Alyce and the Slide

Alyce has mastered the small play structure at our closest park and loves going up the stairs, through the tunnel, and down the slide. I can' t get the video to upload right now, but did get some cute pics - the grin on her face says it all!

Kelli Helping Alyce Swing

Kelli really wanted to help Alyce swing - and found out it can be a lot of work ;).

They both had a lot of fun though - it's nice to see Kelli helping Alyce out and Alyce appreciating it.

Alyce & Kelli Swinging at the Park

Both girls are developing of love of swings at our local park - though each in their own way.

Kelli prefers to swing on her stomach - I think she likes being able to control the pace of the swing that way.

Alyce, on the other hand, likes to swing as high and as fast as she can go.

The Joels Live!

I'm sure you'd all given up on ever seeing us on this on this blog again, but I found a few minutes this morning and wanted to put up some new stuff - enjoy!

I want donut

Mmm donut

We went to Candyland to go trick or treating. Candyland is one of the dorms at Biola decorated for the community. They have games for kids too.

Dentists are fun

Dentist time

We finally got Kelli to the dentist. She did awesome.

Street party in DCA

The tail end of trick or treat in street parade.

Flik and friends

During Disney's trick or treat party the Joel family boggied down with Flik

Halloween Pumpkin Cake

A cake I made for my office on Halloween.

The acorn grows up

And so does Kelli.

More performing

She looks like she is floating away.

Kelli performing

Kelli and her fellow moppets, the preschoolers who belong to the Mothers of Preschoolers, dancing and singing about the tiny acorn.

Mommy and Kelli

I think I will take the two pumpkins in the middle. This was at the pumpkin festival @ Cal Poly Pomona.

Pre-Halloween Trick or Treat

My mom came down a couple of weekends ago, so the girls showed her there costumes. Kelli is Bindi the jungle girl and of course Alyce is our puppy.

Alyce the puppy dog

This year Kelli told us that Alyce wanted to be a puppy dog for Halloween. I think that Alyce and Kelli have a telepathic bond.

Month two

Well here we are in month two of post-socal move, and besides missing everyone more than I could have imagined things here are great.

Did you know L.A. Has two kinds of weather; hot and hotter. It's forecasted to be 82 degrees on Halloween. That's just plain silly if you ask me.

Well I will write more later.

Don

Discoveries

We went to the Children's Discovery Museum today - Kelli especially loves the water play area.

Look - a ball! (And a wonderful smock, Mommy says)We put the ball in the water . . .and the vortex sucks it down!

Sending the ball down the track.This volcanic ball tower is a big hit with all the kids - especially when it splashes the adults!

Kelli's Feet

As we were heading home today at the end of a long outing, Kelli said that she wanted to get out of the stroller and walk. I told that she could if she walked fast, because I wanted to hurry up and get home, to which she replied "I don't walk fast or slow, only my feet go fast or slow." This was a revelation to me, as I had not previously realized that her feet set her pace independently of her control. This being such a startling revelation, I just had to share it ;).

For the record, after I told her that her feet would have to go fast, they managed quite a good pace - in fact, a couple of times she got ahead of me and I had to run to catch up!