Halloween

Our little fireman was excited about saying "trick or treat" and "thank you" in order to "get lots of candy". When the time came though, he was a bit shy...

But still managed to snag plenty of candy-

The neighborhood welcomed the little ones.

And someone who will remain unnamed, wasn't able to wait until after trick-or-treating

to eat some chocolate.

We have smiles!

Brian and I are speaking in silly voices these days- Mia gives us some big smiles. Mostly when she's on the changing table...

I get behind...

...when I have 2 kids. It may take 8 weeks to upload pictures.

The tugboat honked at Fletch when he waved.

I think this cookie made up his dinner this particular evening.

Baby Mia loves the sling-

Pretty Memphis sunset

Click on "way too many family pics" to the right for some more updated photos, including a smiling baby girl! I can't figure out how to get more than 4 pictures from Picasa to the blog, so that's why she hasn't made an appearance in this post...

Last Wednesday.....

....we went from this....
To this! Welcome Baby Mia!

Hello Big Brother Fletch!

Fletcher is so glad to have you here, too! (Here he is eating banana bread, that he calls juicerator bread. Don't ask us why.)

Mia getting her first bath with her dad and sort-of interested brother-

And for my first trick, ocasionally I can find my thumb!

Thanks to everyone for the support, calls, and visits! More pictures to come...

Aftermath

-what's left on the floor after a long day of playing indoors and errand running. FYI, the hammer is used mostly to hit me in the knee, not for much pretend construction projects. Or maybe a little bit of both. It does have a funny sound effect with impact, I must say. Life is funny sometimes, living with a 2-year-old boy. It's sad to think we'll forget about some of these toys that we see so often these days.

Speaking of cheese

I just found this picture in my e-mail sent folder, from our family trip to the beach, back in May. It is one of my favorite pictures of Fletch. He's really getting the hang of smiling for the camera!

One of the best memories of this trip- he was so tuckered out from all of the sun, sand and water, that we had to wake him up EVERY morning and after EVERY nap, so we could get out and do stuff! I love that he played so hard and slept so hard... Come to think of it, I think I had to wake Brian up after all of his naps too! Come on people, vacation isn't just for sleeping!

Cheese.

We "cheese" now, when we see the camera phone aimed at us. Here, we're reading "Puff the Magic Dragon" with the accompanying CD. Fletch calls it Elmo Dragon. I have no idea why. We have quite the little chatter-box on our hands these days!