Brave Girl

Carolyn, Joel and Anna were rough housing and Anna hit the hearth! She needed 4 stitches, but did amazingly well. She indicated the numbing shot hurt and was hot, but then sat still while they put the stitches in....I am her mother and I was truly amazed that ANY child would do so well. They were great at the urgent care. They put us ahead of all the people waiting (sorry guys) and we were home w/in an hour of the accident. I think we got precidence because there is a window of time before you have to worry about infection etc. The doctor (who was great) said there should be no scar - and even a little one won't be seen in her eyebrow. The stitches come out on Friday.

Halloween 2011

Here is Anna, pretending it is Halloween (on the actual day, her clothes actually matched her costume - one that she received from her Godmother Aunt Sue!). The camera was forgotten that night, but you were able to see Carolyn's costume and a taste of Joel's on a different post. Joel had reddish-hair for trick-or-treating....which is only appropriate for a Weasley! (He was Ron Weasley from Harry Potter and all the Weasleys have red hair!) I never actually saw Joel in his full costume because I joined Matthew and the church youth ministry "trick-or-treating for canned goods". The group filled 6-7 grocery carts with cans and boxes!!!

Maybe next year I will take a picture of ME in my Halloween costume. (I was named Juliet by one of the girls in my group....how is that for a teaser!)

Pumpkin Fun

Carolyn has wanted to make a story book pumpkin for years and finally we got it done! Ok - it was Sunday night around bedtime, but at least we weren't trying to finish Monday morning. Here is pumpkin-Luna Lovegood (from Harry Potter, Carolyn also was Luna for Halloween)
While looking at other story-book pumpkins in the library, Anna and I saw a Rainbow fish one and decided that was our goal for the morning.
Joel had Daddy's help for his pumkin. The kids then planted some seeds and we roasted the rest. (Matthew's pumpkin supplied some seed that will be more likely to grow if we plant them next spring...his pumpkin is still in the works....update "better luck next year pumpkin #4" :)