Story Time

Aurelia woke up from her nap in a particularly funny mood today. I generally find her to be humorous, but today her choice of words tickled me. Here are a couple of our conversations:

Momma (M): Reli, there's a fly on the window screen!

Reli (R): Shoo fly! (waving arm as if shoo-ing a fly away)

M: What's he doing inside our house?

R: He's working.

M: Working at what?

R: Tummy time. . . Bug flew away.

(5 minutes later)

R: Where is the "shoo-fly"? Working in the studio.

We were in the kitchen and Reli was hungry (as usual).

R: Want some kitty cat beans.

M: Kidney beans?

R: Yeah.

M: What color are kidney beans?

R: Red!

M: What color are black beans?

R: Black! (said sarcastically)

M: What color are garbanzo beans?

R: Kind of . . . airplane.

These days are funny, even when they are not always fun.

Sleep-over Fun

Jonathan went to California last weekend to see his family and Jeri Lynn and Marvel went to visit Honey. That left Ian and I here in Austin with the girls for the weekend. We decided to team up on Saturday afternoon for a sleepover, the girls' first.

We had a lovely time together. We baked banana bread, at snacks and the girls got to watch a video - something rare and special in Reli's world. She has seen one of Koruna's videos a few times at the Ingram's house and she LOVES one song on it in particular. In fact, she will randomly yell out "Old MacDonald!!!! Playing the guitar!!!!" days or weeks after seeing this one video.

Here is Aurelia in her own personal heaven, watching the video she so dearly loves:

Happy Halloween!

For Halloween, I took the girls trick-or-treating at my office. We could not, of course, have gone without our dear cousins, Koruna and Marvel. They were sporting enough to come along. Aunties Whitney and Ivy came along as well. We had a blast and the kiddos were unbelievably cute! Proof follows: