You want me to do what?

In the last post you saw some delightful candids of happy toddlers in Halloween costumes. But sit them down and ask them to smile on cue and you get something like this:

At their daycare's Halloween party

It's always been like this. Either they're so fascinated by the camera they get tunnel vision or they are mighty distrustful of some random person telling them to smile. Their stoicism in school pictures would be a laughable affair. That is, if you couldn't see the tears welling in their eyes in every frame. We got a couple this year as a keepsake. And for something to torture them with when they're in high school.

Oh, did I mention that Zora is sobbing in her pictures even as she strikes the poses they ask for?

Absolutely disgusted by the whole process.

This is all just to say, who knows what type of Christmas card we'll be able to pull together this year?

They really are two silly, funny girls who love to laugh. I swear.

Happy Halloween

and a few more slightly fuzzy ones from my phone

Food

Don't know why it's taken us this long, but the girls had their first bites of grapefruit and oranges today. Noey, who has turned picky in recent months, declined more, and Zora, who has swung in the other direction, clammered for "Mo!  Mo!"

 

We've come a long way from having to wake the girls up every three hours to try to get a few ounces of breast milk into them - to the first bites of solid food.   These days they still love yogurt, are digging on sliced black olives, eat pureed sweet potatoes and kale mixed with oatmeal or baby cereal, drink whole and flax milk (trying to keep Noemi from having too much dairy as our solution to recurring ear infections), eat veggie chicken patties, love toast with butter, munch on cheese, frozen carrots, and frozen peas, have been slurping down the pears and apples that have been coming in thanks to Real Food Rising's new fruit harvesting program, and can't get enough of humus on crackers.  Plus whenever they get their hands on slices of real chicken -- they scarf it all right down.

 

 

This afternoon we picked a bunch of grapes from our side fence and popped a few in their mouths and then they were hooked..  Zora, especially, bounced up and down smiling and laughing in anticipation of more grapes.

While they won't eat tomatoes while sitting in their high chairs, they will pop cherry tomatoes in their mouths out in the garden.

Black olives, peas, humus and crackers, toast with peanut butter, and a veggie burger

sliced black olives fit so nicely on the fingertips!

A Look Back on Summer Part II

And a few more shots from the summer...

 

A Look Back on Summer

Can't say that I'm not happy for the cooler weather that's finally upon us.  

But.... summer was fun.

Here are a few photos to remember it by.