Sleeping Beauty

Quote of the Day

"I think I will give myself a little hair cut."
-Tucker, as he pulled a stool over to the medicine cabinet to look for the hair cutting scissors

First bath at home

A little skeptical beforehand while I get everything ready...


Not so much a fan of the water part of the bath, but how loud can a little lady really cry?




Snuggling with Mama afterwards makes everything better...



Favorite part of bath time: naked time afterwards!






All warm and dressed



Look, Ma, I can cross my eyes!

More Pictures

Tucker used to fall asleep with his hand levitating in the air, too!



I know she's too little for real smiles, but these are cute anyway...





I also love how they sleep with their hands up, like it's a hold up:



It's tiring going to the doctor:



Awake time with Tucker's friends while Tucker's at preschool (while the cat's away, the mice play)...



Look, she's awake!


Getting ready to go home from the hospital:



Sleepy bear



The three of us



Meeting GoGo for the first time

Welcome, Molly!

Here are some pictures from the hospital. We've been home for a day now and are all doing really well. Molly so far is an amazing eater and good sleeper and a content little baby... as she wakes up over the next few days we will see whether she comes into her own on the crying front (so far she is a lot quieter than Tucker was).

Tucker is interested in his little sister, and when we sit him in our laps to let him hold her, he tries to get up and whisk her away so he can have her all to himself. Yes, this is a little scary--poor girl will grow up to be a tough one, I expect!

Quote of the Day - Learning about Homonyms

"Are you the male?" Tucker asked Austin at dinner, out of the blue.
"Yes, I'm a male," Austin answered.
Tucker turned to me and said, "Daddy is the mail so Mommy you are the mail box."

84 lbs+ of apples and counting

A bushel of apples weighs somewhere between 42 and 48 pounds, depending on your data source. It's pretty impressive then that our family of three has already gone through two bushels of apples this season (I just bought our third today!). That is consuming about 12 pounds of apples a week, maybe somewhat more. Wow.

What have we been doing with all these apples?
-Apple syrup
-Freezing apple slices for pies
-Apple sauce
-Apple crisps and pies (some of these we've given away and entertained with...)
-Dried apples
-Apple-pumpkin soup
-Lots of apples for eating

Tucker eats fresh apples in the messiest way ever--nibbling off the peel and spitting the peel out wherever he is. He confessed to eating the apple this way at preschool even (I am now dutifully cutting and peeling the apples for him in that setting). Still, he loves apples, doesn't cough on them like last year, and easily eats at least two a day (more if there is opportunity). Ben likes Tucker to eat as many apples as possible because of the mess. Apples would be a horrible food disaster if Ben wasn't so diligent in cleaning up after the boy.

When I get a bushel, I usually fill a whole big drawer of our fridge with apples, put about an equivalent amount in two layers separated by brown grocery bags in a cooler that Austin takes into our basement for storage, and then use the rest in the moment for apple sauce or drying or some similar project.

This level of apple eating verges on the ridiculous, but when I can get a bushel of apples for $10 at our local orchard, why not???? I feel like I'm practically stealing the apples from them, but they seem to be glad to sell them and tell me they'll be manning the apple shed until Christmas. I imagine we'll all be a bit sick of apples by then.