So this is really all about being obsessed with things, really. I get on these kicks were I can’t stop doing one category of “thing.” Right now I think it might be recording everyday things in our lives. So I thought it might be interesting to record what it was like to put the girls to bed at night. We’d previously read a great story on the couch. The audio starts when we are heading to the bedroom.

Highlights

1. Jumping in the bed
2. Evelyn messing with the mic
3. Praying
4. Accidentally saying “hamster” instead of “mice”…not sure where that came from
5. Evelyn not “saying the words” to the rote prayers
6. The phone ringing right after prayers, talking to a student, and then her mom.
7. Evelyn and I completing our bedtime routine…”Go

Putting the Girls to Bed

So I had this strange thought. What would it be like if we recorded all of Ambrose’s attempts to walk, not in video, but in audio form? It might change how we remember it. I don’t know. But I’ve committed to giving it a whirl.

Ambrose sorta Walking

He’s eating a spoon.

We went to the Awesome and pretty darn cheap, County Line Orchard today, in Hobard Indiana. $1 gets you into the Orchard. The apples and pumpkins are pretty pricey, but I imagine they have to jack up the price due to the constant apple eating and pumpkin-stepping-on.

The image below is the quintessential Ruby. She’s DISTRESSED. Ruby is constantly distressed at this or that. Some days it’s a picture of a tiger, other days its some small bug she’s seen on the kitchen counter. At this point, she was completely freaked out by the pumpkin patch. She had just witnessed some of freakiest scarecrow people I’ve ever seen, and was now on a rickety tractor pulled wagon ride on her way to the pumpkin patch. I’m sure in her 3 year old mind, she was on a wagon ride to the 3rd circle of hell. I’d be freaked out if I were her, too.

She’s so insanely cute.