LOOK MY POPCORN CAUGHT FIRE. GET IT?

Trip #1 to the grocery store. We did buy cookies. We forgot a turkey.

Visiting their lobster friends. That’s what they call them. I don’t have the heart to explain those aren’t the same lobsters as last week.

It was freezing on the pier but the sun (and all the happiness) warmed my cold heart.

My TV babysitter earned her paycheck this week.

Go buy this book. HILARIOUS.

Real street fashion: scuffed boots and yoga pants.

Evan loves his Duplos and Caroline loves creepy naked dolls

I don’t know how she doesn’t have nightmares.

RUN AND GET A TURKEY BEFORE THEY ARE GONE, SLACKER

They put extra ginger in the pumpkin pie <3

Making pies is exhausting.

It’s sparkling cider.

NO REALLY IT’S JUST CIDER I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE HE LEARNED THAT.

Thankful

Instead of shopping, we visited our favorite places.

She met Santa.

Hot cocoa and a lollipop = best day ever

Watching the town tree lighting

They FINALLY built a playground at the zoo!

Those are yesterday’s lollipops they brought to the parade

Our local parade is adorable, if not very fancy.

A bear, a Wuzzle and an angry bird walk into a bar…

Weird things I drank today: apple cider vinegar in grapefruit juice, chia seeds in lemon water.

Sleeping face.

Greeting her subjects as they arrive home.

Hair stylist daddy brushes the ginger curls

So much blue sky, so so cold

A recent family picture! It’s a miracle!

When that face says “pweeeeeeease??” I almost always say yes.

The school’s Thanksgiving program was a fruit salad (my job was to send in a cantaloupe)…

And a performance of some songs about turkeys and family

Tiny Dunkin Fan.

Bus stop cuddles

Accurate Snow White portrayal

Proof everyone – even Princesses – loves Target

I think there are some kids under all that hair

CLEARLY we needed an organizational system

Maybe the highlight of the week.

“Mommy I’m going to do my pose and Caroline is going to do her pose and you take a picture, OK?”

If I could go back in time and start househunting again in CT, I wouldn’t even consider anywhere but Mystic.

Waiting in line is boring. Thank goodness there are benches for lounging.

The Carle <3

Practicing their cheers

The ticket cashier printed extra “tickets” for the kids and the ticket puncher punched their “tickets” for them. We love Metro-North.

You’ve seen this one, but my phone died in NY so I didn’t get many more.

Donut the size of his head.

She’s obsessed with my glasses

Winter is coming. So is the bus.

Modeling her awesome hat and sweater.

I have no idea what we did on Wednesday. Teeth brushing might have been the only thing.

Their new favorite bedtime book

Not very excited to be outside in the cold

Ignoring me.

Matching Christmas jams (just a little early)

We are totally going back to do this again

My new favorite spot for evening pictures

Playground time before it gets too cold

DO I LOOK CUTE MOMMY?

First pony tail requires two pictures.

Bounce house birthday = kids who slept really great

Devil’s Hopyard – either it was named after the time the devil was seen jumping around in the pools at the bottom of the falls or after a landowner named Dobble who had a farm near there.

It’s very warm.

A two photo shoot kind of day

He takes his Christmas gift list circling very seriously.

CUDDLE TIME

MOMMY THERE’S A MAN IN THE TANK WITH THE FISHES

Aquarium date with some of our favorite people

Bacon, caramelized onions, tomato, blue cheese on sour dough. JEALOUS?

I can’t remember WHY I put the kitchen stools in our bedroom but the gingers enjoy them.

Special Helper Day

I like pretending that is my house.

GOODNIGHT CAROLINE

We have a train table he never plays with at home. But the one at the library is THE BEST.

The cat found her spot on the new couch

I think she has her princesses mixed up.

Showing off his art at my parent-teacher conference

My kids are weird.

They spent the full length of a movie like this. Unfortunately the movie was Equestria Girls.

TV, screaming toddler, Facebook…and I wonder why it takes me FOREVER to get things done.

Fall in a cookie – pumpkin, hazelnut spread, butterscotch chips. Unfortunately I don’t really like butterscotch and E doesn’t like pumpkin, so we can’t tell if these are actually delicious.

I hung out with the cutest, chillest baby ever at the Community Baby Shower

My teeny little table showing off my work

Don’t worry, I pulled over before I took this picture out the car window of the regatta in the river

I took this picture AND threw that ball. Impressed????

School makes him tired.

Princess Sadface was sad, so we had lots of extra cuddles

I bought ALL THE GROCERIES. I also broke my crock pot (the second one!) so I can’t make half the stuff I planned.

I like this spot.

Evan likes this spot too.

Saying good morning to Fred, the giant fake Halloween spider

Face painting at school. She meowed all afternoon.

Reading on the front porch

All the RescueBots HAVE to come outside to wait for the bus with Evan.

Mr. Incredible from Enterprise. They’re office of superheroes was the best part of my day.

Trick or treating at the fancy houses

They actually liked handing out candy more than collecting it

It wasn’t actually raining, but the gingers do not care. Umbrellas make them look jaunty.

WTF Target, it’s only NOVEMBER FIRST.

I wasted fancy hair and spanx on a lousy event for E’s work.

My assistant at the morning photo shoot got a liiiiitle dirty

We have too many couches right now, but at least it means they can watch iPad OVER THERE and leave me alone.

Yes, she is wearing her costume AGAIN. At least it was at a costume party.