My Little Monkeys

I haven't had a lot of time to scrap...nor have I felt very inspired. However, I did sit down last night and crank out a few pages. The first are pixs of my girls watching their bro's baseball game this summer. They just loved climbing the fence and pretending to be monkeys.



This next one, I'm not too sure about. I tried something different -- not sure I love it though. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the prettiest of all?" I feel like it is missing something...Come on girls, I really want your feedback here.

Weekend Whirlwind Part II:

Sunday -- Hannah's 5th Birthday Party

We took our oldest daughter and 6 of her friends to a beauty parlor/dress up place. It was too cute!! However, I don't think Bella-the-Ball has ever seen anything like the tornado we brought in! The girls took one look at the dressing room and went crazy!! We had girls fighting over shoes like it was the annual sale at Filenes. After a few compromises and at least 3 wardrobe changes for each of them, they all decided on their outfits and were off for make-up, hair, and nails. I can honestly say that I have never seen the girls have so much fun. They even got to walk the red carpet at the end....with me snapping pictures as they stuck a pose....what great shots for scrapping later!! ]

Without boring you with the other two hundred shots, here is a cute one of the group. Mine are the two in the front (the rock star and the littlest princess)...

Weekend Whirlwind Part I:

This weekend was jam packed with activities. We had our usual Saturday morning -- soccer, gymnastics x 2, ice hockey, soccer again --- afterward, the two older kids and I decided to try out our local farm's corn maze. We had never tried before so thought it would be fun. In theory, it is a great time! However, they told us that the average time to go through the maze is 1 1/2 hours, about 3 minutes and 17 SECONDS into the maze, Hannah decides that she is done. Lucky for her, in about 10 minutes, we found our way out...except that we had found our way back to where we started from. I certainly hadn't paid all that money to spend 10 minutes, so we went back in. After another 40 minutes of listening to Hannah beg to go home, and about that same amount of time of me contemplating the idea of just leaving her in there to fend for herself (i'm kidding, really, I am :))we asked for help to find our way out.....at least Noah can say we finished even if we did cheat.



Anyway, as soon as we found our way out, Hannah was a perfect angel...but of course that meant she wanted something....she spied a face painting booth! The kids each got something small and then it was off to find our family pumpkin. Each year we buy a relatively large pumpkin to carve together. But the rule is that they have to agree on the pumpkin to bring home with us. The two of them must have spent a good half an hour debating the choices...this one was too small, this one too bumpy, the next too flat....

They did finally decide on one...22 lbs of perfection. Next weekend we'll carve but again, we have to agree on the face design so we're just hoping to finish before Halloween is over!

They Crack Me Up

Kids just say the funniest things sometimes....

I drink coffee occasionally. I love Wawa's Hazelnut with hazelnut creamer. Everytime I get it, Hannah asks if she can have some. I tell her "no, because it makes little kids stop growing and it is important that she continue to grow. She can have coffee when she is an adult."

Tonight, Hannah was taking her vitamin and asked if I took a vitamin everyday too. I responded that I did not but vitamins are good for little kids to help them grow up to be big and strong. I also said that I am already big and am not growing anymore...to which she says, "yeah, because you drink coffee."

Ok -- it doesn't sound as funny when I tell the but it had me laughing out loud!!