Daddy (Ada) the tyrant

Ada was a lot of work today.  She is at that "terrible twos" age where she gets into everything.  She loves everything about the bathroom and regularly pulls it apart.  This includes unrolling the roll of toilet paper and sticking it in the toilet than taking it out again and smearing it on the floor.  She takes magnets off the fridge and puts the in the cupboards.  She grabs things off the counter and dumps them on the ground and she regularly climbs up the furniture to get at things we have deliberately put out of her reach.  Today was one of those days and Daddy had the misfortune of watching Ada for much of it.

Finally we reached the end of the day and I was quietly nursing Ada to sleep.  She looked quite pensive.  Suddenly she pulled off and looked up at me.  "Daddy said no,,,,"  she gravely informed me. "Daddy said NO!."

Halloween 2016

I've already had some requests for pictures from this years Halloween, so I figured I better make a Halloween post (because wanting to see pictures is the same thing as a desire to listen to me drone on).  The kids had a blast this year.  Max was a cowboy and Darwyn was a bride.  They have now totally figured out the process of trick-or-treating (a bit different from last year) and tore from house to house collecting candy.

At each home they offered to do a trick.  Max waved his lasso in circles, whipping anyone near by in the face.  Darwyn would look up with bright eyes and say, "do you want to see my trick?"  Then she stood there solemnly, while her audience looked on in confusion.  Darwyn's logic was sound, however.  She figured Cowboys lasso things and brides stand there.  So she stood there.  It was adorable.

Ada plays pumpkin.  This involved taking the
pumpkin lid off and putting it back on repeatedly.
She did this for a good half hour.

Eww...pumpkin brains.  Darwyn got right in there,
but Max still refused to touch the pumpkin brains
with his hands.

Ada and Darwyn work together

The finished products

The crew

Scary faces