Happy Birthday Eleanor!

Eleanor,

How is it that you are 4-years-old already? It doesn't seem possible, yet I barely remember life before you were in it. You light up of lives with your beautiful smile, loving personality, and off-the-cuff singing. You are such a wonderful big sister to Carolyn; the way you look out for her, hold her hand, put up with her little-sister'ness, and always tell her you love her .

Soon you'll be in preschool, then kindergarten and beyond. While we would like to keep you little forever, you are bound and determined to grow up. You want to ride the school bus, you have since you were two. You want to get yourself dressed and often do so. You can get your snacks, and some for Carolyn too. Your independence is growing and it makes us proud.

Keep being you. Happy 4th birthday. We love you!

Mommy and Daddy

Eleanor through the years...

Hello? Blog Followers? You Still There?

Okay, so I kind of dropped off the face of the blogging world for a bit. For 4 months and 3 weeks to be exact. But by popular demand (mainly my own), I'm back. To mark the restart of my blogging career I've put up a new theme and a new title. The extraordinary ordinary; what I feel is the perfect title. And a subtitle, rage against the minivan. Please don't take offense you minivan drivers, that's just one part of ordinary I'm holding my guns on.

So here's a recap of those lost days. We've had lots going on.

We jumped in leaves...
Picked out a Christmas tree...

Decorated our Christmas tree...
Had our tree fall over...Rigged it back up...

Had family portraits taken...Made Christmas cookies...

Made our one and only snowman of the season...

Got spoiled on Christmas...





Decorated princess tiaras...


Played in the snow...


Enjoyed jumping in the bounce house sans clothing...
Played with dolls...
Colored...
Made Mommy the world's largest Valentine...
Started dressing ourselves...
Coated our hair with Vaseline...
Used corn starch to get it out (works by the way)...Played dress-up...
Shew, I told you we've been busy. That's enough for today, but I guarantee we'll post more and we won't wait almost five months to do so.

Happy Halloween

We had a great Halloween yesterday. Throughout the day Eleanor would wish everyone a Happy Halloween :) At 2:30 we went to McCoy Creek Trail for the Trek or Treat. It was our first time and we loved it. The woods is gorgeous and there are costumed people setup all along the trail handing out candy. It was Carolyn's first go at Trick-o-Treating and she seemed to get the hang of it. She didn't say "trick or treat", but she put her bucket out and let the people fill it!

The girls with Mommy At Trek or Treat on McCoy Creek Trail

The girls walking the trail with Daddy

Little Miss Muffet

Eleanor didn't care too much for the Jolly Green Giant

Carolyn was really curious too

Our cute little Kanga

Afterwards we ate dinner and for the city Trick or Treat, Eleanor wanted to hand out candy rather than go out again. We were happy to make this happen. It was pretty cold and the girls both have enough candy to last them 6 months.

Our first customer. Carolyn didn't want to give up any candy. But Eleanor loved it.

Patiently waiting

Getting cold

Really cold