Some cute new pics

We've had a pretty exciting couple of weeks in our family. My brother-in-law, Mark, arrived back home from Iraq after being gone for nearly a year and a half. They purchased a house and are in process of moving in and fixing it up a bit. The pics I have posted below of Rowan and Isabel are from a day that I watched him while Mark and Sarah did some painting. Isabel lvoes to sit in the papasan chair; so much so that now we all call it hers. There's a set of bongo drums at the foot of the chair that she uses to climb into it. She loves to bring books or toys up there to read or play. On the day that I took theses pics Rowan decided to climb in there with her and bring a book with him also. I didn't pose them, they were both "reading" their books and just playing so cutely together that I couldn't resist taking some photos. Isabel's other new favorite thing is to drape all sorts of things around her neck like a scarf. So I just gave her a couple of my fuzziest scarves to see what she'd do. She proceeded to parade around the house with them both on for the rest of the evening. She loves anything fuzzy and fluffy, whether it's a stuffed animal, real animal, or just my swiffer duster. We didn't do much for Halloween, just stayed home and handed out candy, but Isabel had a ball. Of course all the tiny kids dressed in animal costumes were her favorite. She wanted to pet them all. She loved handing out the candy and seeing all the kids. Next year we'll have to take her out and dress her up. She's also having a vocabulary explosion lately. She still doesn't have too many words, but she's really working on it. Some of the ones she does say are: mommy, daddy, kitty, doggy, all done, down, go, oh boy, cracker, auntie, hi, and uh-oh. She's so entertaining lately, we can just spend hours watching her and laughing. She's definitely a little character.