A rare moment ...

Last Sunday I began to be suspicious of the silence coming from the playroom. We found a rare but pleasant surprise: both girls asleep on the couch!

Snaggle Tooth!!!

Anna Claire FINALLY lost her first tooth!!! It has been a whine-filled 24 hours. Hopefully all the teeth after this will go more smoothly.

She is so cute with her "spacey" smile!

Beach Girls

We enjoyed a long weekend at the beach with Russ's parents! The girls had so much fun playing in the sand and waves. We took all of our bikes and rode down to a local ice cream shop. Sounds fun except that it was pitch black at 7pm! For future knowledge: know if the 2 mile bike path has lights!

Thanks to Christopher Columbus for a long weekend and thanks to God for His beautiful creation!

6 1/2!

Today is Anna Claire's half birthday! To commemorate the occasion I have launched into a new campaign with her - it is the time to wear buttons! She has hated buttons since she was 2. According to her they are ugly and they smell bad - what???

I found some really cute dresses for fall that have buttons and in the past I would have not even looked twice at them. This year though we are going to have button therapy! She wore one of her new dresses to school and did really well! I'm hoping 6.5 is the half year of buttons!

News from the Mayor

Anna Claire is the mayor, at least of Lizzie & Hunta. Today riding home from school out of nowhere Anna Claire said, "Mommy, the police are going to come and take Daddy." Intrigued I asked why. She went into this LONG explanation about him driving them to school yesterday and there was a car in front that wouldn't go etc... So I told her I had just gotten a text from daddy and he was at work. She said, "They'll find him soon!" Of course when Russ got home I asked him about the incident. He could not stop laughing! According to him what he did was perfectly legal but he couldn't convince the mayor - she would have none of his reasoning.
I have told Russ that he is starting to become a cantankerous driver and it reminds too much of my dad's driving. One of dad's favorite sayings to cars who wouldn't go "Are you ever going to turn or are you waiting on an engraved invitation?" Tonight I told Russ that Anna Claire and Lizzie were going to have to keep him in line while he drives. No road rage when the mayor is in the car!

School!

Anna Claire and Lizzie have gotten into the routine of school and life is settling down! I went to eat lunch with Lizzie today. She didn't talk to me too much but after she ate her cookies, chips, grapes, and 1/4 sandwich (in that order) she turned around in her chair. I wondered what she was doing and then she started telling me about outfits she liked that other girls were wearing!

Eating lunch with Anna Claire is a totally different story. She talks incessantly and tells everyone she knows "Hello!"

Anna Claire came home singing a Taylor Swift song last week and I asked her where she had learned the song. She told me she was in a Taylor Swift club during recess! She and several other girls practice the songs then sing them for the teachers. It is hysterical because the lyrics are way off! Mom made a video so I'll try to get it from her and post it! I found out today that the Taylor Swift club no longer meets because the director closed it down!