This school year has been flying by in so many ways! Only 13 more school days left in the fall term! School, as always keeps us busy...and keeps me tired. I don't think that I was meant to get up at 5:21am five days out of week. I think that 5:21am should be a time that I only see on special occasions: like Christmas morning or when catching an early flight to Mexico. I'm looking forward to a week off at Thanksgiving, the weekends don't seem to be long enough to really get me re-charged for the next week. Or, maybe I'm just tired right now so that's what's really on my mind. (Is this a taste of what my 30s will be like??? Not too long now...)
Thanksgiving being right around the corner means that the girls' birthday is quickly approaching! My little girls are turning TWO in less than two weeks! WOW. They are not anything close to babies anymore...they are real little girls. And, as of last night, they are in big-girl beds and everything! Starting about a week ago or so Evaline started climbing out of her crib (first at Gramma Lynn's (Cooper) and then at Grandma Petersen's....and finally at home). Instead of waiting until she broke her arm or collar bone, we decided to make the move. We were pretty nervous about this...but...so far, so good. Last night they went right down, and we didn't hear anything until 6am...when one of them decided to dump out their blocks and get down to building. They played quietly until Evaline thought it would be funny to throw Cora's beloved monkey over the babygate at the door of their room. We had to then choose to either get up ourselves or listen to Cora's pitiful cries of "Mon-key, Mon-key, MON-KEY, MON-KEEEEEEEY". (Evaline, by the way LOVES to do these things to her sister...she thinks it is hilarious...) Today, naptime went smoothly, and they've been down tonight for about an hour and a half without a peep. WHEW. (knock on wood)
The past few months we've been battling all kinds of sickness. The second day of daycare, back in August, Evaline came down with the stomach flu, and I don't think there's been more than three days where all of us have been healthy. The girls have had one ear infection after another and we've had difficulty finding an antibiotic that will actually get rid of them. During their first round of infections both girls went through two medicines and then had to get the shot (rocephine, I think). Their ears were promptly re-infected, and I think that the medicine we tried this time isn't working either. Throw several colds, a case of laryngitis (me), a few more rounds of the stomach flu...and that's been our last two and a half months. Maybe that's why I'm so tired.
I did manage to take few photos over the last couple months....
In early October we went to Palisades Park (for those not from CR....its a beautiful park with hiking trails, etc. down by the river, just outside of town) and had family pictures taken by a good friend of my sister's. I doubt that she will ever do such a thing for us again...the pictures came out great, but Evaline was a complete terror. We were there for about 75 minutes, and about 60 of them looked something like this:
During he 15 mintues or so that weren't awful (and these 15 minutes didn't come as a clump at the beginning or end, but were scattered throughout...a minute here, another there...), we did get some "good memories" like this of Evaline:
And this of Cora:
And this of Ian and me:
We got one good one of them together, and one mostly-good one of all four of us. I think those will probably go on this year's Christmas card.
I think I mentioned before that the girls like to help around the house. They love to help vacuum (I LOVE how they hold on to the cord while vacuuming...just like Mom...)
Cora is all girl. She would wear these all day and everywhere if I let her:
Evaline is all ham. Cora was getting attention for the heels, so Evaline put her pants on her head:
I meant to post this one a month and a half ago.
Remember back in July when I posted about a big chunck of tree falling on the power lines between our house and garage? We had the rest of the tree taken out, and I thought I'd give an update: THIS is what was hanging over my house. You can't completely tell from the photo, but the trunk was completely hollow. YIKES!
And that's it for now. The girls aren't dressing up for Halloween this year. Just thought I'd let you know, in case you were looking forward to cute costumes or something. They don't know what Halloween is, I'm not going to let them eat the candy, and I certainly don't need any. If Scrooge had a Halloween cousin...that would be me. :-)
