Life, Thanks Giving and Flurries

It has been a while since I have posted.

I haven't had that many pictures to post, and although it probably only matters to me, I like a post with pictures. I am definitely a picture person. I love looking at photos. To me they say so much..........they are worth at least a thousands words and thoughts.

The girls made flannel baby blankets.

This was a science project. We were studying human cells.

We used gelatin, ziplock bags, and candy.Two love bugs.
Can you say "Pumpkin Juice!"

November appeared and then ended with some flurries.
Our Thanksgiving was very quiet and restful. It was nice to not have to worry about anything really (school work and work) and just enjoy the company of our little family.

And now here we are at December's doorstep and the door has opened.
Hmm, what will December hold, I wonder, for us.
We put the tree up on Thanksgiving evening and decorated it. The lower half is bare, but Elsa has managed somehow to reach even the high up ornaments. I have a line of them on the TV that need to be put back together. The girls were so eager to put out the presents they had got for each other, but they had to go back into the closet because Miss E was ripping into them.

We've just been keeping busy with school and goals, piano lessons, violin lesson, and Rhaevyn has returned to fencing. Chris has been busy at work. Both girls are trying to learn Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Aeva's recital is coming up next Saturday, and she is a bit nervous, which is something new for her.

Myles is keeping me in stitches with things like............
"Humormous"...which I believe is humongous and ginormous put together.
We also have a dragon that lives on our roof. I haven't exactly caught a glimpse of him yet, he is too quick for me, but Myles spots him out our window a lot flying around. I love the imagination, it makes life exciting and never dull.

Miss Elsa is keeping me on my toes with baths in the sugar canister, contents of my purse strewn about, into the toothpaste, and my favorite...............jumping naked on Myles's bed. If it is quiet and she isn't in the kitchen, my bedroom or the living room, it is safe to bet that she has managed to get her diaper off and ether run free, hide in laundry or jump on a bed.
Well, that is all the happenings around our little happy abode.
Wishing you all a dapper first week of December.

Out of the Mouth of Myles...........

Pumpkin Leg Myles

I love the things that come out of the mouths of kids. It is so funny, entertaining and interesting how their little minds work and how they are so honest in an innocent way.

Two weeks ago Myles was running errands with me. There we were in the van at a stop light, and I was watching five ducks fly round and round in a circle over a house. In my head I was asking myself, "Do they have a home at one of those houses?" Myles commented on the ducks, and then I said, out loud, "I wonder what those ducks are doing?"
Myles replied, " They are flying you silly."
I couldn't help but laugh.

Sunday morning Myles and I read a book about spiders. There was a picture in the book of a spider molting. I was telling him about how my tarantula would do that. How its new body would be so bright and colorful. I told him that it is similar to when snakes shed their skin. They shed their old skin when they grow.
Myles sat next to me at church. At one point he took one of my hands in his, caressed it, and then leaned over to say "You have old skin, mom. I wish you were a snake and could get new skin."
I just about busted a gut.

I love how fulfilling being a mother is. I love the frustrating times, the sleepless nights, the "I love you-s", and the "your the best mom I could ever have-s" (even when you feel you aren't ). I don't know what I did to deserve these children, four great and sweet blessings, but whatever I did I am glad I did it. I can't imagine my life without them.

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night........

What a fun Halloween night we had last night.
We decided to think outside the box this year and do something a bit different.

Aeva made a Boo-quet at Activity Days.

For costumes, we decided last night to go on a hunt around the house to see what we had that the kids could dress up in.

Elsa was a little calf.

Here is Princess Aeva.

I thought this was so cute.

Myles wanted to be Darth Mal from Star Wars,

so the girls tried to figure out how to dress him for the part.

I printed out a picture of a Darth Mal face and cut it out.

Elsa didn't know what to make of Myles.

After costumes, it was time for pumpkin carving..........

..........and candy eating.

Time to turn off the lights..............

Spoooooooooky!

Then it was time to take turns reading the Tell Tale Heart by candle light.

To top off the evening we played two rounds of Jenga.

I think we all agreed that thinking outside the pumpkin this year turned out to be a lot of fun.

Just a side note, Myles wrote his name all by himself for the first time this morning.

Last night he wrote the letters in blue. I wrote out his name at the top for him, and then this morning he wrote the green letters just about the blue ones. It is always so fun when your children learn to do something by themselves.

The people he drew in the picture are Oma, Opa and Cash.

Wishing you all a nimble November.