Laowai

Not sure why I’ve been so absent from my web site lately – I think I need a photo project. Trying to think of something while I wait for my new camera battery charger to come in the mail. I lost ours on the road trip to Wisconsin. Or maybe it’s somewhere in my cluttered house. Chances are good it will show up right after the new one arrives. Here are some random thoughts and some random photos.

– she’s into families lately and saying this is the mommy and this is the daddy and this is the baby when referring to anything from buttons to apples to chairs. She’s also into this odd thing where she assigns names to Brian and me and herself at dinner. She informs us that I am the apple mommy and Brian is the apple daddy, but sometimes she is the apple mommy and then she switches to the apple baby. It makes no sense but she seems to do it at dinner all the time lately and Brian loves to play into it and ask who is apple mommy, etc.

– Not feeling craftily inspired lately but I must get going on her Halloween costume. She’s going to be a butterfly – it was decided a long time ago when she saw two boys running around the park with butterfly wings. She didn’t even know what Halloween was but she was enamored with those butterfly wings so I suggested it and she’s been latched onto the idea since. I’ll be using foam and felt and today we bought some sparkly gemstones to glam it up.

– I sing The Bear Went Over the Mountain most days before I say goodnight to her. I strongly associate that song with my Grandpa Dice. I think we sang it in Grandpa’s big old Suburban on camping trips. I have vague memories of bouncing along with cousins on the bench seats. Grandpa would wiggle the car a little or we would go over those little hills that make your tummy go woooeeee. So anyway – I think of Grandpa for a moment while I sing The Bear Went Over the Mountain.

These are from a year ago – oh how my little pumpkin has grown.

And here’s her reaction when she saw me taking the guts out of a pumpkin last year. I’m so glad we captured this funny moment. Hopefully she’s not quite so horrified this year.