Morton Madness

Sophia had her  Fall Party at school today.  I decided to sign up for room mom because no one else had.  I figured I had some spare time to help out... I made Sophia a scrap tutu and made it a little short but I will know next time.  She FINALLY got to wear the shoes that Daphne got her for her birthday and she was so excited.  They were not her size until now.     Spooky Sophia

Trick or Treat!  We started off our night across the street with all the neighborhood kids for the annual group picture.  Noah came over to trick or treat too.  The kids had a blast sorting their candy and could not beleive how many M&M's they got.   The Hulk as The Hulk Papa and Noah The Neighborhood Gang Bumble Bee, The Hulk, Vampire and a warewolf Carly and Seth She picked out her shoes Luke Brooklyn and Landon

Sophia got a baby doll when she was born from Mimi.  She LOVES this doll and named her "baby".  She takes her everywhere and it is so dirty and disgusting and it says that you can spot clean it.  Baby's bottom half used to be white... you would never be able to tell from the pics.  This thing needs to be torched!  You have to sanitize after holding her, in fact, you might want to go wash after reading this.  HA!    Sophia calls Baby's hair, "fire" (see pic below)

Jonah had his first big project due for 3rd grade.  He had to read a mystery book and do a report on it.  He read The Mystery Of The Haunted Cabin from The Boxcar Kids Collection.  Let's break it down... He read the book  mom asked questions he could not answer mom read the book out loud to him he recapped what he heard after each chapter We could not put the book down, even Luke was hooked Jonah told me what he wanted his "scene" to be for the report so mom went to google and got some things printed for him to cut out and hit the scrapbook paper pile. dad read the book Jonah and dad worked on the oral part of the book Jonah worked his tail off with NO COMPLAINTS (except his hand was tired from writing so much) His project was due today but he will not present it until Wednesday.  I cannot wait to hear how it goes.    He had fun working on it.  At times we had to stop him because he was getting too many details in it and it would...

We were headed to Fieldhouse for Jonah's basketball game and Sophia wanted her costume on... over her clothes with shoes that don't fit! We pick our battles folks!

I cannot believe it... The time has come for Jonah to start wearing pit paint aka deodorant. Last night after his basketball game we came home and were getting ready for showers. I walked by Jonah and thought I was going to vomit. I asked him if he smelled something and he said, "yea, that's me". My response... "Come here" as I raised his arm and sniffed. Gag, vomit, cough. Why, why, WHY as a parent do I respond to situations like that? I am the mom that holds out my hand when a child says they are going to vomit. The other day I was taking Sophia to the bathroom, we were pulling her pants down, she started peeing before we could get on the potty and what does this mom do????? I HOLD OUT MY HANDS AND CATCH IT! As soon as it hit my hand I pulled away wondering what on earth I was thinking. Why is that my first response? Back to my point... This morning before school Jonah put some pit paint on. He giggled because it tickled and told me his arm p...

This weekend was Carah's baby shower. Leslie flew in from DC to surprise her. It has been way too long since we were all together! We were missing Stefanie and Jill. Can't wait for another cousin to be here.