Happy Halloween

I kind of wanted Jonathan to be a tractor again, but he has been roaring all around the house, and wanted to be a Tiger instead. Lizzie wanted to be a princess, and decided on Cinderella, so I did my best to make her a pretty princess. I was going to make Hannah a lobster, and then carry her around in a big stock pot, and then I was going to make a chef outfit for Darren, but Darren reminded me that we have a perfectly good Lion costume, and so that is what she ended up in. Costumes tend to take up a bit of time and a lot of creative space. I don't have a sewing room, so our dining room doubles as my sewing space, and I think the sooner I finish projects the sooner the mess gets organized and we have a dining table instead of eating around my craft stuff.

Messy Room Happy Kids

Hannah is growing and Lizzie and Jono love to play with her. They fight over who she gets to sit by at dinner, so much that we have a sign to help us remember whose turn it is. Lizzie likes to carry her from one room to the next, and their favorite thing is making her laugh. For some reason, farm animal sounds make her smile, especially cows.

Lizzie loves her glasses and hopefully we can meet with a good doctor to help to figure out how to help her. She patched for a while, but still made no improvement with her lazy eye. We're just waiting to meet with a couple more doctors. She is a good big sister, and volunteers to help whenever she can. Jonathan has picked up on this, so when I ask him to clean up something, he starts, and then he says, "Wizzie, can you help me Quease."

Jonathan is our busybody, but is really a sweet boy. He likes to get on the phone and say, "What are you up to?" He can be trouble, but loves to be out with his Dad. Anywhere his Dad is. We went to the temple, and after we picked the kids up, he said, "When I get big, I go to the temple too. I eat broccoli so I get big."

Nothing Runs Like a Deere and Butterflies

I know that Halloween has come and gone a long time ago, but this is just a reminder for me to try and start costumes a little earlier so that I'm not sewing on wheels as we drive to Grandma Cole's Spooky Dinner Party.