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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Halloween 2009

The princesses were in rare form this evening, with Cinderella in the lead most of the evening, tiara or no. And no slippers, just boots.

Sleeping Beauty was often at the end of the greeting party, but did push past Cinderella to knock on a door midway through the evening, then shy away when someone opened it.
The graveyard infront of the house was little appreciated again this year, mainly on account of our street being mostly empty. Only us and the folks across the street even had lights on, let alone decorations and they go all out. Fog machine, lights, scary music. I just write silly things on foam.
This morning we went to a retirement community to trick or treat, and some of them had candy. Morgan needed most of that time to warm up to the idea of geriatrics with treats, Eliza took it in stride and if she was bothered, never showed it.
Morgan was also hands on with the pumpkin this year, reaching in before I had a chance to get spooning.

The house was quiet tonight, maybe 20 kids in total, the last groups clearly driven over, as indicated by the awaiting SUV in the street. we walked the girls up the block and didn't see a single house giving out candy, just one woman running out to hand both girls a full size snickers. It was delicious.
We loaded the girls in the car and went to another neighborhood to let them do the knocking on doors. Kind of a bummer/blessing the block is so quiet.

Don't forget the clocks and the smoke detector batteries!
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Going home

I'm sitting in the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport on my way home from Albuquerque and missing my girls. I got to see them twice over the web camera built into the new laptop, but nothing beats a jumping hug from Morgan...

...a wet, misplaced kiss from Eliza...

...and a warm, welcoming smile from Kim.

So I sit and wait for the plane to arrive to take me back to them, all the while knowing I'll be doing this again in 3 weeks on my way back from England.

It's easy to leave, but hard to stay away.

Come on plane!
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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Time passes...

It has been awhile since I've updated, I apologize.

Morgan and Eliza are growing like I could never have imagined. Morgan asks thoughtful questions that I have to actually think about before I answer. Things like, "Daddy, why do those people look so unhappy?" at the store, or "Where should this go Daddy, it doesn't belong here," when we're cleaning up the hose. She smiles and my heart explodes.

She does, however have trouble with silly games. in the car driving back from Oregon I was mixing up the girls' names and we were all having a laugh looking at Eliza and calling her Morgan, then at Kim and calling her Morgan when Morgan begins to tear up and convince me that I was getting the names wrong. Then she broke down crying. I have yet to learn her threshold for silliness.

The England project is on for November, which means we'll be blocking the family blog again. i'm not sure if the passwords from before will work again, but if they don't just follow the instructions and your request will be sent to me and I'll let you in. You can also follow along on Facebook if you aren't already.

It's all to protect the girls from any looky loos who want to know more about where I am and what I do.
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