Sunday Supper

We have some lovely, lovely friends who invited us for Sunday supper a few weeks ago. Georgia and Elia were reunited after too many months of not seeing each other. Notice Elia's awesome accessorization? She and Georgia have a lot in common...

...including a little wildness, particularly when their parents are trying to get a photo of them together.



Sophie and Ami also got reacquainted.

The wild girls made much mischief on the upper level of the house. I blame the daddies entirely. The mommies were engaged with the tiny children. The daddies were meant to be supervising the slightly-less-tiny children and instead left them to their own devices. Long story short, a cutting board was destroyed with markers and cologne was dribbled over little hands and then smeared into a bedspread. The homeowners were nothing but gracious about the whole debacle. But I still blame the daddies.

At the pumpkin patch

Pumpkin Patch videos

Pumpkin Patching

We met up with Maeve and Natalie at the pumpkin patch. The plan was to buy apples, return home and make a pie in time for Sunday supper at some friends' house the next day. Then we realized that the pumpkin patch sells ready-made pies that you can then bake at home, making it appear that you made the whole pie yourself. So that's what we did. Shhh, it's a secret. Georgia absolutely loved the fall festival.

Sophie was a good sport in the orange stroller.

Again with the balloon animals.





And more face-painting.



That's a "scary pink spider."

Georgia got brave and went into the castle all by herself!



Wherefore art thou, Georgia?

G and Maeve - fast friends because Maeve is wearing a crown. G knows she's good people.





A bounce house because that makes so much sense in a pumpkin patch.

Hay ride!





"I want this one!"

"There are too many to choose from. Let's get them all."









A pumpkin coach ride.

Maeve and G were totally brave, parents were not allowed to ride with them.





My absolute favorite photo of the day.

LilyS Playdate

We were in the car the other day when I heard Georgia wistfully say, "I remember LilyS." Leveled by the sadness of that statement, her mom and I made quick plans for an afterschool playdate. Here they are on the way to the new park near LilyS's house.







It's so much fun to take stuffed animals on the playground equipment!

Parent-Teacher Conferences

So parent-teacher conferences were back in October and we'll say one thing for the school system, even though Georgia and Flo don't go to the same school, at least they follow the same calendar. This allowed us to do a sitter swap so that the parents didn't have to take the kids to the conference.

G and Sophie went to their house in the early afternoon. According to the report from Flo's mom, all went well.

Then Flo and Rupert came to our house during the dinner hour.

Did I mention that daddy had a meeting elsewhere? That I had four kids under four in my house at DINNER TIME?

Conclusion: we do not need to have four children.

They were cute, but Georgia was super territorial. Rupert was sad. Sophie was needy. Flo was pretty pleasant, considering that G wouldn't let her touch any toys. It was a very long two hours.

Go Team V!

Back on October 16 we were happy again to walk with Team V in the annual Strollerthon to raise money for Rett Syndrome research! Much like last year, and the year before, there was lots of fun to be had! Georgia and Maeve had a blast.

Sophie made her debut, along with Elodie Jane, Violet's new baby sister!

Trying to get the three to look at the camera at the same time was, well, a challenge.

Smile Sophie!

There it is, but the older girls aren't looking at the camera anymore...