Maddi's Fall Festi"bal"

Maddi has been anxiously waiting for this day to come. She was up and dressed with the sun. She wanted to wear her camo clothes so all the boys would like her. One boy in particular. She had such a fun time, and Katie was so excited that the whole family got to go to school with Maddi!

Veteran's Day @ the Park

Maddison's School Pictures

Maddi, who is now going by Maddison "because it is more beautiful" (I guess it's all those Fancy Nancy books we've been reading) got her school pictures back and is upset that they were taken before she lost her tooth and wants retakes. Too bad Mom doesn't agree with that!

Maddi's 1st "Loosed" Tooth

Maddi's tooth suddenly became loose tonight and she was so excited about it. She came running in saying that she is almost 6 now because she has a loose tooth. I asked her how she wanted to get it out. Pull it out, tie a string around it and yank it out, eat an apple??? She chose the apple method. So this is Maddi getting her tooth out. We actually have video of it coming out but it's on the camera that doesn't load onto the computer... so this is it.

Katie's Letter Foam

Katie got some "letter foam" from preschool. They got to use it on their desks at school to write their letters. She was so excited to come home and do letters. We got to K in the alphabet, and then Katie thought it would be more fun to draw pictures. So here is a little bit of a fun afternoon with the Kriloff's. Maddi and even Mommy and Gunner played in it a little... but I wasn't cordinated to get a picture of that. You'll have to ignore the messy house, it's been a month!!!

Gunner

I've never seen a baby so determined to walk. Little Gunner will stand up on anything and then try to walk. He falls and then gets back up again and try's again. He is not really interested in toys, just walking. He will get one step in and then fall. He's too wild to keep his balance. He has a couple times stood for a few seconds, but then realizes what he's doing and falls again. The little bruise on his head here is from one of the many attempts to walk.

Be prepared to show ID

So today I had to run by the WalMart and pick a few things up. I was in a real hurry because I was taking dinner to someone tonight and hadn't started on it yet. I had just picked up Maddi from school. She and Katie had to do a 15minute potty break, so I was already behind.
I darted for the self checkout line, thinking this would be the quickest way out. When I was approached by a WalMart Worker. She asked to see my card with ID. Which I showed her. She looked at it, looked at me, looked at it, looked at me. She continued for about a minute. I wondered why it was taking so long. Then she said, "This doesn't look like you" I paused for a second trying to read her expression. Was she serious? So I asked, "Are you serious?" She was.
I was at a loss for words as she kept scanning my photo and then me. She really thought I was a fraud! Here's where the self esteem meter starts to shrink. In her defense that picture was taken six years ago when I weighed 110 pounds, I had long curly hair, and was wearing makeup.
On this particular trip to WalMart, I weighed a good 60 pounds more, had no makeup, and my hair was pulled up in the usual scrag style I've become used to. So I tried to explain that's why it may not look like me. Feeling a little embarrased she tried to blow it off as though it weren't that I was so fat but bad lighting, and that I should have my picture retaken, because it really didn't look like me.
Now tell me, why the Hell would I do that? Excuse the expression, but why would I replace a perfectly hot picture. With a fat, ugly, overworked and underpaid picture? I have to have some hope that someday I might be back where I started from. And If the state thought it was that important to have current picture's they wouldn't have the experation date set 40 years from now.
So next time you are asked to show ID, be prepared for Judgemental June! She's out to get you! On the way home I called Adam and we got a good laugh.

Birthday at the train park

It was my Tres nephews birthday's and we all went to the train park to celebrate. It was so much fun. This is us on the train, this is my friend Elena sitting with my kiddos. She's amazing, my kids love her!

This video is right before we went into the tunnel. As you can see my girls are a little hesitant going in.

Happy Hallow's Eve

Maddi originally wanted to be a toilet??? Well I guess we are out of the princess stage. We ordered Maddi's costume online and she picked it out. The day it arrived in the mail she was trying it on and said, "Oh I can't believe I ordered something so beautiful" Attention world we have a shopper!!! She was so excited to paint her hair black although Katie was scared to death. She kept saying, "No Maddi don't do it" She thought it would make her too scary. But after she saw it, she thought it was cool.

Katie was Dorothy from the Wizard of OZ. She had a party at her school and got to dress up. She could hardly wait to go. It was also cousin Brigg's birthday so it made it an extra special day.

We have gone trick or treating with our friends the Brown's for three years in a row now. It was so fun, and they have such cute boys.