Archive for October, 2011
Recycled This Year
Monday, October 31st, 2011While out buying our hot dogs on the way to Trunk or Treat a passerby complimented Annie on her Jasmin costume. Instead of just saying thank you Annie went into an explanation. “Well, this isn’t what I REALLY wanted to be, my Mom said we had to do recycled costumes so this was the best [...]
Trunk or Treat
Monday, October 31st, 2011We love the fall festival at our children’s preschool so much. The time spent there is so heartwarming and not just because we were married there and our children spent their first days away from home there, but because the festival is just so nice and quiet. This was the first year we were there [...]
Halloween Birthday Party
Monday, October 31st, 2011There is something about a baby born near or around Halloween. The draw to Halloween is unmistakable Annie loves Halloween, she loves pumpkins, she enjoys dressing up, carving pumpkins. She isn’t yet into spooky stuff, in fact we watched Coraline this year and she was terrified at several parts, but I think that will come [...]
Carving Pumpkins
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Today we finally had time to get our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch carved up. We have finally reached the point where none of our kids are afraid of the guts and each one is able to do a pretty good job clearing their pumpkin. Gotta love that! I will get pictures of the kids [...]
Happy Birthday Annie
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Annie Elizabeth has turned eight! It is amazing how fast she has grown. She is an amazing girl who we treasure. This year we changed our tradition a tiny it to work Annie’s birthday better into the extremely busy schedule of Halloween weekend. We had her birthday dinner on “labor day.” She requested salisbury steak [...]
Toothless Mimi
Friday, October 28th, 2011Mimi finally lost her front top tooth. It had been hanging in there for so long that it was making me crazy. She hopes to have the other one out by Christmas and to have no front teeth. She is super cute without the tooth in her mouth. She has a slight lisp which is [...]
It’s Labor Day
Friday, October 28th, 2011Nope time hasn’t reverted back to September, but rather this is the day I spent in labor with Annie. 26 hours of my life was spent trying to get Annie out of my body. 8 years ago today I spent the day in labor. Most the moments weren’t as glorious as this one, but thankfully [...]
BooFest
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Due to budget cuts the City of Phoenix hadn’t been doing their BooFest for a couple of years. Thankfully this year they had it. We went this past Saturday and the kids had fun. It was far more busy than usual. I am thinking that they must have done a lot more marketing to make [...]
My Protector
Thursday, October 20th, 2011“Why are you hitting my Mom?” ~ Paul I was getting a pedicure this morning and the woman was massaging and tapping the bottom of my feet. Apparently Paul was ready to defend me. Paul never minds going with me to get a pedicure. I always buy him fries and let him play his DS [...]
The Busy Season
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011October is such a busy time for our family, between birthdays, our regular schedule, Halloween, and fall events we have little time for much else. Last week I decided to reduce my load by putting my easy shop on a slight break. I deactivate all of my bags and wraps for a short time. You [...]
Happy Birthday Kimmie
Monday, October 17th, 2011My precious Kimberly turned 8 today. She is amazing and wonderful and I cannot imagine my life without her in it. She always delights in her birthday and today was no different. We woke up and got showered. Daddy ran to McDonalds to get her her Sausage Muffin for breakfast. After breakfast she opened up [...]
Clowning around with our 8 year old
Sunday, October 16th, 2011Today was Kimberly’s Clown/Fair birthday party. She had such a fun time. We played many fair games including a bean bag toss and a bottle toss. The kids even got a chance to throw darts at balloons. We spent plenty of time clowning around! Competing in 3 legged races and hanging out eating popcorn with [...]
TV Madness
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011Everyday when the kids sit down to watch a show they start one of the most annoying games. One child will say, “in every showing I am ________.” Basically they choose a character from the tvshow/cartoon/movie to “be”. Inevitably there is an argument over who is who and pouts about the fact that “you get [...]
{Pumpkin Patch 2011}
Monday, October 10th, 2011Yesterday we made the trek up to the pumpkin patch in Chino Valley, AZ. It was a brisk day up there so we all wore long pants and brought sweatshirts. We picked perfect pumpkins. Pretended to drive tractors. Pet animals in the petting zoo. Took a hay ride and ate kettle corn. Found our way [...]
Heart for Adoption
Saturday, October 8th, 2011“Mom, you know that thing they have for cats that makes them not have babies?” ~ Kimberly “Yes.” ~ Mom “Do they have that for people?” ~ Kimberly “Yes.” ~ Mom “Oh good! When I get older I want to do that and then adopt 2 or 3 kids.” ~ Kimberly “That is a good [...]
Frozen Memories
Friday, October 7th, 2011When I was a child one of the millions of little cherished memories I have was being babysat by my Great Grandmother. My parents didn’t go out a whole lot but when they did she was the person we were left with. My Great Grandmother was amazing at a lot of things but cooking wasn’t [...]
100,000 Miles My Friend
Friday, October 7th, 2011Feeling sentimental today. Vanny van hit 100,000 miles as I pulled into the school parking lot this morning. This van and I have been together since February 2005. I was pregnant with Madeline when we made the decision to buy a van. There is still a yellow mark down the driver side of the van [...]
Filling Up the Tank
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Ms. Mimi has a deep need for a lot of attention. When she hasn’t had enough or feels slighted it is very obvious. She behaves poorly, doing things she would never consider doing normally. Because I am an adoptive parent and have read plenty of adoption parenting books this behavior presents itself just like an [...]