Sweet girls

Annika's new look

Annika has a new haircut and new glasses:



She still has a hard time keeping those eyes open when the flash goes off.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is still working the bag lady couture look. Hair not fixed, her sister's size 10 sweatshirt, rain boots and carrying a lid to a toy pan. I try not to interfere with her selections unless we are going someplace where it is important to me that she look presentable. So yes, she sure did wear that to pick Ian up at preschool. If only I could get her to carry a sign that says "I dressed myself" so I am not blamed for her wardrobe choices...



She is in love with these rain boots. They are pretty cute though:

We're still in negotiations...

The other morning Ian came and got in bed with me. He was very snuggly and slurping on his fingers. I was enjoying him being so cuddly and asked, "Could you just stay little forever?" He thought for a minute and then said, "Fine, I'll stay little...IF you give me some money."

Sick again!

I will be back to blogging soon! We have had a long week. Karl and I were sick and then Elizabeth got sick. Now poor Alexandria is not feeling well.



The only good thing about a sick baby? Karl was enjoying her being all snuggly:

Mommy says:

"I told you to sit down. No running around, no trying to break the vaccum cleaner, no throwing cheese. Sit down!!"

Yay Annika!

Guest post from Annika:

I tryed to pass the test. but,i never did until 11/12/09. then I past the test. I got a fake medle.




*****Annika passed her subtraction test. She took it yesterday and came home and told me "I have a really good feeling about it!" (She got the graded test back today.) They have a test every week and once the student can do 30 problems in 2 minutes she can move on to the next level. Annika has been working hard on her subtraction from 20 these last few weeks and it paid off. She got all 30 problems right and is now on to multiplication. She was very excited to tell me when she came home from school. This is really big news at our house :)

The one where Annika gets a singing telegram

I believe I mentioned that Alexandria is on the singing telegram team at school? They sing at special events and also give singing telegrams to teachers and students who have been voted to get one. It turns out back in September Alexandria nominated Annika to receive one for being brave during her hernia surgery. Well Annika ended up getting surprised with a singing telegram during class today. Too bad Alexandria was home sick with an ear infection and didn't get to sing to her sister but I did get a picture of them together along with Annika's certificate. I don't think Alex is feeling very well here, but I thought it was sweet nonetheless.

Ian says:

"I loved that big doctor's office we went to when Uncle Ethan broke his head."

Alexandria

I love these pictures of Alexandria playing in the leaves. Just had to share:

The word he's looking for is "yesterday"

Ian: I remember when Elizabeth took Daddy's glasses. It was the day after this one...I mean the day on the back of this one.

More pictures

Trick or treat

This is my last Halloween related post, I promise! The kids enjoyed their day yesterday. Grandma and GopGop came by and then we headed to the mall to trick or treat. Elizabeth was getting bored with the candy she was getting and started fussing about going down to the food court. Forget about Tootsie Rolls and suckers, that girl wanted some real food. We then headed to the church where Ian attends pre-school and they had a festival with lots of games for the kids- cookie decorating, bike rides, basketball...all kinds of fun things. One interesting thing- both Alex and Annika are left-handed but apparently they throw right-handed. Just the opposite of Grandma Goody. Oops sorry, that is probably one of those things that nobody but the mom cares about, right? Anyway, the church had nachos which made Elizabeth a very happy baby. She sat on her daddy's lap and enjoyed chowing down while the big kids got their faces painted. After that we headed to Grammy Goody's and then trick or treated at five or six houses. Then...home to bed. Today we headed over to Papa and Nana's after church and enjoyed having dinner and getting to see the family.


I made a little slideshow documenting my attempts to get a picture with all four kids. You will soon understand why I have so few pictures of them all together:

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

P.S. Sorry some of the pictures are hard to see because they are so dark. I still haven't taken my camera in to be fixed...What if something happens and I need to be able to take a picture and don't have a camera?