rowan has discovered how to take off his own diaper. no more letting him run around with no clothes on, i guess... last night i was on the computer and didn't know he had taken it off, and suddenly micah and josh ran into the playroom holding their noses and yelling, "rowan pooped on the floor!" hehe, poop is only cute and funny when it's your kids' poop. : ) i rushed rowan to the tub while josh cleaned up the floor. i wish we had hardwood floors instead of carpet...

my kids are very naked lately, come to think of it. we went to a restaurant for dinner last night, and promptly upon sitting down in our booth micah grabbed one of those squeeze-bottles of spicy bbq sauce and squirted it all over her shirt and pants. she said the sauce was burning her skin through her clothes (which i believe, because the stuff was making my eyes burn like crazy), so we took off her shirt. hey, she's three, and there's only a short time in one's life when one can be half naked in a restaurant. why not take advantage of it?

it is such a beautiful day today, we have to get outside... i think a trip to the park is definitely in order...

micah's favorite movie to watch lately is tim burton's the nightmare before christmas. she loves all the songs now, it's so cute the way she sings them. she never gets the lyrics quite right, so it comes out something like this:

this is halloween, halloween
pumpkins scream at night
jack the pumpkin king, a very special guy... everybody scream
halloween, halloween, halloween...

it reminds me of when my sister naomi and i were young and we loved that movie, and we would sit in front of the tv, i with a pad and pencil and she with her finger poised on the VCR buttons. she would hit play then pause, play then pause over and over, letting little bits of the movie play at a time, and i would hurriedly write down the words to the songs so we could memorize them. this was before we could just get on the internet and print off the lyrics!