Halloween cookies

I love when the holidays start and we can do these traditions with the kids.  I always looked forward to making and decorating sugar cookies with my mom for holidays, and I want to carry on the tradition.  So I invited Grandma Becky over and it was a lot of fun.  They loved cutting out the cookies, but decorating was the best.  Sydnee was being a little goofy by then and making silly cookies, but Kaydee sat very concentrated and did her best on every single one.  She made some really cute and creative ones.  Maycee just made a mess, and a couple cookies with multi colored frosting and candy eyes sticking off of them.  Still cute in my eyes though!

 

 

While the cookies were baking we watched Charlie Brown Halloween.  I've been watching it since I was little and I'm glad the girls like it too.  Though I could live without Sydnee calling people blockheads...  LOL

 



Fun with Grandma and Papa!

We had so much fun going to 'Scary Hill' with Grandma and Papa.  First we did some miniature golfing.  We somehow got confused and didn't go in order, and didn't make it to every hole, but the ones we played were fun.  Papa was best at this.  2 hole in 1's! 

 

After that we went on a hay ride and looked at all the Halloween decorations. 

 

 

Then we went through a little kid maze and the kids played in a ball pit.  This was hilarious.  Maycee nearly drowned!  She loved it, but she would keep sinking and sinking until you could just see her eyes.  She would quietly grunt at us "help.  I need help." We couldn't stop laughing.

 

 

Next we went and shot foam balls at each other.  What a blast!  It was all black lights in there and you could either shoot at the targets on the walls and score points for your team, or constantly shoot at your spouse.  We chose option 2.  We all laughed and laughed the whole time. 

 

I am so lucky to have such awesome parents.  I love being around them and we always get along and have so much fun.  I will always look back at pictures like these and treasure the memories. I know the girls will too.

 



School

Sydnee and Kaydee are both loving school.  They have great teachers and are learning a lot. 

 I'm actually shocked by the things they are teaching in first grade now.  Sydnee's homework has questions about nouns, pronouns, adjectives, root words, etc.  Every friday she has at least 3 tests. She gets a lot of homework and she loves it.  I hope she always does.

Kaydee is still very shy at school.  She won't talk hardly ever.  She came home and told me her glue stick was broken so she borrowed someones.  I told her to just let her teacher know and she would give her a new one.  Like a week went by and then she came home all excited and said "I got a new glue stick! Ms. Taylor was walking by so I just held my gluestick up in the air and she saw it was broken and got me a new one!"  She has a couple little friends she just loves and talks about all the time, but then I ask if she talks to them and she says "I will tomorrow."  They always play together at recess and stuff, so maybe these little girls like having a friend who doesn't talk?  Lol.

We are also very proud of Kaydee for being the first one in her class to get the peacebuilder award!  

She came home with her necklace and her praise note that said "Kaydee always tries to do the right thing and always sits very quietly on the rug."  Yay, Kaydee!!  

Our growing girl...

Our insurance rocks and authorized growth hormone for Sydnee in just 3 days.  They told us it would take 6 weeks!  So on Sep. 24 they delivered her first month worth of medication, and then a nurse came out that night to show us how to give the injections.  I was so glad my mom was able to come and learn too, since she stays with the kids when we do any over nighters.  The nurse was great and though it was a lot of info, we all came away confident we could do it.  She had me give Sydnee the first shot while she was here, and Sydnee panicked and wanted to make sure I was doing it and not the lady.  So I think in her mind she's glad to be getting the injections at home from me and her dad, and not a doctor.  That makes me feel better about the whole thing.  The first couple days were very hard and then she started having good days, and days where she cried and cried about having to have shots.  Now, almost a month in, she is doing great.  Never puts up a fight, and actually asks for her shot a lot of times (most likely because she wants a treat).  We ice it first and she doesn't feel it most of the time.  I'm very proud of her for adjusting so quickly and being so brave.

The first night she had her shot, she was having a hard time and wondering why she is the only one who has to do it.  I thought one way to make her feel better was a growth chart so she can actually see her progress as we go along.  So we had her stand against the wall in her closet and drew a line to mark her height.  A few days later, she was having pains in her legs.  I told her it was probably growing pains.  So that night while crying that she didn't want her shot she asked if I could measure her and see if she had grown.  I told her it wasn't going to work that fast, but gave in because she was sad.  So I measured again and me and Jeff were shocked!  She had grown almost 1/4"!  She was very excited and so were we.  I think we will do an official measurement on the 24th of this month and see how much she grew the first month. Grow baby, grow!!