“I like swinging high and I learned how to touch the branches.”– N

Starting at the end of October and most of November, the kids had to be dragged back inside. The weather was perfect: warm and sunny and often high 70s in the afternoon, but dipping down to the 40’s at night. T

A rare moment of really nice playing between A and N.

Anna and Elsa dresses still going strong, even as Elena gets taller and the dress gets shorter. Shockingly some of the three foot train is actually still intact.

I finally discovered a great trick for capturing changing leaves as a background – plant kids on a fence in order to get them higher to the leaves! Our leaf changing season seems unseasonably short this year and none of our surrounding foliage changed at the same time.

Five seconds of leaping before she collapsed in an unhappy “it’s too HOT” heap.

He wanted to try on his entire Halloween costume the second we had all the pieces.

Mid-October began a steady descent into pure chaos. Here’s about how that left me feeling.

Binging on the leftover soccer chips that lived briefly in our trunk.

Mopey because I won’t stop everything I’m doing to print her out a coloring page.