Autumn pics

Here are a few quick pics from the last few weeks. I don’t remember what the girls were snacking on in the first picture, but Diana really wanted to eat with Helen and share food, so they sat there happily snacking away for while. Helen has been growing and starting to wear clothes in bigger sizes, so she and Diana helped me go through some boxes to find new clothes for her. Her favorite thing was this plaid shirt that was Uncle Matt’s when he was a baby. Diana helped me make chocolate chip cookies, and got her first real taste of cookie dough – needless to say she loved it. The spoon lasted her a good 5 minutes as she savored every bite. It’s birthday party season here, and Diana got to go to a “Princess Barbie”-themed party (ack!) where all the guests had to dress up as a princess, and featured an adult in blonde wig and poufy pink dress dressed-up as Barbie. (The next birthday party was Hawaiian dress code.) I took some perverse pleasure in the fact that we didn’t have a “princess” dress for her, but Diana was very happy dressed up in her pink Mandarin collar dress. Diana and Helen sometimes play very well together, and it was wonderful to see them reading together on a Saturday morning. We also snapped this photo of Play-Doh-time just before Helen ate some and Diana lost patience with Helen’s interest in “her” snowman. Oh well.