halloweening

Here they are: two airplanes and a pumpkin. In my imagination, the airplane costumes were more awesome. In reality, not as convincing as I had hoped. Fortunately, this three- and four-year old truly believed they were Dusty Crophopper and Bravo the Fighter Jet. Mission accomplished.

Joe had some Halloween fun at school, and Henry and Annie and I went to the Tiny Tots parade in the morning. After supper, we did some trick-or-treating in the drizzle, and then welcomed about seven kids at our door. Now David and I are enjoying a mountain of mini chocolate bars. Caramilk - yum.

a relaxing bath

... after a gigantic poop. Better this than the other way around.

happy birthday, emilie dufour!

You're two! Hurray!

and then...

And then we took Joe to a mini-concert put on by the Oakville Symphony Orchestra for kids. It was a busy day. The symphony was really good, but don't double-book a four-year-old... it can be rough. Lesson learned.

it's a zoo

We took a field trip to the zoo today. We saw pandas, tigers, turtles, gorillas, and the Moynihans (intentionally... we saw all those things intentionally... and from a safe distance). We picnicked with the peacocks, ran after kids, saw a lot of animals without a lot of people (three cheers for the zoo on a cold October day!) and had a fun day.

a pain in our ash

This is our Ash tree in our backyard. Taking this picture made me realize it is not a beautiful tree... but it is a tree and (1) mature trees are one of the reasons we bought this house, (2) it provides the perfect amount of shade on our patio for a suppertime barbecue, and (3) it is really fun to chase people around.

BUT, thanks to the Emerald Ash Borer, our tree is dying and could be dead and ready to flop down on our house in as little as seven months. So we need to cut 'er down. I am in mourning... our backyard will look so sad without the tree and shade and what will we run around? So, goodbye lovely tree. I will miss you. And this view.

today

It's fall. The leaves are pretty. We went on a hike.

"This is awesome!" Joseph proclaimed. And so it is.