More Leaves Tonight!

Here's the boys playing together in the leaves! They have so much fun, and the weather's been gorgeous, so they've been playing all day long! (The term "playing" involves throwing leaves at each other, running through the piles of leaves, and falling/hiding in the piles of leaves. We have several piles of leaves.)

Newer Tricks

On Thursday, Danielle waved for the first time with her fingers. And now, when I'm telling the boys that Danielle says hi, she will wave with her fingers! So cute!

The girl loves to eat! Cranberry sauce and (canned) green beans are her favorite foods. And she now adores her highchair! no more complaining there.

Danielle loves to play and crawl in the leaves. She doesn't go too fast too far...

And Isaac likes to play with her.

And Isaac likes to play outside and be silly...

And play inside and be silly...

Jeremiah is repeating and saying more words all the time, and comes up with cute things to things to say. ("Where are you Daddy?" when John was covered up in a pile of leaves, for example.)

Isaac started taking the bus to school last week, and Jeremiah was positively jealous at first but is now getting better at accepting his fate. Isaac LOVES taking the bus to school! Today his teacher commented that he was very happy at school.

The boys are both growing. I just bought new long-sleeved shirts for Isaac, but the sleeves are on the short side and his belly shows when he moves...so he'll be getting new new clothes, and Jeremiah will be wearing only-worn-maybe-once-hand-me-downs from his brother.

We had friends over for pumpkin painting last week, and the boys had a lot of fun.
It's true--the pumpkins didn't turn out to be true works of art. But they were fun to do!

Danielle's New Tricks

Here are a couple of Danielle's new tricks from the past couple weeks:

She pulls to standing, cruises along the furniture, and takes a couple steps holding onto a couple fingers.

She plays peek-a-boo! (She's the instigator.)

She claps!

She says "mama" and "dada" discriminately, as well as randomly throughout her babbles.

She has always liked her two fingers from her right hand to be in her mouth, and for the last couple months has liked to sleep holding onto a blanket with her other hand (still sucking on her fingers). The new development in this, though, is... Whenever she's crawling around our house and she goes near a blanket (or shirt, sock, or any other fabric) she immediately stops with her left hand on the "blankie" and her right two fingers in her mouth.

She's adorable.

Pikluk!

So I know I get pretty excited about a lot of Web 2.0 silliness, but this is truly amazing. It's an internet browser for kids, where the parents though firefox or IE select a list of sites it's okay for their kids to visit (with accounts for each child) and then those sites show up as big buttons when they open the browser. The site is http://pikluk.com/ its totally free (although is does require Flash 9 so you may need to update)

I had adapted a greasemonkey script to do the same thing, but this is so much, easier/prettier/better. So tell your friends and cross your fingers that they get Y Combinator funding for the Winter session.