31 Oct 2008

Halloween



Be back later with photos of the girlies.

Okay so as someone has already pointed out it is a lot later and the photos, well they are non existent really.

Lily had a Harvest Festival at school today and she was able to wear her costume. I guess they aren't allowed to call it Halloween. As of 7.45am we were still unsure whether she was meant to go to school in her costume or change into later on, her teachers have a real problem with communication. The past 2 years she has had to change into it. I rang the school but the machine kept picking up so at 7.58 Jacob got through to them and she was to wear her costume. We leave the house at 8.05 so we were scurrying a bit. She then decides that she wants her face painted! Hello Deary, we have 3 minutes until we have to leave!! I painted her face, sort of, in record time and then Rosie starts pointing to the paint and pointing to her face, she wasn't about to be left out so I put red dots all over her and she was very pleased with them.

Manic face painting


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Ready To Go

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Lily surprised us this year by only wearing one costume. Last year I think she was at least 3 different things. She had a great time at school and came home with lots of loot which I pilfered and put straight into the outgoing candy bag. Don't tell her.

This evening I repainted Lil's face and painted a pumpkin on Rosies cheek and all was well but before I realised what had happened she had rubbed her face and her pumkin was smeared all over the place. I decided to paint her hand instead and she loved it. She donned her pumpkin outfit and we headed to the homes of some friends to trick or treat. They had so much fun. I didn't take one photo. I know it is bad and I am sorry but watching two kidlets high on sugar darting up to front doors and shrieking trick or treat just doesn't make for a good photo op. I tried a few times to video tape them because Rosie says, "tickteat" and thrusts out her bag in the cutest fashion but each time I got the camera out and ready they were done!


Believe me they had fun. They have so many sweeties it isn't even funny. When we got home I put even more of their stuff in the outgoing bag and placed it outside hoping that people would just help themselves whilst I got Rosie ready for bed. I had just come downstairs when I heard the pumpkin being shaken so I opened the door to find a lady taking the whole lot!!!! She jumped a little when she saw me and acted as if nothing was unusual. Lily and I took the baby monitor and sat outside and Lily was the candy distributor. I don't know whether it was all the sweets she had eaten but she was really silly and had me in fits.

Now both little girls are sleeping and dreaming of "sugar" dancing in their heads.

29 Oct 2008

Chilly Willy

I love this weather!!!!!!!
I love the clothes that we get to wear.

Life is good.....very, very good.


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28 Oct 2008

Today It Was Autumn



Today was a cool day for us. The high temp didn't even hit the 65 degree mark and it is really windy making it seem colder. I loved it but since this is Miami I am sure that in 2 days time it will be right back to sweatyville. Lily wore her woolly tights to school and Rosie went outside first thing and announced "cold" and then she giggled. Then she repeated that performance numerous times.

When Lily got home from school we zoomed through her homework and dashed off to the park armed with a kite and a ball but sadly I forgot the camera. We had such fun. The wind picked up at one point and took the kite right out of Lily's hand but I was able to catch it. Rosie went nuts just chasing the ball that was getting blown along by the wind. Simple. Pure. Fun.

We came home to a chilly house cos all the windows were open and we snuggled under a blanket while dinner was cooking. Tonight I put Rose to bed in a pair of all in one fleece jimjams with feet and yet again she just cracked up laughing. We love cold weather....Ok so you don't think 58 is cold but we do! Lily's teacher wouldn't let her take off her cardigan today even though Lily was hot. When Lily came out of the classroom she ripped it off and told me what her teacher had said. Defensively the teacher explained she didn't want Lily to get cold because she would get sick. I was puzzled by this.....germs make you sick not weather! Mind you this lady was wearing a jacket and fur lined boots....Puh-leaze!

Oh and the best part......this cold weather has worn my kidlets out. Rosie napped for over 2 hours today which is unheard of and by 7pm she was falling asleep. I am moving to Alaska.

26 Oct 2008

Such RUDE People

Have you ever noticed that there are some really rude people in this world? Yes, me too and today those utterly rude people were us! I know it is shocking isn't it. You see my friend Lori, Foxy Mama,to the dynamic duo is the lady in charge of the, Families with Children from China, group for Broward County. They have all sorts of parties and celebrations throughout the year and Lori always invites us to attend. She doesn't even bother sending me the membership forms anymore she just emails me with the details and knows that we will gatecrash the event. So that is what we did today, we gate crashed Lori's Halloween bash. We contemplated joining the group, a few years ago but it is such a long trek to the other county that we just decided that it is better if we just crash instead. We aren't even the slightest bit embarrassed anymore....now that is rude!

It was so much fun we got to see all the kiddies who were all dressed up and got to see some families that we only see a few times a year. We ate, we drank, we watched the kidlets tear into the candy as if they hadn't been fed for days and we chatted. We grown ups chatted and in full sentences too. The kidlets were all so busy seeing how much candy they could shove into their adorable little faces that we were able to yip. Even Rosie who is known as Velcro baby took off in search of the sugary stuff and once she found it she couldn't have cared less where we were.

I failed to take many photos. Jakey took some with his camera but we will have to wait for those....for ever.

The Pumpkin and the Devil.

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If you eat vast quantities of chocolate and then you decide to suck a lemon your face will look like this.

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The infamous and fabulous Dynamic Duo along with the Devil and the Pumpkin.

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Foxy Mama herself and Moi.

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This is just so sweet. Rosie loves her sister and vice versa

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Lori, thank you so much we had a lovely time. Your little ones are absolutely lovely and I must ask Ethan to share his candy snagging tips with me cos that boy had a bucket load! And if you want to know that story behind Lori being called Foxy Mama read her blog. It made me laugh so much that I shot water out of my nose. Thankfully it was only water cos I sprayed the keyboard.


21 Oct 2008

This Is What Happens When.....

Since I try very hard not to swear (to much) the other title I had for this post was rather inappropriate.

It is that time of year when we need to get our Christmas photos taken so that we can get the cards printed. It has been very easy for the past 5 years because we only had one child. Today we decided to up the anti so to speak and even get a family photo of us.

This is what happens when you try to take a photo of all of you....

Where is Jacob and why is there a shoe in the photo?

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Take two. Ooops. The self timer went off before Jacob could get into the photo and no one is looking at the camera.

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Take three.
Oopsie, where is Jacob? Oh wait, I see him or is that just his fat finger in front of the lens!

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After about 800 takes we gave up at this location it was just too windy and the sun was in our eyes. At this point we were still laughing but not for much longer.

Something is wrong here, don't we have 2 kids now?

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Oh look, there is the other one, running away. ARGHHHHHH

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We interupt this photo shoot so that Miss Rosie can have a meltdown.

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Take 350. Psst, Rosie, look this way.

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If at first you don't succeed....GO HOME.

I cannot count how many pictures we took today but at no point did both girls look at the camera at the same time. This is why I start this task in October.

19 Oct 2008

5 Times The Fun

Today our friends came down for the day and we had a really great time. It amazes me that the 5 girls who range in age from 20 months-8 yrs old always play so well together. I hope I don't jinx things here but there is never a cross word between them (pay Uncle Howards rabbi, throw salt over my shoulder, bite my tongue.).

They played here at the house for a while and then after a hearty lunch we headed off to the pumkin patch again. Apparently it is even more fun when you take your BFF with you. The girls just ran about scoped out pumpkins to sit on and posed for a trillion photos. Hollis bought her "big girl" camera with her so she was taking really awesome shots and we were just clicking away to our hearts content and the weather was lovely today it wasn't in the slightest bit hot! Oh how I want a cold day.

These shots are from my camera:

Joie, Lily and Anlei

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A Man and His Girls......A beautiful sight

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Trevi and HER Daddy

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Trevi sharing her Daddy

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Hollis was laying on the ground to get some shots and Rosie tought she should do it too. She is such a copycat.

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Have you ever tried to get 6 people all looking int he same direction? This shot took forever and we must have taken 14 photos of just this picture. Too funny.

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Just a little madness.

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These are the shots that Hollis took with her snazzy camera. What a difference. Jacob and I just looked at the album that she sent and kept saying, Oh my Gosh. Now Hubby wants a big boy camera too and I can't say I blame him. These photos are stunning and of course the subjects are so beautiful.


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This is one of my favourites. I love the way Lily's hair is flying in the air.

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Purity and Innocence at play.

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I wonder what they were talking about

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She is just so pretty!

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Grandma Grace

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And to think....we never would have met this family if it wasn't for the China connection. That would have been a terrible loss cos we just love them.

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