Holiday Update

First things first: the Halloween update. You know you want it. Every blogger out there posted Halloween pictures. Well, sorry to disappoint you, but once again, I was flaky with my camera and didn't have any pictures from the actual day.
However, for your viewing satisfaction, I dressed up the kids again today, just for you, so you can imagine that this is them on Halloween.

See our pumpkins? The little one is the one from the pumpkin farm. It's now completely caved in and corroding away. Dottie's sad about it.

I'm sorry my child looks like she's half-crazed in every picture. She still hasn't mastered the camera smile. Plus, she really is half-crazed.

I love my little pumpkin with his wild, constantly moving hands.

We are very into the holidays in our family. Dottie has dressed up as a witch several times since Halloween. And I anticipate that she will keep on doing this.
One of our favorite things about this time of year is the eggnog. Did you know that there is Halloween eggnog? Maybe not in every store, but definitely in your local Walmart. We buy it. It's one of those impulses Joe and I cannot resist.
Dottie also loves eggnog. Now that it's November, the Christmas variety is available. The particular eggnog we buy (not pictured below; I tried to find an image, but couldn't. And we already drank all of ours) has a Snowman on it. Dottie calls the eggnog "Christmas Milk." The other day I asked Dottie what the Christmas milk tastes like, and she replied: "Snowmen." Dottie thinks she's drinking snowmen because of the picture on the carton. That is actually an accurate assumption, since when you drink orange juice there is an orange on the carton.

One more Dottie holiday anecdote. She's very excited for Christmas. She's realized that she can ask for things, and that mommy has also hidden some things. She asks me all the time for a little mermaid jack-in-the-box (there is actually one that exists, but it's a little expensive), and for a pink stick horse (one of her Joy School friends has one). She also knows she is getting some Sleeping Beauty items: the movie, a dress, and a doll. They are all hidden in Elliot's closet. There's limited room in our small house for hiding such things. I didn't think she knew about it, but I will now find her looking in Elliot's closet at the toys. When I ask her what she's doing, she says, "I'm looking at my Sleeping Beauty things for Christmas."

One more unrelated story: the other day, I was putting Elliot down for his nap and I left Dottie in the bath. She just got a new shampoo, blueberry. When I came to check on her, I discovered her trying to shampoo herself. There was a big clump of shampoo at the front of her hair, and she also decided to shampoo her face as well. You can't see it that great in this picture, but there is blue shampoo all over her face. She cried a lot when I cleaned her face, because it ended up in her eyes, nose and mouth. She was spitting out soap for the next hour.