What should we be for Halloween?

A pensive lion?

A pensive vampire?

A silly vampire?

A cutey patootie lion?

Yeah, lions and vampires hang out and eat lunch in their plastic kitchen together all the time :)

Daco has a birthday and Ama stays over

Pesto Porkchops for Daco's Birthday! mmmm

Happy Day, Daco is what the cookie said before we dug in!
Ama getting Caroline and Macie ready for bed - reading Goodnight, Gorilla. Look at C and M pretending to be asleep like all the zoo animals!

Max comes over!

The girls were so excited to get to play with Max last weekend!

Macie (in a little bit of a time out), Caroline, and Max - chowing down on some black beans! Too bad I was too busy chasing them to get any pictures of them actually playing!

Mike and Ben go to town on our simple, yet complicated dinner.

Uncle Brock visits (aka BOK)

The girls had a great time with Uncle Brock when he was in Seattle a few weeks ago doing some diving and research for UW.
Brock teaching C and M about Marine Biology - all the sea creatures play peek-a-boo!

We take all our out-of-town guest to Top Pot to sample their coffee and donuts and this is our first picture to prove it! Mike, Brock, Macie, and Caroline, with full bellies :)
Brock stopping traffic so Macie can drive through?
Sarah and Brock swinging the girls - Wheeee!

We want to do it ourselves!

Caroline saying, "Heh-WOH!"

Playing outside

Sweet Macie

Sweet Caroline

Crazy Caroline!

Kicking! 19mo video

The girls having a good ole time in the bath. Kicking, splashing, and saying Heh-WO!

And, they kept saying all day, "Happy Day, Daco!" It must be somebody's birthday :)

Happy Day! We're 19 months old today!

The girls love running around saying "Happy Day Happy Day!" so I thought it was an appropriate title for today. They sure are growing up :) Right now, they both have a ton of bumps and bruises from playing hard, running too fast for their bodies to keep up, and grabbing the rose bush (aka the OWEE bush). Caroline has been saying May-(pause)-tze, accompanied by pointing at her sister and laughing, but neither of them are saying Caroline yet (it's a tough one). They love talking on pretend phones - Caroline shouts "He-woh!" into hers - sounds a lot like Hello - while Macie just looks coy, like she's talking to someone very important. We loved having so many visitors this month - Cousins Lizi, Andrew, and Schuyler (BABY), Gruncle Bob (BOB) and Gruntie Enid (NEDID), and Uncle Brock (BOK). Fall is definitely here and the girls have been wearing their jackets and hats in this blustery, cold weather we've had the last - gasp - 2 days! We're back on my school schedule, so they get to play with their nanny, Ashley, one day a week, and my parents, Ama and Daco, another day. We are looking forward to seeing Mike's parents, Papa and Mimi, at the end of October. Life is good, even with the newly emerging all-out temper tantrums :)