Stories

Alex wore his monkey costume for 3 of the 4 days of Halloween fun, but for Trick or Treating on Halloween day, he wore his Superman costume. He just got this costume as a party favor from his friend Ike at Ike's birthday party. How cool is that?!?

Do other kids ages 4.5-7 happily have photos taken of them? Do they like having photos taken? Or do they do this (make the above faces) when their mom tries to take photos of them?
Molly and Alex do not usually like to be photographed, and I'm realizing I don't take nearly as many photos as I used to.

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Tonight I made a delicous home-cooked dinner: Beef roast, baked sweet potatoes, Caesar salad with fresh home-made croutons, roasted carrots, and raw carrots (for those who did not care for roasted carrots or sweet potatoes).
Molly had helped herself to several leftover pancakes when she got home from school, so I chose not to put any kind of bread on the table. She's so picky, and I wanted her to eat something besides bread.
Molly was not impressed with the meal. She "tried" (licked) everything and declared that she did not like any of it.We told her she could not be excused until she ate 1 piece of something (anything) on her plate. Only 1!
She whined and pouted for quite a while.
When everybody was finished, she decided she better eat something. She asked if she could have 1 piece of plain lettuce (she didn't want any covered with dressing). I gave her a piece.
The faces and sounds she made as she ate that piece of Romaine lettuce were priceless. She acted as though we were forcing her to eat something out of Fear Factor. I started cracking up. She's so over-dramatic! Romaine lettuce. The horror.

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We woke up Saturday morning to SNOW! It was our first snowfall of the year, and we got a lot of it. Alex was the first one out of his bed, and he ran downstairs to grab his DS. Cory and I were awake, but still in bed. I heard Alex squealing downstairs. He ran upstairs and burst into our room. He pulled open the shades and said, "Look, it's snowing, It's snowing!" He was so excited. I was thankful for his joyful squeals and happy excitement. It made me happy about the snow, when normally I would not have felt that way. :)-----------------------------------

Alex's birthday is coming up, and he wants his party to have a Super Mario Bros theme. I bought some stick-on mustaches for the party, and Alex tried one out. Isn't it hilarious?

Alex wore the mustache one morning, and he was really excited to surprise the two girls in our carpool. Their father saw Alex and thought it was great. Alex looked at him and said, "I actually grew this myself." Hahahahaha!

Later, Alex wore the mustache to his friend's house. When he walked in the door, Molly told his friend Ru and her family that his mustache was fake. Alex said, "SHHHHHHHH! Don't tell them!" Ha!
I look forward to a lot more mustache fun this weekend at his party. :)

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