HOORAY FOR THE TWOS!!

Happy Birthday to little Adelaide. She is so precious to me. I am so glad we have her in our family.

Her birthday was the 28th, but we celebrated on Thursday while the family was here for Thanksgiving. Its always more fun when more people are around. She opened her presents, her favorite of which seems to be her little red tricycle. Though she spends more time pushing it around than riding it just yet.

We put candles on the pumpkin pie and sang to her. A little unconventional, but fun just the same. Last night we bought Birthday cake ice cream from Braums to have for dessert so we could at least have some birthday cake flavor.

Happy birthday Little One!

THAT...

Wash and fold laundry (about a week behind on that)
Clean bathrooms ( about 2 weeks behind on that)
Sweep and clean the floors ( Not too far behind on that)
Vacume carpets ( Not sure when I last did that )
Clean the carpets (Have I ever done that?)
Dust all surfaces (Another week behind on that)
Paint the base boards ( Really need to do that)
Paint a wall (Just wanted to do that)
Cook Thanksgiving dinner (Looking forward to that)
Black Friday shopping (who wouldn't want to do that!)
Finish writing Art History paper (Do I have to do that)
Prepare oral presentation ( Don't really want to do that)
Carve a plaster sculpture (Not sure what to carve for that)
Help Sister in Law make digital calendar( Having fun with that)

Still have time to sleep ( Not so sure about that!!!)

Now for the challenge...
Do it all and make it all seem like no big deal (Don't know if I can pull off that)
Luckily, I have a wonderful man to help me with all of THAT.

Ninerific

Happy Birthday to my most adorable nine-year old. Emilie is the sweetest, most wonderful child. I am so glad that she is my first. She is an amazing big sister to Ivy and Addy. Today she taught Addy how to climb the Jungle Gym, as well as how to hang and drop so she won't hurt herself. Now that's some good big-sisterin.
In some ways I wish I could have frozen her in time. I just loved her at age 4. I think that was my favorite year. She was so funny. I loved watching as she tried to make sense of the big crazy world around her. This year has been an interesting one.
I have been struggling with letting go of my little girl, by letting her be the big girl she has become. I know that's just going to keep getting worse this year too. But I remember being in third grade and feeling so old. So big, and wise, and I see her feeling that way too. I just hope as she gets older and more independent, that she remembers how much I love her, and how much I need her.

Happy Birthday Big Kid!!

Halloween

Thanks to an Art History test and an incredible dirty house, I am very late at posting our Halloween pictures. But I say better late than never.

We had a great time as usual. Adelaide Trick-or-Treated like an old pro. She even got a few extra candies for sheer cuteness. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think the flower costume really helped the cute-factor. Ivy and Emilie had a so much fun. I let them run ahead of Addie and me this year. I think they enjoyed the little bit of freedom.

Ivy and I had a little costume battle of the wills. She insisted I make her a Pink Witch costume, which I happily spend about 4 hours making for her. Then, the day before Halloween she insisted that she wanted to be a fairy instead. I was afraid I was going to have to drag her kicking at screaming in the witch costume. However, once she saw me all made up in my Witch Costume (sorry no pictures) she was ready to play ball and be a cute little pink witch.

Emilie cracked me up the most this year. She decided to be "Fast Girl" this year. A super hero identity that Jason created for her. I had fun putting her costume together. Jason made an awesome looking tornado for her shirt and we ironed it on her shirt. You see Fast Girl had Tornado power, a very important power to be sure.

Now without further ado... The Pictures.