St. Sidell (November) 2013 visit!

It’s a great way to rev up for the holidays: a gathering of the whole St. Pierre family. Greg, Amy and the boys are gracious to make the cross-country trip once a year and we are the happy hosts. It’s so great to see the cousins together!

Bedtime stories

the kid table

Chilling (literally) at the locks

Hanging with (and on,) auntie Amy

(being) animals at the zoo (love this ‘map’ set )

Monkeys

sitting still (for a moment)

Entertaining extended family

Can’t wait until next time!

Elves’ work (November 2012)

The little elves in our house start early. Last year, we made paper mache candles. The idea took more prodding (they were more excited by the previous year’s painted frames), but overall, did a great job, especially when craft time was done in their pjs.
Note to self: start brainstorming now!

Halloween, 2012

Last year, we discovered PBS’s Word Girl! a great girl-hero cartoon. Every time we’d put it on for the girls, they couldn’t help but sing the opening song: “Word up, it’s Word Girl…” and Maggie couldn’t help be dance/move to the depictions. SO CUTE.
So, I took what actually ended up being a fairly easy route (aside from the fabric adhesive debacle) and suggested Zoe reconsider her rabbit costume to be Word Girl. She did. Maggie was going to be a cat, I think, and followed suit with the idea and went as Word Girl’s sidekick, Captain Huggyface (so appropriate). Cuteness ensued:


They each had at least one opportunity to wear their outfits at school and we of course hit the Central Market party on the big night. It wasn’t a common costume but we did get one call out that prompted Dave to sing (much to Zoe’s chagrin) “Word Up! It’s Word Girl”. Her face alone was worth the cost of admission. And, we couldn’t miss seeing what get-up Cooking Man would come up with:



Love that guy.

October 2012

I remember this being a pretty fun month. School was in full swing and fall, well, I love fall. And our social life began to pick up again. I remember declaring sometime in September that I could see clear through to the end of February with all of our plans on the calendar. It was both overwhelming and exhilarating, but really great, too.
Post O’Reilley-Stewart “debate” party, Chez Olivier
 
Next day, pumpkin farm with Nana & Pepere!







(yeah, a great time = pooped Maggie)
Apparently, the weather was great, worthy at least of a jaunt to the playground

Oh! and I went to NOLA (to present at the iNACOL Virtual School Symposium)



YUM.