my baby girl is 2

Since Cosette's been in love with Henri's rain boots, we got her her very own. Except for nap time, she wore them all day.
The cute outfit was one of many from her Nani & Bapa.

We look forward to celebrating Cosette's 2nd birthday with friends & family on Sunday.

antics

Here's what the Hatchlings are up to these days:

Cosette, now almost 2 says things like:

• "I do it!"--while trying to feed herself, attach her seatbelt, and even putting on pants. We find this amusing since in the last year, we had to make Henri put on on his own clothes since he was quite content to let us dress him. Yet Cosette demands that she figure it out by herself. So funny how they are different.
  
• "Mine!"
  
• "Peekt-ta-doo!"--obviously for playing peek-a-boo
  
• "Tickle back!"--She loves having her back lightly tickled. Oh, and she will not want you to stop even as the goosebumps cover her legs & arms. Her commands get louder and louder with each pause, until in tears, she yells, "TICKLE BACK!"
  

Henri enjoys the freedom of playing games on a couple of web sites he has access to on our computer.

• Starfall--an educational web site that teaches phonics.
  
• PBS kids & PBS Early Math--games that teach math & science and other concepts
• The weather--oh yes, this boy checks the radar daily, looking for storms and these days snow.
  

Snap pants--Henri has been very excited about pants that snap closed recently. In the past, he's only been able to put on elastic waist pants by himself. Now he is able to snap them. Every day, he looks for pants that snap closed first and puts them on. Before snapping them, he comes up to Johnny or I, saying that we must look away until he is ready. Then he tells us to look as he works to fasten the snap. He gets so excited every time as we give him a high five. It's really cute to watch. The button-closed pants have yet to be conquered, so he doesn't like to wear them.

our halloween

We started the day off with a morning at a Halloween party for preschoolers at a local park. Henri was a dragon and Cosette was a ladybug.

After a short kiddie parade, Cosette colored pictures and Henri made crafts.

We met up with Madeleine (Ava) there.

Johnny came home early from work and carved two pumpkins for the kids. Henri was so excited to carve pumpkins until Johnny actually started. Then he just played outside, but our neighbor, Liza, did spend some time watching though her mom had carved theirs just the day before.

We decided to head to Chipotle for dinner. Dress like a burrito and they give you a free burrito on Halloween after 6:00 p.m. Unfortunately for us, we got there at 5:00 p.m. Henri was hungry, so we got the kids cheese burritos and walked around at a local shop.

We got in line just before six, added some tinfoil to our attire, received our burritos, and left for home.

Once home, we put the kids back in their costumes and went trick-or-treating in the neighborhood. For the first time, Henri really seemed to be into it.

It was a fun day of dress-up and merriment.