Just another update

Some Eleanor quotes:

When I picked Eleanor up at school last week, she handed me her backpack while we were still in the hallway and I put it over my shoulder.
E:  You are Eleanor!
Me:  Yes, I'm Eleanor!  I am 3 years old!
E: (laughing)  No Mama, you're not 3 years old, you are THIRTY YEARS OLD!
Well, she's right.  And loud.

Arthur was pulling all of the magnets off of the fridge.  He does this all the time, and it's slightly annoying but it keeps him occupied for a few minutes so I don't mind.
Eleanor:  Arthur is decorating the floor!

Eleanor, talking about Arthur:  Where's that rascal?  Where's my rascal?
(We never call him that.  Not sure where that came from.)

Eleanor:  When I grow up, I will marry Arthur and be the mama and he will marry me and be the daddy.
Me:  Well Eleanor, you can't marry your brother. Or your cousins. You have to marry a friend.
Eleanor:  But Arthur IS my friend! I love him and he is my friend!

And now, LOTS of pictures!

This is what happens when you get lots of packing paper in a package.

Not sure what's going on with the hands...

Musical boy

Baby in a basket!

Just checking the mail with a dinosaur tail on

And painting with a dinosaur tail on

He LOVES books!

She has been asking to make cookies forever, so we finally made some

"Mama, I made a nest!"

Pillow tunnel!

Eleanor prefers to hang out in the tunnel with a flashlight

Sleepy boy

Eleanor's first self-portrait.  It's beautiful.

Holding a sick baby

"I am programming dinosaurs on my computer!"

The dinosaurs all wanted to see out the window.  Of course.

Arthur's first Peruvian food - he loved the Papa a la Huancaina

Eleanor was such a good patient for the dentist!  It helps that they have a tv on the ceiling and she gets to wear headphones to listen to it.

Look who can climb stairs!

And finally, this is what Eleanor wants to be for Halloween.  Guess I'm making the costume, because I'm not going to find it out there!

(And it has to be a Dilophosaurus with two ridges on its head - it can't be just any old dinosaur!)