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Boy, life with an almost-4 year old is hectic. We have been so busy lately and the blog has gone ignored for over a month! Fortunately, I've been taking (hoarding) pictures this whole time. Here's what we've been up to!
A few weekends ago I drew a "town map" on the back of a big piece of cardboard. It had roads, a store, gas station, train tracks, etc. Clem grabbed her wooden train and furry car from the playroom, then proceeded to play with this for HOURS! (Thanks for the idea sissy!)

Recently, Clem came down with a little bug (then the rest of us got it, too). While out gardening, these two snuggled up on the couch and when I came back in, I couldn't resist this picture. My loves!
Recently, we've been cooking up a LOT of fall soups. Clem loves to help me cook in the kitchen (she's really good, too!). Here she is showing off the carrots we'd harvested that morning.
This year, her preschool is putting together a family recipe cookbook. They asked for recipes and pictures with kiddos. We are submitting our Corn Chowder recipe, and here are the pictures Clementine wanted me to submit along with it:

Good gravy, we have a little ham on our hands! This girl cracks us up!!

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Last weekend we made our annual trek over to the pumpkin patch! We saw all of the critters there,

Rangled some wild stallions,

ignored the signed put up by the staff (No Petting!)

and measured this growing girl. This year she was finally big enough to ride on the tractor pull all by herself. It was a definite favorite!

Cutest caboose ever!

Rainbow Birthday Party

This weekend was Clementine's Rainbow Birthday Party and we had so much fun! Clementine got this adorable rainbow tutu from a former teaching friend of mine who now makes these! Adorbs! (Her shirt is a plain tee that I ironed on a rainbow decal.) Clem absolutely loved this tutu and wore it from breakfast to bedtime!

There was a handful of kids here at the party, running all over the house, playing in the toy room, singing, chirping and playing guitar. Her buddies tried to help her open all those presents. It started like this...

But pandemonium started to break loose once toys started coming out. It got a little chaotic for a few.

Then it was time for birthday cake and ice cream. We sang to our flush faced girl and she made a birthday wish. This was no ordinary birthday cake; it was a RAINBOW birthday cake! (Thanks pinterest!) And this Rainbow birthday cake was smothered in about 3 pounds of frosting (Thanks Sissy!) to even out the sliding 6 layers that refused to stay in place.

Cam and I wanted to wait until all the dust settled to give Clem her present from us. So on Sunday afternoon we gave her her very first dollhouse! She and Ya-ya put all the pieces together.

And she played with it for hours!