Hurricane Sandy

On Monday, before the evening arrived and the power went out, we spent the day together snuggled inside in our jammies (the girls, anyway), carving our Halloween pumpkin and roasting the seeds, reading, building with Legos (or "yegos" as Molly calls them), watching a movie, and having fun together:

 Ella drawing the face on our pumpkin

 Ella showing Molly how to scoop out the seeds ("the guts")

 Molly showing Ella a seed

 She didn't want to use her hands because the insides felt "too squishy and gooey," so she stuck with the spoon, instead

 Ella sharing the spoon with Molly

 Ella holding the pumpkin for Molly to scoop out

 Did we get enough of the seeds out?

 "More! Mixy, mixy, mixy!"

 silly girl

 sisters

 Molly helping to put the seeds in the strainer

 sisters playing Legos

(Rob's old set)

 Ella helping Molly with the "little [Lego] man"

 Molly spreading out the pumpkin seeds to roast

 special treat---snacks and a movie before dinner

 Molly putting her animals ("am-muh-muls") into the egg carton

 Rob and Ella working on her United States' puzzle

(We have been in puzzle and Lego mode at our house this month!)

We were very lucky not to have any damage to our home and to only have to bail water out of our sump pits for one night.  We were only without power for a few days and were grateful to Granddad and Nana who let us visit with them during that time so we could be warm and cozy.