A Chef by by Douglas Florian
Day by day a week goes round  by Carol Diggory Shields
Don't forget I love you by Miriam Moss
Ella Sarah Get Dressed by Margaret Chodos-Irvine
Madeline's Rescue by Ludwig Bemelmans
Noah's Ark by by Jerry Pinkney 
With you always, Little Monday by Geneviève Côté

We have heard many people talk about going to a pumpkin patch in order to pick out a very special holiday gourd. Not so much for the Fair family who saw that pumpkins were marked down to a very reasonable 3.50 this week. So we went to our local retailer and worked our way through the mess that was left overs. After much scrutiny by our resident quality control expert - we escaped with what we deemed to be a steal. Below are the pictures.

With the good has come the bad. Piper slept very well last night - she got up at 12:45 to eat but then slept until 9am. This is way different from usual (if we can say 'usual' with her yet) as she mostly gets up from 7:30-8. She took some long naps, longer than normal and then turned up with a 102+ fever. Em took her to the doctor and they said all of her other vitals were fine but that we should keep an eye on her. As I write this, she is asleep on Em's chest. Poor thing. By the by - Piper also has successfully cracked her 2 bottom teeth. This too was a trying time. Pray for the popcorn.

We made this visit about the 3 year (next month) and 6th month (last month) for the girls. Everything went well - Sophia was great for the first time in several visits and didn't freak out, in fact she got a chance to strike some of her poses for the camera that she and daddy have so diligently been working on. Before we get to the photos (which will of course have Zazzle on them b/c they are copyrighted) I would like to give a spider bite to you: I asked Sophia this question: "What brings us here to the photo place Soph?" and she said, "the car dad...(laugh)"

Before we had kids, when we were still living in our first apartment in Oviedo, we started a Saturday morning tradition of doing either pancakes or waffles and bacon. Many frequenters of this blog can attest to this fact as they have participated in this tradition.

We have continued to do this most every Saturday morning using our favorite Krusteaz pancake mix from Sam's wholesale club and pretty much any lower sodium bacon we can find (our favorite is Hormel Black label, but for a while we were using Gwaltney...pretty much we go where the deals are so we have tried many different brands). Sophia is now old enough to help stir the batter (not unattended mind you - I left her once and...let's just say we had to restart the process) and enjoys participating very much. She is also in charge of the chocolate chips.