Riley and Avery

Riley had her school field trip to Venetucci Pumpkin Farm on Thursday. It was a pretty cold day and there was still snow in the pumpkin patch. Riley had fun picking out her own pumpkin. The rules of the farm were that the pumpkins were free if the children could carry them out of the fields themselves. Of course, the farm had pigs and chickens, and that was definitely Riley's favorite part. And they had lots of sticks, which Riley took advantage of. The only thing that could have been better was if they had a nice selection of rocks. Then Riley would have been in heaven. Sticks and rocks. Riley should have been born a boy.


Avery is working really hard on learning how to walk. She is standing a lot know and visibly contemplating taking a step. Her favorite game is to fling things over her shoulder. She does this most frequently with the chalk from Riley's easel, but also with laundry, and the Thomas trains at Barnes and Noble. It's really quite cute, but not cute to clean up her mess every five minutes.

Riley had her first cinematic experience yesterday evening. I took her to see "A Nightmare Before Christmas" in 3D at the movie theater. She was a little scared for the first minute, but then she really got into the music. She had a blast and sat through the entire film. Of course she loved wearing the 3D glasses. A couple of times during the movie she would reach out for things that seemed really close. Adorable. The glasses were obviously not made for children, so I had to hook the ear pieces into her hair. Good thing I decided two minutes before leaving for the theater that I should put her hair up.