Shopping list

When I picked the kids up from school today, Q had a common request: "I want to go to Target." So I asked him why we needed to go there and he answered (verbatim, because I was laughing so hard I immediately committed it to memory):

"we need, uh, dishes, and uh, baby uh pants, and uh wipes, and uh, juice boxes, and monster trucks!"

For the record, we need none of those things.

And baby pants? What the heck?

Too much Toy Story?

Quentin has started jumping off furniture. When he does so, he shouts, "To infinity and beyond!"

Conversation

Yesterday upon pick-up from school, Q asked me, "mommy, did you have a good day? Did you have fun at work?"

Of course this is a direct copy of what I ask him when I pick him up every day. But it is the first time he has started a conversation with me that is not him asking for something or about monster trucks!

On the go!

He likes Thomas

Booster seat. No chair required.

We are in the new house. We have next to nothing right now. Caroline doesn't care. She has cheese balls.

can you hear me now?

no? maybe because it's a mouse.

trick or treat!

we went trick or treating for the first time this year. quentin really liked it, especially when he realized that people were just giving him candy. at first, caroline was just happy to be part of the party. then she realized that people were handing out food and she got really into it. and then she realized we were stashing her food in a bucket and she couldn't eat it. then she got mad.

caroline doesn't use a binky. well, at least, she didn't. i think she thinks it is funny.

ready to go!

food!! please. more food!!

quack! trick or treat!

more food!

duck butt!

lilly was bold. she would ask for two. if they gave her two, she'd ask for another.

more food!

the pixar twins

trick or treat!

more food!

bag is getting heavy!

score!

like the dunkin donuts bag??

my babies - this was the best i could get of them together. too much sugar.

the group! again, the best i could get of four toddler hopped up on candy

inspecting the haul

i think they enjoyed it.

Q's first decorated pumpkin

done at school:

excellent use of black paint and glitter.

security jacket?

so caroline has adopted a security blanket. it's pink puppy. she's had it since day 1 - jeremy's fellow residents at MGH gave it to her when she was born. she has to have it. always. but we only have two so far. once stays at daycare so there is one there, and the other is usually in the crib for naps and bedtime. this is NOT pink puppy. this is a fuzzy, satin baby coat that she found somewhere in lilly and ginny's house.

halloween part one: friday nite at the mall

friday night we went to a halloween thing at the outdoor mall. they had trick or treating in the stores, bouncy houses, a hayride, and goodies.

quentin shows how well monster trucks go with a nemo costume

it is impossible to get a photo of both kids, smiling, and looking at the camera. impossible.

not sure what's going on here, other than Q is trying to push the stroller with his sister in it

caroline wasn't in costume, but she was wearing her halloween outfit so yeah, victoria's secret was giving out candy. seems appropriate. funny how they were the only store that was out...

cat ears!! chocolate face.

we told them no funny business on the hayride