halloween +/-

marianne's classroom at daycare hosted a fall party as a parent meet-n-greet about a week before halloween. marianne is in a class with all boys and she pals around with two of them - kian and felix - who are both older by two months and one month, respectively. here they are working hard at a music/activity bench (felix is on the right). her teachers tell me that it doesn't even phase her that she's the only girl. in fact when the boys cry she gets in their face and smiles and laughs. way to go baby girl, work 'em over.

a couple of days before halloween we had a snow storm. i worked from home for two days and got to have one snow day with marianne.

this is her outfit for black-and-orange day at "school" the day before halloween,

when we arrived at school on halloween, kian (aka spider) crawled over and gave marianne a few kisses on the forehead. it was incredibly precious. he's a sloppy kisser. he gave her some slobber along with the kisses.

and here she is in her "very hungry caterpillar" costume. it's homemade so use your imagination.

nothing particularly poignant about this photo, i just love the huge grin. which is almost always in place. she's a happy girl. she is pulling herself up and standing all over the place. today she tried standing with only one hand holding on and then tried "no hands". she promptly landed on her bottom. whew!

have a little laugh. we did.