The Here and Now

I thought I'd post the latest photos and catch up with the other posts as I can. Took the kids to the local chuch pumpkin patch this past weekend--what a different experience than last year.
Wrangling two kids when one side of the patch is on a busy road and there are people everywhere and your kid is lobbing mini pumpkins here and there and your other kid is befuddled by all the fuss. is different than chasing one 18 month old around.

We never did get a nice shot of both kids in the pumpkins--but it wasn't for lack of trying. Eddie was trying to scale the pumpkins like he was climbing a rock wall and Josie didn't really want anything to do with them. All in all it's a nice place to go as it's just down the street from us, it supports a non profit the church passes the money to, the prices are great and Eddie can load up on lots of different little ones, in this case, for Mommy, Daddy, Eddie, and Josie.


Without fail, Eddie tries to pick up the biggest pumpkin he can. Then he moves onto some others. He actually tried to get me to help him with one that was about half his height and probably weighted as much as me.
While Eddie was napping on Tues, Josie decided it would be fun to have some time with mom...even if mom had planned to nap herself. Without going into too much detail about Josie's bowel habits, she was constipated for 2-3 days, making for some truly miserable nights for the three of us (Eddie mostly slept fine). Den and I were going to bed at 9pm for 3 nights in a row, just to get a couple hours logged. By Tuesday night, we were feeling like medical interns got more sleep than we did.

She's not crawling yet, but she's all but there. If she weren't the second child, we'd probably be egging her on a little more, but she'll figure it out one of these days.
This was what greeted me tonight--I had to whip out the camera. Then Cookie told me that the ducks (there was a fourth Eddie was holding) were us (Eddie, Josie, Mommy, and Daddy) and the frogs were Cookie and the 2 other nannies Cookie hangs out with. Cracked me up.
As soon as I snapped this photo, Eddie came running over, wanting a photo of Mickey, Donald Duck and him. btw, Donald Duck is ANY duck, because we've had a hard time finding the real donald duck.

Hopefully most posts to come soon.