We had a fun and busy day today. The girls went gingerbread house making and to visit Santa at Miracle on Main St. Then since it was such a nice day we went and got our tree, put it up and decorated it. The girls have their shoes ready for St. Nicholas tonight. I started uploading pictures for the Christmas season.
This past Friday I took Bella and Gilli to see the SUNY Fredonia Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of Charlotte’s Web. It was a great show and the girls had a blast! 
Bella found many of the antics hilarious. Both girls liked Templeton the rat as their favorite animal. I was surprised that both girls found the humorous parts outweighed the sad parts, as there were no tears shed at the end like I was expecting. It was a very enjoyable show and I’m glad I had the chance to take them. After the show they had a chance to meet the cast. They came very close to meeting Templeton, but in the end decided that seeing him up close was enough and talking to the large rat was more than they wanted to tackle that night.
Photo from the Charlotte’s Web set from theatre.dance on Flickr.
We carved our pumpkins tonight.
I started a set for Halloween on Flickr.
Isabella carved her pumpkin almost entirely on her own. I helped her with the “zigzag” mouth. She actually did 3 designs on her pumpkin, the face, a witch on one side, and she started to carve Beware on the other side, but words are really hard to carve. Her pumpkin is the one on the bottom in the picture below. 
Gillian carved most of her pumpkin by herself as well. I helped with one part of the mouth and Karen helped with the owl nose (cookie cutter). Her pumpkin is the one at the top in the picture below.
Erin and Karen carved the second to the bottom pumpkin. There is a mouth, I’m not sure why it didn’t show in the picture.
Karen carved the middle pumpkin using cookie cutters, a cat, a bat, and a witch’s hat.
I carved the pumpkin the second from the top. I finally figured out how to get the eyes that way.
Erin turned 2 today! I can’t believe it really. 2?!? What a beautiful and sweet and fun kid she is!
Here is the set of pictures and video I uploaded.
Today is a beautiful Fall day! We went apple picking and got 2 bushels of yummy apples.
Today is Gillian’s 5th birthday. We’ve already opened presents, had breakfast, and are playing outside on this beautiful Fall morning. Later today is Gillian’s party. I’ve started a set on Flickr for Gillian’s 5th Birthday, I’ll add more pictures later.
Yesterday I took the girls to Midway Park. We spent about five hours riding rides (well, the girls rode the rides, I went on the carousel once and it took me a few minutes to stop being dizzy) and having a blast! The unlimited ride pass for each of the girls is definately the way to go, since then they could just keep riding until they got hungry. Then we had lunch, played a bit in the arcade and then went back to riding. We all had a lot of fun!
Then after we got home, Karen joined us and we went down to Farm Festival for a bit. We got some yummy food and walked around. It seemed smaller this year, I wonder if the economy had anything to do with that. But we had fun for the bit we were there.
Today we moved Erin upstairs into her big-girl bed. It is very quiet, so I think she went to sleep. We’ll see how she does when she wakes up in a different room and a different bed.
Karen is away at a conference (check her blog for updates on that) and I took yesterday and today off to watch the girls. Today we went to the Erie zoo. We had a lot of fun, I uploaded pictures/video to a set on my Flickr.
A lot of the animals were sleepy or inactive, but the kangaroos were the most active I’ve ever seen them. Three of them crossed the path in front of us. It was pretty cool to see them move.
The orangutan played “peek-a-boo” with Bella and Gilli. The girls thought that was fun!
Here’s a video of the girls at the chime-sidewalk:
This is how I felt at the end of the day:
I just uploaded another batch of Easter pictures. You can see the whole set here.
