thanksgiving weekend

we have much to be thankful for this year - a wonderful family, loyal friends, our health, a nice house, a slightly neurotic brown dog, jobs that don't bore us to tears (at least not on a regular basis) and an amazingly beautiful, smart and sweet daughter, our dear Luciana.

here are some photos from this year's thanksgiving weekend:

paging dr. luci...

luci told us a few times that her ear hurt, so i took her to the doctor monday afternoon and sure enough she had an ear infection. when we got home she was so inspired by her doctor's visit that she took out her fisher price doctor's kit and began examining George. the diagnosis - a 'boo boo on his wrist' - you can see the band-aid in the last picture, which according to luci is George in 'time out'.

only happy when it rains?

for a few months now luci has been going on and on about how she was going to put on her rain boots and her raincoat and then go get her umbrella. trouble was she didn't have any of those things. well on our ny trip, mimi bought the looch her own rain boots and matching raincoat and this last week she finally had a reason to wear them. and she loved it. she loved it so much that she threw a fit when i tried to get her to take off her raincoat at school. now even when it's sunny out, she asks if she can wear her rain clothes.