Helping Mommy

Thursday afternoon Melissa came up the stairs with a bowl of pretzels and another bowl FULL of sour cream. She said, "I made you a snack, Mom." She was sooo pleased with herself! I asked her to bring it back down stairs for me and when she did, the sour cream bowl fell and made quite a mess. She tried really hard to clean it up, leaving a trail of water from the bathroom sink to the living room floor. She wiped and wiped and when it didn't work, she decided that the sour cream would make good finger paint. This is her "masterpiece." I think it is very pretty.

Making Pilgrim Hats

This morning we made pilgrim hats out of cookies, chocolate and marshmallows. They turned out REALLY cute! The two girls made 3 of their own and then Evan's mommy (Tia Ria) made the rest of them. We had so much fun! It was hard waiting for the chocolate to harden enough for us to taste them! We LOVE visiting with CiCi, Tia Ria and Evan!

Evan tasting some chocolate Melissa's hats

Kayla's hats

look how cute they are!

The Camera Loves Me Part 2

Just some more random "posing." They are so funny!

The camera loves me

Since attending their recent "photo shoot" the girls have been setting themselves in "poses" so that I can take their picture. They do it everywhere we go! They even say, "The camera loves me!"

Here is Kayla posing on the slide...

and here is Kayla posing with Honey

More posing with Honey

And Miss Melissa said that her dolls WANTED her in this shot. "In this shot???" Are you kidding me?

Our Poor Poor Pumpkin

Today was a sad, sad day at our house. Today was the day for "killing" the poor poor pumpkin. I told the girls that we were going to get the yuck and seeds out of the pumpkin so that we could cook down the pumpkin and freeze it for pies and bread and muffins. They thought it was a great idea until I pulled out the knife. They both FREAKED out! Kayla, "Don't do it Mommy!" Melissa, "You may not hurt our beautiful pumpkin! What about our paintings, we will miss them so much." (real tears here) I don't know what the problem is... they have real separation problems. Maybe they should see a shrink. The only way I could console them was to promise them that I would take pictures for them to visit on the blog like I have had to do for so many other things. These silly, silly girls. So, here is our BEAUTIFUL pumpkin. (which by the way, yuielded 13 1/2 cups of pumpkin!)

Photo Shoot

Well, we finally took Melissa in for her 4 year old photo shoot and (since we were so late) also had pictures of her and Kayla taken for Christmas... I will save the Christmas pictures for another post, but for now... here are some of the others. Both girls have such different personalities. We had so much fun!

Happy Halloween!

We had SO much fun on Halloween! We went to Eliza, Sadie and Levi's house for dinner and Trick-or-Treating. Terry made "yucky" dirt and worm dessert that the girls LOVED! They are still talking about eating worms. :) Trick-or-Treating was successful and Ray even got there in time for the last 2 houses! After we returned all 4 girls put on their pj's for a jammie party and watched a movie until it was time to go home. Thanks for your hospitality Terry and David! We had SO much fun! (The pictures are chronologically backward!)