Chatty Chatty

Amelia is getting more and more verbal every day. While this video doesn't quite give her all the credit, she is experimenting with Ps, Ts, clicking sounds and of course the occasional screech. She is just coming into herself and life with 2 kids is getting more and more fun!

Autumn Days

Time to dust off the vests! Fall is coming to California. We've had some lovely days (and a bit of early rain) and we're getting ready for winter. I love this time of year out here, but certainly miss the colors of New England. Not withstanding, it does small like autumn out here and the leaves are changing colors. We try and get outside as much as possible before the rain comes, and I just love this picture of my handsome boy at the park.

In other news, life has been super crazy. We just got back from 4 days in Reno with Mama and Papa to escape the cloud of poisonous gas being unleashed on our home to rid it of termites! (Ugh.) After a ton of work to get the house prepped for the fumigation, we headed up for a lovely 4 days in the high desert. It was certainly colder up there and there was even snow over the summit.

We got back last night to a fumigated house - without water! Both Terminex and PG&E declared "not me". Awesome. After the kids went to bed, Tim uncovered a broken something going into our house, and now it is just another detail we need to address.... why does it always feel like once you figure one thing out, something else breaks!!

Handsome boy

Lately we've had a hard time getting a good picture of Miles and I am not sure why. I don't think he has become less photogenic, just more busy. As soon as he is in front of the camera, he wants to see the picture, whether or not I actually got a shot off. He also is getting his last molars, so is constantly drooling with his fist in his mouth. (good times). He also has learned a "fake" smile which shows his teeth, but that's about it.

Last week we got a good one. He was doing his fake smile until I announced that "Mommy farted" (I didn't), which just lit him up and we got the Miles-Sparkle to translate into photo. I just love my handsome boy!

The wiggles...

It only seems fitting that my kids went as Wiggles this Halloween: Miles loves music, and the guitar so Murray was a logical fit. Amelia, who hasn't yet seen the show, but adores her older brother and is a wiggle herself, seemed like a natural Dorothy the Dinosaur.

We had several Halloween events, including the parade down Burlingame Ave, a party at Mama Sue's and of course the Trick Or Treating event on Halloween itself - talk about a holiday with a lot of legs - and Miles loved every minute. He started out a little shy with the hole knocking on neighborhood doors, but by the end of it, he was targeting which houses to go attack and boldly walking up without either of us. He was so excited, he even woke up on 11/1 asking when he could go "Frick o Freet" again and doesn't get that the holiday is over... why should he - it last for 3 weeks!

Here are some pics of our various events...

Halloween party at Mama Sue's





Halloween Night - trick or treating...

Funny Blues

I seemed to have captured a moment here in mid expression - and it just makes me smile. While I think Amelia looks amazing like her big brother, she has much bigger, rounder, and bluer eyes.... not a bad thing!

While in Cary...

Tim did an amazing job holding down the fort with the kids while I was gone for the whole week - leaving Monday and not getting home until Friday. The trip was tough on me, super long days, lots of stress, but good overall that I was there. The hardest thing was being away from the kids. Tim kept saying to relax and have a nice time, get some sleep, etc. While I didn't do any of that, I did enjoy not getting woken up at all hours of the night by my Sweet Bug. Tim sent this along to me early in the week - notice Amelia waving!


In tangential news: Traveling and nursing doesn't really mix - but it seems as if Airport Security is used to having women like me come through declaring gallons of milk...

Pics off the iPhone

So, it's been ages since I posted. Life has been crazy with travel to North Carolina, getting the Cary Croup (my code name for the illness that went around the NC office) and the holiday celebrations - more on that to come. But while things are still super crazy, I am eager to get some of the memories off my iPhone and out of my head. Life is good, super busy, but wonderful.