mostly business as usual here at the crisp household. patrick got his yearbook the other day, and was showing hannah pictures of all his college craziness. also, she's such a big girl she can apparently eat apples. who knew? she got it by accident, and then ate nearly the whole thing!
(i realize in terms of nuclear weapons in iran, the elections, and the housing market that is not big news. but it is to me :-)



"stop taking my picture mommy. just give me more food." but seriously, she's the only child i know whose hair grows straight up.


true story: the college girls at church threw a tea party for the ladies (of which i am one now, strangely enough) and i really wanted to go, so patrick was going to be home by 5 so i could go. not surprisingly, he told me he couldn't make it home on time. (what was surprising was that he didn't make it home until the next night!) so, i was kind of sad and mopey. hannah starts making some noise, and not kidding, this is what i find. she's having a tea party. yes, i got all teary eyed. i will have plenty of opportunity to go to tea parties later. right now i get to have one with my daughter. (we're also going to have a tea party birthday one year. very excited. i'm already planning the menu! :-)


she offered me a cup. on the right is the best self-portrait i could get. sorry!


so, we have a little bit of progress. lettuce, collards, cabbage, broccoli, and basil. i hope it works, because i've put alot of work in to it.



so in case you can't tell, i'm very much a seasonal person. not just clothes (and even jewelry and nail polish), but decorating the house, having parties to celebrate the season, and of course, eating seasonally. we have been waiting for apple butternut squash soup, and Hannah was helping me out here. it's actually quite heavy. i've also really been wanting pumpkin chocolate chip bread, and i even though i had canned pumpkin in the cupboard, i've waited till they had pie pumpkins at the grocery store. of course, while i've been baking and pureeing and freezing my pumpkin and eating my fresh roasted pumpkin seeds, it's been nearly 90 degrees all week. oh well. i've had many a tropical christmas, so surely i can celebrate fall in alabama.


nothing, nothing i do could ever compare to the belly game. for some reason, hannah goes crazy.



i've been convicted that even though i'm a sahm, i don't actually spend enough time with hannah, just interacting. so i took her to the park the other day, ignoring the hundred things to do in my house. it was fun, but i think she's a little young. all she wanted to do was play with the mulch.

desiree comes tomorrow, so maybe i'll get some pictures of me AND hannah for a change. next week we have the missions conference at church, and i'm so excited. then we're headed to Charlotte for a football game. you guys enjoy your fall, wheverever you are. especially those of you in africa :-)