Apple pie

I took the wee ones to pick apples the first weekend in October. It was a perfect, sunny, beautiful afternoon (and all the photos are still in my film camera -- bad, bad mama!).

Then time escaped us for two weeks, as it seems to do, until we finally set to work making the apple pie. The baby took a nice long nap, and Elisabeth and I had a free afternoon to just work on the pie. I am always amazed by the way children absorb things without needing to have them laboriously explained. It was as though she already knew how to make the pie, even though this was really her first time to be involved in the process. (Pie, is, um, my second favorite thing -- after wool! -- and so I have to strictly limit how often they are made here.)

I thought this was really the perfect pie. It was so beautiful, and tasted so good, and Elisabeth did do so much of the work. I cannot really take too much of the credit for the beauty of the finished product:

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Oh, my! I am still trying to work things out here ... I am not, shall we say, a computer person! Creating the banner was about the most headachy computer thing I have ever done (the fact that my camera just came 3 weeks ago and I still haven't totally figured out the computer end there, either, is a contributing factor). But anyway, here I am! I have photos up on flickr now, too. I'm sure that there will be more in that arena as my patience with the computer allows.

For now, here are a couple Halloween pictures of my wee ones. More to come!

Edited: A couple of my friends looked at this post and emailed me to ask where I got the butterfly and caterpillar costumes. Well, I'm sorry (or happy?) to say that I made them, using patterns from an old (fall 2001) issue of Martha Stewart Baby. Elisabeth suggested butterfly & caterpillar costumes for them at the end of August, and I remembered the patterns almost right away. Sewing all the markings onto both sides of the wings was time consuming (for me -- I'm so into instant gratification, you know), but otherwise, the costumes were pretty easy.