Goals

I've been setting goals for myself ever since I started swimming (in 4th grade) and more often than not, my goals are physical challenges.  Even after I stopped swimming competitively and started running just for the exercise, I kept a goal in mind.  Beat a certain time, go a certain distance, lose so many lbs... you get the idea.  Yesterday though, I set a different kind of goal for myself.  Do a blog post at least every other day this week.  Even if I don't say too much in them, I've got so many pictures from September, October and November that they will speak for themselves.  So here goes, traveling all the way back to mid September when we took the girls to a small, local apple orchard to pick some apples.  

Penelope is Mommy's helper (while Amelia watches and eats!)

Same one helping, same one eating  :D

Amelia loves her apples.  And I love her pigtails!

Both girls seemed to eat a few bites and then move on to the next.  Just taste testing I suppose...

Look at those little legs go!

Few chickens at the orchard - girls were fascinated watching them.

And still eating their apples.  It's a wonder we didn't have any upset tummies that afternoon!

A couple weekends later we went to a small metro park in Dublin right by the big Scioto River.  While the girls weren't really into cooperating or listening to Mommy and Daddy or having their pictures taken, the leaves were beautiful and we still came home with a couple cute shots.  

Checking out the dried up river bed

Still into wearing sunglasses whenever/wherever she can

Cute hair

Playing London Bride on the bridge (and that's all this park really was....one very long footbridge).

Also in September, Amelia used her potty seat 2x in one day at Grandma C's and while she was super proud of herself when asked about it, she hasn't shown much interest since - at least not here at home.  I'm not rushing that though and am totally comfortable waiting until next spring/summer (unless the girls ask otherwise!) to really give it a try.  So that's about it for now.  That takes us to mid-October and next up, picking pumpkins.  See you in a couple days - or sooner!   :)

Seriously?

Really?  Seriously?  How has it been that I have not posted a single thing since September?  How come nobody complained or asked where we disappeared to?  Either we have no one reading the blog or  those reading it know just how busy we were the last 2 months....  I'm hoping for the latter.  Because if no one is reading, then I have ZERO motivation to go back and catch up on the missed activities - Boo at the Zoo, Halloween, first haircuts, 2nd Birthday, 2 year well-check and stats, 2 year professional pictures and in a few more days, Thanksgiving.  Of course, with pictures still in the camera, I get to keep using that as my excuse for procrastinating.  I think Paul said at last count (at the end of the birthday party) there were a few hundred pictures he had to get off the camera.  Yikes!!  And since he is in charge of all things camera/picture related, I can only ask (nicely of course...) for him to hurry up.  :D

In the meantime....we got new cell phones last weekend and have been playing around with the cameras on them and the cool FX Camera app.  You choose the "style" of picture you want before you take it and the app will process your picture to look like a toy camera pic, polaroid pic, fish eye or andy warhol.  It's really cool and addicting when you start taking pictures in the different styles.  Here's a few sample pictures...

Ok, nothing fancy here, just a cute picture of Amelia playing in her kitchen.

Here's Penelope in for her close-up.

Our oldest "child", standing guard at the gate so he doesn't miss a thing (polariod style - coloring and white around edges look so authentic)

Both girls just busy playing with their Little People toys (in toy camera style - I like the unusual coloring that this style of picture has).

Funny thing - Grandma Clopton got the girls those aprons for their birthday and considering how I never wear one and am pretty sure Grandma doesn't either, I cannot figure out where they learned that they should always wear it when they play "kitchen".  Maybe it's just the dress-up part that they really like....   :)