Fun and games

 Let's play.

 Let's rest.

Let's read and climb on Magda.

Isaiah speaks...

To the plumbers:

--Well, I can talk, but I don't really have a name.

--That's a really fine water tank you got there.

--Daddy protects the womenfolk at night.

To his mother:

--You're the best girl in all the world.

--Oh, you gave me chocolate chips. How lovely you are!

--Watching Bernadette descend the stairs: "I see little tiny feet gracefully stepping down."

--Recounting an outing with Daddy: "We saw some trucks, and then we scampered about looking for more."

On cosmic occurrences (and architecture):

--Driving home from West Hartford, we saw a sunset so distractingly beautiful that I missed our exit. Isaiah's description: "The sun is filling up the air."

--On a rainy night, commenting on the height of our apartment building: "It is so tall it seems to touch the dark rainy moon."

Thanksgiving

Pumpkin pie!

Pics by Grandma

 Speak for themselves

New mittens

I recall

 Central Park in fall

Natural History Museum

 The whale, which Bernadette also found impressive.

 An otter.

A little chest pounding.

Bernadette visits the park

New York street picnic

Shake Shack goodies for everyone.

Firefighters

Isaiah and Bernadette at the park in Wethersfield.

Sibling Slumber

Action sequence

At play

Through the non-looking glass

Morning ride

Bernadette is chipper this morning.

Bernadette now

Spins in circles, says some intelligible words, jabbers sentences we don't understand, understands much more of what we say than she can tell us, directs us with urgent commands and tugs of the hand, demands to descend stairs with help rather than being carried, cracks up at her brother, touches Isaiah's carefully arranged toys, dances, and wants to leave with me when I go to work.

Quotable

"When you don't know where you are going when you are running you fall down." -- Isaiah

Birthday boy and girl

 Pete and Bernadette survey the candles and cake.

Clare prepares to attack the pie.

Local color

Bernadette likes markers.

Couch potatoes

 Reading, or at least flipping through the books.

Breakfast with a hat.

Clark Kent

Wearing the heirloom shirt.