It is hard to believe more than a month has passed since Josie arrived.  Abe & Josie are keeping us busy around the clock, literally.

The weekend before Halloween we were visited by winter for a night.  Abe got out to enjoy the first snowfall of the year.

Abe wanted to be a blue mouse (favorite color + favorite animal) for Halloween, and Josie was a jack o’lantern.  Halloween festivities included carving a jack o’lantern (Abe’s first), multiple Halloween parties (Josie’s first), and candy corn (another Abe first).

Many people have commented how much Josie looks like Abe.  We mostly think that Josie looks like Josie, with many of Abe’s expressions.  Then we looked back at pictures of baby Abe.

Abe is unabashedly smitten with Josie.  He loves to hug and kiss his little sister.  When she is sleeping, he will still blow her kisses and rub her back.  The love is unstoppable.

Abe is at that independent, and occasionally trying, age where he wants to do everything himself.  He wants to, and does, brush his teeth, take off his vest, put on his hat, wipe his nose, sweep the floor, clean up spills etc.  Many of his short sentences start and end, and pretty much consist of “I!”  When I was vacuuming the other day he was a bit upset when I wouldn’t let him vacuum, but delighted when he found out that while I wouldn’t let him use it, he could still have a little fun.