Family fishing at horning's hideaway (hideout maybe?). It's a pond with a park and loads of peacocks walking around -- seriously like 30 just walking all over the place.
That's Jane's very first pole (yes it is a push button dora pole). She loved it--almost as much as her daddy. We have a video which I will try to load but I don't know if it will work. Sadly we didn't get any still pics of her fishing. Josh liked it too -- he enjoyed crawling around in the mud and climbing the hill and generally being far too close to the water.

Halloween breakfast this morning. The hat, top and baby carrier were all mine as a kid. Jane was pretty excited about that.


stay tuned for Trunk or Treat and Disney on Ice (yes you read that right) pictures!

ok i'm downright mad becasue i did this post a week ago and didn't publish it. But I'll be giving myself the speed credit anyway (if not the genius credit)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSH!

It was a fun day. Pretty much the typical 1 year old birthday. He has no idea why the people are smiling, staring and singing horridly off tune but he gets this yummy pile of stuff the big weird people keep calling "cake"... And he likes cake.






I don't know if he just couldn't pick it up or what but he just held it down there...apparently he doesn't go for that whole bring the mountain to Muhammad thing.



and then daddy gave him a 'tap shower'. Still smiling.


So Josh's favorite things of late are:

balls -- And by balls I mean really anything that can be thrown, rolled or caught which is really everything. I admit I've played catch with a water filled daiper (I thought it was better than a used one). Te was at a soccer practice today and was attempting to horde 3 balls at once. As they are all bigger than he is, this did not go well. (on a side note jane took a ball over to the goal, kicked it in and started jumping up and down cheering.)
banging on the keyboard and dancing (he bounces whenever we sing)
grabbing people's noses (waiting for the 'honk')
being tickled (which pleases me of course)
peekaboo the cell phone (how many phones before mom learns her lesson?)

He took his first official step the other day. He's nowhere near steady but he's on his way. Jane and josh play together a lot. It's the best when I'm putting jane to bed and josh crawls in, on top of her and starts giggling and then she starts as well. It's not a very effective nap-time technique but she's not really napping anymore anyway (alas).

Jane is liking preschool. She sings the songs all day long and makes up some of her own. Usually they are a narrative of what's going on "I'm getting my book because i want to read and it's a bo-o-o-o-k and it's really good..." you get the idea.

I had a traumatic realization today. I was dropping jane off at nursery at the usual time. On the door was posted a list of "senior nursery" and "older senior nursery" I thought this was odd but figured they were just splitting up the nursery like they had been talking about. But no... the "older nursery" of which Jane is a member, has been splitting off the second hour to TRANSITION TO SUNBEAMS. My little baby... my tiny little girl is going to be in primary in 2 months. Don't ask me why I've never put this together or even considered it. It just did not occur to me.

Jane praying

"and please bless the food that it will make us strong like an ox. and joshy that he'll be a baby ox....
and please bless daddy fishing keep him safe from falling in the river and that he will catch a fish and bring it home and we will eat it and next week we will go fishing..."