Monsieur le Pew

Not the first skunklet to walk down our front path, but the only one to do so bipedally.

Time, Flying

Well. It is almost a month since we took this photo of Ruby Cat. Three sick kids, one kid getting tooth after tooth, very little sleeping for the blogging mama for several weeks results in not so many posts here. But I needed to show you this cute kitty. Tune in again soon for a small and very cute skunk.

ps - Henry has been working on saying "more" for a couple of weeks now, but today it came out loud and clear when I wasn't fast enough with the yogurt/frozen blueberry concoction he loves. MORE.

pps- While I was upstairs nursing Henry before his nap this afternoon, I could hear the girls playing. They had a CD of Christmas songs on (their favourite) - Let it Snow was playing - and Fiona was saying, "If we can just get a few more balloons cut to hold our fingers together we can be VAMPIRES and then it will NOT BE GOOD for this house!" It was a complicated moment.

First Word!

Henry spoke his first clear word today (he will be 10 months old in 3 days). He has been saying "ka" and "dree" for a while now (cat/Audrey), but not clearly. But today, today, he said,

"Highchair!" while we were working to soak/scrape/scrub the gucky gick off of his highchair.

Interesting choice of first words as he has little to no interest in being in his highchair at any time. But there it is. Highchair!

The best part of this is that he KEPT saying it, even allowing me to run and get the digital sound recorder thingie so that I have evidence of this early speech proficiency. Should anyone need to hear this, just give me a call and I will proudly play it for you. Highchair!

Happy Days

Look at these smiles! We love fall! We love school! We love pumpkins! We love you!

Talent, We Got IT!

Look at these three! So great! Henry is very good at smiling, and at sitting in apples. But not both at the same time (yet).

The girls have recently discovered a love of swinging like primates through playgrounds near and far. They LOVE that they can do this now. They also spent the better part of last Sunday afternoon jumping off the BIG diving board into the DEEP end of the BIG pool. Amazing!

Happy Fall!

Two men in brown, at the apple picking place on Sunday.

One girl in pink, using a huge leaf as a parasol at the park last week, baby in background scoots around in a circle, making mysterious sand circles with his bum at the centre.

Another girl in pink (and brown, and white), screaming at the top of her lungs with lovely, just turning leaves in background. Happy Fall!

The Carp Fair

Greg took the ladies to the Carp Fair today. Look at them on the Tilt-a-Whirl! All by themselves! Look at their grimy, cotton candy-candy apple faces! So CUTE!