#4 we are all caught up

Samuel and Sophia dancing.
He is actually a very intuitive dancer with a graceful air. He is so funny. Lillian loves to dance also, we are really stuck on the "River Dance" theme though.

Yes, sweet smile, I love you too! She is so amazed and finds such gratification standing in charge of the computer. She was dancing in the chair in this picture sneaking a key stroke in here and there when i wasn't looking. I took this picture last night.

Nick wasn't happy with his original compost bin design. Now we have the hay bale megalith compost cube.

It is a lovely addition. The children like it and I think it smells nice.

November

We love to take drives on the week end around the country side dreaming of that illusive 30 acres we hope to have someday.

Mildred makes every one happy. She is a smart cat too. I have seen her runt o the back door when Lillian shuts the cat food cabinet.

Sophia brings me her shoes and points to the door a lot. She loves being outside.

I know, these are all picture of the baby. She just changes so much. As you can see she is comfortable at the dinner table.

I think she is fussing about something in this picture. She is starting to look like a little girl and not so much like a baby.

October

This is an autumn picture of our street from October. I love walking to pick Lillian up at the bus stop every day. Now that it is cooler I just take my fleece pouch that was in the car seat, put it in the stroller and off we go. Samuel can still be seen in a short sleeve t-shirt (maybe because that is about all i can get him to wear).

This is Sophia's "Shhh, quiet" face. This is Sophia at the horse race when my Dad was visiting. This is Sophia dressed. Nick took the children (and the keys to the truck) off the get drinks on the other side of the track. While they were gone Sophia had just enough time to spill all of her water out of her thermos on to her pants, I was able to hang them on the out to dry (remember no keys!), and then for Sophie to be wearing them again by the time they walked up with one bite of ice cream left. Darn! Yes, I did bring shoes and socks for my child; in fact we were all wearing shoes (part of the time).

Horse races are a lot of waiting. I understand why every one was tailgating. All the ladies were dressed for a night out on the town ( I am not joking, high heeled knee high boots and off the shoulder mini dresses). As you can see we came under dressed for the occasion (or over dressed depending on how you look at it). So now just imagine classy me with a half naked baby whose wet pants are hanging out to dry on the race track fence.

On the other hand horse races, for the five seconds the horses are running in front of you, are breathtaking. Horses are so strong with such graceful movement; the sound of their hooves musical. I shed a tear.

Sophia driving us to the farmers market. It was a joy having my Dad around for a few days.
Please come visit. You might have to sleep on the floor. You can expect much from a lady who hangs wet baby breeches out at a race track while her youngun sits half neckid for an hour.