Blog update…no idea. We weren’t here.
That’s not entirely true, but we have been gone for nearly 3 weeks. While we were gone the kiddos spent time with Andrea, Debbie, and Grammy Pammy. There was a huge snowstorm the night after we left. The power went out and the kids ended up spitting up and going to other houses that still had power. Lorelei went off with Debbie and got to meet her dog Delilah. Lorelei is allergic to Delilah, but didn’t want to accept that reality. The rest of the time we were gone was more uneventful, but we were able to send short videos to each other while Pip and I were on the boat. Oh, BTWs, Pip and I went to Antarctica. I guess we buried the lede. There was very little internet access so we couldn’t zoom or anything. The kids were troopers and we got tons of hugs when we got home. Sadly, we were recovering from Covid so the hugs were through masks and face shields, but we’re healthy now and the snuggles come with kisses. Kissing my daughter is one of the greatest feelings in the world.
Late October was harvest season. We went to a pumpkin patch and corn maze. Andrea came and we wandered, happily, in the corn for quite a while. They also had an apple launcher that was really REALLY loud, but we tried to hit targets, and mostly missed. We also harvested our first watermelon from our garden. It did have some red fruit, but it was quite small. We’ve tried to grow watermelon for years and this was our best result yet. Progress not perfection.
The kids got to go trick-or-treating again. Covid kept us home for 2 years so this was Lorelei’s first time out. She was a skeleton that glowed in the dark. Andrea, a talented artist, did her face like Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas. She looked incredible. Moriarty chose to be a pirate and looked very swashbuckly. We went out with the Roberts cousins and had a blast. We also got to have the cousins, and Grammy Pammy, over for Thanksgiving. It’s been great to get to spend so much time with them.
When we got back from Antarctica Lorelei had gotten more mature in her speech patterns. Her answers were longer and more complex. It blows my mind that she can change so much in just a few weeks. As she progresses she plays more with herself, and the kids are able to play more complicated games together. A current favorite is Lorelei being Moriarty’s pet dog.
Photos from the professional shoot before Lorelei’s haircut are a new gallery, same password “mal”
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