Little conversations

 A conversation from yesterday:

Me: Sam, did you make your bed?
Sam: Yes! You should take a picture of it and put it online.
Jason: Why should we put it online?
Sam: So people can look online at it when they want to see how to make a bed nice.

So, Sam, here it is... it's online. Now all can see how to make a bed just right.





The only word Livia has ever written is her name. She likes to practice writing letters on the white board, but has never really written a word before.
A conversation from today:

Liv: I'm writing words!
Me: Good job! What did you write?
Liv: What does S-I-N spell?

So this is her first non-name word.

Should we be worried?

Chop chop. Again?!

A few days ago Livia came home from playing at her friend's house. When I first saw her, I thought her hair looked funny, like maybe she had been wearing a hat that matted down her hair. About 15 minutes later, I looked closer and to my shock, it wasn't matted. It was gone! 

Apparently she hasn't learned to say no to others with scissors.

You may recall a similar instance a few years ago, when Sam cut her hair.

So, now I find myself wondering yet again, What do I do with her hair? 

The very short area in the front goes back too far to be "bangs" and I worry it will strongly resemble a mullet, which honestly, no child should have to endure. The friend cut off a few inches of her longest section, but that's just the back, she actually did surprisingly well and making it all relatively one length, which actually impressed me! Fortunately with her curly hair, the chops off the back are easily hidden.

Headbands will be her best friend for a long time I think.

Pinterest, I need you now.

Trick or Treat

I'm not a fan of carving pumpkins, but we've skipped out on it the last couple of years, so we carved pumpkins with our good friends, the Johnsons, so that we would be motivated to actually do it this year! Anything is more fun with friends. Especially friends like the Johnsons! 

Sam at his school costume parade.

Getting ready to go to the neighborhood Chili cook off and Trunk or Treat.

Max the Moo Cow

Annie the Hershey Kiss

Livi the Rainbow Butterfly

Sam the Black Bat

Yes, they were the same things last year. But that was their choice!!

On Saturday, Jason and I were invited to participate in a Murder Mystery Masquerade. It was a lot of fun! Jason's character was Mike Robes, a paranoid, but genius, bioterrorism researcher. My character was Roxie Rich, an outspoken, judgmental heiress. (Hence the feather boa. That just seems like something an heiress would wear.)

Sorry we didn't take a picture with our masks on. We'll have to get the pictures from the hostess. Our babysitter snapped this picture right before I piled my puffy dress into the driver seat and took her home. I almost didn't fit! Ha ha. (Thanks to my awesome sister-in-law Ashlee for letting me borrow her beautiful dress. I really felt pretty and fancy!)

Happy Halloween!