Swaddled

The twins were playing with some old blankies when they asked me if I could please show them how to wrap babies up. I told them to lay down and then proceeded to swaddle them as I had when they were babies. They thought that was hilarious and I enjoyed watching them have fun!

And for old times sake.....

TRA Portraits are IN

You'll have to excuse the scanner quality.... my scanner is on it's last leg...

Give a Little Whistle

We were all loaded up in the van last night, doing errands, and decided we needed to get dinner. We finally decided on Larry's Chicken which is a very special thing for us, because they are kind of pricy when feeding 6.

As the "waitress" gal comes to our window and hands us our food, we hear a little whistle from the back seat. It was one of those whistles. Mike and I just looked at each other laughing and looked at the waitress (who was a very pretty young girl) who was also laughing.

Ethan was sitting in the backseat all embarrassed, yet proud. It was so funny. However, on the way home we did inform him that it is inappropriate to whistle at girls and that it will not be happening again.

Bangs

After 3 attempts at cutting her own hair, I have decided to finally chop Chezneys hair so that it can finally not be looking quite so homeless. In the process, both girls decided they wanted to have bangs. I know I cut Chezneys bangs a bit too short but they will grow back and I won't have to trim them for awhile ;) (I also will have to straighten the one spot on Danissa in the morning).

I think the bangs make Danissa look younger (which I LOVE), and Chezney looks JUST like Danissa when she was that age with bangs. You'll have to wait and see a comparison photo to see the similarity, but to me, it just brings me back to 5 years ago when another little princess was hopping through this house with wispy bangs....

Danissas Dance

I have failed to get a picture posted of Danissa at dance. Here is the most recent picture I have taken. It was during Halloween week practice, when the kids were encouraged to either dress up or dress as they would like. Danissa was the only class member that decided to take them up on the offer, dressing in her new skirt from Grandma Cheryl. It was also "Bring a friend" week, so breanna and rianne were there, as well.

Discipline

Cohen pooped in his pull-up tonight; wide awake, getting ready for bed. After a mini three year old lecture on how he is already potty trained and cannot do that, he got one swift spanking.

Then I saw Ethan. I could tell that he had peed in his pull-up and he, too, had been wide awake, not even tucked in yet. After lamenting to me about how he couldn't hold it, I told him he would get one spanking for peeing, and ten if he continued to lie. He fessed up quickly and then begged to not have a spanking. After explaining to him that I had to spank him or I would be sinning for not training my child to be honest and make good choices, I proceeded to bend him over and give him a swat.

What happened next has never happened before....

Ethan crawls into my lap bawling and I hold him (I think he was crying more out of embarrassment of his bad choice than pain), and CHEZNEY fell apart to tears beside me. Apparently witnessing Ethan's "torture" had been too much for her and she had to share a cry with her big brother. I just thought that was such a sweet little sister thing to do. =)

Halloween

This was the first year that we went door-to-door trick or treating. The kids had SO much fun! It's definitely going to be what we do next year, as well. We went up to Briarwood and trick or treated. The kids were very timid as they first started, but warmed up to it very quickly. When Cohen first started, he kept the candy in his hand, and the bag in the other hand. It took him awhile to realize that the candy goes into the bag.

It was so much fun to watch their excitement and enjoyment of something new!