Funny Faces

Okay everyone, I haven't been in the mood for posting lately, and tonight I have finally updated the blog. There are so many posts that they go on to the next page, so if you want to read them all, don't forget the other posts hiding out on the next page. Happy reading!

October 31, 2009

After trick or treating in the neighborhood we went out to eat at Applebee's. Our last hurrah with Gramma. I took lots of pictures and though they aren't all that great, I love the funny faces. I was telling the girls to make a sad, happy, angry, and excited faces. The results were quite funny. I hope you enjoy them.

Here's where things get silly. Amy was a crack up and don't worry, she wasn't really sad, just being a ham and having fun. Oh, and sorry she has such a yucky face.

my favorite, the excited face:

"Okay Adelynne, make an angry face:"

"Make a happy face:"

"Make a sad face:"

My mom visited us for three weeks and we all had a great time shopping, talking, sewing, reading, and much more. We really didn't do anything unique, but I really enjoyed just having my mom be a part of my every day life. The girls loved it too. I think some of their favorite time was having Gramma read to them, and Gramma read lots! But they sure loved all the new clothes that she made and bought for them too. And Adelynne was lucky enough to have Gramma make her such a beautiful fairy costume. This morning after Amy was up, she looked through apartment calling out, "Gramma? Gramma? Mommy, where is Gramma?"

We love you Gramma!

Halloween!

October 31, 2009

Here are some pictures of the girls trick or treating around a nearby neighborhood. Adelynne was impatient going house to house, they just weren't close enough together (like the dorms were). Amy LOVED the different decorations. She would have just stared at them all night if we had let her. That is what she is doing in the picture below.

Best picture of the night-I'd love to learn how to edit this picture.

And finally, after visiting for 3 weeks, and on her last day with us, I finally capture a picture with Gramma! We are so glad she was with us!

Adelynne's Halloween preschool party

October 30, 2009

Adelynne had a Halloween party at her preschool on Friday and when she got there, her teacher, Miss Lori, was dressed as Cruella D'ville. Pretty awesome! When I went to pick her up, I snapped a picture of them.

pre-Halloween trick-or-treating

October 29, 2009

We did some trick or treating at the dorms again this year. It is a great place to take the girls for some candy, plus it is fun to hear the college girls ooh and aww over your cute kids! We also went with Molly and her mom Kim. We intended to go to two buildings, but the girls were ready to be done before we finished the one. Amy was yelling at us on the second to last floor, "I want to go home!" Unfortunately we started out on the boy floors, and the boys don't participate nearly as much as the girl floors do. Understandable. But the girls had a nice haul from 16 floors of dorms. Here they are ready to get some candy! Oh, and by this time, Amy was ready to wear her dragon costume. Although she was commonly mistaken for a boy dressed as a dinosaur/alligator. That seems to be Amy's lot in life no matter what she wears.

sisters

pretty Molly-she's such a good friend!

cute wings

oh, and Amy wanted to wear wings to be a "fairy dragon."

We love trick or treating at the dorms! And it was especially fun this year to have my mom, gramma, along with us. She always comes to visit us this time of year, but has always gone home before Halloween, so it was special to have her here for the holiday.

pre-Halloween

October 29, 2009

Amy has been participating in a joy-school that I am doing with three other friends. We had a little Halloween party for the kids on Thursday. They of course wore costumes. My mom made Adelynne's fairy costume, which turned out great. And when I asked Amy what she wanted to be, a fairy or a dragon, she picked dragon. Typical Amy. So we borrowed a costume from a friend, but when Thursday morning rolled around, Amy decided she wanted to be a princess (dressed in pink and a skirt, just like her sister). Typical Amy. So I of course let Amy dress in whatever she wanted. Thus she is wearing a stained leotard and a big pink slip that the girls wear as a skirt. (It twirls great-see previous post of Adelynne dancing).

Angel Molly

I love Amy in this picture! She is so proud of her "costume."

Our other friends are Ben (lion), Evan (in the back hiding), Molly, and little sister to Evan, Kiah (skunk).

Just had to throw Ben's roaring lion face.

Muddy Buddies

October 26, 2009

When the weather is nice, I like to sit outside and let the girls run around and play. We are often joined by our neighbor, Dylan while I talk with his mom, Sarah. (Actually I should say that we often join them). These kids love playing in the mud, but when mud isn't present, they make it by getting cups of water from inside Dylan's house. This is the end result of an evening of making mud.

Adelynne gave herself a mud mustache. You don't have to tell me who it resembles.

Dylan liked the mustache look so he gave himself one too-now he really looks like his dad!

And Amy too, of course. Mustache's always seem to be a group thing.

BATH TIME!

Eww gross! Pumpkin guts.

October 25, 2009

We only got around to carving one pumpkin despite the fact that we bought 3 of them. Oh well, I can still do post-Halloween carving, right? Here are the girls participating in the event of cleaning out the pumpkin. Their faces are hilarious and priceless. Adelynne still didn't want to touch the insides, or have them come any where near her. And though Amy's face may have a look of disgust portrayed, she was more than happy to stick her hand in the pumpkin and help out. Funny girls.

I never took a picture of the finished product, I carved a cat, from a stencil. It was cool, but nothing unique. We had to leave the pumpkin inside because here in Indiana the squirrels and rabbits eat pumpkins that get left outside at our apartments. So unfortunately being inside the warm apartment meant that the pumpkin wilted quickly and didn't even last until Halloween.

A new friend

October 2, 2009

We have a new friend around our little apartment these days. Her name is Sylvia, and my girls adore her. Sylvia is around 14 months old, and just as sweet and good as a baby ought to be. This was on her first day with us at our apartment: Amy is watching a movie, and Sylvia is angelically exploring Amy's face. Amy really didn't mind one bit that Sylvia was climbing on top of her or poking her face.

Amy has picked up on one of my bad habits, eating peanut butter out of the jar with a spoon. I didn't catch it on film, but Sylvia really wanted some peanut butter too and eventually shoved her hand in the jar to accommodate her needs.

And you may have noticed, that with the coming in of Amy's hair, it is coming with curls. They are very loose curls, and I haven't found the right product that will allow them to stay in all day, but they sure are adorable when they are wet!

Two Bums

September 27, 2009

On this Sunday morning, Adelynne asked me to do her hair in a special way. She asked if I could put it up in "two bums."

My beautiful girl

It sure is fun to hear children say words. The "n" sound is one of those letters that is hard to say, unless the word "no" is involved.

Purple Day

September 25, 2009

Our neighbor Dylan got to hang out with us one Friday and it happened to be purple day at preschool that day. Dylan and Adelynne go to the same preschool, but they are in different classes. But sometimes they get to play together and they love it! Here are the kids on their way to school.

Later in the day the kids were playing dress-up. Dylan was a superhero, and Adelynne a fairy princess.

I just love Dylan's face in these pictures. If you notice, Adelynne does this head tilt pose. When I told her to stop, she explained to me that it was her "cute face" or something like that. No idea where she learned that.