French braids

On Sunday Anna, Abby, & I all wore French braids in our hair. 95% of the French braids I've ever done are on my own hair. It was so fun to make French braids in their hair! I hope this is just the beginning of years of getting to style their hair. 

Preschool Christmas Concert

Today was Anna & Abby's preschool Christmas concert. The girls were excited to put on their Christmas dresses this morning. They both did a great job in the concert. Anna was an enthusiastic performer, as expected. In the past I rarely saw any 2 year olds singing, but Abby was well as many of her classmates were singing loudly and jingling their bells. After the concert they were both very proud of themselves.

Making Christmas Cookies

Yesterday we baked and iced Christmas cookies. We used Great Grandma Onie's recipe. Anna & Abby both helped to roll the dough, cut the cookies, and of course ice them. Everyone had fun.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a great trip to upstate NY to celebrate Thanksgiving. First, we went to Aunt Diane's house in Binghamton: 

And then on to Albany...where we did more than play Muppet chess, but I guess Muppet chess is conducive to taking good pictures:

You may have noticed that the table has completely turn from 2 years ago when Abby was our little ham and Anna hid from the camera. Abby did, however, cooperate with the camera once in the last month:

On the day she turn 2 1/2!

(hard to tell, but that is a 1/2 cake)

Whip your hair

First watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YuLwJPhvYA

Then watch this:

Halloween continued

Here are two more great pictures from Nana's camera:

 

One of my friends had the wicked queen costume to go with Snow White and we managed to put together a last minute "prince" costume for Daddy.

 

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween this year. Abby was a cat and Anna was Snow White. A week before Halloween we attended our town Halloween parade to gear up for the season. The girls liked watching all the floats and people dressed in costumes. On Saturday we all went to a playgroup Halloween party where the girls got to do crafts, have treats, and hear their favorite local musician, Miss Anne, perform Halloween songs. On Halloween day Nana came to visit to join the festivities. The girls enjoyed all the Halloween festivities, but their favorite by far was trick-or-treating. We were surprised how many houses they visited - sometimes running from one house to the next. They were quite satisfied with their loot at the end of the night! Happy Halloween!

 headed to the playgroup Halloween party

separating pumpkin seeds from the mush

Anna & Abby searched with Daddy for the spookiest pumpkin design they could find. Once we finished our skeleton/bat design, Matt lit the pumpkin, and the girls ran around the house either truly scared or pretending to be scared of it!

Nana's here!

 ready for trick-or-treating!

taking inventory at the end of the night :)