Tracy's Pumpkin Carving Contest

At work we had a Pumpkin Carving Contest and although we didn't win, I thought we did a great job considering it was only Leslie (my Asst HR Manager and myself). It was a fun day with lots of great pumpkins.

You can tell I am a child of the 80's :-)

Madeline's First Homework

Now that Maddie is in a preschool she has actual homewrk, although it took Jamie and I a couple of weeks to remember to actually help her do it. This weeks assignment was for the letter G so she drew a picture of her grandparents (the troiano's) and told a story about them. Here are the pictures she drew. The story she told was the they love her and she loves them, they also love cupcakes, and she wants to give them a hug and a kiss, she loves to visit them so she can play with her "friends" Amber, Evan, Alexa, Vanessa, Tyler, Kevin, Ryan and Baby Ashley.

Madeline's self portrait

I guess this is what happens when you tell your kids they are beautiful and great, they believe you!! Madeline certianly is on her way to be a very confident girls with a lot of self esteem (which is a very good thing for little girls). She has started drawing self portraits, not one here and there, several every day. On Monday, she showed the first one to the teacher at school and the teacher said it was good to which Maddie responded, "yes it certianly is, I should make another one" she is very funny. Here are some examples of her work.

JP is talking up a storm...

So much for worrying that Maddie might do all the talking, I think there is going to be some competition for who can talk the most! JP has started repeating everything, he is really starting to be able to pick up and repeat a lot of words. Although Mama & Dada are the favorites which are fine with us :-)

JP's Teeth

JP has been getting his 1 year molers for the last month and they have all popped through now, he has been chewing on his hand and drooling like crazy. He was pretty good, not too many fussy days.

3rd Annual Halloween Party

Even with moving I couldn't miss having our Halloween party, we look forward to it every year. So we had it a little early so we could finish our move after. The weather was great and the trail was spooky as ever. It was great to be able to have the party, which could be the last in RI ever! Hopefully we will be able to have the party at our new house in Bedford, we think there is a spooky trail to be found in the backyard. Hope everyone has a fun Halloween.

We have moved -kind of -

Well this past weekend we started moving our stuff to our new house in Bedford. We are renting now since we haven't been able to sell our house and we have someone to rent it. It has been nice being closer to work, although it is still about an hour for me because of traffic, I need to find the best route. Jamie has about a 10 minute commute so he is loving it. The kids started at their new day care center, so far so good, a little adjusting but they seem to like it. The mornings are a little challenging Maddie wants to stay home with which ever one of us drives her to school, but once she is there she is having fun. I would have had a picture of them on their first day, but with all the open houses and packing I have misplaced our brand new camera, hopefully I will find it soon.