-Grandma Holmes, these are on their way to you!
Well, not the crazy children doing the "monster face."
Just the shoe covers.
Be safe, and don't slip on the ice! We love you!
-Gramama Dickson, I just finished the nativity, thanks for all your work to make the patterns!
..that Adriel needs to stop sucking her thumb. So with the incentive of "Lucky Germs" cereal she has gone five days without sucking her thumb. She also has gone five days without taking an afternoon nap. If this is a trade-off I'm not sure which I'd rather have, paying for braces later or two hours without "Mom, is it wake up time yet?"
These girls still nap, thank goodness. Although sometimes there is a fair amount of "playtime" involved. Evidence: Dallyn with her shirt around her waist
Brooklee with her doll's dress as a hat
...we remember just a few short days ago when we went to three different parks in as many days. Oh well, at least if it can't be warm year round it still is fun to play in the snow!
Last Sunday was the always a blast Cousins Bash. Somehow Brooklee and Dallyn escaped into the kitchen. I knew they were there but I was enjoying the conversation too much to go check on them. Next thing I know I see Brooklee and the stains in the front of her dress. It only took a second to realize that it was candy corn drool. That'll teach me to watch my kids better. (Sorry Dana! And yes, it all came out of her dress, and no, she wasn't crazy on the way home.)
The past couple of posts I have meant to share something monumental. As of about two weeks ago Adriel can tell these bums apart. In the past when she had something to complain about she would come running in to me and say "that baby {long pause while she thinks}". Then she'd leave and come back shortly, "that baby in the pink hit that baby in the purple."
So finally she can now tell them apart and has corrected me a time or too. She is proud to share with her cousins or friends that "Dallyn has a scarf on her forehead."
Also there have been a couple of occasions when I have misnamed a twin and they have corrected me. It's so cute to hear them say their own and each other's names!
The tractor ride to the pumpkin patch
Notice the sticker on Brooklee's hand? Adriel got those in the mail from Grandmama and insisted on bringing them to the pumpkin patch. She kept saying she was going to give one to the tractor driver, which she did, along with all the kids that were on the tractor with us.
Brooklee finds her pumpkin. The rule was that the kids had to be able to carry their own pumpkin, mainly because we didn't want to pay for the huge ones :)
We opted to paint, rather than carve, pumpkins this year. I was anticipating cute faces, but only Phillip went that route. (Well, the face he painted wasn't exactly cute...he wanted to have fangs and dripping blood.)
It did start getting a little messy, especially when Brooklee got bored with the pumpkin and painted her feet instead.
The painted pumpkins
