Halloween

For Halloween, we checked out two neighborhoods; ours and another slightly fancier neighborhood. Our neighborhood had more candy per city block, and the other one gave WHOLE candy bars! What did we learn from this? That kids don't care where they get their candy as long as it isn't too cold outside and they don't have to share too much with Mom and Dad!

I'm morning my sweet tooth a little. I find I am a candy snob and only like a select few candy's now. I like 70+ % cocoa dark chocolate and no one gave that out! If only that was the key to my weight loss predicament. . .

Photo update

There is some wonderful significance to these first two photo's of Evangeline. The bassinet was my grand-mothers, and then my Mom and her siblings used it, and then I got to use it (and some of my cousins), and now we have it for Evangeline. It is so nice to have a useful piece of sentimental history. (Yes, The slats are safe & it does not have lead paint.) Isn't it beautiful!








Can you tell what these photo's are all about? Gabriella got her ears pierecd! After I had told her I was ready whenever she was, she bet a friend on the bus she would do it over the weekend just so she had more incentive to do it. "I was screaming inside my head!" she said.





















How could I resist including this photo. I think that counts as smiling for the camera! Do you?

I had a post all set up (photo's and all) and I clicked the wrong thing and now it is GONE! I am trying to hold it together here, but it isn't exactly easy to listen to you baby yell for 20 minutes while you work and then have it all go "up in flames!"
I will be brief. Evangeline cries a lot in the afternoon, although she sleeps pretty well and naps a lot in the morning. I suspect she will be my first morning napper which might work well with sisters getting home SO early at 2pm.
I have posted here two photo's of sweet peaceful Evangeline and two photo's to show how we went to a nice performance of Daddy's Dayton Mandolin Orchestra. I was such a nice concert and all went well except when I tried to discreetly nurse my hungry girl and some horrified male guests spotted me. I was embarrassed, but I don't think Evangeline was!

What is wrong with this picture?

Here is a fun photo of Evangeline. Can you tell what is wrong with this picture? Why so many pacifiers and not one in her mouth!? Sometimes she wants it, but you can really tell when she does not. -Enjoy

quick update

Just for fun, I thought I would send you our most recent photo of the kids together. Hmmm I don't envy the photographer when we try to get professionals taken!

Cry Baby

Some little someone is screaming at me as I try to type. I suppose she doesn't understand that Mommy's trying to get something done. Don't worry I'm not complaining. But I do have a photo of what she looks like crying. She is still cute even if she is LOUD. No baby monitors needed around here! Good thing she sleeps more often than she howlers!

I thought I would also include a more peaceful photo of Evangeline looking at Annelise. We were having a peaceful afternoon with Dad at the Arboretum.

The day before that the kids and I checked out some museums in Cincinnati. I thought this candid photo did the day justice.

Settling in

The big kids went back to school last week and Grandmommy came to visit. We had a wonderful time. We did a lot of little things around the house. We surprised the girls on the first day of school and decorated and cleaned their rooms before they got home. I am very pleased with how they turned out. We even did the living room before Mom left and it feels like a living room now instead of the storage room!

We got a lot of packages that week too. Thank you everyone for your patience as I haven't sent any Thank You notes out yet. I haven't done a baby announcement either. Maybe next week.

In this post I have included photo's of the kids rooms at thier best (don't expect them to look like this if you don't warn me you are coming for a visit!) And a wonderful photo of Evangeline with her eyes open and in here quiet mode.

We are enjoying having a schedule with something to do during the weekdays. The kids all seem to be taking to the baby. I think Gabriella is a little bit sad about giving up her place as the baby, but she is keeping it to herself.