Just a few recent photos

Photoless

I have not updated in a while. Last weekend was consumed with homecoming duties at the college, a long day. I thought I would have photos of the girls but they chose to stay with Grandma. This week has been another full one. Evelyn got her very first report card on Tuesday. I meant to take a photo of her with it before signing it and sending it back to school but did not. Oh well. She is doing great in school. We were gearing up for a fun event with 50s day for her class. Mamaw Flora did an excellent job making her a poodle skirt to get her ready for this event. We had recently bragged about Evelyn getting this far in to the school year without sickness and what do you know, she came down with a fever. It lasted about 24 hours with no other symptoms, just long enough to miss the 50s day. We are going to have to just dress up as she would have and take pictures because now I do not have those cute photos to share. Today was Evelyn's first celebration assembly (awards after each 9 weeks) at school. Evelyn got several recognitions and I did take my camera for the event but the photos came out dark just like my friend Angela said they would. Oh well. Emelia has been doing great. She loves us all but is still very much a daddy's girl. She has been putting together a lot of words. She also recognizes many letters that our names begin with. She almost has counting to 10 down thanks to Mr. Duke. I am very pleased with her progress. It seems like quite a while but she has just been with us four months now. The weather is supposed to be very nice this weekend. Maybe we can get out and take some photos to share. :)

Pumpkin Patch

We have had another great but busy weekend. We went to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday with our local FCC families. It was a little warm but a really fun event. They have such a great play area for the kids, a ride through the farm and, of course, an opportunity to pick out a pumpkin. We had a picnic lunch with the group after the tour. I forgot to mention the mazes and the corn pit (a favorite of most all the kids). They had a corn maze, a large bale hay maze and a small bale hay maze. Evelyn like the two latter but not the corn maze. She thought we were lost. I told her that Mr. Ron had it under control. We did exit via the entrance after quite a walk but it was fun. We were all pretty wiped out but once home we did have to play again at our park with cousin Mason who was down for the weekend. The photo of Emelia with the boxes is her making her cereal choice. This is one of her favorite things to do. :) The blue tshirt is a hand me down from Evelyn. It says, "that's it I'm going to grandma's." That fits them both but especially Emelia this last Friday when she did go to grandma's after a week of them being gone. She was quite happy they returned. There is also a photo of Evelyn modeling one of her new bows.

Well lets see, I am sure there must be plenty to tell but just no time to tell it. The biggest thing for the last week has been going to the park. Our park here recently had a long overdue upgrade on the playground equipment. You now have to plan when you go carefully because there are tons of kids there. It is funny how Evelyn and her friends have come home from school each day saying, “Mom, so-and-so is going to the park today and I told them I would be there too.” Who can rebuff that one when it would disappoint a friend? We have now been five times in one week and I am sure there will be pleading again. Evelyn is a monkey anyway and is fun to watch. Emelia is our brave one. She will try anything even if her skill level is not there yet. We have to watch her like a hawk. She did do really well on the big slides on our last visit. We timed that one where it was not overwhelming with big kids. Naturally I did not have the camera. Her face was priceless with the accomplishment. The other events of the week included Emelia going to preschool for two mornings. All of our grandparent caretakers have been on a trip this week. Emelia loved the idea of “Hui Hui school girl” but not the actual experience. She did okay and hopefully will be ready for it in the near future. I think the grandparents have spoiled her but isn’t that what grandparents are for? I need to load pictures from Scott's camera. I did not have many. I thought the one of Emelia giving herself a kiss on our stove was too sweet.