Jessica plays in the leaves

Fall is here and Jessica is having fun playing in the leaves that fall to ground. She seems to really like stomping through them and hearing them crunch.

Jessica was sick last week

Jessica was sick last week with a fever :-( . It was easy to tell that she wasn't feeling well because all she wanted to do was cuddle. This time she chose to hang out with her dad before dinner.

Jessica goes to Leilani's 2nd birthday party

A few weekends ago, Jessica went to Leilani's birthday party. It was a dress-up party, so Jessica wore her chicken costume. She had fun playing with all of Leilani's outdoor toys.

Jessica's obsessed with washing her hands

She loves to wash her hands and stops at any sink she sees. We finally got her a step stool for the bathroom at home. She runs in there randomly wanting to wash her hands now.

Christmas comes early for Jessica

Christmas is coming early for Jessica this year. Lots of presents have already started arriving via UPS. She's having lots of fun testing them all out.

Jessica learns to hammer

Jessica has a new toy that lets her practice her hammering. As long as she learns to hammer from Jim and not me she should be okay.

Jessica learns how to build IKEA furniture

Another piece of IKEA furniture has entered our house. This is the first time that Jessica helped Jim build something from there. When we unpacked the flat pack, she thought all the pieces were her personal climbing structure. That entertained her for a while as did the mallet Jim let her "borrow".

Jessica is a fairy for Halloween

By the time Halloween rolled around, Jessica was on to her third costume -- a woodland fairly. She seemed to like the wand and her sparkly shoes the best. She found that the wand was good for poking the dogs, smashing the sidewalk, and chewing. Jim and I spent most of Halloween chasing Jessica up and down the street before it got dark. And, rather than trick or treating, Jessica helped hand out candy to other kids in the neighborhood.

Jessica celebrated Halloween early in Indiana