Abby Musings

Sammie was taking a bath and Abby came out of the bathroom with the front of her clothes all wet.
"Mom!  Look what Sammie did to me!"
I went into the bathroom and asked Sammie why she got Abby all wet.
"She wanted me to do it."
"Well, if Abby wanted you to push her off a cliff, would you do it?"
"No," with a hint of a smile.
Then Abby says, "Well, if it was a small cliff because some cliffs are small."

Then there was last week:
Abby: "There is only one thing that I want to eat and it's pizza."
Me: "You can't just eat your favorite food every night.  That's not how it works."
Abby: "Well, it's how I work."

My Mom is an Artist

I just wanted to share this beautiful painting that my mom did.  She started taking water color classes a little while ago and is getting really good.  This is one of her very own originals.  I love it!  It is never too late to develop a new talent.

Crazy Sock Day!

It's crazy sock day today at school.  October has been sort of a whirlwind with lots of tiny things going wrong.  It's just one of those months.  At one point I just started laughing.  I think it was when Joey went outside early in the morning to leave for work and his tire was completely flat.  He came back into the dark house to tell me and I just started laughing.  So many things like that this month.  Frustrating but funny at the same time, and thankfully everything that has broken/semi-broken was easily and quickly fixed and nothing cost us too much in the end.  There is still a week and half left of this month and I'm crossing my fingers.

 

Fall

What is fall without a little football?  We went to the high school homecoming football game last weekend.  It has been a long time since we've been to a sporting event at the high school.  Teachers really are like celebrities when they go to a school event, especially when their family comes along too.  We didn't have to pay to go in.  We were constantly stopped by students wanting to meet us.  Joey's name was yelled out from a distance away.  Former students and current students were making their way over to us, smiling and shaking our hands.  I found myself laughing about it on the way home.  I think that was the most popular I have ever been.

Apple Cheeks

Sammie was smiling really big when she came home with 2 apples stamped on her cheeks.  It was some sort of prize for being good.  She could choose stamps on her hands or on her cheeks.  She chose the cheeks of course :)

Party like you're 10 years old

Olivia had a couple of weeks celebrating her birthday.  She had a few friends over for her 10th birthday "late night" party.  We took the girls out on a photo scavenger hunt, played crazy games, watched a movie and stayed up late.  Olivia's favorite animal is an elephant and that was her only request when it came to the cake.  She and I made the cutest invitations with a photo that we took.
Our 10 year old Olivia loves:
Drawing
Writing
Harry Potter
Wearing Necklaces
The colors lime green and blue
Historical Fiction
American Girl Dolls
Reading
clothes
and she is learning to play the clarinet this year and is still taking piano lessons.

Friends

One of Sammie's best friends from school was baptized last weekend.  These girls were so cute and wanted their picture taken together.  Sammie has a cute little group of friends at school.  They aren't in the same classes this year, but they seem to have stuck together and really get along well.  They don't see each other outside of school all that often either, so it was fun for them to see each other at Audrey's baptism.  They were all giggles...at the appropriate times of course.

Yesterday...

Yesterday Sammie worked all afternoon on making this car out of a cardboard box.  She covered the whole thing with purple construction paper, put on headlights and a license plate.  Then she cut out a pretty impressive steering wheel and put in a dash board and stereo system.  She even made a key ignition and keys made out of paper on a paper key ring.  She was so proud of her creation.  I don't think play cars have the same seatbelt laws that we do in real life.