A Busy Month

Happy Halloween! I just realized how long it's been since my last post - I guess we've been busier than I thought! Here are some highlights from October:

We went apple picking at the beginning of October. Jorie had a lot of fun picking apples and even more fun eating them! We picked far more apples than we needed and never came close to eating all of them. Terra really enjoyed eating the apples too, though she didn't do much picking.

Here's a picture of Terra playing Mimi's new piano. Terra had so much fun playing and singing, we might have another performer in the family! Mid-October was incredibly eventful for us. Perhaps the most memorable event of the month was when Jorie decided it would be fun to see what happened when she dialed 911, so she gave it a try one morning as I was cleaning up the breakfast dishes. I found the phone on the playroom floor and picked it up to hear, "This is the police department, we've been listening to an open 911 call for nearly 10 minutes". I was mortified! I very apologetically explained to the operator that my daughter must have called by accident. Minutes later an officer pulled into the driveway. I apologized once again and sat down for a long talk with Jorie about appropriate reasons for calling the police.


We took a weekend trip to the beach and also went to a baptism. This was Terra's first time at the ocean and she wasn't quite sure what to make of it. Jorie had a fantastic time splashing in the ice cold water, her jeans and winter coat didn't even slow her down!



The girls had a wonderful time in the pool at the hotel. The beach was a bit cold for Terra, but the indoor pool was just right. She loved jumping in! Jorie had fun jumping in too, thank goodness Jeff was with us! How do moms handle two kids in a pool with no help?!

Here's Jorie with her jack o' lantern. She designed the face herself and enjoyed watching me scoop out the insides and carve the pumpkin, though she was not about to touch the pumpkin herself! Perhaps she'll give it a try one of these years!

Here's Terra with her pumpkin. She really enjoyed the pumpkin carving ritual. She thought it was really fun to scoop out the insides of the pumpkin, but had even more fun putting them back in after we carved the face - I don't think she quite "got" what we were trying to accomplish. :)

Here are our little cuties in their Halloween costumes! I know what you're thinking - what are they supposed to be? Our family rule is that the girls have to dress up as a character in a book. Jorie chose to be Morgan LeFay, the enchantress librarian from the Magic Treehouse series. She was so proud of her costume. Terra is a red button. Her favorite book is a book with buttons and she seems to really like circles and the color red, so it was a natural choice for her costume. Costumes aside, Halloween was not quite what we had planned, Jorie woke up with a terrible cold and spent the entire day on the couch. Fortunately, we have some wonderful neighbors that were willing to risk having her drop by so that she could trick-or-treat at one house. She missed her Halloween party with friends, which was terribly upsetting, but there's always next year! I hope everyone had a safe Halloween!!