Nog+Chog

Well… Charlie’s walken, that is. Charles spent some time walking around on two feet today during our Thanksgiving gathering in Lake Forest! We had a lovely time and Norah declared it to have been the “Best Thanksgiving dinner – ever!”

This is just the beginning…

He’s the cutest!

I love the innocence of their sweet faces. The close up of Norah and Delphine is a bit overexposed, but I had to post it. Norah and Deli were born only 4 days apart and they do spend a lot of time together and I often have been asked if they are twins…

Since I’m at home with the kids, I tend to take a majority of the pix around here, although Ryan is much better at it than I am. Well, we are in the process of trying to avoid going to a professional studio to get some pix taken and since Ryan is so good and has a lot of professional studio camera gear, we had a little photo session here at our home. Then with a little help from photoshop (by Ryan) he cleaned up this photo since one of the flashes didn’t go off. I adore this photo (and my hubby and kids of course) as I think that this is one of THE best photos of the 3 of us. I just wish that Ryan was in it, but hey….it also beats either one of the kids having a meltdown in the studio, whereas they can just have their meltdown here at home!

I know that I can’t be any more original for a title to this post. Regardless, we got together with the usual crew, our good friends Sean and Michelle and their extended family. Some of the pix are a bit blurry, but that was the best that I could post of all the girls together. Norah and Charlie went as frogs and poor lil’ Charlie was the only boy! He’ll probably enjoy it much more when he’s more interested in girls. Then he’ll be having the time of his life! And of course, Norah had a blast since she was with her best buddy, Delphine! Thanks again Sean, Michelle, Jeanne, Sean, and Larry for hosting! We love you guys!

This is how we entertained each other at dinner the other night. Norah is a master at funny faces!

He’s up to no good I tell ya!
I heard Charlie babbling out in the kitchen and this is what I come out to find. He cleverly pushes the case of beer over to the stove and stand up on top of the box to get to whatever he was looking for, which I still have yet to determine….at least he was NOT hurt and nothing was on. That, and he’s so cute when he’s so mischievous!

Norah was up to something tonight. We looked down to discover Norah trying to lure her brother into the living room using a trail of baby food. We can’t believe how well it actually worked.

Just chillin’ and playing some guitar with dad!

Norah’s been into photography a bit lately. Maybe this is her calling and she’ll take after her dad. These next ones are funny. She asked me to take pictures of the bottom of her feet. I then discovered how dirty my floors are and how bad I need to clean them. Hey what can I say. I’m a mom of 2 (sometimes 3…sorry Ryan) and hardwood floors are high maintenance! I then, of course had to include the pretty close up pic of her face to make up for the dirty feet ones.

Norah took these.

“Hi Mom. I know that I’m not supposed to be in here, but I was looking for Norah’s arts and crafts stuff that she doesn’t like me playing with. Please don’t mind me. I’ll be done is a sec!”