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Well, yesterday was Halloween. We had our party; it was pretty fun. We cleaned up for it alot (though not as much as we might have liked to do), and had lots of delicious food. This is me in my third Halloween costume of the season (I wore my DeMarco dress to school). Ari is still wearing her dragon costume... the stuffing in the poor tail is starting to be a little limp. :(

As you can see, we also broke in the copy of Apples to Apples that we bought at last Origins.

I haven't been doing an awful lot the last few days except get ready for the party... I did most of the cooking on Monday, along with having doctor's appointments and the Changeling game.

I was also working on these:

I made a dozen of them, each over a foot high. They were the monsters for the Changeling game I ran; they were very well recieved.

This is a picture from today. The best part about this picture is that I wasn't dressing her up. She came over, stole my hat off my head and then jumped down and proceeded to dance around with the pirate hat on her head. Yarrr! She even has a nautically fishy diaper on.

Other cool things:

• Today, she stacked blocks one on another for the first time I know of
• She actually helped me put some toys away. Not much, but she got the idea!
• When Thad was getting ready to go, she looked at him and started waving "bye-bye" without even anyone saying goodbye.
  

Fabulous

This is Ari's new trick- hand clapping! She will imitate you if you do it. Also, if she hears cheering or shouting or applause, she knows that you're supposed to clap your hands.

We went to the gym today, and Ari spent several hours climbing all over a study area up there. She had great fun showing Brooke what a good walker she is.

She's generally better at imitating things these days. She will wave bye-bye semi-consistently. Still no words or signs, though.

We went to the department Halloween party tonight, and this is how we dressed. It was just me and Ari- Thad was at Shaintar. It was kind of a dark and loud party, but there were bunches of kids there- there a lot of young kids attached to the linguistics department these days.

This wasn't the best costume we've ever done, but it was certainly passable. I find that with going all out for D*Con, I tend to phone Halloween in, costume-wise.


Well, I'm dead tired, and going to bed now.

Argh... it's taken me an hour and a half to upload pictures and write this. My computer is so gimpy slow these days. It's ridiculous.

Curse you R (and you too, Tcl!)

Well, here's all the pictures I've been meaning to post here for the last several days. :) This is Ari, asleep on her bed, two nights past.

I've just been busy, as always. School intervenes. The night I took this, I sat down, started writing, and literally fell asleep partway through. I woke up in my chair awhile later and just went to bed...

Lessee... Thursday was a work day, and nothing much to speak of. It was rainy and nasty. I slept through my alarm and missed my meeting with Brian.

Ari spent a bunch of time Friday doing this:

Like, for about 45 minutes, she was doing nothing but go from place to place in the kitchen and checking out what it looked like upside down. Funny girl.

Friday was actually a teacher work day- meaning, Thad had no work in the day. Boo, for our pocketbook, yay for our sanity. I went to school and made up my Brian meeting, and did a bit of work. I also folded a whole bunch of t-shirts.

The t-shirts are actually my design... they're not particularly exciting, but it is kinda cool to see something I drew mass-produced.

And Thad took this picture this morning. I don't remember Ari coming over to nurse, but evidently, she did. She thinks mama's nursies make great pillows! I think she always looks like a little plushy in her fleecy jammies. I just want to hug her right up!

Well, she makes for a really big, really wiggly plushy, I suppose.

Thad went to his clix tournament today, for the first time in a long while. Ari and I slept in (whee!) and then did some shopping for Halloween accoutrements- especially candies for the party. I just can't bring myself to buy standard candy... I had to go to the Whole Foods and buy dark chocolate covered things and organic gummy fruits.

I'm so looking forward to Halloween! Just 10 days! And then, I have to start planning for Thanksgiving.

A difference at last

This is totally not the picture I wanted to get. Ari was flouncing around all day in her cute skully shirt, with that cloud of golden curls around her head, grinning and smiling- and this is the only picture I managed to get. *sigh*

We got the skully at the Target- It was 3$ and I couldn't resist. It's incredibly cute on her. :D

On a sidenote- we went into the Target to look at Halloween decor. I'm planning a party, and they have kind of a cool Day of the Dead thing going on this year. Anyway, Ari got totally freaked out by the decorations. Who taught her to be scared of skeletons? It makes you wonder.

Last night, we had this incredible storm- it was raining so hard I couldn't see across the street, and there was walnut-sized hail (mostly marble sized, here) and bunches of lightning. Oh, plus tornado warnings, which meant the sirens were going. It was very apocalyptic-feeling.

We went into the basement, and one corner (a back one we don't use much) had water gushing into it- and, fortunately, straight into the conveniently placed drain that was right there. I just kinda looked at it and said "Um... okay. You keep doing that."

Thankfully, Thad got home from work right before the whole thing started- the streets were flooded, and hail+driving=suck.

Today, Ari used her elephant as a mighty steed. She and Thad had a lovely nap, so I hear. Speaking of sleeep, I'm off to bed early. I was up till 3 AM with a teething baby, and I'm hitting the end of my ability to function on no sleep.