long time, no post!

WOW! It has been a busy few weeks! The girls and I did a week-long trek to Charleston (for Alan's cousin's wedding), through Spartanburg (to see my parents on the way) and I am ashamed to say that I hardly took any pictures! Even when they were all dressed up in rehearsal dinner & wedding attire! I am hoping to steal some from their Grammy & Aunt Tricia's camera as they were much more on top of things than I was! The girls did great and it was so fun to introduce their extended family to them! Here are a few photos from the past few weeks! As for Halloween, they wore their little Halloween outfits (no costumes this year) and we just strolled the neighborhood to check out all the kids and all the decorations! Let me tell you, this neighborhood goes ALL OUT for Halloween ... it was one street party after the next and the decorations were impressive! The girls are talking a lot now and making at least 15 animal sounds! If we are out at the store or somewhere, I can ask them if they want to go "home" or go to the "park" and they will tell me. They will tell me if they are ready to go "nigh, nigh" or if they want to "eeeee" (eat). It is getting to be a lot of fun communicating with them! They love to give their Daddy kisses (they will lean in and put their mouth on his ... for some reason, they aren't too keen on giving Mommy kisses?!) and to give us both hugs and snuggles. For every tantrum there are more than enough sweet moments to make up for them! Here they are playing at a great, local toddler park ...

is this a mirror?

Meredith's messy face smile ... sometimes, she will taste the dirt to make sure it is still "yucky", which, by the way, they think is a HILARIOUS word! And again, nope, she is not standing in front of a mirror!
here she is waving at someone and saying "bye, bye!"

Big smile from Hannah! You can almost see all 8 teeth!

Meredith won ... I think Hannah got distracted by a squirrel (or "gurl" as they call them) and spent the next 15 minutes chasing it around the park ...

... about to have a "baby throw down"

We took a day trip to a pumpkin patch an hour north of Atlanta and they had a great little petting zoo. Here are the girls checking out the goats. They also had all kinds of farm animals and they had a few jump castles ... it was a fun little outing with some friends and their kids.

Here, Barbara and I were trying to get a good photo of the girls but, as always, it was hard to get both of their attention at the same time ... this is the best we could do! Their random outfits are the funniest thing about the photo ... PJ's, jacket, Halloween slippers, and the "ba" of "nack"!

Meredith

Hannah

Being such good car sleepers is a blessing and a curse! When you want them to sleep (long car trips) it is great, but when you don't (on the way home from the park so they can eat lunch then take a nap) then it is not so great! I always love to get a good sleeping picture though!

Baby Wrestling (for you, Lauren McDonald!) on the couch cusions!!

At the Stone Mountain pumpkin patch ... Hannah tests out her strength on a pumpkin that may weigh almost what she does!

... I want this one ... no, I want THIS one ...

We were visited by "Flat Stanley" and I thought this was a cute picture of the girls and Flat Stanley at the park!