We're in sick baby lock-down...

I think I can see the light, though. It's been a rough week. Mils has been down for the count with a nasty chest and head cold. She's still sweet and funny and pretty spunky, but the nights are tough and her face is chapped from all the running and wiping of fluids.

We rallied on Thursday for a great Thanksgiving roadtrip to the Greers. She loves turkey and mashed potatoes (who doesn't, especially when cooked by Grandma?). We've been in the house ever since...watching waaayyy more football than is normal. Christopher's been taking great care of everyone, though, so it was a small price for us to pay for some TLC.

Here they are enjoying a cranberry snack and watching some sort of college football spectacular.

Back in Action

What a week! It was full and busy and awesome...a bit too 'awesome' to get a blog written. Sorry. But we're back on schedule now (literally...we're back to two solid naps each day, which is so sweet for me).

We had a great visit from Jennie and Kaitlin (Millie's aunt and cousin from Connecticut) on Wednesday and Thursday. The girls chattered away to each other in the back of the car and Jennie and I had lots of good catch-up and shopping time.

On Friday and then again on Sunday I got to visit with my college friend Jean and her three boys who were in town from New Jersey. Jean's a really great mom and it's fun to see the fruit of her kindness and gentless in the spirit of her boys. They are great with Millie and so fun to be around. Emily had all the college friends over for a mini-reunion on Sunday. I know you can picture it -- husbands/fiancees on the couch watching football -- girlfriends camped out on the floor chatting and wrangling kids. It was a good afternoon.

Maybe I have pictures of all this action on the camera (I'll get to that soon, I hope), but I thought I'd get a couple of videos posted first. I think these will be of more interest to the grandparents (they're a little long and lacking any real action), but here you go. First is Millie's number one favorite activity: enjoying handfuls of cheerios with Casey. I am confident that Casey has a very clean mouth. Don't anybody dare try to tell me otherwise.



Second is Millie's new walking obsession: hungry hippo. It is a very fun birthday gift (thanks, Taylor).

Happy Halloween

Good thing Millie really LOVED wearing her chicken costume, because we spent a lot of time in it during the Halloween 'season'. In fact, she loved it so much that she pulled the orange pants down from the bed and flung them at me, pointing at them frantically. That's how we ended up in Trader Joe's in the full costume get-up on Monday. Anyway, back to Halloween. It was such a full, fun day.



In the morning we headed down to our moms group for a costumed celebration. Here are some photos of the kids...look how calm and happy they seem. You should have seen the moms. We're standing in front of them looking like a pack of crazy people singing "Wheels on the Bus", jumping up and down, and just shoving pumpkin muffins into whatever mouth starts crying. We did it though. Photo success.

Traffic kept us from our planned outing to visit our friends Wendy and Reagan for trick-or-treating in Old Town, so we were excited when Christopher came home early. We walked down to the neighborhood party, "Hilloween" (so named since we live on Capitol Hill). We ran into friends and just loved the hundreds of kids running everywhere. We even ran into a little girl dressed as a fried egg -- we all loved the chicken and egg combo. It was a great day!