Isabelle found a hole in the stairs to our second floor. Not surprising, as there are probably hundreds of them. There must have been something special about this hole. She felt it needed to be "fixed". So fix it she did. I suppose she figured that if the fix didn't take, that she would, at least, deter people from stepping on the offending hole!
Good work Peanut! Picking up those handy genes!
Our friend Beanie gave us a roll of Judy's (Beanie's mom) cookie dough. We're now realizing that we don't know if Beanie made the dough from Judy's recipe, or if Judy produced the dough. Regardless - a great gift! Especially for a family with a two year old.
Now being the implementer of said cookie baking project, I made an executive decision and chose to disregard the directions that involved rolling out the dough on a floured surface and using cookie cutters for fun shapes. I know it sounds like I'm a party pooper, but I figured that four kinds of loose sugar decorations (which were part of the thoughtful gift), shortening, a paint brush and an egg white could do plenty of damage without introducing a rolling pin and fistfuls of flour (which is awesome for turning our floor into a veritable skating rink and when we're done skating turns into glue once wet! We've tried it!) I decided that just cutting the roll into disks would be just fine. So Pop (Ed's dad) showed up, and we went to town. She had a great time greasing the pan, placing the cut cookies on the pan, "painting" them with the egg whites, and of course adding her personal artistic elegance to each "piece".
We cooked em' and they were good!
Thanks Beanie and Judy!
It has been a banner day here at the Harvey's! As you can see below, our little man is holding his own bottle and his sister has had a successful day on the potty (that photo wasn't as cute for public consumption)! Yahoo, we're off to make cookies for Mommy!
Ed, Isabelle, Camden & I all went to the children's museum in Boston today & we met Rob & Jason there. Isabelle was sharing her oranges with Jason!
Much fun was had by all!
~Ann
Today is Mommy's first day back at MIT and Daddy's first day at home with us. So far so good. Snugford still has all of her fingers and Daddy hasn't dropped me yet. We all miss you Mommy! Can't wait to snuggle up with you again tonight. Have fun at work. Remember - no hitting.
We love you!
Camden
There are some days in the Fall when the water sparkles and it is the most glorious of days....this was one of them!
~Ann
Here are more pictures from Isabelle's birthday. Meghan & Neil brought an ice cream cake and you can see that Isbelle enjoyed it!
~Ann
Isabelle turned 2 on November 19th and we celebrated on Saturday after Thanksgiving when all of her grandparents would be in town! When Grampy showed up with balloons, Isabelle quickly, very generously distributed each balloon to each guest based on their favorite colors: Blue for Grammy, Yellow for Lou Lou, Orange for Grampy and so on. She was very happy!
~Ann
Camden took his first bottle from Ed on Saturday and he didn't seem to flinch that it was coming from Ed in a bottle, instead of me! Of course, it tasted the same! We were very pleased as he'll need to be taking a bottle on a regular basis soon enough!
~Ann
