Autumn is here...

Up here in the Pacific Northwest, the hot and sunny days have given way to cloudy and usually rainy ones. But before the rains arrived, we took full advantage of the last few days of summer.

A couple of weeks ago at the farmer's market we stumbled onto a booth run by the humane society where they were displaying kittens for adoption. We window shopped for a while.

At the local park in our neighborhood, Eliana loves going down the slide. It's made out of plastic and is charged with static electricity. Makes Eliana's hair stand on end!

Eliana has not yet mastered how to put her pants on, but is doing well with socks. Once she realized that they needed to go over ALL of her toes before they could be pulled up, she was able to consistently put them on. But sometimes her silly side wins out and she puts her socks on her nose.

Karina has settled into a pretty predictable pattern. She gets up around 6am or 7am to eat. She'll have some awake time (when usually she gets a bath) and then goes to sleep. She's a pretty good sleeper during the day and will even sleep on the couch by herself for a long stretch.
In the evenings, she has more awake time, especially during dinner and afterwards.
Then between 9pm and midnight, she'll finally fall asleep again for the night. She gets up to eat twice during the night, but usually goes back to sleep after eating.

Eliana continues to ham it up. She has three songs mastered: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star; ABCs; and Old McDonald Had a Farm. However, with the last song, she confuses the words and melody with a different song about a farm that she learned from her video...