November Tradition

For the past nine years we have been keeping track of how tall everyone is growing.  This is done on the laundry room door.  This is a very serious and important tradition in our house!  Yesterday we gathered everyone in that tiny little room and went to work!

Jack is very pleased with how much he has grown in a years time.

Molly makes sure feet are flat on the floor.  Absolutely no cheating is allowed!

Timothy takes this very seriously.  This year he is a hair taller then his twin, at least on this particular day!

For the record, Molly is still shorter then her mother this year.  Whew!

Robbie passed up his mother a few years ago!  He better come home from college next year for Thanksgiving so he can be measured.  

We know he has a few more years to grow!

Mom will measure herself this year, thank you very much!  The resident "measurer" keeps making it look like she gets shorter every year.

And Mommy will measure Daddy to prove that he is indeed shrinking in his old age!  Ha!

Timothy checks to see just how much he grew since last year.

Bird Song Trail

Nothing But NET!

From the Fall Play we move right into CYO Basketball.  Molly left the boys team from last year and joined the girls team at another Church.  She is the only 7th grader on this team, the rest are 8th graders.  These are serious ball players!  Molly is having a blast with this group of girls.  Today was a scrimmage that was fun to watch.  Molly had been hanging back and not shooting baskets much with this new, older team.  Today her Dad and I encouraged her to shoot, Molly, shoot!  She did!  Yayyyyy Molly!

SWOOSH!

Krazy Kamp

Molly was in the Middle School production of Krazy Kamp.  She played Theodora Wolfswinkle, a compulsive eater who attended Camp Pocahontas.  In her role, she had to eat every time she appeared on stage, which was quite often.  She ate Hershey's crunch bars, popcorn, bananas, fruit by the foot, a box of chocolates and pie. She ate during three or four rehearsals and two shows.  OMG! Needless to say this part was made for our sweet girl with the sweet tooth!  She had such a blast with this part as each time she came out she was bigger and bigger and bigger.  Molls is very comfortable on stage and doesn't even need a microphone as she can easily project her voice to the audience.  The best part is, of course, hanging out with all her BFF's after school.

 

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Trick or Treat

Since there isn't Trick or Treating out in the country where we live, we head on over to our friends house for dinner and the use of their neighborhood on Halloween.

 

 Jack dressed up as Uncle Sam for the Monster Bash at school and for Trick or Treating.  For the past week he frequently wore just the beard around the house because, well, because it just looked good I guess!

Timothy was a Ninja for the Monster Bash but a week later changed his mind and decided to be a New York Giants fan for Halloween.  Fortunately he owns a lot of warm Giant's clothes.  Mommy drew the logo on his face and he was good to go!  Gotta love these easy peasy costumes.

Molly Dolly has gotten a lot of wear out of the Perry the Platypus/Agent P costume this year.  She wore it to star in her video.  She wore this version of it to school on Freaky Friday and also to the Barn Party.

On Halloween she was happy to add a glow stick and of course a warm winter coat under the costume since it was snowing!

Ready to head out.  The mission this year was to bring Mom back a Mallo Cup!  Oh, of course, they could get candy for themselves too...but don't bother coming back to the nice warm house unless someone had a Mallo Cup in their Trick or Treat bags!

Nine kids ready to take on the neighborhood!  Trick or Treat smell my feet...oh no wait...smell the shoe that fell off of Ally and landed in the swamp water.  But that's another story.  JUST BRING BACK A MALLO CUP!!!

Back with the "goods" and ready to make trades.  This is the best part of the evening: the wheeling, the dealing, and of course the gorging on candy!  And thanks Jack W. for my Mallo Cup.  A successful Halloween!

The Reading Spot

Why every boy should have a dog.

And why every dog should have a boy.