Butter the Elephant

Gabe's preschool sends "Butter the Elephant" home with each student for adventures.  Naturally, he (she?) went scootering on the block.  Can I say?  Documenting Butter's activities for a weekend felt like a lot of responsibility, and we returned him two days late.  Homework is going to be quite the shock.

Three Months

"Say what?!  I'm three months old?  That is SO COOL."

Selfie

My FIVE YEAR OLD (yes, this is still blowing my mind) had her annual check-up yesterday, so she stayed home from school for some special girl time.  She's 40" tall and 35 pounds.  Still, as always, a peanut.

Fashion Tips

Sandals with socks is always a DON'T, but sandals and footy pajamas?  A definite DO.

Last Birthday Pics

And just like that, Ellie's birthday is gone.  The Birthday Banner on the mantel is down and won't go back up until Brian's birthday in January.  Luckily we have Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, and Christmas to get us through and satisfy our cake and candy cravings!  I love this time of year.

A little leaf throwing after getting off the school bus.

Showing off her birthday-crown from school.

Chocolate milk and leftover birthday cake is the best afterschool snack ever.

Seriously?  This kid kills me.

Happy Birthday!

Licking the bowl after cake making.

The finished "heart" cakes.

Gabe loved running around with the balloons.

Happy Birthday, darling.  I can't believe you are five.

Almost Twelve Weeks

Toothless grins are some of the best grins...

Carnival!

A few weekends ago Sleepy Hollow held both an Oktoberfest festival and a carnival supporting the local EMS in the same park, on the same day.  It was awesome.  Beer, sausage and polka music for the grown ups. Rides, rides, and more rides for the littles.

Poconos Weekend

Our lovely neighbors invited us to spend Columbus Day weekend at their cabin in the Poconos, and it was Mira's first time sleeping away from home!  We're so close to three months I can taste it.  The big excitement of the weekend was that we accidentally found ourselves in the middle of a manhunt, so we were surrounded by cops constantly patrolling and searching the woods.  Maybe not the best time to let the kids run mad outside.  So we chilled in the cabin (mostly), cooked chicken upside down (Andrew), ate burnt apple crisp (me), and played games.  All in all not a bad weekend.

Chilling with the baby by the fire.  I could have stayed like this for days.

L and G.

Gabe is not exactly into posing for pictures lately.

Ellie and L having a grand ol' time.

Playing in the field.  Anyone see a fugitive in the background?

Gabe and his GIANT ROCK.

We've Got Fairies!

The fairies moved in!  The fairies moved in!  We built this fairy door into our porch last fall, and eagerly anticipated our new fairy neighbors' arrival.  We waited, and waited, all winter, through summer, and still nothing.  Until today. Gabe and I were at the mall, and when we picked up Ellie after school look what we found!  The fairies must have moved in while Gabe and I were shopping.  They set up a little patio table, and even put a pot of flowers on their step.  All we need is a french press and a copy of the Fairy-New York Times and I'd feel right at home.

Gabe left a box of rocks as a present for them, and Ellie wrote a card covered in hearts welcoming them to our house.  I sure hope they write back!

And GREAT Grandma and the Newest

Miriam and her Great Grandmother, Doris.

Last weekend we threw the kids in the car and put another state under Mira's belt, Pennsylvania!  Brian's grandmother was visiting from Florida and we couldn't miss the opportunity to get these two together.  Thanks to Brian's cousin Kathleen Jacobsohn for the picture.

Grandma and the Newest

9 weeks?

10?  I'm losing track.  Which is a good thing, right?

And then there were three