Remember when Wordless Wednesday was a thing and I could just post photos and people still came and looked at them?
But don’t look at these too much, for some reason the colors look terrible. Ugh.
While the big kids are at school, Linc and I get a lot of time together. I love it. Really really really love it. It’s been a long time since I only had one kid to take care of, and it’s such a pleasant experience. He’s a pretty easy-going baby (in broad, rose-colored-glasses terms) so bringing him with me to do my things or taking him places to do his things is fun. He likes walks, he likes people, he likes animals, he likes looking around. Things that might be boring alone are fun because I have a sidekick. A super cute sidekick.
I had an appointment last week and afterwards we had a couple hours to kill before nap, so I took him over to the arboretum at Conn College. It’s one of my favorite spots, I use it for photo sessions, but rarely do I just wander around. So we did. And it was lovely.
We had another mild-weather Halloween here in Connecticut. It’s sort of unfair that my New England children have never known the joy of wearing their winter coats UNDER their Halloween costumes while freezing to death for some candy. We had friends over for an hour of trick or treating followed by an hour and a half of handing out candy, because that part is just as good and you feet don’t get as tired.
The kids got enough loot that they don’t actually CARE about all the candy, so it’s been consolidated and will be rationed out until I end up eating most of it. I wish there had been fewer Whoppers (ew) and more Midnight Milky Ways (yum), but more than enough of it is high quality to make it a successful Halloween all around. If you recognize the shark in these photos, it was Evan’s costume from last year, lent to a friend who was SUPER excited about it. Everyone’s costumes this year were amazing (they were all from Chasing Fireflies, which is why. All the monies, but so awesome).
Our neighbors were projecting Hotel Transylvania onto the side of their garage. Two thumbs up.
So it’s November now, which is fine, we’re fine, it’s all fine. Except that in 6 weeks I promised Caroline I would throw her a Nutcracker-themed 5th birthday party and two weeks after that is Christmas and then it will be 2016 and OMG. Let’s just focus on this past (excellent) week.
Sunday:
Getting as much costume time as possible this week
I got my first RocksBox! I’m really loving wearing fancy jewelry. My affiliate code good for 1 free month is bebehblogxoxo, if you’re interested in trying it out.
I brought Dorothy to help at a photo session and she charmed a farm dog, OF COURSE.
Monday:
NO PICTURES PLEASE (He’s kidding, he was an excellent photo subject)
DELIGHTED with our fake gravestones
HELP I’M BEING MAULED BY A NURSING LION
Tuesday:
I think he’s judging my hair.
Every day
Linc has a HUGE crush on all the tiny ballerinas
Wednesday:
Now he’s judging Aldi for being a weird grocery store
I might have been a LITTLE early with the reindeer leggings but WHATEVER
Helping himself to Caroline’s uneaten lunch. Caroline now BUYS her lunch.
Thursday:
OUTSIIIIIIDE
OOOOOOUTSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE
Not happy to be inside, sorting wraps
Friday:
Definitely my kid
LOBSTER TWINS
A scary monster/vampire
Saturday:
SO PROUD of her first trophy
Totally normal
Letting the kids hand out the candy so I can sit and drink my wine #excellentmomming
I did NOT watch the Walking Dead tonight, because my husband is forcing me to watch The Packers embarrass themselves all over the teevee, so I’m going to do the smart thing and pass the hell out. I’m going to make the end of daylight savings work FOR me instead of against me. Fingers crossed all the kids are on board with than plan. They should be, right? Kids are totes reasonable about that kind of thing.
I was going to do this an hour ago but then I decided to watch The Walking Dead and (no spoilers) now I don’t really feel like it. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE.
Sunday:
Ok, sure, I GUESS you can bring that birthday party snack in the car
BEEP BEEP
Sunsets this week have been amazing
Monday:
He would sleep in a mountain of blankets
I let Evan walk to the end of the street to put something in the mailbox and he was really excited
Being a big kid
Tuesday:
A murder of crows, circling the bus stop.
He’s reaching for a leaf in my hand, he doesn’t actually know how to look at a camera
This is their new favorite game
Wednesday:
This was outside my house all day, and after a lot of peeking out the windows to see what happened I think the elderly man who rented the apartment in that house passed away. So not interesting, just super sad.
Bare feets
Being a scary ghost
Thursday:
View from Bluff Point
View from Avery Point
Very nicely sharing the Panera buzzer
Friday:
Toddler friends
It was VERY COLD by the ocean for my evening session
Even my husband got this right, and he doesn’t even care about my garden
Saturday:
The faerie village was amazing
Oh ok, go ahead and look 15
ORCHARD WEDDING YOU GUYS SO MANY PICTURES COMING SOON CONGRATS JACKIE I NEED TO STOP YELLING
I am seriously drowning in photography work, which is both good (yay money! yay doing a thing I love!) and bad (my house is a disaster! we have no food!). I have a dress I need to return – by mail! I don’t even have to go to the store! – and it’s been sitting on my table for a week because remembering to put it in a package is too much. I suppose I could stop planning any fun fall stuff for the family and JUST take care of my messy house and grocery shopping, but that doesn’t sound fun either.
Just a couple more weeks and then it will be way too cold for anyone to want photos…right?
