a little inspiration

Pixie hat season.  And she is pulling up on everything.  And I can feel four teeth coming in on the top.  Oh my, the season is changing for her.

This about killed me yesterday.  I had a dream where I told him I'd kill him if he kept doing what he was doing.  I then realized I was the violent one.  But thank heaven for the acupuncturist.

We spent the whole afternoon outside.  He dug out rocks and raked and helped and helped and helped. She worked on figuring out climbing up and down hill. They were both completely exhausted.

She is taking them off to taste each one.  He was so hard to play with this morning, I kept trying, but both of us were getting in the way of it being fun.  He told me he dreamed the old house burned down.

My best friend's baby came in the night.  It was the most wonderful news to wake up too.  Hearing everyone was safe and preparing for rest I spent the rest of the morning crying tears of joy.

Yesterday I laid on the floor all afternoon while he watched Blue Planet and she wiggled. She pulled up to standing.  Today I saw her crawl.

A visit was all we needed to brighten everyone's day.  And it was already pretty splendiferous.

We've entered the time of perfect blue skies framed by bright colored leaves.  The days have been going pretty fast recently making me think we're all getting along well.  John and I are working together again and it feels good.

It was his first time trick or treating and I didn't bring the camera.  Dang, he was cute.  The little wolf stayed with her Papa most of the night.

We both heard her say, "Mama!" today.  I worked on finishing her costume all day.  We settled some other things and took everything out of the old house tonight. (Except he just told me he left some train parts.)

Having the chance to use my grandmother's china and tea pot is so much fun.  I think she'd appreciate the addition of the pink zigzags.  It stays dark here in the morning really late and feels just like midnight until nearly 8am.  Then, suddenly, it is day time.

A walk around our new digs.  Life is full of magic.  From here to there, From there to here, Funny things are everywhere.

Every time scenes like this happen I melt.  Oh, how wonderful you two are to each other.  On this day we cleaned and cleaned and packed up the last bits at the old place.  Thank god for Stuart.  And Boba.  And Ianucci's.

Tomorrow he will be exactly 4.5 years.  Today he flipped his own pancakes and dressed up like a ninja for breakfast.  And then there was pumpkin carving.  Each day we move a little farther along the way.

The 24th got lost in there somewhere.  The baby has entered the magical age where she says, "Deedle, leedle, deedle," over and over.  Just like her brother.  John and I are so fawning over it and Emerson now knows why his pet polar bear is called Deedle and he is so proud.  Look at his wonderful writing!  I love to see this happening. She is 9 months in a couple days so I'll keep the big things to myself a little longer, but she is working and growing like crazy.  These swings are in our back yard.  You can't see, but his face was as joyful as hers.

I couldn't choose today.  A sweet smile for a fuzzy blanket we all snuggled.  A brief moment of happiness with shadow puppet leaves.  Some days are really hard.  The baby is trying to downward dog all over the place.

She bonked her head three times today.  We are entering that stage where they need a full time helmet.  I had tea and started a new project while he ate apple sauce with yogurt and powder.  We are heading towards three years of that being his favorite snack.

Yes, I leave her in the closet to play.  I loved seeing her in something I remember so vividly from Emerson being small.  John and E put on a show in the evening and it was so, so needed.  We cooked the tiny carrots.

One last harvest at the old place.  We were all exhausted on the ride to the new place.

Somehow we made it all the way through the day.  The extra help we had was amazing and being able to send E to a friends house for most of the day really made the whole thing possible.  Everyone was hungry at the end.