Halloween

noah was a train for thanksgiving. Not a conductor or engineer, he was very clear that he was a train.

 It was fun making the costume with him. We made it out of cardboard and oatmeal containers, painted black. It has been the main thing he has talked about for days. Mainly because I am proud of the train and keep saying lets talk about your train costume.

He wore it to preschool, but their parade was rained out.

We trick or treated a few neighbors and noah was very excited about candy. What was interesting is that he never wanted to grab more than one and he got bored after three homes. And one of the three pieces he said was for mom. He doesn't have a hoarding candy instinct yet. Maybe he doesn't have a sense of owning food or being able to save it. I'm not sure exactly.

squish

10/30/14 tomorrow is halloween. unfortunately, it's supposed to rain. we'll go to noah's school with him and the kids are going to show each other their costumes. a few things about noah lately:

• he's sleeping in a toddler bed which means he can get out, and he's getting out. a lot. this morning around 3 or 4:00 or something he was awake, and then again at 5:45, and he wanted to snuggle on my belly on the ground. later he wanted to sleep in our bed with josh, and that was okay and he did that until 7:40, when it was time to wake him up. he happily would have slept longer. i don't know if we want to support the idea of sleeping in our bed... is he going to want to do this at night? or the middle of the night? also, i'm up with aviva and nursing at 6:00 am, so it's all josh... who knows. 
• a couple pairs of his pants are too long so we often roll them up. lately he also says his shirt is too long, and he wants us to roll it up. 
• last week when he saw me changing aviva's diaper, he noticed that she doesn't have a penis. he said "beeba no have penis. has two butts. one front. one back."
• also, i told him that i loved his belly button and not every kid has a belly button as great as his. later, he told me, "some kids no have belly." that's how he interpreted what i said.

about aviva:

• she's crawling!
• she likes apples. likes holding them, and sucking on them (she has no teeth) and intermittenly sucking on a finger or her thumb while she holds the piece of apple.
• she often gets hugged and kissed and squished by noah. mostly i think she likes it. he knows he can do it until she makes unhappy sounds. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

random pictures to experiment

messy face!

helping uncle judah make the sukkah

trying out this blog and its details...

aviva's schedule

29 october 2014
aviva's schedule is to wake up at 6:00, relatively happy and talkative and smiley, and play a bit. she'll eat food for breakfast and get very messy. leticia comes at 8:30 and they play here a little bit before going out to the park. leticia says she sleeps in the stroller from 10-12:00, and then they come back here at 12:30. we pick up noah from school and i wear her. then we either go to the park or go to another park or do something else, but generally she doesn't sleep more. we go home around 4 or 5:00, eat dinner, and play more around the house. around 7:00 she is nursed and pajama'd and at 7:30 she's put in her crib and goes to sleep. the last few days, she wakes up to nurse around 3:30, but before she got sick, she was sleeping through the night.

10/28/14 it's almost halloween and josh is helping noah make a train costume. (or rather, josh is making a train costume and is finding ways for noah to help).

yesterday, at the park, noah was playing in the sand and another little girl came over. she stood there in the sand and looked at noah, and noah looked at her. they stood there awhile and looked at each other. then they walked toward each other and hugged. then they stopped and she walked away and noah continued to play in the sand.

aviva is crawling. she's kind of wobbly and shaky, almost quivering. but it's a little crawl-step, and another, and another. she's especially motivated to move toward shoes - mine, noah's, josh's. she likes socks a lot too.

trip to st. louis

this is a blog for us. let's try this out.

we are back from out trip to st. louis and raleigh. we saw joanna and steve, anya and mika in st. louis. we went to the botanical garden, the magic house, and the city museum, though we easily could have spent a lot more time at each of them. 

a hug for noah and a kiss for his knee

 osage oranges at the botanical garden