Family Building

We had another fun fall weekend visiting Hurricane Hill's corn maze.  We only tried out the baby maze and the other activities. The big girls especially loved the long tube slide. They discovered that if they held on to each other, the combined weight sped up their descent.  Here's Pearl on the cow ride. We spent 2.5 hours of outdoor fun. Thanks Nana!

Ruby stayed with Popi and took a nap.

While we didn't need any more pumpkins, we did enjoy seeing the pumpkin patch. It was fairly sincere.

Sapphire enjoyed an extra treat this week. She's had some bumps in her relationship with her daddy since we returned from China. Part of it was the jealous fighting over mommy, as I was Ruby's main focus too.  That left Daddy freer to tie shoes and dress the remaining girls, but Sapphire would have none of it.  She's been a little more accepting of him lately, but at Nana's suggestion we decided to send Sapphire on her own special vacation with daddy.

Her excitement as they left Monday afternoon was so sweet. She knew she was receiving some special attention, and she must have yelled "I love you. Good bye!" from her car seat about ten times. Her daddy said she talked the whole way to Lancaster.  

The hotel pool was the highlight, and then the next day they explored the Hands on House. This was our first experience there, and they really enjoyed it. Sapphire's favorite part was looking at the plastic bugs and painting her daddy's hands with face paint. 

We always try to squeeze school in before lunch, but today we took a break for story time.  Ruby paid a little more attention today, but she's not into sitting quietly and listening to books yet.

She's started carrying around a washcloth as a comfort object. This is what she likes to kiss as she falls asleep. It really is a handy cuddly, since we've got a shelf full of them and she's happy with anything terry cloth! We're trying to pick the right name before a bad one sticks. Pearl's insisting on "Washy-clothy" and doesn't care that it is a mouthful.