or should i say, THYME???? marin loves opening the spice cabinet. unfortunately it's below the counter-right at her level. so far though, she has never actually opened any of the spices. but i guess there always has to be a first. it was the time for thyme. weird. i can see opening the cinnamon. or nutmeg. or pumpkin pie spice. but no, thyme it was. she even got some in her mouth and didn't make a face. i guess she's a savory type of girl.
we decided awhile ago that we were going to do the 3 day potty training much much sooner with marin than we did with the other 2. she always follows townsend and ellory into the bathroom and sits on the little potty anyway. but we knew that she needed to be able to get out of bed to go potty if needed and she was still in a crib. so our smart daddy made the nonconvertible crib into a convertible crib. :) now marin is not quite as compliant as the other 2 and we wondered if she would actually stay in the bed without the sides. but so far so good. (its been 3 nights as i write this.) now, onto potty training!
on friday night, townsend and daddy went to check out chatfield state park for a little camping trip. the weather was pretty nice and about 20 other families thought that camping sounded good too.
norton said that they sat around the fire eating s'mores pop tarts until 7pm. then got in the tent, put on headlamps and read their books until about 7:45pm. then lights out. they woke up around 6am. sat around the fire eating s'mores poptarts. (do you see a pattern here?) then packed up and headed home.
the cutest camper. :)
drinking a hot beverage. spiced cider. townsend loves to drink from the REI camping mugs.
daddy made a big pile of leaves for the kids the other day.
townsend immediately forgo sliding in order to jump right in.
marin took it slow. sliding first.
"come on, marin. stand up and jump like a big kid!"
"hmmmm. ok. now what do i do again?"
"arms up?"
"or maybe i'll just slide. after all, i am the baby in the family."
"watch me, marin. get your arms up realllllllly high!"
"oh! i get it. my arms were obviously not up high enough last time. how does this look?"
" see everyone! my arms are perfectly positioned to fly off the slide into the leaves!"
"wait! did mommy just say snacktime? coming mommy!"
we had one too many "mullet" comments so i whacked marins little tail off. i couldn't find a good "before" picture. probably because i avoided pictures of the back of her head. but she really did have some long curly locks in the back. and it did look like a mullet. bye-bye mullet.
the 80's are back. am i correct? for some reason, when i saw this picture my first thought was, "olivia newton-john."
rrrowl!!!! how do you spell the sound that growling makes???
back at home ellory put on her tiger costume.
marin was a ladybug.
this first photo was taken on october 28th. about, oh, 12 days after the fall leaves pictures were taken. :) townsend and i were headed to the library to get some elmo and thomas videos. the rest of the pictures were taken the next day. it was a great snow!
the walkway to our house from the driveway.
the trees out front.
pathway down the driveway.
daddy and mare bear.
the kids seemed to like being out in the snow better this time than earlier this year after we moved.
every time we turned around, marin was putting her mitten in her mouth to eat the snow.
pretty girl.
eating again.
when we went inside, daddy made snow ice cream. yum!
of course marin licked her bowl clean. :)
they were all very intent on filling the hidden compartment in the motorcycle with as many leaves as possible.
