trunk or treat & sign language

not actually trunk or treat, but we thought you'd might like to see the sign language annelise came up with. this means "open it and give me some." a lot of times she has her elbow up by her head. it was really funny at the store the other day when i put a bag of m&ms in the cart and she handed it back to me and very deliberately and very seriously did the sign.

different patch this time

Nothing like a big mound of dirt to make a little one happy. I took the picture a little too early though, she ended up getting it on her cheeks too when she did a face plant.

last post for the day - pumpkin patch field trip

just for fun.

nick's class while we're waiting for the bus.nick's teacher is the one in the green shirt, mrs. garcia. these are both the morning and afternoon kindergarten classes.

this is my group. everest (he's in our ward), isaiah, nick, and mikey

black eye

in honor of cameron's baptism, the neighborhood got together and rented a bounce house. actually, it was for the baptism of the kid next door, but fewkes & voelckers enjoyed it too. nick was the only one that ended with the black and blue badge of courage.

cameron's baptism

you made a great decision cameron. we are very proud of you.

halloween on the brain

yes, this one is another carly funny. i guess she's just at an age to say a lot of cute things.
so after church today i put on a big green hooded sweatshirt to keep warm and my house slippers. i also had on a black skirt with little tan polka dots on it. lovely, right? so carly says to me, and she's serious, "mom you look sooo cute..... just like a witch!"

in the bathroom with carly

a few moments today, all in the bathroom with carly
the first one was over visiting mom. i got carly to the bathroom and left her there. not an uncommon thing, but lately she's been calling for me to come wipe her. i forgot about her in the bathroom while i went back out to talk with mom in the family room. i finally heard her calling to me and i had to laugh when i opened the bathroom door and she was lying down on the floor with her pants and underwear around her ankles. what are you doing down there? i got lost. you what? i got lost in here.
next in the bathroom at our house a couple hours later. carly was using potty language, she's been doing that for over a week now. she's been using the word poopy a lot. anyway, so she was calling something poopy, maybe poopy head or something and i told her we don't use those kinds of words. and she agreed. " we only use good words like ..... coat, shirt, pants, baby, blanket...." at this point i left the bathroom, but all the way down to the other side of the house, and as i stepped into the garage i could still hear her trying to say all the good words in her vocabulary.
later, and also having to do with the word poopy...
i put my hair in a pony tail, and since carly likes to talk about things that are cute, i said to her carly, look at my hair, is it so cute? no, it's black. no carly, isn't it cute? and her reply, "is it clean or poopy?"