10.14.11

Here you go mom, Wyatt wanted to write you a letter. The rest of it consisted of "dhdhxsslnbdmkejldhaddnka" and I think he somehow worked a Wingding in there too.

10.13.11

Nom nom nom...

10.12.11

Look at that! She's actually getting really good at balancing all of sudden, it's awesome. Wyatt looked a little startled when he saw her sitting on her own, I can't imagine what he's going to think when she starts crawling after him. :D

10.11.11

Paige had her 4 month check up (even though she's almost 5 months....) today, and just as I suspected, she's one tall kid! 27" already, in the 100th percentile. We had to wait quite a while at the clinic, thankfully since I work there, I could just stroll around and visit. Paige was quite obliging, and even let some of my co-workers hold her! Afterwards we had to run a few errands, and she was handing out smiles left, right and centre then too. And yet, grandparents from either side try to interact with her, and they get The Lip. Go figure!

10.10.11

As forced as this photo looks, I swear it was Wyatt's own doing to put Josh's slippers on. After trying to shuffle around for a few seconds, he took them off and declared that they were "too big and too stinky" to wear. I can't disagree.

10.9.11

Thanks for the cute picture of Wyatt, mom! He does love that wagon. :)

10.8.11

Josh spent the day today out in Vita, helping patrol the area and fighting the wildfires that have totally taken over there.
This is the view from inside the truck when Josh and the other guys showed up.

This is called a backburn. They were lighting a bunch of these, heading towards the wildfires. The logic behind this is that if the land is already burnt, it can't catch fire, and these backburn will help control the path of fire.

A small snapshot of the wildfires. This looks pretty far off, but they were about a mile away. It sounds like things are somewhat controlled now (this picture was taken in the morning, Josh left the area around 7pm), hopefully the winds die down and we get some rain.