Lydia Nadene 11.13.08

she's finally here and she's beautiful & healthy. her brothers & sister are very glad to have her & mom home.
7 lbs 6 oz
21 1/2 inches

first snow fun

The excitement of the first snow get better every year with the boys. As soon as breakfast was done, I ran downstairs to dig out the snow clothes. The first thing they asked me as they ran out the door was, "can we eat the snow?".
the boys devouring the snow off the slide
ian making a snow angel



fiona was mystified by the weird behavior of her brothers and all their excitement.

dress up fun

we bought the boys some halloween costumes yesterday for their dress up box. i love getting them on sale. we got a knight and a firefighter. fiona got a hold of the knight helmut and i got quite a laugh out of these pics.

what a weekend!!!

okay, this is going to be quick. I want to get our Halloween photos and Ian's birthday pics up.
Halloween was lots of fun, I love the idea of trunk or treat. It makes trick or treating so fast and easy. And the kids get a TON of candy. Then we have plenty of time to visit all the grandparents, one of our favorite parts. Austin was Marvin the Martian. Most of his 5th grade class had no idea who he was (the same thing happened when he went as Sloth from Goonies last year and Mr. T 3 years ago.) What child hasn't seen Loony Tunes!? I was a queen bee. I thought it was the most appropriate costume for me this year. And some days I feel like a queen bee with lots of little ones buzzing around. Ian said I wasn't a queen bee, I was a princess bee because I'm a cute girl. So Sweet. Wesley was a slice of pizza.
It was all his own idea. We were as surprised as everyone else. It turned out great and was a lot of fun. He got lots of comments, and he'd tell anyone that said they wanted to eat him that he'd throw pepperoni at them. Ian was a robot. Most of his costume fell apart by the end of the night, but he loved it and had a lot of fun. He practiced talking like a robot for days (he got really good at it, too.) Fiona really loves sheep right now. So she was very excited to be a lamb. She even kept her hat on for most of the night (especially, if we kept her distracted with candy.) She looked darling and is very good at saying "BAA!"
The day after Halloween, Ian had a little birthday party with some of his friends. I wanted to invite his whole sunbeam class, but their was no way could do a party that big. Maybe next year. He wanted a medieval theme: Castle cake (I hate cake decorating and cussed the darn thing all morning, but the boys thought it was great so it was all worth it), shield decorating, an obstacle course for the brave knights which included riding a stick horse, climbing the rock wall to kill an ogre (Austin was such a great sport, some of those boys were relentless with a sword), and saving the damsels (Fiona's baby doll and a fuzzy green monkey) from the dragons. We really had a lot of fun and the weather was wonderful. Sunny and warm, it was so nice to have the whole party outside. I never thought any of our kids (who all have winter birthdays) would ever have an outdoor party. We got pretty lucky.