Cityscape

Giant Play And Learn Book

J got a birthday gift from Fifers and Jess...

Mommy And J

Mini Ice Cream

YUM!!

Breakfast By Candlelight

It's dark when we get up these days...we've started lighting a candle or two at breakfast.

Masked

Much needed protection for storage room sorting out...

Smiley

Puppy, Owl, Kitty

J got a little parcel in the mail from Mama...

Christmas Coffee Has Arrived

Book Hugger

I took this last night...J was exhausted!

Homeward Bound

Fairy Princess

Happy Hallowe'en - here she is with the wand and all the other bits and pieces.

Masked Preschooler

Here's the small girl with the mask in place...

Shell Car

This car reminds me of the toy car that hung out by my office a few summers ago.

Magic Wand

Part of the small girl's Hallowe'en costume. She picked it out herself!

Rainbow Birds

Auntie Rebecca came over to visit tonight and brought J a rainbow bird mobile for her room.

Dentist

Today was J's first real dentist appointment. She had been once before when she was about 18 months old and they just got her to open her mouth and the dentist did some gentle prodding.

Today she actually had her teeth cleaned. I went first so she could see that it wasn't scary and then she went.

Her cleaning was much more civilized than mine...she didn't have anyone climbing all over her!

Success

My first loaf of bread maker bread was only so-so. This loaf was perfect. It was a straight whole wheat loaf - the other was supposed to have nuts and fruit in it...but that's a long story...I made a 2lb loaf and I wouldn't do that again - there wasn't quite enough room in the basket for it. But it's good. Even thought it took 4 1/2 hours to make...YUM!

Blue Skies

Small Slow Cooker

I have a big slow cooker, but there are so many things that I like to make that need a smaller pot, either because they don't cook well in the big pot or we just can't eat THAT MUCH of whatever it is...so today J and I went and got a smaller slow cooker...we'll see how it does.