Daddy

Aaron has been working a lot lately and hasn't spent a lot of time with the girls lately. Thursday they wanted Daddy to take them to school without me. I did not argue with that request. :) I put a very cute bow in Saige's hair and off everyone went. Then Aaron picked them back up without me. As they ran in the door excited to be home I noticed that Saige did not have her big, cute, blue bow in her hair but a pink bow.


I asked where the other bow was and Aaron said on the way to school she asked for the pink one instead so he put it in her hair. Backwards. hahahaha...

Saige went to school all day with her bow looking like this...




Nice! Gotta love Daddy's and these girly accessories.


And this was Reese. She picked out her own clothes and didn't want a boy, headband, nothing in her hair. so big :(

Thankful Tree

Today was a nice cool day. WONDERFUL!!! I was in the best mood due to the weather alone. I put on a long sleeve shirt, drank the best coffee ever (Thanks to HEB's free sample), made chicken and dumplings and felt like getting into some Thanksgiving crafts. So we're making a "thankful tree".


I stole the idea off of Erica's blog from last thanksgiving. We painted a poster board brown and I did my best to cut it out like a tree.





Then I put a bible verse on it. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. Psaml 107:1I want the girls to remember that the Lord provides everything for us and He is the One we're giving thanks to. We read a short simple book about Thanksgiving and then we each thought of one thing we were thankful for and I wrote it on our leaves and placed them on the tree.



I put the tree near the breakfast table in hopes that we'll remember at dinner to do our leaves as we're praying over our food. Here's our tree now. I hope to show another picture of it with lots of colorful thanksgiving leaves.

Happy Halloween!!

We had a wonderful Halloween weekend. Friday night we went with some friends to see a Super Hero show at Second Baptist. It was so much fun! The Super Hero's are from VBS. My girls were too little in the summer to attend VBS but still enjoyed the show. The show was based on the verse 1 Timothy 4:12 Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity. I LOVE it! It was great! We were lucky that Reese and Saige went to church with my mom (Second) and got the cd with ALL the songs from the show. Score!!


Sunday on Halloween our community group from church did something called "Rice and Beans". We ate a simple dinner, rice and beans, and donated money (the amount we would spend on a dinner out) for a family for Christmas. It was a lot of fun. The kids all played games and rode bikes, cars etc outside. The adults had time to chat. Then we ALL got dressed and went trick or treating. We only went to a few houses and then packed up and went back to our section to see our neighbors too.




The girls really enjoyed trick or treating. Reese was so excited and went running from house to house. Saige liked getting candy but made Daddy hold to bucket because it was getting heavy. We didn't go to too many houses (maybe 2 streets total) but we sure did get a lot of candy. By the end of the night Saige had two suckers in each hand. We made it home and I let the girls eat 4 pieces each and then we got ready for bed. I took about half and then put some of it in the bucket on the porch. Theres no way the girls could (or should) ever eat that much candy. Saige wouldn't let me wash the black off her nose so she went to bed with a black Minnie Mouse nose. How sweet is that?!?! It was a really fun night! Here are a few pictures!



Kids playing before TOTing time.



Claire and Reese


Saige and Lilah


Reese and Saige


ALL the kids getting Ready! LOL


Most of our community group kiddos-minus 3!





Trick Or Treating in our neighborhood with friends from the street!

This week...

We read my favorite spider book The Spider and the Fly and then went to look at real spider webs. Lucky for us we have plenty in the garage. Then we made spider webs out of glitter and glue. NEXT we made spider cookies. Yum!








We had Disney Days at the girls school. I was able to help do one of the activities this year. I was surprised that the girls didn't cry when they saw me and then had to leave with their teacher. They acted as if its normal for me to be hanging out in a classroom at their school. It was a lot of fun. It made me realize more and more how much I want to return to teaching...some day! Right now I'm enjoying the time at home with the girls. I know these precious moments won't be here much longer and I want to ENJOY them, not just survive them.





Wednesday Reese was able to wear her costume to dance class. I should have snapped a picture but didn't. The kids were too cute dancing all dressed up. Saige had to wear her costume as well. Then we headed to Pappas to see Aaron. The girls haven't seen him much since hes been working a lot lately. They were very excited to see Daddy at work.




Tonight we carved pumpkins. Saige wanted nothing to do with it and ran away crying when the pulp touched her skin. Allie, our dog, wanted to eat the pumpkin parts-seeds and all. Shes not very smart.

sneak peek!

My dad came over to visit the other day and since he lives so far the girls modeled their costumes for him. Strawberry Shortcake and Minnie Mouse.

When we first went to look at costumes Saige wanted to be a baby. Shes two! She IS a baby! She finally saw Minnie Mouse and liked this one. Reese was sold on Strawberry Shortcake thanks to the hot pink wig! She thinks she is hot stuff for sure.

We went on a walk with my dad to look at all the fun Halloween stuff out (only the nice ones though), ate pizza, had ice cream and he brought them candy and a little toy. We love when he visits. I sure wish we saw him a little more though.

After he left Saige wanted to know why "Boo doesn't have any hair" LOL! Out of the mouth of babes!

Dentist

We had a double dentist day! Reese has this spot on her gums that was very red. She had been putting her fingers in her mouth, which is something she had never done before so it worried me. She also would cry when I brushed her teeth and today complained about eating. It was time for her to go again and I kept meaning to make the appt but didn't get a chance. I now had a reason. I decided to let Saige go to her first dentist visit as well.

We went to a pediatric dentist in our area. They were so nice and the place was so clean. Reese got 6 x-rays taken and I wanted so badly to take a picture but I felt stupid so I decided not to. :( Saige was next and I thought for sure she wouldn't sit still long enough to get the little cap thing on-but she did great! She only had two x-rays taken. The hygienist cleaned Reese's teeth and I was told we hadn't been brushing her teeth well enough. That made me feel super great! She didn't have any cavities or anything like that but they just need to be brushed better so she doesn't get any. I was really embarrassed. The dentist looked at her red gums and asked if she injured it some how but we couldn't think of anything??

Saige also did great again! She always surprises me. She sat just like a big girl letting the hygienist and dentist clean, count and look at her teeth.

The girls got new toothbrush, floss, stickers, toy and a ring! Fancy!!

Tonight I had to sit on Reese to brush her teeth though because of that sore spot. I did it softly but she was so scared. I hate that. We have to brush her teeth but she was so upset.

Lately...

Things have been hairy at home. Reese, who is normally SO sweet has become SO sassy! She is telling us "no" a lot. Her way of doing it is still in a quiet nice voice so sometimes it gets overlooked. (Saige's way is to scream like a total maniac and run around) But yesterday we were done with it. Aaron actually yelled at her and she of course had a total meltdown making things even worse. She refused to eat dinner, clean up, take a bath, come when we called her, get in the car, put on her shoes, go to the restroom, brush her teeth...you get the idea!

I don't know if being sassy just comes with being four or what but its been a very very trying few days. She kicked the kitchen cabinets and said NO really loud at me today. Of course when we get around strangers she is very sweet and compliant, which I love but I want her to be that way at home too.

We had a long talk about being "obedient" with her yesterday. It helped some but this going over things over and over has been very hard on me. I want to run in my closet and just hide some days. I know it doesn't help that Aaron has been working long hours lately. Doing breakfast to baths every day alone gets to me sometimes. Thank God for mothers day out! I pray that these sassy spells end soon but I'm sure we're just getting started.