Autumn days

Some of what we've been up to this month. As in July, I suspect you'll see a theme.

You'll also see that I've tried a new template for the blog. Does it work or not?

Since their first meeting here, Edith has checked in with Mr. Jack-o-Lantern every night. She reminds us to light his candle and then gazes at him raptly. She has remained faithful even after his eyeballs were eaten out by a doo-rul, the jagged scars leaving him more sinister-looking than he began.

This is the hat that Edith refused to wear.

But she didn't object to this costume, a gift from Gigi Opal. Great grandmothers evidently understand cool better than mothers. Then again, Gigi has always had a fabulous sense of style, while Mommy has not.

More than half our photos this month have been taken on the playground. Clearly, we're trying to soak up the sun before the devastating impact Daylight Savings Time will have this weekend.


Edith's teachers had planned an especially fun day today of cookie baking and pumpkin carving (teachers carve, toddlers do "sensory play" with the pumpkin guts), and Ms. Chrissy was thoughtful enough to email us several pictures of the fun in progress so we could participate vicariously.

Had Dad been in this shot, too, it might have ended up on our Christmas card. "I am the donkey, shaggy and brown..."