Swinging is a favorite of both of the girls. Julia’s smile just gets bigger when she is swinging toward you.

Julia is sporting her first tooth, the bottom front-left tooth. I doubled checked to be sure – showing off her teeth to anyone is not a favorite of Julia’s. I guess it was her first birthday gift to herself. She is continuing to work on more teeth. We haven’t let the lack of teeth hold us back on food options though. If she sees real solid food she becomes disinterested in her puree food and likes to sample the grown-up food. Her favorite is Mommy’s bagel.

The leaves were fun to play with, and Julia had to try to taste one. Given the pretty yellow color, I bet it looked tasty.

Mommy with her girls! Emily thought that I should wear her hat. I guess she wanted me to look a little western.

Happy Halloween from a Cowgirl and her favorite Cow.

Emily was a little under the weather and took a late nap so her costume had a few practical alterations which still turned out pretty cute. Julia was her usual self and didn’t slow down when suited up. They enjoyed a fun play time at Grammy and Granddaddy’s house where we did our first trick-or-treating. After visiting a few houses around the Grandparents we headed home in the rain for a little more house visiting. Emily made it to the sidewalk in front of our house and decided that she wanted to go home. That was the end of the trick-or-treating.

We had an enjoyable evening despite the rain. We read books, watched a Halloween show, played with toys and shared lots of cow jokes.

We have a pretty princess pumpkin to decorate our house for Halloween. Emily picked the placement of the pieces and Julia played keep-away and pushed the pieces around the room. Thanks to Daddy who was strong enough to push the pieces in!

We took advantage of a beautiful warm Autumn day and the girls and I took a mini-hike. I got some fun photos before the sun went to play behind some clouds. Emily loved the activity of collecting huge leaves. We found a large variety of different leaves and a few sticks. We hiked at Emily’s pace and in the directions of her choice, so we crossed one bridge six times. Both girls were ready for naps when we got back to the car, but sad to be leaving the nice hike.