A Witch with Alice in Wonderland x two!

I cannot believe how excited the girls are about Halloween this year - almost every day they ask "Is it Halloween yet, daddy?"! Here's Allie, Anna and Emily with a pre-Halloween wish for everyone:

Going to a Piesta (Fiesta)!

Both Sarah and I think our girls have a strong vocabulary for three year olds. Pronouncing some of the words in that vocabulary is a different story, of course! For example, if you follow Sarah’s blog, you know the word video is pronounced "bideo" in our house. And, as we found out recently, Allie, Anna and Emily think fiesta is pronounced "piesta". (Not sure where they picked up the word fiesta, by the way. Maybe Diego?)

Here’s a clip of Emily and Anna having a "piesta":

Forget Me Not.

Along with a request to answer a survey, a card arrived from our friends at First Candle in the mail today. It read:

Somewhere there is a field

of lovely Foreget Me Nots,

Delicate blooms for lives lost too soon,

Echoing....

Forget Me Not.


Forget not our angel...

Abigail Ruth
June 4, 2006

A Day of Fun

Even though my employer is not a commercial bank, our holidays coincide with normal bank holidays, one of which is Columbus Day. So…this past Monday I was home with my daughters while Sarah was at work and Grammy was at her other home.

I had decided that no matter how tired I was on Monday, I was going to take full advantage of the spectacular Fall day with my girls. And we did take full advantage - we left the house before 10:00 a.m. and didn’t arrive home until about 3:30. Our packed day included our favorite park (with animals and playground), Papa Gino’s for lunch, another playground, a visit to see their sister Abigail and ice cream at Friendly’s!

The day was definitely challenging at times, but having girls who are well behaved is an enormous plus when you are out in public.

I took a bunch of video and compiled a brief highlight reel:

The Goo Goo Dolls perform "Iris"

Did you watch Dancing With The Stars last night? We normally do not watch much TV on weeknights, but we knew The Goo Goo Dolls were going to be performing so we tuned in - it was pretty cool. Coincidentally, we had seen The Goos perform a few weeks ago and I was able to capture some decent video of them performing Iris.

Enjoy.