this week

i guess it's time for a real post, though i am equally sure there will be more silly things afton says and does, cause i hang out with her most all the time... and i'm easily amused.

by the way, thanks mom for a fabulous thanksgiving! i wish there was more i could do to help! we love you!

we also had tons of fun playing with katharine's family and going to the parks. this year we're also thankful we live close enough that we can go home at night, sleep in our own beds (especially sleeping in come morning time), and still head back to the family when (hopefully) it's more convienent for everyone.

monday morning we had a little adventure too, after going to the park, we went to a friend's house for lunch (we switch off regularly). afton finished her lunch rather quickly and went off to play. i was just glad she'd eaten her lunch (usually it's way more fun to play, and that gets forgotten in the mix). after a few minutes of relative quiet (her friend was still eating, so she was playing alone and i didn't expect it to be too loud) i went to go check on her, and this is what i found:

(pictures from later at our house)... afton had found a bottle of nail polish and demonstrated that she knows what to do with it! unfortunately, she's not that neat, and she also got their carpet... :(

all in all though, she did a pretty good job with her nails ;)

some other fun pictures from this week...
blueberries (from paul's amazing cranberry sauce)
guacamole--who needs chips?

fish-shaped chicken nuggets, afton ate all the heads (and most of the fins) off and promptly said "all done"--i'm not sure i want to know what exactly that means (at least from a psychological perspective)

and i asked afton to get 1 or 2 toys for rayna, when i turned back, this is what i found

(by the way, she's not sick, the camera flash evidentally got her mid-blink, and her cheeks are a little wind-burned--not her best picture)