Do NOT touch my candy!

Catie has inherited the Look and isn't afraid to use it when her stash of candy is under attack.

Trick or Treat

The obvious solution when one has identical twins.


Erika decided to be a kitty witch with red highlights in her hair as Catie gets in on the picture fun


Miranda as Thing 2. The blue hair stuff I bought didn't work well on their fine hair.


Catie enjoying part of her haul as Uncle Mark looks on.

Pajama Day Part 2

Erika and her friend, Sarah, listen to a bedtime story about owls.



Part of the fun of the pajama party is "waking up" to a pancake breakfast. Erika & Sarah wait for their pancakes. Ms Polly also taught the kids how to cut their pancakes by themselves.



More of Erika's class working their new knife skills.



Catie and Miranda (in back) were the official taste testers for the orange and apple juice. Miranda thinks her juice is not up to spec. :-)

Pajama Day

Erika's class had a pajama day instead of a costume party. Fortunately, I was able to volunteer as I could bring Catie and Miranda with me to help. Below, Miranda is very excited to volunteer, complete with her own visitor's badge.



Ms Polly, the teacher, awaits the return of the kiddos from recess. She seems to be thinking, "now what am I missing for the PJ party?"



Erika in her PJs and favorite teddy bear.



Catie helps out by finding the purple legos in the lego table.

Costume practice at the YMCA

On Sat., we went to the YMCA costume party to have some fun and try out the costumes for this year. Erika is a witch with the best hat I've evern seen.



The twins are Thing 1 and Thing 2 as this is the last year I, Mommy, have this much influence over their costume choice. I'm the Cat-in-the-Hat. Make-up and blue hair on Halloween night.

Catie says Boodu!

This stuffed dog gets a lot of mileage at our house.

In fact, he has three names:

Erika-Puppito

Catie-Boodu

Miranda-Enu

I'm not sure how sustainable three independent languages are, but we'll get there.

Museum of Flight

Saturday, the whole family went to the Museum of Flight at Boeing field.

Cleanup!

I heard a lot of chatter in the dining room. Apparently, Catie spilled her juice, and the cleanup started!
I guess they *do* know what to do! Such a team effort! I snuck in with the camera to catch them.

Next, Mt. Rainier

Guess what Miranda was doing during naptime today? It sure wasn't sleeping.


And she is so happy with her accomplishment of clearing out the drawer and climbing the dresser that I couldn't help but laugh. Fortunately, we attached the dresser to the wall with those earthquake straps.


Erika decides to build a couch fort to escape from her sisters' tomfoolery


Catie indulges in some chocolate pudding.

10-10-10

Two!

October Pictures

Catie has found another fun way to be carried.


Erika has another reason to love Halloween. A flying bat decoration.


Miranda loves doggies and loves hugging them. Here she snuggles with Norton as Uncle Mark looks on.

Paging the Toothfairy

Behold, the first of many departed teeth.

Since I have a moment, I will add a couple stories: Yesterday at Target Erika wanted a gingerbread haunted house. (These marketing people are good!) It was $10 and I said that ten dollars was a lot. She replied that ten dollars is not a lot since she can easily count to ten. Later she added hopefully, I can count to 16 too.

We were playing hid and seek, and Erika asked me to count to the biggest number since she needed time to hide. I asked if a million would do; she said it would be fine. I'm still counting.

Erika dumped out a basket of laundry which Jackie had recently folded. I commented that mommy would be upset to see the clothes dumped out. Erika suggested that we not tell mommy, but I pointed out the deed would be self-evident. "I'll dissappear then!" was the answer, and like a butterfly she was off. I didn't even know she had the capability to dissappear!

Facepainting

Today was sunny and warm. What better way to have fun than to break out the face paints in the backyard. First up, Miranda shows her use of pastel colors. Also note the curls that are showing up.



Erika is a very fancy cat. Her cat is a dragon cat that has little flames leaking from her mouth. Roar!


Caite was in a yellow, mellow mood today.


Catie's hair was showing off the curls today. Just look at the one on the side.

PJ Time

Introducing the latest in pajama fashion. Here Catie shows me that she can also make notes on my paperwork. Now if she could only fill out her immunization forms.



Erika demonstrates how much fun it is to be a kitty while wearing fleace PJs.


Miranda introduces her favorite stuffed animal, Puppito. Here, Puppito does a dance on the stairs while Miranda models flower PJs,

Smiling Erika

I've been informed that I needed to update the blog as Erika's last picture was causing heartache. So here is the picture of her after her 1st day of kindergarten. Things are working out OK for her in school. She is happy that she can do art everyday and likes the guinea pigs in her classroom. Yesterday she picked some of the carrots for buttons, her favorite one.



Unfortunately, I haven't been taking pictures as we've been getting used to our schedule revolving around kindergarten. More to come soon as I remember the camera.