November fun

I recently posted a picture of Arthur sleeping where it looks like he's swimming  Maybe now he's dreaming of running?

Picnic in the park!

On the train at the zoo

This ended up being a much longer ride than it's supposed to be because one of the camels was on the tracks and would NOT move away!

Taking care of animals at the zoo.  She weighed him, measured him, listened to his heart and lungs, gave him a shot, gave him medicine, and sucked the snot out of his nose.  What a good little vet in training.

Somebody likes to talk on the (pretend) phone!

At the park

Close up of Eleanor's cheek.  In the words of her gymnastics teacher, it "made contact with the balance beam."  Poor girl.

Cousins at dinner together after gymnastics

Catching up

I've had some of these pictures for a while now, but finally posting...

Helping Mama take out some trash

Look who fell asleep on a walk

Arthur "helping" me with the dishwasher

I gave Eleanor a toy catalog and a crayon and told her to circle the things she might like for Christmas.  She went through every page - dolls, blocks, kitchen stuff, etc. - and didn't circle anything until this page.  She looked at the pirate ship and said, "I LIKE this!"  Then she picked out a few dinosaur things too.

I'm not even sure which recent trip this is from, but it cracks me up.  Maybe he's dreaming about swimming?

Eleanor had a little Thanksgiving party in her class yesterday.  They were all wearing their turkey headbands and turkey tshirts when we walked in and they sang this little song.  Eleanor told her teachers that her turkey headband  has red, white, and blue feathers because "turkeys are from the United States."

(Excuse the hair in her face...I was experimenting with a headband but apparently that doesn't work well.)