October joys

Four things that made me happy this week:

1. This pumpkin pillow that I made in Notre Dame
Thanks to a very crafty friend, Kelly M, who started me on the path to [attempted, in my case] domesticity!

2. Grape tomatoes
I had to make two pasta salads this week, because I thought these fresh garden tomatoes looked so great, especially cut in half. Thanks to Trine's super pasta salad recipe.

3. My kids' enthrallment with dressing up in Halloween costumes.

I'm happy to report that Sage now allows me to put a shirt on under the wings of her "Fairy Godmother" outfit. But it's Eliza that has been so funny about strutting her stuff in her pig costume. This is the same costume she wore a year ago. I think she's probably about the same weight, just much taller, and much more interested in keeping a pig snout on her head than when she was 4 months old!

I put the costume on Eliza, sure that she'd rip it right off. She didn't at first, so I took her in front of the mirror. She eyed her reflection with confusion, then interest, then obvious pleasure when she recognized her new snout. After that, she wouldn't take it off, in spite of it's resemblance to all her other pink PJ's (just with a few new extremities: snout, ears, eyes and curly tail!)

To top it off, Eliza located a pair of cute pink flower flip flops (from Addisyn and Amy!). She shoved them in my hand, then plopped down in my lap and stuck out her foot like she was Cinderella. I don't know if she matched the color of her costume and the flip flops, or if she just thought that some flower flip flops would really make the costume, but they were a necessity in her mind. I didn't have the heart to put her in bed for another hour because she was happily trotting around the house in her costume, pointing to her second set of ears and chanting "pit." In the picture below, she's looking at the pig on a page of farm animals.

4. A hillarious blog entry by my sister, Danielle, entitled "Why You Should Not Ride the Zipline in the Third Trimester"
I've been chuckling about it all week, and making all my visitors sit down and read it.
I have really enjoyed reading all my friends' blogs, and writing in my own. I am so pleased with blogging as a means for keeping in touch, and for sharing happy things (and anything else) with friends.