Xander and Clare

Two busy baking bees at the Children's Museum.


Stirring is her favorite.


See? Still stirring.


Eating apples...and doing an interpretive dance?


Xander always builds these elaborate sets in his room. This one was the port downtown, with a big ship pulled up alongside the cranes.


Sledge Family Jack-O-Lantern 2009, take two.


Xander's preschool had a Fall Celebration party this morning
and X went in his doctor get-up.


Clare, fittingly, wore her Iowa Hawkeyes cheerleading outfit. She is not interested in the kitty cat or fairy princess costumes we also have at the ready. (That's putting it politely; she's very adamant in her refusal. But don't think I'm not going to try one more time for tonight's trick-or-treating.)


Checking out Seth's awesome policeman costume.