So Much Sweetness

Addie was pretty psyched after waking up from nap to find her new Dream shirt ready to change into. She's loving her new hat from CC. Check this blue girl out.

Emily was practicing her eye crossing skills. She can't roll her tongue and asks just about everyone she meets if they can roll their tongue, "you can roll your tongue?" but Chris showed her his eye crossing skills, and she's loving the fact that she can do it. She loves to tell the story about how when she crosses her eyes, DeeDee freaks out.

Like father like Daughter

Everyone showing off their tongue rolling and eye crossing skills. Queen Elsa has entered our home, her outfit became complete after Halloween, when the cape was integrated, the blue high heel shoes became more fully integrated, and the crown came into affect.

So Uncle Eric sent Chris a picture of himself (I wish I could link to this picture because it is hilarious!) with his arm around a cardboard Elsa. Addie was absolutely enamored and Emily said Cathy turned into Elsa. They both just loved that picture. One of them said something about Elsa being Eric's girlfriend.

Emily being her cute precious self.

Playing Go Fish with Daddy. Emily showing off her skills, Addie showing off the Elsa Braid that Dad had put in her hair (isn't it FANCY?!)

An Emily face. Intense Practice.

Addison lovin' all her blue.

Elizabeth, Entertaining all with her washcloth on the head pose. Smiling away after a DumDum after dinner. Ahhhh, the weeks after Halloween.

She's the cutest, and she loves making people smile. Elizabeth is talking so much these days. She is pretty much always joining in on the conversation. With her 4 or 5 "words" told so seriously and we all just nod and say, "yes, yes that's so true." and then she gets all excited when she has the opportunity to show off the words she does know. She'll suddenly nearly poke your eye out and declare, "eye." and then she'll laugh and squish your nose and say "nuhssss" We have some picture books that I have memories of playing games with the girls, "Emily, where's the shoe" and she'd point, "Addison, where's the ball? and she'd point. Elizabeth will not point. She really seems to want to focus on whatever SHE's focusing on rather than bothering to play my game. She likes to find the words she does know and say their names. She chats to herself when I put her down for nap, she chats with herself when she wakes up. She's a talkative gal. And she's sweet, and she's funny, and I love her so much!

The Paltepuff Girls

Chris has been dreaming of this day for years. Back in 2010, he nicknamed Emily and Addison (in utero) after two of the Powerpuff Girls. Click here to revisit that little window in history. Then two years later, he posted this on Facebook:

Nov 8 2012

Blossom

The trio will be complete. Before Emily and Addison were born, we (well, maybe me) happened to nickname the first two girls (Buttercup and Bubbles) after the Power Puff Girls cartoon. Now Blossom is on her way...

and he included these pictures:

This Halloween, it was decided that it would be the year of the Powerpuff Girls. I sewed up some dresses and got MaryJanes for the kids, made a bow for Elizabeth and crossed my fingers she'd keep it on. We had a photoshoot in the backyard to commemorate the whole thing. 

Halloween Preparations

We've been excited for Halloween since August, so when the calendar flipped from September 30th to October 1st, the Halloween box had to come up from the basement...

Emily found my red witch's lipstick and schmeared some right on

Addie gave me a super cool face with the purple wig on (reminds me of the first time...halloween box)

Elizabeth enjoyed becoming a chicken

This year the big girls brought some decorations up to their room and decorated the top of their dresser

The witch fingers have become a favorite this year

We went to our friends' house in early October and their dressup box was out. Addie dressed up in Clark's spiderman costume and an obsession with spiderman was born. She began looking out for spiderman things - stickers, books, etc. Then we went over to our neighbor's house a couple of weeks ago and there was a giveaway box by the front door. Guess what was lying right on top? An old spiderman costume. Addie got to bring the costume and she was so proud to become SPIDERMAN.

Elizabeth thought the costume was pretty hilarious and got a kick out of looking at Addie's eyes peeking out from that mask.

Another neighbor saw Addie dressed up and had her son bring over his old Flash costume so that Emily could dress up too. Emily felt pretty cool in the costume, and humored me with this photo, but Flash hasn't come back out. Spiderman, on the other hand, can often be found wandering around our house.

Sue and Larry came to town last weekend and brought with them a Batman suit for Elizabeth. She felt like such hot stuff in that costume! She really strutted her stuff, puffing out her chest and being cool.

All 3 girls dressed up as Powerpuff girls with their Professor dad for some Halloween festivities we attended on Saturday, but on Halloween day, Emily will be Hello Kitty (in her words, "I'm pretty into kitties right now."), Elizabeth will be Batman, and Addie is having a hard time choosing between Elsa and Spiderman. Here she is, sort of going with both...

Spiderman in Princess Heels

Artwork

I love the front of our fridge right now. Addie's most recent self portrait, drawn at school on Tuesday, is right there, reminding me of how big she's getting!

Emily's coloring is really blossoming. She loves making sure all the white is covered. She gets really focused and covers the whole page with beautiful colors!

An older self portrait by Addie still hangs below her new one. I love this one because it's mixed media. Her clothes are represented with bits of napkin.

I loved this one that Emily did with a giant stamp pad. I asked her if I could have it and she told me to write "To Abbey Love Emily" on it.

And here's some Mom art. I look at this every day to try to remind myself to soak it up.

Lunch Bunch

One Wednesday a month, Emily's school has lunch bunch, where the kids stay an extra hour and eat with their teachers. I thought lunch bunch was today, and made Em a lunch this morning...woops! Not til next week! Oh well, while Em was at school, we made a bag lunch for Addie so they could have their own backyard lunch bunch after school. Plus, *bonus!* we ran to the grocery store where the florist offered Addie and Elizabeth free balloons. Addie, very kindly, asked for a pink balloon for her sister who was at school.

A Gorgeous Colorado Sunset

The other night, the girls were playing out on the deck while we finished up the dinner dishes inside. Emily came bounding in, telling us to come look at the sky. She is my sky watcher, always noticing the colors of the sunsets, the shape and color of the clouds in the sky, whether a moon is present - during the day or evening, and what shape it is. She predicts rain often when she sees dark clouds, and usually her predictions are correct. She loves puffy white clouds, and likes looking for shapes in the clouds. I love this about her, because I feel like sometimes we all get so busy, it's hard to remember to look up and appreciate the beauty that is constantly looking down on us. I love that she is always reminding me to look up.

Beautiful girl with her beautiful sunset

Elizabeth kept pointing at the sky, saying "touch touch" She wants to touch everything new and beautiful.

Elsa gloves, they're nearly always on

Have you looked up today?