Happy Halloween!

This photo is from the Halloween fete we had in our neighborhood over the weekend. I'll put up some more photos - and one with Anais as a monkey - after the trick or treating tonight.

New tooth

Nicolas cut his 3rd tooth yesterday. He got his first 2 before he was 4 months old without much notice but this one took another 3+ months with many a drool soaked bib. Dylan is still working on his first - pretty late for our kids :-)

Ellen's Dance

Here's a video from Ellen's "Class Observation".

Dance class

Ellen is taking a Creative Movement class at the YMCA this fall and had a class "observation" yesterday. Here are some photos of our little Margot Fonteyn. In the words of her Aunt Suzi after seeing Ellen reach for her toes, "I see she gets her flexibility from her mother!"

New trees

We planted 2 new maple trees this weekend thanks to a end of season sale at Home Depot. $20 for each - can't beat it :-). Ellen and Anais had fun digging a hole for one of them.

Budding Artist

Ellen is in a very creative stage right now and doing lots of drawing and painting. This morning she did a drawing of a dragon who had just a little fire breath, a castle with a flower and a princess named "Ellen". In the photo is a finger painting she did 2 days ago.

TI(RED)

Nicolas and Dylan are ADMIR(RED) and INSPI(RED) respectively but I'm just TI(RED) thanks to a whole lot of teething. Between the 2 of them we are enjoying every symptom in the book - fever, coughing, drooling, runny nose, fussiness, and my personal favorite - nighttime wakefulness.

Little fish

Ellen and Anais started swim lessons as the local YMCA a couple weeks ago. They both are really enjoying it and quickly getting used to the water.

Aunt Suzi is here!

Aunt Suzi arrived on Wednesday evening and by the first day was getting lots of giggles and hugs from the girls and has quickly learned to put the boys down for their naps - not an easy feat! We are glad (and grateful) that you are here!

Fall Harvest Festival

Last weekend we trekked out to the Fall Harvest Festival at a local farm. The kids rode ponies, picked out pumpkins, got their face painted and even played with some native american artifacts. It had great potential to be a fun day but was fairly miserable because of the high heat and humity... in October :-)