Fall 2005
 We took Ciára to a fall festival at a nearby farm, and let her meet the animals. She was very impressed by how big the cow is. |
 Ciára in her blue bug |
 Ciára loves slides, so she went down a long steep one on her mom's lap. |
 Once she reached the bottom, she immediately ran away from us to head back to the line |
 This time she went down all by herself... |
 ...and stopped about 4/5ths of the way down, because she's still under 40 pounds. |
 She's now big enough to want to ride the ponies. |
 Ciára spent most of the ride yelling "Yee-Haw!". |
 Ciára tries on a pair of big feet. |
 At a neighbors party in her halloween costume, Ciára spends some time on the swing. |
 Running in a pumpkin race |
 Ciára in her "space helmet", made up of a colander and two spatulas. She got this idea from the "Little Bear" TV show. |
 At a neighbor's house for a halloween party |
 Our Butterfly, ready to go out on Halloween. |
 Video! Ciára the Diva Hen sings! Windows Media Low speed High Speed |
 On our way to visit Nonno & Nonna in Michigan for Thanksgiving, we ran into our first snow of the fall. Ciára's now big enough to try and catch snowflakes on her tongue |
 Ciára does her Raggedy Ann impression in her Thanksgiving dress from her Granne. |
 After dinner, she was in a little better mood and was willing to hold still for a few seconds... |
 But that didn't last long |
 Here are Catherine, Nonna Aida, and Ciára |
 And Nonno Alberto joins the picture. |
 Ciára tells Santa she was a good girl, but she isn't sure he believed her. |
 We received a new Red Maple Tree from Tim's parents to celebrate our 10th anniversary. This is an Autumn Sunset and should be a glorious red tree next fall. |
 Ciára got a princess dress for Christmas. This is her "I don't THINK so" face, probably in response to her dad telling her a tall tale. |
 And of course, no Princess would be caught without new snowboots! |
 Here Dad does something useful while he's sick and working at home - teaching is daughter to make goofy faces. |
 Ciára received a Lego set from her Gran and Farmor this past Christmas, and she loves to build houses and then knock them down. Recently we were in a toy store and she ran to the lego section, and said "Daddy, Daddy! look at the airplane!" Of course that meant that daddy had to help her build the set the very first thing next morning. |
 Ciára really enjoys the set, however |
