Tiny Hannoween

This year Wilder has been really interested in seeing the halloween (hannoween, he can't say 'L'), and learning about sizes; for one particularly small outdoor hannoween ornament he told Emily it was Tiny Hannoween, which stuck. Fortunately he is too small to care about dressing up, unlike his sisters. This year for trick or treating Ilona was a witch and Bluet a masquerade. Bluet and Ilona went trick or treating with the Lyons' around Orchard Drive, and Wilder and I caught up with them for the last few houses. 

Here we are carving our pumpkins a few days earlier (Wilder is delightedly throwing seeds and other pumpkin innards up in the air).

Missouri/St Louis

Here in Missouri Bluet was reunited with her sister (she even told her she missed her), and we went to the Zoo in St Louis, along with the Missouri cousins.



And playing in their cousins' garden


Then onto the farm, where they have been learning to drive



Proudly wearing their new raincoats



Carving 'punkins' at the cabin

The Gallery

We bought Bluet and Ilona an easel the other week. So far it has proven a sound investment

Ilona announced she would draw Veronika. This is what she produced





Bluet meanwhile is into drawing Swiss mountains. I believe it is Veronika on skis in the first picture


This was Bluet and Ilona in their bunk bed, although Bluet in the top bunk has mostly been erased



This is our family, unfortunately drawn in yellow, by Ilona


And finally, here are our pumpkins