Liddy Art

So you may not appreciate these drawings as much as I do but when drawing and coloring keeps your child occupied for hours at a time you have to be grateful for all of the colorful artwork around your house. I love to see the new things Liddy comes up with. These are some her most recent drawings. What do you think of the nose, ha ha? Sometimes I have a hard time throwing the papers away so some genius person suggested I take pictures of the ones I can't part with and save them for Liddy that way. I love my Liddy.

Halle Mei Doesn't Walk

Here are some recent pictures of Hal. She loves to set up this little doll table, put a doll on one chair, food and dishes on the table and then sit in the other chair. She'll stay there forever and play quietly. Halle is 2 days away from being 18 months and she absolutely refuses to walk. There's nothing wrong with her, she'll hold my hand and walk or walk behind push-toys, but nothing on her own. She is the biggest chicken I've ever known, my mom says it reminds her of me when I was Halle's age and Mike says it reminds him of me at 28. Whatever Mike.

Halloween

The reason I don't update my blog very often is that I don't feel like I have anything really interesting to say. Well I still don't but I thought I'd put up a couple of pictures of my girls on Halloween. We had fun hanging out with friends at our church and then came home and handed out a million pieces of candy while Mike and Liddy took turns jumping out of the garbage can to scare people. I guess I probably should have gotten a picture of that! Oh, Halle was an octopus and Liddy was a witch.




Below is a picture of me and Mike on our way to a Halloween party at a friend’s house. The theme was 70's and this is about as 70's as we got. We had a lot of fun though!



While Mike and Liddy were trick-or-treating, I stayed home with Halle. As you can tell, I didn't keep a very close eye on her and she found this sucker which she sucked the wrapper right off of.




We carved pumpkins the Monday before Halloween. We just stayed at home and did it in our kitchen, but the girls had fun (once Hal stopped being scared of the guts from the pumpkin) and Liddy even carved some of her own pumpkin. She probably would have done the whole thing if I wasn't such a control freak:) I thought it was cute that she had drawn a picture of a jack-o-lantern at school and brought it home to show me that's what she wanted her pumpkin to look like. I forgot to take picuters of the finished product--I'll do better next year.