The Things Kids Say

I am so in love with my kids. Thay say the most innocent, darling, and funny things.

Emma, when she cut her toe at her cousin's house "I have a bloody nose on my toe."

Amelia, when we were playing with her horses on the trampoline, decided that they all had to lie down to take a nap. "Let's sing them a night-night song. How about I Am A Child Of God?"

And then Amelia wanted to take a handfull of dolls to the store the other day, and I told her she needed to leave them home. My usual answer to her why is that we can't take naked babies anywhere, and they are always unclothed. But not that day, so Amelia promptly replied, "but mommy, they're dressed."

And today, we dropped the boys off at school because they missed the bus, and so we were going to run our errands before dance class. Amelia decided to pitch a royal fit when we got to the store, so I buckled the girls back in their seats and said we would just go home, and not come back to town for dance class. Now, little Emma is quite enamored with "dance class," even though she is not a participant, and pretty much every day will dress up in her tinkerbell costume or another little tulle skirt she has because she is going to "dance class." And Emma was not about to let Amelia miss that class. After my threats of "you will stop or you will not go to dance" as we pulled out of the parking lot, Emma, in her little pleading voice, said, "Mia, stop. you have dance class. Mia, stop, you go to dance." And Amelia stopped and said, "I'm done crying." So we went to the store and then to dance class.

Wonderful!

And the boys. Since Sam played flag football this year, they have been playing non-stop. In fact, the other day they came inside for a piece of paper. They had made up about 15 plays and were writing them down on this piece of paper. Then, they created a front and back cover and made a play book by attaching these three pages with brads. (so that they could add pages if they wanted to. if they had used staples, they couldn't have added to the book. according to Sam) Then they found old blue tshirts, and wrote their names and numbers on them. They have practiced these plays tirelessly. I absolutely loved watching them create their "team." Their enthusiasm and excitement were tangible. One night I took the camera out to catch them in their practice.

Pumpkin Princesses & Hunters

Sam, the hunter, with a bear. (Representing the true story of being chased by a bear when he went hunting with Nate last month.)

Clay, the elk hunter, with the HUGE antlers on his backpack. (Because we couldn't figure out how to attach them to his head to be an elk)

Amelia, the pumpkin princess, who really does not look very well in orange, and who couldn't keep the wig on for more than about 5 minutes at a time. But, man, she's cute!!!

Emma, hated the hat, which had to be contrived to make it stay, but loved it that people were just dumping candy into her bucket.

Look at these darling Trick-or-Treaters. We had such a fun day! We started the day at the elementary school parade. We stopped at Rips to see Ron & Kathy, and the girls each got a candy bar. They thought that was pretty cool, and were ready right then to go Trick-or Treating. We had to pass some time before a meeting I had, so I took the girls to a puppet show at the library. Fun Fun Fun. We have fun story time ladies.
We started our evening when I picked the boys up from school. I tried to feed them to fill their bellies with "good" food before the candy excitement kicked in. It was partially successful. We walked to the courthouse, where they are always dressed up awesome, and then we hit the road to make our regular visits. Great-Grandpa, Aunt Sherrie, Uncle Burton and Aunt Evelyn, our old neighbors, and Grandma&Grandpa. I'm still not sure how so few visits translated into two shoe boxes full of candy?!?! (And that's after they've been eating candy for 3 days)

we love halloween