Sunday, October 31, 2010

For Halloween...

Elli was a vet. She has loved animals since the day she was born.
Ben was an alien. He has loved aliens for 3 weeks.

And Addie was a witch,

and a cat. When you have four days to dress up, you can change it up sometimes.
It turned out to be so cold for trick-or-treating, this is how Addie ended up looking:
Sometimes kitties wear hats under their ears. And coats over their fur coats.

Will was a skeleton. He's the chubbiest skeleton I've ever seen.

And tonight, with our delicious meal of brains and eyeballs (spaghetti and meatballs), we had this spooky drink:


Also, here's a story with a Halloween word in it:

My mom is Finnish so English is her second language. When she first came here and had her first baby, my oldest brother, someone called him a little pumpkin. My mom was so offended! I tried to understand what that sounded like to her, coming from another country. I guess I might be offended if someone used a similar word and told me that my baby looked like a gourd.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Halloween time at our house

Skull made by Ben
Addie's preschool mask

Spiders

Witch's brew

And our Halloween wall - minus Elli's Christmas letter on the left middle

Friday, October 22, 2010

3 months

Little Will is 3 months old now.

I love those little gummies! And his messy straggly hair. All my kids are born with brown hair and then as the head grows, the brown hair gets spaced out further and further and a new crop of blond fuzzies grows in.

That skin really is tasty. I've tried it.

He is such a happy baby! On Tuesday, he and Addie both had fevers (sad!) so I took him in to the doctor to make sure it wasn't anything serious. Turns out it was just the start of a cold. But he was just smiling like crazy at the doctor. The doctor was like, "How is he so happy with a 101 fever?"
That's just how he is.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

We don't even have to decorate our porch for Halloween

I'll tell you the trick:

Don't sweep your porch for a while. The wind will blow lots of mulch from your flowerbeds up into the corner. Then a husbandless spider will come along and create a massive web and use the mulch pieces to build a nest around herself so she can't be seen. It worked for us.





This miniature monster's home was just inches from our front door.
(To people who come to my house: I promise I will be a better sweeper.)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

10/10/10

Why do my videos never upload?! Not on computer 1 or on computer 2. Blagh!!

Anyway, I just wanted to make a post on 10/10/10 so here are some pics that are just too much cuteness for words:

Addie

and Willsy

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

A little early this year

Elli is early with her letter to Santa this year. It may or may not be because Addie just had a birthday and got some new toys that Elli really wants for her own. Her revenge? Ask Santa for something even cooler. This is now hanging on our wall and will be for the next two and a half months:


First off, I swear they got more than just crayons for Christmas last year. KIDS! They have no memory...

Second, it used to say she wanted her own WATERPROOF camera. I asked her why it needed to be waterproof. Was she planning on taking it on her next diving adventure? She said- well sometimes I might leave it on the table and I might spill something on it and it would just be good for it to be waterproof. I told her maybe she should just keep it in a safe spot where it would never get anything spilled on it. I didn't notice until after I took this picture that she had removed "waterproof".

And last, I love that she added Ben's list on the end of her letter. She didn't tell him or anyone she did it until she was done. I watched when she told Ben what she wrote. His response? "Yessssss!"

Monday, October 4, 2010

Sleeping kids

Elli
Ben

Addie

Will

Friday, October 1, 2010

Look at these lashes

I would kill for these long, dark lashes. I wouldn't kill a person of course, I'm already in trouble with the police. Maybe some kind of bug or something. A fly or a spider. I don't like spiders but I also don't like killing them. Ew. The guts and the limbs. Grasshoppers are the worst. They're all jointy and explodey. But if it meant I could have these lashes, I would kill a grasshopper.


The girl that these lashes are connected to turned 3 today. I was going to say these lashes turned three but I'm not sure how long the life of a lash is. Could she still have the same lashes that she did at birth?


Can't you tell that I'm a gourmet cook and that I'm also good at arranging food pictures? I just realized now how pathetic these cupcakes look in this picture.



Happy 3rd birthday little Addison!