Oh the weather outside is FRIGHTFUL!!!

Is that Clayton in his costume? No, just his snowsuit! Last Tuesday night we got over 4 inches of snow. Clayton, who doesn't yet realize that we've got at least 6 more months of snow, couldn't wait to get out in it. Luckily for me his snow suit from last year still fits.

Clayton carved a really cute jack-o-lantern and we couldn't even see it because of the snow. He did have a lot of fun playing on the front porch until he got "too cold."

These are my clemintine-o-lanterns. The kids at playgroup devoured them. Clayton ate so many cookies that day that he actually threw them up. He should've stuck to the oranges!

Clayton has been watching a Bob the Builder movie about a water mill. So we took a field trip to the historic Watson's Mill in Manotick. He picked out a bag of whole wheat flour milled on site. We got to see the giant mill stones, gears, the elevator and watched a movie about how the mill works. We took the flour home and Clayton helped make some cookies with the flour.

There were lots of child-friendly activities at the mill. Here, Clayton is grinding up wheat into flour. He thought this was especially fun.


Clayton's new sayings:

"Oh my gosh!" Only it comes out, "Oh my dosh!" He says it all the time. For example, "Oh my gosh! I ate my toast!" It's so funny.

He told me at breakfast the other morning, in regards to his cup, "Just leave it alone!" (Think he hears that often?)

This afternoon, I asked him if we should clean out his stuffed animals and give the ones he doesn't play with to a little boy who doesn't have any. "No," he told me, "I want to keep them ever and ever."

Levi is doing really well. He's such a content, happy baby. I'm truly so blessed. He's so smiley all the time now. I've got to get some more pictures of him!

Happy November!