October was full of all our usual activities: school, work, ballet, skating, family and otherwise and on top of all that we had the whole selling/buying a house thing going on. What a crazy time!
Sycely's in full swing at Pre-School and is enjoying her time there. She apparently has begun daily ballet instruction for the student-teachers and spends almost all her time at school either dancing or doing art. Her teachers are all amazed that she can spend 80 minutes at the art area without ever needing anyone for anything. Yep, she's a girly girl for sure! Her artwork is getting really super cute and more and more detailed. She's done a sunflower series that will be hung in our dining room sometime soon and has done about 10 pieces in her Olivia (the pig) series. Last night she spent two hours decorating the scenery for her play of "Hey fiddle fiddle the cat and the fiddle" as she called it. The backdrop came complete with mountains, a volcano, trees (with fruit growing on them) and flowers, "floaty" clouds and of course a moon for the cow (that'd be Lem) to jump over. Her and Ella have had quite a fun time decorating all our moving boxes, too.
Ella is cute as can be, toddling around and yacking non-stop. Her vocabulary grows daily and she's got a a whole slough of new words all the time. Lately they've included body parts and clothing items. Some of my favorite recent additions are couch, panties (one of her favorite security items), poopy (of course!), yes (which evidently really starts with a J), bless you and stand up. This week she got her 8th and 9th teeth (including her first molar) and in the last two weeks or so she's gone from using the one-legged scoot about 80% of the time to walking 90% of the time. She's pretty quick to launch herself up on her feet and take off toddling wherever she's headed. She's still just a tiny little thing (maybe SOMEDAY we'll get to change her carseat to forward facing!) and her little wobbly walking stance (picture drunken cowboy after long day on horse) is really adorable.
The girls are starting to be able to play together more (by together I mean near) and Sycely always wants to include Ella as a character in whatever pretend play she's into at the moment. She loves to play Lionesses and Bears (Ella is always the baby) and they've taken to playing Pride Rock on the landing. For those of you wondering, Sycely is STILL way into the Lion King perfromance. Someone (NANNY) thought it was a great idea to get her the soundtrack from the stage performance so we get to listen to that every car ride AND pretty much every other moment of the day through Sycely's strikingly accurate recreations on a daily basis.Lem finished up first quarter and did his first round of parent conferences this month and is heading into local Model UN weekend this week. The final tennis banquet officially wrapped up the end of his duties there and before we know it, it'll be Thanksgiving weekend and then we'll be looking at the end of the semester and Christmas break!
I pretty much spent the whole month of October packing, seriously. I spent some time making some serious moo-lah on Craigslist and ran around town donating the rest of our unwanted items. We got all new furniture and bedding for our bedroom and some new furniture throughout the rest of the house (especially our awesome new red couches!) I concentrated the rest of my efforts on trying to keep things consisitent (as much as possible) and stable for the girls. It was no easy feat but we all made it through pretty much unharmed :) We had no snow until this week which was nice in some ways, but we did face colder temperatures which made for chilly school drop offs and errands, especially with our garage full of boxes and cars parking in the driveway overnight. Now we have a little snow (and this afternoon is bringing on a blizzard!) and it is starting to LOOK like winter as much as it FEELS like winter. Fine by me, bring on the Holidays!
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