even which city he's passing through. We just take it day by day and as the light dims each evening we keep our lookout for that moon.

An Apple a Day

I Just Killed a Spider with my Phone!

A rather large specimen tried to make a break for it across our kitchen floor from under our fridge. I just so happened to be standing at the counter I gasped, and dropped my phone right on top of it.

So glad I have one of those protective sleeves!