We love PINK!!

We were all invited to my niece's "Pink" birthday party. We wore our best pink party clothes-Grandma even arrived in a pink gown (one of my old bridesmaid's dresses....see you can wear those things more than once!).

HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY, EMMA!

We had so much fun.

Lazy fun

Life has finally started to slow down and we love it! Laying around is one of our favorite new past times!

Eloise passed out the hats to liven up our floor party.

Daddy was given a hat too! I think Eloise can really discern one's style.

You're bored? Here, chew on this-it's all that I can reach.

Alan is perfecting his technique of feeding laziness. How little effort can I exert to feed the baby? I cannot possibly sit up right now.

photoshoot attempt

The girls received these beautiful dresses from my sister-in-law's parents when Margot was born. I loved them so much that I wanted to save them for an opportunity to have the girls' pictures taken. Well, it was getting chillier and I had not made it happen, so with the help of my mom I took them to a cute area and tried to take pictures myself. It wasn't exactly successful. These first 3 are the best pictures of the two of them together. Hopefully, the dresess will still fit in the spring and we can try again!

Of the 200+ pictures that I snapped, there were 32 pictures like this....of the back of Eloise while she was running away. She was absolutely not interested in smiling for the camera or posing with Margot AT ALL!

Isn't she lovely?

Thanks Grandma!

With the fall festival season comes plenty of face painting......Grandma even painted pumpkins on Eloise's cheeks with her water color set, which now has become standard operating procedure while Eloise is painting.

Our new neighbor

One of Eloise's favorite things about our new house is the 2 year old little girl next door. They love each other and especially each other's toys! A few weeks ago, the neighbor's didn't have water, so we threw them in the tub together.

Centennial Olympic Park

We spent an afternoon downtown at Centennial Olympic Park for a family fun day. There was also an all-day dance recital going on with occasional crowd participation. Our babysitter, Noelle, is a ballet teacher with Atlanta Ballet and was performing, but we arrived late and missed it unfortunately.

There are fountains that spray up in the shape of the Olympic rings and you can run in and out of the circles without getting wet if you time it just right. Eloise and I were trying to do that but didn't stay dry, oops!

Going to work

Eloise has caught on that I dress differently the two days of the week that I go to work. She is also obsessed with closing and opening doors right now. So, she loves to play the game 'going to work' and she puts on one of my shirts (underneath the towel) and then this purple towel and says it's her coat (like my white lab coat) and then says "Au Revoir" while waving, "Going work." She then shuts the door runs to the other side of the room, returns, opens the door and just standing there grinning ear to ear until you explode with emotion, "oh, you're home from work, hello, let me give you a hug etc etc, gush gush." OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.