Yummy...getting ready for Christmas is so much fun this year. The kids really enjoyed making the cookies ---well probably the decorating and taste testing was the most fun. It is amazing how quickly a double batch of cookies goes with little fingers always sneaking another one!

Snow....Daddy's big helper

Parker and Daddy went outside to clean off the driveway. Parker was super excited to be Daddy's big boy and felt super special. The girls and I have it right...watching from the window in our PJ's!

The Joy of Scissors

We've had an entire day at home today (don't think that has happened since school started) and they are bouncing off the walls. I made playdough, that lasted a while and now we are cutting feathers for our turkey puppets. The scissors have been hidden in unreachable places since Tia took my pair and 2 $100 bills out of my drawer and cut them into many pieces. I hid the kid scissors after she cut the baby dolls hair but she is smarter than mommy and used my scissors!

We really enjoyed putting our tree up and the kids have their own little tree with ornaments too since helping with one wasn't enough for them. They move the ornaments around every day and most of them are in the same spot. This is the JOY of Christmas!

Trick or Treat

It is Halloween week and time for candy....candy....candy....that is all their minds are on and they wake up asking for it, fighting over it and trying to get some out of the candy bowl all day long. We went trick or treating at the nursing home yesterday and Iris had her Halloween party at school today. I'm room mom so I got to help out and get a couple of pictures. It was quite surprisingly very quiet for a room full of 3 year olds. We are super excited for Trick or Treating and can't wait for Grandma and Grandpa's visit.

No We Can't Keep them....

Happy Fall.... here is a picture of the kids in front of the Morton Arboretum. The kids love the Children's garden and enjoyed seeing all of the different pumpkins and gourds.

No we can't keep them...Our neighbors found 2 baby kittens in their yard right before they left on vacation. We took them home with a promise to find them a new home. Daddy was very surprised to see two baby kittens when he got home from work and Parker really begged to keep them. Daddy stood firm (good thing one of us would!) and we dropped them off at a no kill shelter the next day. They were only 3 weeks old and needed a nursing mother (which this place had)...so in the end it was good lesson for the kids that the baby kittens got a new mom to take care of them because their other mom couldn't. We had lots of fun playing with them while we had them though...oh so cute!

Playing House and a Fire Truck

Parker is pretending to be Mike and Iris is Val and Tia is the baby....hmm...she is little but I didn't think she could actually fit into the baby doll pack and play....
I never dreamt Iris could fit into it...it is like a clown car...maybe it will even hold me!

At our visit to the park after school the local fire truck was doing testing and training. The kids were super excited to see the ladder all the way up in the air and shooting water out. The firemen were nice enough to give them hats too.

Iris made a big mess

I was inside cleaning up after dinner and the kids went to play outside. Next thing I know Parker runs in and says Mommy, Iris made a big mess....Tia comes in next and says Big Mess Mommy....so I take a deep breath and go outside to see what the mess is. On the driveway is a big blue puddle of fabric softener...over half of the Costco size bottle was spilled out and Iris is smiling her devilish smile and pushing the lawn mower through it. I get the hose out and let Parker help, of course Iris and Tia end up soaking wet and screaming.