Santa's Beard

Rylee had her first visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus during her Thanksgiving visit to the shore. She was fine on Santa's lap until she had time to count family members and question who was holding her... "Ok... I see Mom and Gamma. There's Dad and Pop Pop. Who's holding me????

Ratting Out Dada!

I had to add to Roo's vocabulary list. Last night, we were sitting at the kitchen table, and Roo decided to throw a toy at Mama's head... and I mean hard. In shock, I looked at Roo and said, "Rylee... who taught you that?" To our surprise, she immediately replied with "Dada!" She hasn't shut up about him since... it's annoying!

Eating my Pancakes at School

Laughing at Daddy!

Brendan's Soccer Game

Chris' season ended just in time to see his Godson's last soccer game of the season. Congratulations to Brendan for a GREAT season, and congratulations to Uncle Chris for not screaming at the 13-year-old ref! Check out the smile on Uncle Chris' face... priceless!

I just have to say... yesterday, I was upstairs putting away Rylee's laundry, and when I came back downstairs, Rylee was playing with a full-size soccer ball. Now... how do you think she got that ball??

Watch out 15th percentile... here comes Roo!

Mini-Chris continues to amaze us! Here she is naked and covered in pasta from her high chair at school. Yesterday, she had an entire piece of pizza, today... a pound of pasta! She is definitely Chris' child!!! At this rate she won't be in the puny 10th percentile for long!!!!

Roo's First Halloween

Applesauce

Anyone with a husband, brother, father, boyfriend, man-friend will appreciate this story.

Chris LOVES applesauce. He's a big fan of Musselman's Original Applesauce. Eats it with almost every meal. So, last night, I bought some fresh-from-the-tree apples, pealed them and made homemade, hot-from-the-stovetop applesauce for dinner. HE HATED IT.

First, he started with... "I don't think applesauce is supposed to be hot. I've never heard of hot applesauce." When I pointed out that apple pie is hot, as is apple crisp -- he retorted with "I've never had either of those hot." I should have known that it would get worse from there!

It was too chunky. Couldn't I put it in a blender. It was too sweet. He didn't like the texture. Maybe it would be better cold.

I thought it was delicious. Hot and a little spicy -- just like apple pie filling!

BTW: Rylee hated it too. She made the same face that her father did and spit it out. Next year for Halloween Chris and Mini-Chris are going to be two peas in a pod. ARGH!!!!!

Celebrity Shopper

Humpty Dumpty

Accident Prone Roo sat on a wall
Accident Prone Roo had a Great Fall
All of her teachers, women and men
Worked to put RooBear together again.

Our brut of a daughter has been taking nose dives at school and at home in her persistant efforts to learn to walk. I'm thinking about buying her a helmet. Her Center Director has suggested that head-to-toe bubble wrap might make a good halloween costume.

We had not one, but two, incident (read: accident) reports to sign yesterday, since Roo decided to take a nose dive off a piece of furniture in the morning and then knock her head against the floor in the afternoon. The afternoon stunt left her with a swollen bridge of her nose and a nice purple mark on her forehead.

The good news is, she only cries for about 30 seconds, and once you pick her up she's fine -- ready to take another tumble. Poor Roo just gets soooo frustrated. She can pull herself up and cruise (hold onto furniture as she walks) but she wants to let go like the rest of the kids. (Imagine how much faster she could get to Simon?!?!?!) Unfortunately, she's just soooo tiny and her little legs aren't strong enough yet, so forward she falls.

UPDATE: The injuries discussed above happened on Tuesday. On Wednesday, I picked Rylee up and rec'd yet another incident report -- she hit herself in the head with a swing. New bruise. Third incident report this week... for those of you keeping tabs.

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