Better Late

In honor of Thanksgiving, I give you: Paige's Halloween costume! Happy holidays!

In Lieu of Costume Pics

We realized after the fact that the only picture that we took of Paige (Piglet) on Halloween was at the Ancestry carnival photo booth thing, and those pictures haven't been posted to the company network yet. I would put her in her costume again, but she got some food on it, the lines were drawn in washable marker, and the ears have gone missing. So we'll just have to wait.

However, Mom finally decided it was time to take the knife to her pumpkins. She only grew three of them because they turned out to be...large. Paige gives me this face a lot. She must feel threatened by the squash that's four times her size.

Literally, four times. The pumpkin was over 70 pounds.

Grandma was pretty excited. Paige was too.

Of course, we had to take the opportunity to shoot some pictures of our little princess before going off to the ball, aka: fondue party at the Cooper's. We sure love this girl.

Meet Charlie

We were supposed to clean the bathroom yesterday afternoon. Instead, we went to the pet store! This is Charlie.

Paige is learning to say 'fish' and trying to remember to be gentle as we watch him eat his lunch and build his bubble nest. We like Charlie.

Just Silly

If you give a Paige a plum....

She'll need a bath. If you give her a bath, she'll want to see herself in the mirror afterward.

Of course, she'll start making faces at herself,

and eventually just get downright silly.

When she's finally ready for bed, she'll want to play dress-up first.


And playing will make her so hungry that she may just ask for a plum before bed.
Some days are just plain silly.

Diapered Defiance

Grandma Cooper's been admiring our new car for a little while now, and talking about getting one herself. She came home from Costco with this beauty last week. Somehow I was expecting something a little bigger.

Paige has been enjoying it though. It's the first toy she plays with when she wakes up, and she rides or pushes it around for quite a while, stopping to rev the engine and dance to the music every once in a while. She even gives her dolly a turn...sometimes.

I'm afraid though that with all this new freedom Grandma's car has given her, she's gone a little bit wild.
I guess it was only a matter of time before our baby would come home with wild accessories,

crazy hair,

and absolutely no manners.

*Sigh*. Our little rebel. It's just a phase, right?...Right?

Picture This

I would say that we don't have any pictures because our SD card is not in the camera right now, but the truth of the matter is that we're really just bad at remembering to take pictures since we've been back, even though a lot of things have happened that would have been worth photographing (like, oh, my sister's wedding and the birth of my new nephew). At least those two biggies are covered on the other blogs, right?

So while a post with pictures would obviously be preferable, it could be a while before we got one of those, so just...imagine for second, kay?

Paige is becoming more and more of a toddler every day:

- Grandma Tucker gave her a little pink tutu and some plastic bracelets, which she's been wearing non-stop for the last week. She loves hats, glasses, necklaces, shoes, talking on the phone, and she's been stealing my hairbrush and headbands.

- She's talking up a storm. Her favorite word right now is "doggie". We're working on "please," but she doesn't think that one is as useful.

- She loves to explore and to disobey lately, and is increasingly independent, going up and down stairs and insisting on feeding herself. She has a baby-sized rocking chair in her room where she loves to sit, because she can do it herself and it's her size.

- The real kicker though is I was checking my email the other day and I looked over at Paige and she was reading Grandma Cooper's AP Calculus book...

We might have our hands full with this one.

Last Looks

The last couple weeks have been pretty busy, and though we're already back in the US, we thought we'd give you a few glances at our last week in London.

Paige was definitely ready to go. Or just loving additions to her jungle-gym.



We walked past this every day on the way to the store or the doctor or the library or anywhere, and every time it made me think, "Just to be on the street where you live..." I love window boxes, and especially loved them in London.

Ah, Cathedral Mansions. You were good to us. I'm glad that we've been added to the list of people that have lived there in its hundred years of existence.