Breakfast

Emily has a thing for feeding her hair. I guess it's hungry and she wants to make sure it doesn't stay too thin... I don't know.
Here she is on a morning with french toast. Yummm...


Did I get caught??? Oops!

The Kids

I just really love this picture of the kids. So, I thought I'd share it.
Enjoy!

Break Through!

Take a look at the outfit Josh is wearing. Nothing spectacular, but it is important.


Did you know that getting dressing by yourself is a VERY hard thing to learn? Well, apparently it is. Normally, when I ask him to try to put on his shirt, or take it off or whatever, his response is "that's hard to do." Not today! Today, he did it all by himself!

So, the importance of this outfit is, it is the first one he ever put on completely on his own. Yeah for Josh! He's such a big boy.

The Swamp

A few weeks ago, we headed over to the mall to play at the little playground called the swamp. I was shocked! Emily started crawling around, and climbing up everything. They both had a wonderful time. The toys in this playground are all squishy and soft. And there are no wood chips on the ground for Emily to eat. This is the perfect place for my kids to go have fun.

You can see that Emily is a little dare devil. She has no qualms about going down a slide, or the stairs for that matter, with no help. (She does the same thing with our furniture at home.)

Playing Dress Up

Sometime back in October, we were getting a little bored, so I pulled a bunch of clothes out of my closet that we don't use anymore and let the kids play dress up.

Josh wearing one of Daddy's old suit jackets. It almost fits!

Josh also found a shirt of mine that he thought fit perfectly. It was so comfortable, he sat down to watch TV (before the moratorium on it) while wearing it.

Emily didn't quite get the dress up idea, but she had just as much fun with the clothes.

Let's see what Mommy's skirt tastes like... mmm, good!

Peek-a-boo!

Halloween

Yes, I am that far behind on blogs. I am sorry. We took away television during the day, so I don't have much time to sit and blog, unless the kids are asleep. At those times, I like to be asleep myself. :)

For Halloween, we had a ladybug costume given to us, so Emily was a ladybug. Josh wanted to be Curious George, so I pulled out my brand spankin' new 30 year old sewing machine... my mom just gave me hers... and made it for him. I had a lot of fun doing it. I know, I know, Mom, you tried to teach me when I was young, but I'm just that stubborn. What can I say? Anyhow, I think it turned out quite well. The kids were so cute, and Josh had a blast. We went to the Trunk-or-Treat at the church and Boo at the Zoo at the community college zoo. (Which is essentially trick or treating in the zoo itself) Josh finally finished off his candy this week. (Thanksgiving week) Peter got in on all the fun and dressed up as the Man in the Yellow Hat.

Curious George, the Man in the Yellow Hat, and our LadyBug (Josh called her a "BabyBug")


Josh at Boo at the Zoo


Emily at Boo at the Zoo


I know this picture is random, but here's the explanation. At the top you see two big triangles. Below them, if you look real hard, you can see a face with eyes, nose, and mouth. Josh drew that... all by himself... with the intention of it being a face. He is soooo talented.

Republican Rally

On Saturday, I went to the republican headquarters here in Gainesville and made calls for a little over an hour to try to "get out the vote." While I was there, I found out that Sarah Palin was going to be at a rally only about 45 minutes away. So, Peter and I packed up the kids and headed down. It was a lot of fun. I heard there were about 7,000 people there on this high school baseball field. We had a great time.

And now for pictures of the really important attendees...

Josh enjoyed being able to run around in the dirt on the baseball diamond, and Emily just liked crawling around in the grass and eating it. Yum!