Happy Halloween!

Last time we met, Toddler Jeneric was hesitant to dress as a Lion. Never fear - time and patience won the day.

A few days after that post, Toddler Jeneric got a little giddy about her Lion hat...


Which resulted in this on Thursday afternoon:

Toddler Jeneric was eager to get suited up for the Great Pumpkin walk downtown. Note the key ingredient: a pumpkin bucket.


Also note the tail. Toddler Jeneric would very much like for you to know that she has a tail. See?


So we headed downtown to trick-or-treat on Thursday, where Toddler Jeneric never said trick-or-treat, but she did say Thank You! and maybe an occasional roar (very quietly, though). Here she is at the first stop:

This little lion was seriously confused - I hold out the pumpkin and people put in candy?

Baby Wily politley ignored the hullabaloo and dozed in her pumpkin outfit.


We repeated the festivities on Halloween, with a parade around the neighborhood and trick-or-treating, too.

Don't let Toddler Jeneric fool you - she enjoyed being a Lion and going from house to house (so much so that we had to beg her to take off the costume!).

Baby Wily says, yes, I am in the pumpkin outfit again. Mama dressed me in this all week. I am a person, people, not a pumpkin! (but she's a cute pumpkin, eh?).

Leo the Lion goes Grr!

While waiting for Baby Wily to make her grand entrance, Grammy put together a fantastic Halloween costume for Toddler Jeneric. We took an afternoon to haunt the local craft store and Toddler Jeneric picked out a lion costume - so she'd have a good reason to practice growling. In near record time there was a tail, paws and a mane. Grr!

But Toddler Jeneric wanted no part in wearing the costume.

Below, we present the few images we snagged of Toddler Jeneric not wearing a lion costume. Nay, she is wearing lion paw slippers and pajamas. If we're lucky, we'll get her to wear a lion hat later this week (she put it on very briefly and we were too slow with the camera).

We started with the slippers:


Then we told her about the tail:


In the end, she was pretty happy with most of the ensemble:


But the mane! Well, wee've got a few days to work on that!

Who's who?

It's come to our attention that our girls looked rather similar at birth. We thought it would be a fun to challenge readers of Wily Jeneric to guess who's who in the photos below. However, in a test of the local residents of Chez Wily Jeneric, it seemed altogether a very easy task (5 for 5 guessed correctly - even Toddler Jeneric got it correct). So go ahead, take a guess - you're probably right!

Image A:


Image B:

Update!

It's been a few days, eh? Some everyday news, fresh off the press:

1. Baby Wily
She passed her 1-week (ish) check-up with flying colors. This little piggy is gaining weight at 3 oz per day (typical is 1-2 oz). She's long past her birth-weight and gaining on Toddler Jeneric.

2. Toddler Jeneric
Infatuation can be cute - no really. Toddler J is enamored with her little sister, very keen on finding toys for her to play with, pointing out her eyes, elbows, etc and helping with diaper changes. Toddler J is less impressed with Daddy's boo-boo, however. She doesn't have much sympathy for the cast or his limited mobility.

3. Eric!
Surgery went fine, recovery from surgery went a little less well. He's hobbling around the house and doing his best to play with Toddler J and help with Baby Wily.

Finally, gratuitous photos!

Someone got her first bath - and hated it!


Some got a new coat (hand-sewn by Jenni) - and loved it!


And some people read a story... over and over and over again!

ETA:
4. Jenni - is recovering nicely, although she still can't pick up Toddler J ('twill be a few more weeks before that can happen). As Eric likes to say, Jenni was walking better 4 hours after delivery than he was!

Conversation with Toddler Jeneric

Question: What do dump trucks eat?
Answer from Toddler Jeneric: Corn!
A future biofuels researcher? Perhaps!

Gratuitous and unrelated pictures:

Toddler Jeneric and Baby Wily's first meeting. Toddler Jeneric is imparting her nearly 2 years of wisdom to Baby Wily.


Baby Wily can blow bubbles, too!


Someone loves holding her little sister.

Now we are four

Announcing the arrival of Baby Wily! Born October 1 at 2:24 pm, she weighed in at 8 lb 11 ounces, 20.25 inches tall. Total time in labor and delivery: 4.5 hours. Jenni was barely admitted to the hospital when Baby Wily came screaming into the world. Mom and Baby are doing just fine and Toddler Jeneric is pleased as anything to have a little sister. Dad is pretty chuffed, too.

Oh, eew!

That's the reaction of most people when we tell them about Eric's Achilles tendon. Snapped clean in two, what we thought was swelling was actually the tendon. Yeah - eew.

But you're probably tuning in for an update on Baby Wily. Both Baby and Mama passed their tests today (a non-stress test and ultrasound) so we're good to go. We'll keep you posted.

In the meantime, we leave you with some fantastic images!

Here's Eric's right leg:


And here's the left!:


How awesome is that?