hey-get this: both girls are asleep and i have time to make a post and sort through a few pictures! huzzah!

so, where to begin? i think i have to go all the way back to the first weekend in october to catch up, so here goes:

first weekend in october we were really looking forward to a visit from the dorsey-morgensterns of west hartford, ct. they were coming for a weekend stay at moonlight farm and we were planning to go out serveral times to hang, eat, drink, be merry, etc. unfortunately, that weekend we had the family cold and everybody was pretty miserable and fairly contagious. so we missed seeing tom, eve, and priya's happy faces. luckily, we have a visit planned for this weekend to see them in west hartford, as well as a fly-by to see shayla at smith college.

the next weekend, barbara had arrived and we were all mostly recovered from the family cold. hooray! we did lots of dinners with the livingston-fosters here and there, and shayla came home for the weekend too. we had a ladies lunch on columbus day, and did a bit of shopping as well. barb sent/brought some dresses for rory to use in dress up and i think we've come up with and ballerina/princess combination halloween costume, complete with tiara. phew-i was dreading a series of late nights up sewing a costume for her, but now i won't have to!

thia past weekend, more family dinners, picking out a pumpkin(s) at mike and laurie's house and even carving it! also got to visit the chickens and pick a warm egg out of the coop.

we said goodbye to barbara today-managed to make it just in time to the bus stop after alix's well baby check to say goodbye. we're now looking forward to seeing joanna and ken at thanksgiving, as well as barry, carol and lena at christmas time.

as of the pediatrician's visit today, alix is a healthy 14 lbs, 6 oz and 26 inches long (90th and 95th percentiles, respectively). so far, she seems to be taking a different growth track than rory, who started out ahead and quickly fell to the lower (5th or 10th) percentile, and there she remains. we'll see what happens in the next 6 months or so with alix's growth rate.

i'm sorting through pics and hopefully will post a few later today. or tomorrow. or later this week...