New Living Room

Much thanks to Mom, Dad, Eric, and Spencer - the living room is painted and all put back together (mostly). We got new furniture and a new rug, too. It's amazing how much crap was in there. Now for the rest of the house...

The Pumpkin Patch

We went to the pumpkin patch and got to spend a good hour there before it started raining. Cook was super bummed out because they were sold out of pumpkin cookies.
Here are the kids riding the little train through the pumpkins. It's always funny when you take a picture of somebody else's kid. How dare that kid ride the train between my kids? Well, since he's here he might as well have a name. I'll name him Aiden. So then, this is a picture of Ama, Aiden, and Cook riding the train.
In the parking lot - it's been cool having Uncle Eric around so much since he's been on sabbatical this year. Ama didn't actually get to bring the duck along. Also, I realized too late that wearing a dress to climb on hay bale castles is a terrible, terrible thing. So I apologize to her poor little butt.



Bumpy footage of the hayride, with Ama on the cowbell and Cook...picking his nose?!?

Arthur's Visit

Last week, Cookie brought Arthur home from school. He has his own backpack full of all his stuff, including an Arthur book, puzzle, and dominoes, as well as his sleeping bag, pillow, toothbrush, etc. Each kid in Cook's 2nd grade class takes turns bringing him home for a sleepover, and then they make a journal entry about what they did together. Cook took Arthur on an adventure through his room (which is so messy, it actually is kind of like an adventure), and Ama got really REALLY attached to Arthur, too. She played and danced with him and took care of him all night, and then cried the next morning when it was time for Arthur to leave.

Ama says Caterpillar

I took a video of Ama saying the word caterpillar because it was SOOOO cute and I never wanted to forget it! She is two years old in this video.