The girl this week

Miss Lucy's adventures this week included:

Researching a report on penguins

Reading the two more books from the Littles series

Flying the remote-controlled helicopter out back ... on to the roof

Three and a half hours at the pediatric ophthalmologist's office

Painting a blue horse and red tree

Finishing her first sewing kit

Reaching the halfway point in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Wearing crazy socks and an inside-out shirt on her fun Friday dress-up day

Singing "Angels We Have Heard on High" (loudly) 100 times

Working on chapter 15 of her next Deer and Dog book

Playdates with Hazel, Lauren, and Elsie

Watching Phineas and Ferb

Cuddling Calvin

We sure love her!

The boy this week

Things Calvin Jesse said to me this week:

"No thank you!" (most often yelled angrily during a tantrum)

"Airplane! Airplane inna Calvin's bed!" (asking to sleep with his plastic airplane)

"Ta da!" (when he accomplished something, like getting his pants off)

"Dun-duh-DAH!" (after making it to the top of the hill at the library children's garden)

"Daddy lunch!" (asking to go take Daddy out to lunch)

"Yay! Friends inna Y!" (going to the childcare at the YMCA)

"Yellow wocket ship! Wocket ship inna stars!" (wocket = rocket)

"Love you, Mama!"

(Notice all the exclamation points—when he makes the effort to talk, he really wants to get his point across!)

Christmas clothing!

For the first time ever, we Webbs went with a somewhat coordinated look for Christmas. Red and black all over. (It helped that Auntie JuJu was there to help corral children and keep them in their outfits long enough to snap a few pictures!)

Lunch date

Once a week, I get to go to lunch with my favorite boys. Currently we rotate between Chipotle and Five Guys.

Georgia on my mind

We took a quick trip to Athens, Georgia to visit our friends Dorothy and John. The kids were wonderful travelers, and my conversion to the wonders of minivan travel was completed :)

The big hit of the trip? Probably a tie between John's art studio (he's an artist) for Lucy, and Rocco the giant dog for Calvin. They studied each other for quite some time ...

Hugs in stitches

Miss Lucy received her pinwheel quilt from Nana before Thanksgiving. It's been very, very loved. By both Lucy and Calvin :)

This is the face of a runaway ...

... Calvin Jesse ran out of the Opthamologist's office five times during our visit today. The staff was amazed; for Lucy and I, though, it was par for the course.

Calvin Jesse turns two!

What a cute two year old! Calvin had some help with the candles after he began to think that to blow them out he should be closer ...
Miss Lu decorated the cake (featuring Percy the train per Calvin's request): mounds of chocolate frosting, sugar letters, and sprinkles if course.

Here we are again

Miss Lucy is having her eyes examined under anesthesia today. So, one week out from my knee arthroscopy and lateral release, we're back at the Huntsville Surgery Center. I've got to say, I'm much less nervous this time around ... And since we just did this, it was easy to let her know what would happen!

Happy Halloween!

The pics are a bit fuzzy, but our mouse and chicken sure had fun at the trunk or treat!