Today's News: Fall Clean up and Bagels

Caroline and Victoria have quickly become little 3 yr old girls over the past month, at least that is the way Mama y Papa feel.  The stuff that 's coming out of their mouths now is quite humorous.  Here are a few recent photos from the past several weeks.  They are anxiously awaiting "Santa come down chimney and bring presents to Christmas tree"- as Victoria explained to Mama this morning.

C is our Upper East Side bagel eater- she loves them, including green onion cream cheese and onions- she sometimes will take smoked salmon on the side, but prefers to skip the capers.  She has definitely evolved into our brave eater- she'll try most anything, but always asks first "?Esta Pica?", which means "is it spicy?"  Some of her out of the box favorites are oatmeal, grapefruit, bagels and acorn squash.

Who needs a dog to fetch the paper when you have Caroline to do it for you.  She was overjoyed to grab the paper for Papa this morning.  Of course, Victoria wanted her turn afterward...

Papa and the Girls made some Ward Cleaver pancakes with buttermilk (a combination of a couple different recipes).  The Girls loved them.  C wanted more and V said that "Caroline eat mas and look like Santa".  Caroline thought that was funny as did Papa.

A few weeks back C and V with their buddy Elle, all having a little dessert party.

Papa has to admit, the Girls are actually quite helpful when it comes to the Fall clean-up.  C especially likes scooping up the leaves and dumping them in the bag.  They also like to get the super blow  dryer when Brian fires up the leaf blower.

C loves to submerge her head in the bathtub, with V  just recently feeling comfortable enough to join her.  V also has been putting her face under water, slowly conquering her tepidness of the water.  Pretty soon, we're either going to need a bigger bathtub or this isn't going to work so well.

The Girls made a visit to visit Great Nonny Lo shortly after Halloween to show off their costumes.  Nonny was very happy to see them as they were her.

Fall Photos

We decided to stay local for our Family Photos and meander through P.R.  The Girls were great sports and had a lot of fun with our photog, who also spoke Spanish.  They were happy in their matching outfits; Victoria has become somewhat of a fashion consultant, sometimes offering a "Mama, I like that (pointing to Brooke's shirt), that's pretty".  And Caroline pretty much says and does everything and goes everywhere "-Toria" goes.  She is Victoria's little mini-me.

One of Caroline's funny looks.  She loves to say, "hey, look at this face".

Caroline and Victoria, happy to do a sister pose.

BFF's.  At bedtime now, they will sometimes without prompting offer besos y abrazos to each other and say "I love you so much" to each other.  Very cute.

They are very good at smiling, but it took a while to teach them that they need to also keep their eyes open. V has it down in this shot.

Papa has this one in his office downtown.