Accalia and Cole were planning their Halloween costumes earlier today. They both decided they wanted to make robot costumes out of big cardboard boxes they found in the basement. So I cut out arm holes in each box, and the kids found plastic ice cream buckets to use for helmets. Cole has already decided that he doesn't want to be a robot for Halloween, and I'm sure Accalia will change her mind a few times over the next 3 1/2 months, but at least they're having fun!

I tried to put Ella down for a nap earlier, but she popped right up again so it looks as if it will be a napless day. That won't be bad at all if she actually goes down early tonight. Last night, after I put Ella in bed, I came downstairs to find Accalia had the Mickey Mouse Yahtzee game all set up. That's her favorite thing to do when it's just the two of us - find a game to play. Then she likes us to sit there and talk about her life when she's grown up with a house and kids of her own. You see, Accalia asked me to be her secret best friend last week, and that's the sort of thing she likes secret best friends to do.

Over the weekend, I finished reading Middlesex. I have to say that this was among the top books I've ever read. When I told Cory that I thought he'd really like it, too, I don't think he was too convinced since it's an Oprah Book Club selection. His interest was peaked a little more when I told him that the author also wrote The Virgin Suicides. I'll be the first to admit that my reading has really slowed down, especially since Ella was born, and I rarely have time to read more than a magazine article or more likely half of one throughout the day. Cory, meanwhile, has been reading voraciously lately and managed to read four or five books in the time it took me to read Middlesex.

Okay, the kids want to go for a walk so I'd better get off the computer.