Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

Today was the Thanksgiving feast for Colin at preschool. He had a great time, sat by the teacher at the feast and wolfed down "pa-tate-uz." (That's Philly speak for potatoes. Colin's teacher's accent is starting to rub off.) He dressed in an Indian costume that they made in class, and he looked fantastic.

Here he is in costume. Is it just me, or does he look a little Bing Crosby-ish?

At school he made a little feather that said "Colin is thankful for___" and they wrote in "The Holy Gospel"! I asked Colin if that's what he said, and he said no, that he'd actually said, "the Lord." Either way, he's turning out to be quite the spiritual guy! He cracks me up!

Leaves, Leaves, Leaves

We have a leaf problem. A BIG leaf problem. Those trees which are so darling all spring and summer become pretty troublesome at the end of fall. We were so desperate for help with these things that we got the kids involved for a morning of leaf raking and removal. Judge for yourself how effective they were.

Amelia was deadly with this rake. Colin and I took a few blows. The car did not come out of a tussle with her unscathed.

Colin making headway with his broom. Slightly less dangerous than the rake.

I know this photo is blurry, but this is one amazing leap!

Swimming.

Bathing.

A motorboat.


In case you are wondering, no, we are not done yet.

Mom at Valley Forge

A couple of weeks ago, Mom came out to visit. We had a wonderful time, hit all of our usual spots, and shopped, shopped, shopped! Mom loved Valley Forge, and here is a cute photo of her with the kiddos.

Jack is a neat nick

Today Jack grabbed this diaper off the floor (I hadn't gotten around to throwing it out yet) and crawled it over to the diaper champ and put it in. All of this with no prompting! This is the first, and probably last, time he will ever voluntarily clean anything up for me! I was amazed.

Fall Foliage

Fall has come to our backyard, and it is beautiful! Just when you start to take the scenery around here for granted, there's a new season and everything is different and lovely. We haven't spent a lot of time outdoors (too rainy) but here is a photo of the kids on a dry day. Hopefully we'll brave the brisk temperatures and get outside this week.