Lucy at Gymnastics

Lucy enjoys her gymnastics class on Wednesdays and listens well. She works very hard and is amazing at somersaults (see video). Nickolas, the good boy he is, sits on the floor with us, since mommy has to be there to participate, and watches or plays games. Flora, being the perfect baby, hangs out in the carrier and also watches. So far, so good. When Lucy turns 3, if she chooses, she can take a class all on her own (phew).

Caged Animal

Flora is on the move. She is almost 1 year old, after all, but within a month, she went from a some crawling, to inching on her butt, to fast crawling, and now climbing and creeping. In addition to wanting to play and crawl all over Lucy's potty seat, we found her half-way up the stairs the other day. By the end of that day, the baby gate was dug up and re-installed.

Mommy-Lucy Day: Ballerinas

Lucy and mommy enjoyed some one-on-one time at the Phillips Collection to see the Degas ballerina exhibit. A special event was taking place and Kirov ballerinas came to perform. Lucy, in tutu, was dazzled by their movements.

New Arrivals

New hockey skates arrived.

As well as a new Glasgow Celtic Football Club hoodie.

Best Buddies

Happy Halloween!

I think the kids had the best Halloween ever. They've only been counting down to it for the past 20 days or so. They had so much fun seeing all of the kids and their costumes. Lucy was speechless when she saw 4 10-year old Princesses. Nickolas, of course, was a hockey player and was quite proud his team is 7-2. Lucy was a cupcake fairy princess and rode on a princess chariot. Flora was a sweet little bunny. We learned that Lucy really likes witches and that Nickolas had Trick-o-treating down to a science by carrying his candy bucket with his hockey stick. After about 3 cul-de-sacs, he said "I think I've got enough candy, I'm getting tired, lets go back and hand out more candy."

Look who's taking a

BOTTLE!

It only took 11 months. Daddy was playing with the kids in the upstairs bedroom and Flora found what had been used by Lucy as a a doll bottle and started to suck on it. Daddy had the idea to test it out and put milk in it. Sure enough, she loves getting her little hands on it and drinks away.

Really? A $0.99 Gerber bottle after ALL of the other varieties we tried?

Flora reclining while snacking.

Sunday Funday

Our preschool had a Fall Fest Sunday afternoon. Before the Fall Fest, we enjoyed the weather and took a stroll into Old Town Alexandria with daddy. The Fall Fest was fun - they kids rode on a choo-choo with daddy, played all sorts of games, jumped on lots of inflatable things, ran around with excited classmates, and ate hot dogs.

Mommy and Baby (Green) Nite Nite

Lucy's baby, Green, is now wearing Flora's newborn pajamas. Tonight, they happen to match.

Three Little Pumpkins

Nickolas and Lucy's visit to the preschool pumpkin patch as well as Lucy's outfit inspired today's front yard photo shoot. It comprises their vast pumpkin collection acquired over the past 10 days. It got a little sunny, hence the squinting.