Where's Bear?

Of all the stuffed animals Anya owns her most favorite is a little bear called "Bear." We write "owns" because it was actually given to Austria.


We recently had a little photo shoot around our apartment which has some surprisingly nice views.

We missed almost every opportunity on Saturdays (due to other things) to see the leaves in North Georgia this year but at least the view from our patio is decent:

Anyway, we tried to get Anya to pose in front of some of the beautiful trees but our digital camera is from the "early 2000's" and so we can't snap the picture on demand.

We have now started saving for a new camera with a few more fps speed than 0.1 per second...


Luckily, Austria, who doesn't move around constantly can still have her picture taken with an older model. She's not going anywhere...for awhile...

Aristotle and the Penguin

We are a little late for a Halloween post but some of us were sick this last week and so after all the other less eventful things that happened this week, this post arrives.

Lindy and I performed our parental duties and taught our children about Halloween and how we must celebrate this holiday for the simple reason that pumpkin farmers need a market.

As for costumes, Anya was Aristotle...


...and Austria went as a penguin.


From their perspective, it probably wasn't anything unique. Their parents dress them in the clothes of the day and then they spend the rest of the day trying to get "treets." I suppose it is Halloween everyday for Anya, but at least on this one day her efforts were successful.

As Aristotle, Anya was quick to figure out the strategy for one of the games at the Halloween party we attended. I was completely confused and got all spun around trying to understand the logic in which she obviously excelled:



She also enjoyed carving a pumpkin and wasn't too scared of the Pumpkin Slime!



Austria posed as the model for the pumpkin's face. She did a good job but Anya couldn't figure out how to carve the tongue.