HALLOWEEN!

Here are some pix from last night. Addy did not like her costume at first but then she thought it was okay because there were plenty of things to chew on! I was amazed that Cooper enjoyed wearing a mask! That is something I never would have predicted! We started off at our neighbor's house and got some pix of Addy and Chandler together. I think these pix need to be posted at their graduation, what do you think??? Then we headed to the First Baptist Church for their Trunk or Treat. It was packed! They were running out of goodies within 30 minutes! Fortunately the kids had a blast and saw many many friends!

How cute are they!?!?!?

Does this face not scream ORNERY!?!

Day 31 of 31

Happy Halloween!!!!!

I am so excited! I did it, I blogged 31 for 21!!! Not that it was that hard to do but I am so glad that I participated in increasing Down Syndrome Awareness!

Addy went to her First Steps playgroup this morning and I was lucky enough to get to take her since the kids and I are out of school today. She is going to be an octopus for Halloween but her costume is pretty toasty and I knew she would be burning up so Jarika and I threw her Hippy ensemble together this morning! Not bad for flying by the seat of our pants! I began pouring down rain as we left so her make up tattoos didn't stay very well, but that's okay. Here are some pix of Addy at the party.

Here is the cookie that Addy helped decorate. She was supposed to spread the frosting and use her pincer grasp to spread the sprinkles. She used to spoon to spread pretty good, but the sprinkles went flying!

Here is Addy throwing a fit because she did not want to play with the blocks. She just wanted to throw them. Isn't it terrible when we tell our kids "NO"???

This is our friend and neighbor, Chandler. Isn't he adorable!?!!? He is two months younger than Addy. He is so fast! He can run and run!

Day 30 of 31

We are fortunate enough to have tomorrow off of school so the boys had their Fall Parties today. Cooper's school's theme is Sports so they were to all dress up as team players. He obviously went as a football player, easy! Avery's school participated in the K-3 grade costume parade. Avery is Obi-Wan Kenobi this year, he loves his costume. I don't care for masks but he loves it! I put in a picture of my friend Debbie aka. the Mad Scientist. I'm pretty sure she is Gene Shalat's twin!

I thought I would include some adorable pix of Addy too of course!

Day 20 of 31

I don't get tagged much so this is exciting! I've been tagged by Shawndi84 at www.awrighta.blogspot.com. I'm supposed to share six things you might not know about me. Addy's answer's will be in pink and Cammie's are going to be in brown.

1. My favorite thing to watch is Blue's Clues and CMT Country Music Videos! I especially LOVE Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts!
A couple of my favorite things to watch is Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, House Hunters and the news (lame I know!)

2. I absolutely LOVE my big brother, Avery. I think it's hilarious when he is just in the room!
I absolutely LOVE ALL OF MY FAMILY!

3. I love going anywhere in the car! When we step out the front door I know that I'm getting to go and I can't stop clapping!
My favorite thing to go and do is shopping at scrapbook stores or Target!

4. I don't like eating. It's gross and hard and I think it is a waste of time.
I really despise sitting through meetings that have nothing to do with my occupation!

5. My favorite things to do are read books and and hit my dog. No I meant pet my dog!
I love to scrapbook and read. I read all of the time, I need to scrapbook more but I've been distracted by blogging lately!

6. If I could... I would crawl and walk and talk! Well, I CAN, I just haven't yet!
My dream job would be staying at home with my kids full time or teaching sign language to chimpanzees!

Now I tag Charissa, Meredith, Shelley, Kris, Sarah, and everyone else who reads this blog! (No pressure, just something fun!)

Day 28 of 31

Halloween 2002
Jarika and her friend as babies

Avery as Avery, no I mean a monkey!

and Cooper as Spongebob!

I only put these pix cuz I have nothing new today!
Not too much to blog about tonight. I am exhausted, we had parent teacher conferences tonight. I met with a few parents and then went to Cooper's conference. He is doing really well and his teacher has had no concerns which is great! Avery's teacher and I just corresponded through email since I see and talk to her all of the time. He's doing great too. Don't you love it when people brag on your kids??? I know I do!

When I got home Avery and I finished reading one of his Magic Tree House books, he loves those and they are so fun! Addy enjoyed listening to Avery read tonight too. Well off to bed, I'm beat!

Day 27 of 31/Happy Birthday Kent!

Today is my OLDER brother's birthday, Happy 41st Kent!!!

I took Addy to the ENT today for a 6 month follow up/check up. The ear tubes are still where they are supposed to be so no concerns there. I asked him about her neck pushing thing. I just can't give it up can I??? Anyway, guess what!?!?!? He believes Addy is having reflux. Yeah, someone is finally going to try to do something about it! So he wrote a script for Zantac and I'm supposed to see if it makes a difference. If it does, great, if not, no big deal at least we gave it a try. I also received a call from her pediatrician, her G-button culture was not growing staph, thank goodness. Just typical things from a g-button, stomach acid and a little bit of fungus (eww). It's getting much better so no antibiotics, we'll just continue to Diflucan until it's gone and then just wait and see and apply Malox to the skin too to cut down on acid burn. Poor baby!

Day 26 of 31

I just got an email from my friend Shelley and we raised $926.25 at our Bunco Tournament yesterday! Woo hoo! That is so awesome!

Jarika told me today that I haven't blogged about her lately. She's right, I really haven't. So even though I am blogging daily this month for DS awareness, this blog is about our family so here goes!

After church today the kiddos and I headed to the store. Scott went to the lake with my brother to close down the cabin and winterize the boat and jet ski. So the five of us went to the store and Jarika decided that she wanted to make tomato basil pizza. It's really good! She doesn't like tomatoes so she made half of it plain. Anyway, here are pix of her and Avery making the pizza (Avery was pretty much just there getting a drink but anyway...).

Doesn't this look yummy? It was! Thanks Jarika!