Busy busy day

Lolo's at school today. Norah and I are madly trying to get our house in order for the holidays. Big long to-do list for today. Norah has helped baked pumpkin bread already. Lolo helped bake a pecan pie (or as she calls it "nut pie") last night. Norah and I will be brining our turkey later today after my morning meeting.

Still here

Both girls went down hard today. Went to get haircuts and then to the Children's Theatre to see Cinderella this morning. Spent the afternoon outside looking for bugs. (None found). Both asleep by 7:15 tonight.
Lolo asked me the other day how much longer she has to go to school. The first day of school was exciting, she said. It's not so exciting anymore.

One more trip photo...

As we're packing to come home...

Lolo declares she doesn't want to come home. She wants to live on a ski mountain. Yeah. Me too.

The zippy zebra and her posse

Norah's ski birthday

And yet another birthday cake for Norah...

This time at Copper Mountain for a ski birthday.

And one more Norah birthday video

Norah's pretty intent on getting these candles out...you can tell the wheels are turning and she's plotting her strategy throughout the song. In the end, a little help from Lolo (who couldn't stand to be left out).

One more

Norah's Birthday Part 2

Happy Birthday Norah

My baby girl is 4 today. Hard to believe. Jim and I went to her preschool to celebrate today. Last week when we were talking about her birthday, Norah picked oranges for a snack to share with her class. This morning as we're walking into school carrying 4 bags of clementines, Norah says "How about fruit cups?" Uh sorry Norah.

Lolo stat update

FYI - when I took Lolo in to the doctor's for her ruptured sty...I forgot to update her stats...
53 lbs and 47.75 inches. At this rate, I'm guessing she's going to out grow me by the time she is 8.

Happy Fall!

A little sun and a big pile of leaves...

Almost back to normal

We're on the upswing. (Knock on wood). The worst of the colds are over. Both girls still have a lingering cough and runny nose, but nothing to keep them out of school. Norah's coming home extremely tired after school, so I know she's not 100% yet, but it's certainly better.
Norah has decided (with help from Mom) that she wants a ski birthday. (Hooray! Birthday cake on the slopes!). We're heading out to Colorado for a quick 3 day weekend next week. The goal this year is to teach Norah how to stop by herself and get her off the leash.
Go El Nino!

Gym

On our way home from school yesterday, I was asking Lolo about her day. Since it was so nice in the morning, I asked Lolo if she had gym class outside. Lolo, in her all-knowing-duh-mom voice, replied "No, mom. We always have gym class in the gym....that's why they call it gym."

Norah update

I'm hopeful that Norah is on the mend. Rough night of coughing and a perpetually runny nose. But no fever today. Still very tired though.
It was a Norah & Mom day today. She ran errands with me all morning. Didn't feel right about taking her to swim school with the cough and runny nose.
Went to pick up my skis this morning. When we pulled into the ski shop parking lot, Norah was insistent about going to see the fish. I told her, there's no fish in the ski shop. Oh, but I was wrong. She HAD to show me. The ski shop also has a fishing section. We had to spend time oooohing and ahhhhing by the bait.