Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! We are very sad that we've been absent from our blog lately, but we've been busy playing with visitors and helping Mommy recover.

This Thanksgiving Mommy is grateful for all of the help, prayers, and well-wishes she's received in her recovery from surgery. It's been a slow road, but hopefully a successful one! Mommy is also grateful for catered Turkey Day meals so she doesn't have to cook.This year, Daddy is thankful that the Packers won their Thanksgiving Day game. He also says he doesn't know why Mommy dressed us up for the day as we are not going anywhere special. Mommy says any day is a good day to dress up, especially holidays. We told him it's cool to be fancy. And that's that.

Elyse: I'm especially grateful for all of the fun time I've been able to spend with my many grandmas lately. It's been loads and loads of fun!

Felicity: Thumbs up on the outfit Mom!
What am I grateful for? Well, everything really (as I love to say "thank you" all of the time), but most of all, I'm thankful for the small things in life--like snack time, Mickey Mouse, and cheese.

Here's our great-grandma (one-half of The Greats, remember?). We are so happy she was able to stay to help Mommy and hang out for Thanksgiving. We love you!

And just because it's been so long since we've posted, we thought we'd give you a little glimpse into our Thanksgiving-morning tradition: watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, of course! Here we are in our seats, waiting for caramel rolls and sausage (good breakfast fare), and getting ready to cheer for our favorite balloons:

Did you see how big that Mickey Mouse is? H-U-G-E!!! Can we get one of those?

After breakfast treats, we lounged in style while watching the events on 34th street. Maybe one of these years we'll go to NYC to see it in person! We had such a great time watching the parade in our jammies.

One final thing we have to mention on this day of gratitude. We were so lucky to have Mommy's BFF, Kate, also come to play with us and help out while Mommy recovered. She was so much fun, brought us a bounty of presents, and was basically the coolest cat around. We would've posted about her trip earlier, but we were a little pre-occupied with our crazy happenings and other visitors! Thanks for everything Kate! We love you!

In Preparation for the Frozen Tundra

In preparation for our big trip to the Frozen Tundra for Christmas, we decided to model our new hats and mittens. So what do you think?Grandma definitely thinks we're all set for a little snow and chilly temps!

Gathering Leaves

By Robert Frost

Spades take up leaves
No better than spoons,
And bags full of leaves
Are light as balloons.

I make a great noise
Of rustling all day
Like rabbit and deer
Running away.

But the mountains I raise
Elude my embrace,
Flowing over my arms
And into my face.

I may load and unload
Again and again
Till I fill the whole shed,
And what have I then?

Next to nothing for weight,
And since they grew duller
From contact with earth,
Next to nothing for color.

Next to nothing for use.
But a crop is a crop,

And who's to say where
The harvest shall stop?

Trick-or-Treat!

Our very first trick-or-treat experience was spectacular! Did you know that if you just knock on a neighbor's door, they will give you candy? It really is a great set-up!

Here we are all set to go out on our big excursion!We had our own special bags (thanks Grandma!) and filled them with lots of yummy treats!

Come on Daddy! I'll show you just what to do. First we knock, then we wait, then we say "twick or tweat!" and then, yup, you guessed it! Treats pour into our bag. It is practically magic!

Faster, faster, faster! Let's go people! Do you think I'm getting any younger? Gotta get me some yummies!

We had a fun family Halloween with lots of help from Grandma, Daddy, and Mommy!

Elyse & Felicity and the Great Pumpkin

The night before Halloween we carved our very first pumpkins! Grandma and Daddy did the carving, but we had so much fun digging out the guts and playing with all of the pumpkin's gooey insides!

Mommy even had enough energy to help a little:Felicity: Grandma, this is so cool! We should carve pumpkins every day!

Elyse: I figure that pumpkin muffins are very yummy so the pumpkin itself should be good too. Right? I'll just take a little taste to find out...hmmm...I think I'll stick to the muffins!

Felicity: I'm telling you the truth Grandma. I just saw Elyse take a bite of the gooey guts. Can you believe she did that? Disgusting!

Our finished pumpkins light up our front steps with a sparkly glow and are all ready for Halloween. We are excited to do it again next year!

Happy Halloween!

Boo at the Zoo

Hello! We apologize for the blogging absence while our mommy has been recovering from surgery. She's doing well, resting (although Daddy says she is BAD at resting!), and we've had so much fun hanging out with our Grandmas.Last weekend we went to BOO at the ZOO at the National Zoo. We had fun collecting goodies, seeing the animals, and flitting around as Monarch butterflies:

Elyse: I was sad to hear that Mommy had to stay home in bed. It was a big BOO-HOO for me before we left:

But then I got to put on my new fancy shoes and all was right with the world:

We sure are lucky that we had our Grandma to take care of us. We didn't miss a minute of fun!

A Big Day!

Today our Mommy is having surgery to hopefully fix the headaches she's had for 11 years! Please pray that all goes well and that she returns to us safe and sound (with a speedy recovery!). When she's better, we'll continue blogging about our silly adventures and giggles...until then, you can know we're having lots of fun with our Grandma!

Fabulous Fall Festival

Last weekend Grandpa was in town for a quick visit and we had a great adventure going to the one of the best Fall festivals in all of the DC metro area.Here we are trying out our new wagon for the first time. It was the perfect set of wheels for the farm:

Wow, look over there! It's the Farmer of Cox Farms! Wait a minute...that's just Grandpa!

We got to eat yummy apples. This was the first time we ate our apples without having them cut up. We are getting so big!

Mmmmm!! An apple in one hand and a sippy cup full of apple cider in the other! You just can't go wrong!

Elyse: This fall festival stuff is just too much to handle. The fun is EVERYWHERE! Let's just take a little breather before the fun quotient just blows my mind!

Grandpa, you are one silly guy! Just keep those laughs coming!

At one point, we lost Grandpa. But then we found him. Lucky for us!

Fancy finding our Wizard of Oz friends here! Everyone together now: "We're off to see the Wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!"

There were GIGANTIC slides all over the farm and we went down almost all of them with Grandpa and Mommy. Weeeee!

We chased Grandpa through a long corn maze...but made it out alive!

We enjoyed a long, silly, and entertaining hayride:

We ate a special junk food lunch of hot dogs and french fries (we like hot dogs, much to our Mom's horror and dismay!):

And we danced the afternoon away to good ol' West Virginian Mountain music. What a great way to ring in the fall!

Dizzy with Daddy

Here we are, just hanging out, bored before Daddy gets home from work:When he comes home, we get ready for bed... and let the silliness begin!

Silly girlies everywhere! Watch out people, here comes the maniac red-head!

We are always so happy when Daddy gets home from a LONG day at work to play with us!!