Halloween!

I love when it is Dave's turn to give the girls a bath.  Partly it is because I don't get soaking wet, and partly because I can take pictures.  The girls love it when he drops water over their heads.  For the past several bath times Samantha has wanted to keep her towel over her head.  She runs around upstairs and Dave says she looks like Batman.  I think she looks like the kid in the Darth Vader car commercial.

They've been enjoying Dave's vacation, but I'm beginning to wonder if he is looking forward to going back to work, simply for the quiet.  The other day he had just Catherine awake for over and hour, and then just Samantha awake for an hour and he was bored, so maybe not.  It is so weird.  We were so nervous about the twins and if we could do this, and now know that this is what was meant for us because anything else wouldn't be good enough.  However, I do enjoy having one on one time with each girl every now and then, it makes it really special.

Halloween: I'm not a big Halloween person.  I don't care if I dress up or go to a party or have a creative costume.  However, Maleficent is my favorite Disney character and Dave found me a costume online for $20.  Greatest thing ever and now I don't have to think of another costume ever again.  Dave's cousin Adrienne made the girls Sleeping Beauty dresses, one blue and one pink, and we were all set.  Next year we'll have to get Dave to be Prince Philip, but that involves tights, so we'll see.

We went to my school's Halloween Carnival and the girls had a blast just running around in the courtyard and dancing to the music.  Needless to say, we were a big hit.

Mommy isn't scary at all!

Happy Halloween everyone!

85 to 45

Wow!  We've gone from our last foray at the beach in one weekend to new coats and 45 degrees the next.  Here's your list bathing suit picture for a while.  We did get to wear our new long-sleeve outfits from Nana and Grandpa and snuggle with Daddy.

At the beach we got to play with our new beach toys.  We made seahorses and castles, and they were much more fun to take down then put up, though daddy did try to make a fort with a moat.

At the beach shelter there were lots of butterflies, LOTS!  They were everywhere on the flowers.

This is what we look like on the way home.  It was way past nap time.

We've spent some time recently trying on hats.  Hats, and anything that could be a hat.  We're exercising our imagination.  Apparently Catherine is going to be a fencer and Samantha is going to be a chef.

The girls now have an Elmo's restaurant with a shopping cart and play food.  Maybe Catherine will be a chef too, and the girls will have their own place one day.  I'm sure it will have lots of healthy food because that's what Catherine loves, and lot of tater tots, because that's Sam's favorite.  However, I don't think it will have spoons.  Catherine thinks she doesn't need them.  Below is a picture of her eating mashed cauliflower with a fork.  We tried giving her a spoon and showing her how to scoop.  She calmly put the spoon down and kept going.  Any help was immediately pushed off.  She yelled at me for helping.  She's a big girl.

Stretch tall for the dunk!  Dave is so proud of them.