Ansley's Hair Cut

I came out of my room to discover wisps of hair all over the kid's craft table. When I asked Ansley if she cut her hair, she initially said, "No". She then blurted out, "Nolan did it". Her story wasn't adding up. After I asked her to tell the truth, she pulled out a hair ball from under neath her toy kitchen. I couldn't help but laugh. She actually did a great job. It could have been worse. She cut the side so that it looks like she got layers.

Madelyn & School

Here's Madelyn playing a pilgrim for her Thanksgiving play. Jon, the kids, & I also joined her class for a Thanksgiving feast. Lesson learned that day: get babysitter for Nolan & Ansley when spending long periods of time in Madelyn's classroom with lots of people crammed in there...it was crazy!

Madelyn won 2nd place in her Kindergarten through 3rd grade division art contest for her school! The theme was diversity. Madelyn painted an array of colorful cakes on canvas using acrylic paint. Will post picture when we get it back.

Here's Madelyn eating breakfast before school. She growing & maturing so fast. She's still my sweet Madelyn.

Sweet Babies

I'm a little obsessed with 1. Taking pictures of all my babies while they are asleep & 2. Taking pics of the twins side-by-side. Ellory & Edie will be 7 months old this month. They have started baby food but not loving it. I'm still breastfeeding. I've got my Double Blessings nursing pillow that allows me to nurse them at the same time (in case you needed a visual). They weigh about 12 lbs...still little bitties. I try to keep them on the same schedule but that doesn't always happen. Everyone asks if they are identical. My guess is no, but you can be the judge after looking at these pictures. They are quite the attraction when we are out & about. Madelyn, Ansley, & Nolan adore them. They really are the sweetest babies!

Ellory -> Edie

Ellory -> Edie

Edie -> Ellory

Edie -> Ellory

Ellory -> Edie

Ellory -> Edie

Ellory -> Edie

Edie -> Ellory

Halloween 2011

Our annual carving of the pumpkins.

I bought Nolan this Thomas the Train costume thinking he would love it. He kept it on for about 5 min, enough time for me to snap his picture.

Madelyn was creative by making her own cheetah costume out of things we had around the house. Ansley was a beautiful monarch butterfly. Nolan was Super Why. You may recognize this costume. Madelyn wore it when she was little. Since he wouldn't wear the Thomas one, I was lucky to sneak it on him.

This is always the spookiest house we hit up on Halloween night. You can see Madelyn in line trick-or-treating. She was very scared but very brave to enter this yard. Neither Ansley or Nolan would get close.

Madelyn's 6th Birthday

Madelyn's fave gift was her new sewing machine. We finally got it out of the box a couple of weeks ago. Her first project was a blanket that she made for her teacher...Awwww!

Madelyn had a Halloween themed birthday party. Pictured here is Madelyn the Ninja...Hiii_YAA!

Jon took the party "up a notch" by renting an inflatable slide.

Hope all your birthday wishes came true sweet Madelyn!

When the sun went down, we watched "Spooky Buddies" on our garage door via a projector. Moms, dads, & kids snacked on pop corn & sipped on warm apple cider.