But I digress. You may be wondering what we've been up to in the last month. As I mentioned we waited for Halloween for a long time, so of course there were Halloween parties in both Laura and Hannah's classrooms. Laura's school has a big Halloween parade, and I went to it. It was a really fun time seeing all the kids dressed in their costumes. I got some great ideas for next year! Hannah's favorite project at school this season was making her scarecrow. She loved scarecrows this fall. One night the week of Halloween, we carved pumpkins. Matt let the girls design their own pumpkins. They turned out really good. Thankfully none of the bad teenagers got ours. Unfortunately, many jack-o-lanterns in our neighborhood were victims of the bad teenagers. Halloween night around here was a wet, nasty night. You never know what you're going to get in Ohio on Halloween. But our kids had fun trick or treating anyway. They were out for about an hour. I was impressed. Hannah was a spooky witch, and Laura was a demon this year. Little Emma didn't trick or treat, but she was a monkey. She loved her costume the day she wore it to school. She was doing the monkey sounds. It was really cute.
We also went dress shopping and picked out dresses for the girls for Ellen's wedding. They are very excited to be flower girls. They want tierras too, but I'm not sure about that! When Hannah walked out the of the dressing room, she had her head held really high, and she was walking like a princess. It was adorable! The girls tried on about four dresses, maybe more. At one point, Laura said, " I never want to leave this place!" They were in heaven.
The girls went to a birthday party at Sweet 'N Sassy and loved it! Laura has been there before about 3 years ago, but she really didn't remember it. Hannah enjoyed it as much as Laura. She had wanted her birthday to be at the Bouncy House, but now she wants it at Sweet N' Sassy. We'll see when it gets a little closer.
Hannah had her very first teeth cleaning at the dentist, which is of course Aunt Ellen. She did great and loved it. Laura did good too. She had another cavity - boo! But she did well getting her filling again. We'll just keep trying to do better. Laura also lost a tooth this week! Her first one. She got a dollar from the tooth fairy.
And of course, we had Laura's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. Laura has wanted her birthday at Chuck E. Cheese for almost two years, since her friend Julian, had his birthday there. I think it lived up to her expectations. She had a blast. And on top of that, she got to have an improntu friend spend the night. It was an awesome birthday for her. I can't believe she's six years old already. She's growing up so fast. I know that I am constantly talking about wanting time to slow down, but I REALLY WANT TIME TO SLOW DOWN!! It feels like just last week we brought her home, and somehow she's six and we have three kids. Whoa! Anyway she got one of those rubber band bracelet looms for her birthday from her friend, Maddie. So far, that has been the favorite. She has been making bracelets like crazy.
We went one Friday down to Logan to celebrate Grandma Jane's birthday, and we were going to our nephew, Ian's house. He has a daughter, Tammra, who is Laura's age. We were telling Laura about her in the car. They have played together many times, but we hadn't seen them in a while. So Laura didn't remember her. Laura asked us if she was in kindergarten, and we said yes. Laura said, "Oh good. We have a connection." So funny.
I don' know if I've posted this quote before, but Hannah has said it to me more than once. Whenever we are going to McDonald's, (which I admit that we go there more often than we should), Hannah says, "Mom you like church and I like McDonalds." She is very matter of fact.
Emma - I haven't talked about her much yet. What to say....she is wild as wild can be. The teenage years are going to be rough with this one. I'm just writing this down so that I remember that I knew it was coming. Wow is she independent. Maybe it's that she's the third. I don't know. But she climbs on everything! We have these little stools that go to the girls' art desk, and she drags them around and uses them as her launch pads to climb up on anything she can. She uses them as her little pedestals to dance on in the middle of the living room. She is such a comedian and is so funny. She knows when she's not supposed to do something, and she looks at us, smiles, and continues to do it. She's also an awesome sleeper. She doesn't really want much comforting when going to sleep, which is way different than her sisters. She has this routine that she kisses everyone goodnight and waves to us, and then Matt takes her in her bedroom and turns her fan on and her light off and she goes to sleep. She had a rough transition to her new room at daycare. She bit constantly, at school and at home. Poor Hannah was the victim several times. She was so forgiving though. But I think we are through it finally, and everyone is doing well.
So that about brings us to now, and back to our holiday planning. We have many activities that we want to do this year - go get the tree, go to the zoo lights, bake, decorate, etc. Hopefully I will have a second to blog sometime before it's all over!
