Punkin'

We picked the pumpkins from our garden the other day- quite an impressive haul! Some were still greenish, but as the vines were freezing, we thought it was better to pick them now. We had an impromptu photo shoot with the girls posing with the pumpkins, and I liked the pictures so much, I changed their clothes to do more. Here are a few of my favorites:

Riley loves her sister

Trying to get one looking up at Iris- it sort of worked

Neither girl was very interested in this pose

Look at those cheeks!

After a change of clothes.... I love this one!

This is Riley's fake smile- she mostly refused to smile naturally...

... and got really irritated when we kept trying to make her!

Iris passed out before too long...

... and resisted all efforts to wake her!

Coooool Pix

I'm now the proud (paper) owner of this sweet little sussy, and it should be delivered in five days! So, allowing a day to let me figure out how it works, my posts should get much more interesting in six days! Eric's big ol' SLR had way too many knobs and wingeys, was much too expensive, and I was terrified of it. I'm told that there's little I can do to mess this baby up, and the salesman at Best Buy promised that I could bring it straight to him if I figured out a way, and he'd fix it. So there.

Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner

I love Dirty Dancing. It's a fantastic movie. I'm still not sure why I don't own it. I rented it the other day, and as I sat watching it last night (in the dark, by myself), I noticed my face involuntarily stretching into a huge grin every few minutes or so. It's just so good! I know it's one of the cheesiest movies ever, and one of my guilty pleasures, but I don't care! It's like the movie Clue. So hokey that I can't get anyone to watch it with me, but worth watching alone.

I've had the time of my life.

Kid's Say The Darndest Things

Riley is constantly spouting off these hilarious comments, and I thought I'd share with you some of my favorites.


To me as I dropped her off at day care: "But Mommy, you look like a nice human, and I don't like it when nice humans leave me."

To Eric: "Daddy, why don't you have enough hair to comb?"

To me: "You have red owies all over your face. ALL over it!"

To a female whose identity I shall hide: "You look like Grandpa Craig- you have hair on your face!"

"I had poc-porn at the cervix!" (Translation: "I had popcorn at the circus!")

Last but not least... my personal favorite, to me: "Mommy, if Iris is out of your tummy, why is it still so big?"