Sister & Friend

The girls are playing together more and more each day.

Sonia loves to be chased. In fact, she thinks that if anyone is following her (including the dog) it's a game of chase and she's off laughing and squealing to get away. Nadia loves having Sonia to play with and almost always wants to include her unless it involves sharing her dolls. However, Nadia doesn't quite understand that Sonia cannot do everything that she does.

Baby Steps aka The Wild One

Sonia's been very busy trying to keep up with her big sister...having an older sibling really has made a difference in the speed of her development. While we're excited for Sonia's new mobility we're also terrified that it will bring many more accidents with bumps, bruises and tears (hopefully all which will be blood/ER free).

Obsession

As you can see, Nadia is obsessed as of late with lining her dolls up in a row. Is this normal? She will pretty much line anything up...crayons, letters, blocks, you name it. Looks like we have a mini-Tatum on our hands. Everything is always organized to her liking. By the way, what is going on with her expression in the last picture? Combine it with the M&M residue on her face and presto...you've achieved the "homeless toddler look". Make it work!

Clap your Hands!

I'm not sure what Sonia's clapping about here...could it be the green beans I was feeding her at the time? Nah...

Goodbye Halloween & Hello Thanksgiving!

This was Nadia's first year trick-or-treating around the neighborhood and she was loving it! At every house she had to explain that she's a banana ("nana") and Sonia's a monkey and then she would make her monkey sound. Every house heard the story...even if they didn't ask. Nadia, Sonia and I headed out around 6:30 p.m., Jose joined us at 7 p.m. when he arrived home and we finished at 8 p.m. It was just as much fun for Jose and I...maybe we'll dress up next year? We're sad to say that all the Halloween decorations came down today but now we're looking forward to a lot of turkey and pumpkin pie! While I was putting away our decorations Nadia and Sonia found a couple of wigs of ours. Yes, Sonia (cousin IT) is there...somewhere...under all that hair.

Zoo Boo!

Happy Halloween!

We had a lot of fun practicing trick-or-treating at the Indianapolis Zoo last weekend despite the cold. Today is beautiful and warm so we're ready to get out there tonight and really collect the candy. We hope everyone has a safe Halloween.

Chunky Monkey with a Whole Lot of Banana!

Today the Moms Club put on a Halloween party for the kids with music, games, prizes and pizza. We had such a wonderful time! I had given thought to dressing up for this myself (to get into the spirit of things) but decided it would require too much thought and time...it was a good thing because not one mom was dressed for Halloween! Instead I managed to put on a Halloween shirt and socks for the occasion. Tomorrow it's another fun filled day at ZooBoo (trick-or-treating at the zoo) and then we'll be looking forward to the real thing next Friday. It's sad to think there's only one more week in October...the best month of the year!

King Kong versus Godzilla

a.k.a. Sonia and Justin

Sonia and Nadia are in the same playgroup as Justin and his older brother, Carter.

This is my friend, Courtney. I think you've seen her in some previous posts on our blog. Anyway, we arrived today sporting the same Halloween shirts (not planned) so I had to get a picture of us together.