Fall!

It's mostly fallish now so we've been up to the things that you do in the fall. 

Like comfortably walking to the park to meet friends. It was still kind of warm of course and Maggie did get cranky on the walk home (there is just so much damn sun everywhere!) but no one got heat stroke. It wasn't anything that stripping down naked once you cross the threshold couldn't fix.

Halloween baby yoga! As Maggie likes to call it. Ramsey and I took Jed and Maggie to PLAY. Maggie loved her mask.  Molly was jealous.

She also got some creepy assesories in a fun gift bag from there.

Tie-dye! Anything done outside feels like fall when you're in Yuma, so tie-dye counts. Jessica and Bryn brought over the supplies. In case you're shopping for tie dye supplies, you should know that "9 projects" = 3 kids doing the project themselves.

Dance birthday parties! Everyone we know was born from September  To December. It's definitely birthday party season! 

School festivals! Of course we aren't even done with them yet. This was just the family night. The official Barn Bash is in 2 weeks. So many things to do!

Maggie is kind of a funny kid. I was buckling Molly up and she starts laughing. Look over and find her like this. "Buckle me!" 

The other day I called her in to the bathroom to brush her teeth. I just casually (not even accusingly) asked her if she put the band aids on the faucet? She dead pans "I think it was always like that". No laughing, nothing.

Of course Halloween! Friday was the school parade. The girls were Odd Squad agents. I thought it was awesome! 

Saturday we started out trick or treating at the downtown stores. We're pretty much obligated to do that since we are thoroughly downtown people.

Andrea Hauck has a new studio downtown and was taking pictures as a fundraiser for a family in town. They turned out so cute.

"Bitch Please"..is what an odd squad agent would say if the show wasn't on PBSkids. That's just Maggie's opinion.

Although she looked adorable, Maggie had a hard time with physically wearing the costume. Everything is "too tight" she never wore the shoes or the pants. She instead wore a pair of yo gabba gabba vans and Molly's giant jeggings.  By the time we headed out for trick or treating at night, she was over it and came up with her own costume. We think it's vaguely Madona inspired. She called it a "ballerina" costume. 

We did our night time trick or treating with the Hermenaus at a neighborhood near their house. The girls had a blast and now have entirely too much candy. They're seriously acting like addicts "when can I have another peice?" 

"What do I have to do?"

"You promised!" (I didn't) 

Can't wait until it's gone! 

Molly was in the Holiday spirit so she drew this cool picture of Jack Skellington. 

Picture Day!

School pictures are in. They turned out pretty good!

Missing a couple teeth!

I love Maggie's picture. Her smile is looking less forced every year!

A month or so ago we spent the whole day with the Morris clan. Just like the old days, spending the whole day with Ramsey! 

The girls got to go to a birthday party at the Artsy Fartsy studio and paint Bing Bong. The girls love their paintings! 

Molly showing off the tree branch dress she designed. She danced around in it.

Beauty rest.

Matchy matchy!

The girls went to Fuddle's fun run. Molly did great and finished the whole race.

Maggie had a different approach. It felt familiar. In her defense it was pretty hot and she was out of Perrier.

This week Molly had fall break, so we took a couple days and went to San Diego. 

Day one: The Zoo!

Maggie kitty.

Molly panda.

Day 2: Sea World!

This time I forbid them from getting their whole face painted. Huge pain in the ass to get off.

Went to golf mart on the way home. Their alter egos.

Club champions Mabel and Mavis Mac. 

Molly actually owns this hat now. She loved it so much.

Maggie got to go to the pumpkin patch with her school today. Looks like she had fun! 

Maggie's happy place-Salty snack and Bubs.

She can really put away popcorn! One morning when we went to target they had freshly popped popcorn smell wafting around. It would have been cruel if I hadn't bought her some. Fortunately they had bubs too.

Doritos are probably her favorite though. She always points out when we see a Dorito truck. I have made a parenting promise to myself that I will never buy a full sized bag since I would probably find her passed out in a corner with orange foam at the corners of her mouth.

Halloween is up next! We have their costumes all ready to go. Hoping that it cools off since the costumes include a light jacket.  Probably wishful thinking.

Birthday Baby!

She's four now, but she still wants to be a baby. She has even told me that she wants to be a baby forever. Some might enjoy this-I'm not really into it. I totally understand the sentimentality issue, and yes, it does go by fast, but I'm kind of over babies now. Having to carry a 4 year old who wants to be a baby still is just a pain in the ass. Sorry Maggie, your baby days are numbered.  When she does act like a four year old, she's a very cute, hilarious, kind of strange (in a good way!) little kid.  Her birthday was last month and she milked us for all we're good for. Unfortunately for her-I'm really not into entertaining in August. It's so hot. She did have a fun birthday week though.  She had a little party at school.

I even managed to throw together a last minute shin dig for her with a couple friends and a piñata.

Pink Panther cake! Allison and Pablo get credit for this cake. The girls got way into Pink Panther after we visited and they watched it with Gael and Remi.



These two are always up to something!

She even had another mini party play date with the Jordan's during the following week, so don't feel too bad for her and her negligent mother.

Next up, haircuts! This has been a constant struggle with Maggie. I think she's a shoe in for the 2029 Davis-Estabrook Yuma School of Beauty Scholarship.  I made a deal with her that she would stop doing it herself if I would take her in to get it cut shorter. She agreed.

The last Hurrah with her long hair.

So, has she given up her hair-cutting habit?! Nope! She's done it again at least one more time that I'm aware of.

Molly couldn't be left out, she wanted her hair cut too.

Little troublemaker practicing her "A's".

We finally had a loose tooth! A couple weeks ago the adult tooth popped out. It was loose at the time, but she was so anxious about, she would not mess/play with it at all. Jonny and I probably made the most progress on it overall through trickery. "I swear, I'm just going to look at it"-wow, I wonder where she picked up that lying habit?

Finally she yanked out herself when it was just hanging there by nothing.

I learned the next day that she had actually lost it on National Tooth Fairy Day. A completely useless and ridiculous day, unless your kid looses their tooth on it.

All through August they took swim lessons.  Maggie has been such a little stud this summer! She actually passed 2 levels in one session. So awesome considering that at the beginning of the summer she was still clinging to my hip in the water like a baby. Super proud of her!

Molly did a great job too this summer. She's a pretty reliable swimmer now and can pretty much go wherever she wants to in the pool.  Seriously though. What is with her being so photogenic? How does she have the instinct to give an opened mouthed smile underwater? Such a little ham.

I made them an awesome fort in the living room the other day. They were super excited that it had lighting and everything!

Super Excited!

Went to Jump-Up the other weekend. Check out the little monkey!