Happy holidays!

It's been a while since our last update, and Leila's been very busy. Here's a brief summary of her past month:

Buying garlic in action at the Wegman's in the Strong Children's museum. In Rochester, we are REALLY devoted to our local grocery store, and train kids young:



We had 15 people over for Thanksgiving. Leila particularly liked all the cranberry sauces.





Tryptophan!!!



Uncle David and Aunt Lauren!





Distributing rocks as presents at the Highland Park Conservatory:



Mommy and Daddy pretending to be adults for once at a Rochester Amerks game (amazingly, they won!):



Join us tomorrow for the continuation of a neverending series of many, many pictures of snow!



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Now playing: Adam Sandler - The Chanukah Song
via FoxyTunes

A snowy Thanksgiving. . .

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and hope all of you enjoyed the holiday as well. Rochester had its first significant snow fall this week; snow materializes every time we host Thanksgiving. Today's pics will be posted shortly, but here are some from our recent trip to NJ:









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Now playing: Dan Bern - Thanksgiving Day Parade
via FoxyTunes

Leila's feeling blue

Well, actually, she helped Mommy and Daddy vote Blue, helping to pull the lever as we voted in a new President (and a new Representative in Congress as well...). Here's a shot of the happy family after Leila's second major act of voter fraud.



Note Leila's sticker:



She voted in the presidential primary as well, in case you were wondering.

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Now playing: Lyle Lovett - Election Day
via FoxyTunes

Wake her up when September ends

Leila has been enjoying October, as evidenced by the leaf-gathering exploits we showed you in the last post. Here's some video from the past month, featuring additional cuteness...

Baby, you can drive YOUR car

Asked a girl what she wanted to be

She said baby, can't you see

I wanna be famous, a star on the screen

But you can do something in between



I told that girl I can start right away

When she said listen babe I got something to say

I got no car and it's breaking my heart

But I found a driver and that's a start



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Now playing: The Beatles - Drive My Car
via FoxyTunes

Halloween is almost here and Leila has already attended her first costume party:











We went to synagogue to celebrate Sukkot. We made pizzas and ate them in the Sukkah and Leila and Josh got a chance to shake the Lulav and Etrog.

The Great Pumpkin. . .

Uncle Michael came to visit this weekend and we had a busy day visiting an Alpaca Farm and a Pumpkin Patch . Leila smiles every time she sees the pumpkins on the front porch so she definitely enjoyed the outings.











This unassuming bush on the corner of our property turned a great shade of red this week:


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Now playing: Raffi - Five Little Pumpkins
via FoxyTunes