Emma woke Kyle up this morning to tell him to get the Christmas boxes down. She wants Christmas to be here now and doesn't understand why we have to wait. I just keep reminding her that Santa is watching her and she keeps reminding me that Santa is bringing her a pink kitchen.
Ava is such a great baby. Last week at the doctor she weighed 11 pounds. She is so smiley and easy going. She loves to suck on her hands. Ava has just realized that Emma is fun to watch and will stare at her as long as Emma remains in view. Oh she is growing too fast.
Saturday we had some family fun raking the leaves. The hill on which our house, along with our neighbors', resides is surrounded by trees, but the majority of leaves happened to land in our yard. It took us a few hours to rake all of the leaves and it was very cold outside, but we had fun.
On Monday morning, a week ago, I came in to the family room and found hair and scissors. She was so proud of herself for cutting her hair, but I guess it could be a lot worse.
This was my blessing dress which we also used for Emma. 
Kyle gave Ava a beautiful blessing.
We don't have pumpkin patches here in northern Virginia. They are called pumpkin lots.
