pics...

I took the kids to the park a couple weeks back to get some pics with the fall leaves...these are them!

the lost tooth picture!

Sorry this took so long to post, finding time to get on and upload pics has been crazy!
Anyway...here is Jacob without ONE of his teeth!
The other bottom one should be falling out very soon!

From the mouth of a four year old...

Laying in bed with Emily last night this was our conversation...

Mom, you know what the bestest part of your body is?

What honey?

Your booty tucks because it helps you to poop things out, like corn and apples.

You know what the bestest, bestest part of your body is?

no honey, what?

Your legs, because they hook onto your booty tucks so that you can sit down on the toilet and chairs and couches.

You know what the bestest,bestest,bestest part of your body is mom?

No honey, what do you think it is?

Your arms, so that you can pick things up and hug people!!

STUFF...

1. Jacob lost his tooth!!! He was so excited!! It happened at 6:00am on Monday morning. He woke up and just yelled that it fell out. No big deal, no blood, no pain, and now he is ready for tooth number two to fall out which will most likely happen in the next week or so.

2. When Jacob woke up Tuesday (today) morning he came in our room at around 5:30am and said the tooth fairy did NOT come. I was half awake and told him to go check again. He left and never came back in so I got up to go and check on him. He was awake, as was Katelyn. I said so, did you find anything under your pillow? He said Yeah, I found a five dollar bill folded into a paper airplane! I said WOW!! He said Yeah, kinda suspicious!! I said what, what do mean?
Well, he says, we have been making a lot of paper airplanes lately and dad is really good at it, so maybe HE is the tooth fairy, and YOU told me to go and check again when I told you I didn't find anything, so maybe YOU are the tooth fairy!!
To this, I stood stunned, speechless, heart about to break!! OH NO!! But then....
Katelyn says, yeah and we think Santa is kinda suspicious as well, because you never see him, yet you get what you want, and you have an alarm system. Plus you and Dad NEVER let us put the video camera up to try and catch him!!
OH NO times ten!!!!!!
Needless to say, me and John have some smart talking to do! HELP US all you parents who have been through this already!

3. When reading books to Emily the other night she is sitting on my lap and I notice that every time I am ready to change the page, she licks her finger and rubs it on the page. Nothing more, just licks it and rubs the page! At first I am just grossed out and think WHY is she doing that? Then I realize, oh, she is licking her finger like I do to turn the page!
so cute to see that little finer all slobbery being wiped on the pages! (once I figured it out)

4. Katelyn is obsessed with knowing who I voted for! She will stop at nothing to find out!! Trying to trick me and catch me slipping up. Me and John have explained to them that it is a personal choice and something you should keep to yourself. She even tried again to get it out of me right before I tucked he into bed by saying "in the morning we will know who the new president is right mom, hope your guy wins, who is that again that you voted for?"

5.Emily is starting to really sound out words and try to spell things on her own. Most of the time she only has one or two letter for the actual word, but so exciting to see he putting it all together!

A Indian, A swamp monster and a flower fairy princess...

Halloween was a blast this year. All the kids were very excited about what they chose be this year and had a big helping hand in making the costumes come to life. Katelyn wanted to be a realistic Indian, not flashy and a blue line across her face was a must as it meant that she was "unmarried"!!
Jacob wanted to have snakes and bugs all over his swamp monster costume and they looked super cool until...they ALL fell off as we put ON the costume before trick or treating!! Emily wanted to be a fairy, so I decided to use an old dress up outfit and revamp it into a flower fairy. She helped pick out all the flowers with me and put them on. She kept calling herself a "crystal, flower ballerina fairy princess"!! She was sooooo excited every time she went to a house and someone said she was CUTE! It was so cute! They RAN hard for about the first 30 minutes and then by about half way through the neighborhood they were ALL ready to head for home.

This I think was the first year that we had "outsiders" (people not in the Fam) come over to the house for Halloween dinner (sloppy joes and a ton of other fixins). Our good friends the Pughs came over with their girls. Katelyn's friend Anna came over and we met Jacob's friend Ian along the way so each of the kids had a friend to walk with. Fun for them and us as we had grown ups to chat with. Grandma Tina and Uncle Brad also came along, making the whole day complete!!

Each of our kids got a ROCK in their bags AGAIN. No idea how that happens, but they really LOVE it! They actually look for it.
The morning after trick or treating they always sort the candy into groups and pick out the items they dont like, trade eachother and share the things that me and John like!!
This year they had a grand plan that they would set up a stand outside in front of the house and have a sale of the things that they didnt like. There target consumer would be adults who dont get to trick or treat and who have kids that dont share!
.25 cents for big candy (bite size candy bars) and .10 cents for small items (flavored tootsie rolls)

Firsts...

Jacob has his first loose tooth!! We are sooo excited, but he is kinda scared! Not sure what to expect at this point he is a little nervous! It is more than a little wiggly at this point, we actually think he might loose it within the next day or two...if we can get him to wiggle it around! It really started to bleed this morning when he was eating breakfast and that kinda started the whole scared thing. Katelyn has been a big help in making him understand that most of the time by the time a tooth falls out you cant feel a thing, and that it wont hurt! He is very excited about the fact that the tooth fairy is coming to visit soon, Katelyn told him how she got $5.00 for her first lost tooth!

As soon as that little tiny thing comes out, I will post pictures!

BOO!!!

Saturday we had a Halloween party with some of our friends and their children and everyone, I think, had a wonderful time! The kids could not stand waiting for everyone to get here and once they did this house was so loud, John compared it to chuck E cheese! I say it was a tad louder, but very controlled! HA!HA!
We mad all kinds of gross food, like monster toes, witch eye balls, putrid punch, bat wings and skeleton bones! We also had some games set up that were really fun, like pin the nose on the pumpkin, face painting, monster soup, candy corn toss, mask making and this game where a donut is hanging on a string and you have to try to eat it without using your hands! SO FUNNY! I think I was crying I was laughing so hard! The party lasted from 2:00 until the last guest left at around 10:30! It was a really fun day!! The kids even slept in until 7:58 am!!
Looking forward to the rest of the Halloween festivities!!