Mollie's black eye

Sunday night at Life Group, Mollie and a boy about her size collided heads. Well, his head, her face! He ran to tell me they'd hit heads and she was flat on the ground. When she finally came to me, she hadn't taken that first breath yet and she already had a blue goose egg under her eye. We've never had a facial injury before. We immediately got her some ice, which she didn't want to hold on until I showed it to her. She is so tough...it has hardly slowed her down. The only picture of the bump was on my cell phone, but here's the black eye on Tuesday.

It actually looks a little worse in real life than I can capture in a picture. Her nose is a little swollen now too!

Santa breakfast and Santa at the bank

Morgan had her first snow day this year last Friday. We played a little in the morning, but it was very frozen and we really couldn't build anything. If I'd have known they weren't going to have school, I wouldn't have put them to bed at 7:30 and let them play in it while it was coming down soft and flaky! By afternoon, most was melted, so we went to the bank where the "good-looking" Santa is!
On Saturday, we had our Breakfast with Santa at our church. We had delicious pancakes from IHOP and the girls had a lot of fun.
Mia and our friends Brian and Cindy's boy Blake. Mia is 3 weeks older than him.


Another picture with Santa...this year was great though because Mia's not old enough to be scared of him. Next year, she'll be screaming in every picture!

Mia was worn out by the time breakfast was served! Notice her hand clenching her toys...

Sharpay's timeout

I just thought this was so cute! A few days ago, Mollie was playing with the Sharpay and Gabriella dolls from HSM. She was trying hard to get a hat on Sharpay, when the doll slipped off the table and fell on Mollie's foot. It hurt her and when she finished crying, I heard her telling Sharpay that she needed to go sit in time out for a few minutes! This caught my attention, especially since we've never put the girls in time-out at home. She took the doll and sat her in the CORNER of our dining room. After about 5 minutes, she told me that it was time for her to go have a little talk with Sharpay so she could get up!

One last trip to Indy before Christmas

The girls and I made one last trip to Indy last weekend. J stayed at home to get some work done...he had been there just 2 weeks before to hunt. It would have been 7 weeks since we'd seen them if we'd just waited until Christmas and no one likes to go that long! Mom and I were able to do a little shopping together while Dad graciously offered to stay home with the girls. We did take Mia with us because it snowed and they wouldn't have been able to play in it if she'd have been there. Morgan and Mollie were SOOOO excited to go sledding since they hardly ever have much snow to play in.
These were snowman pancakes that Grandma made for the girls.
Here is a video of the girls sledding down my parent's driveway. Dad stood at the bottom so he could watch for cars coming!


I made the girls pose by this tree at church Sunday.

Santa's call

Morgan got a phone call from Santa tonight. I was expecting it (since I'd filled out the form), however I had turned it in late so I wasn't sure if he'd still call. She had been in bed for about 20 minutes, but I figured she'd still be awake. She just kept repeating, "yes...yes...yes" and her eyes would get big and then her mouth would fall open, I guess as he talked about getting to work on the specific things she's asked for and as he talked about her sisters. Then she handed the phone to me, but never told him goodbye. I hung up, only to find out that he had wanted to talk to Mollie too. She was too speechless to tell me that! She just kept saying, "was that the real Santa?". This may have been just what she needed this year....she's at that age where she's asking a LOT of questions and starting to wonder.....

Thanksgiving

We have returned from a long weekend in Birmingham for Thanksgiving. I got a little shopping done but couldn't take full advantage of the Friday deals due to a Herring family picture at 10am! Obviously, I didn't schedule the time. Jason's mom and I headed out around 5:15 and were back by 8am to get cleaned up for the pictures. We were at a beautiful park (but it was a cloudy, gloomy day) but I felt like I was constantly getting on to the girls about running, climbing, etc in their dresses. We weren't exactly dressed to "play" at the park!
Most pictures turned out okay but Mia was tired and wouldn't smile for anything! Here are a few from my camera....I haven't seen the real proofs yet!

This is J's cousin Bryan and his wife Jenny's youngest daughter, Megan, who is 5 months older than Mia.
Lots of smiles from Mia later in the weekend ....just not while wearing red for card pictures!!
I know I shouldn't do this, but they hardly ever all take a bath together anymore. I made everyone cover any private parts!

Some random pictures

The girls (during the sleepover) were making bracelets. Notice that it was about 10pm...check out Mollie's face. She was determined to hang with the big girls!

Daddy performed a magic show for the girls. As you can tell by their faces, they LOVED it!

Here is Mollie sitting with her class ready to perform for the Thanksgiving feast!

My beautiful girls!

Morgan's HSM cake for the family party!

Emma and Morgan were holding hands apparantly and Emma fell asleep watching HSM. This was around 10:30 and the room was dark.

Morgan's best friends!

Maggie Moos party

Morgan had one of the coolest birthday parties with her friends last Friday at Maggie Moos.
Each girl got to go back to the frozen slab and mix together whatever topping they wanted in their ice cream.

Here is the group of girls posing with Maggie the cow!

The girls also got to go back and make a batch of Chocolate Better Batter ice cream! Since ice cream is Morgan's favorite food, this party was right up her alley. Thank you Jason for coming up with such a neat idea!

Amazing!

We went today for Mia's 4 month appointment. I knew she was a little chunk, but didn't realize just how much. She weighed 16lbs 12oz!!!!! My other girls were just 15.6 and 15.1 at this same age! No more kids for us...they just keep getting bigger! You hear of those kids who can't turn the carseat around when they turn 1 because they don't yet weigh 20lbs....we'll be there by 6 months!!!

Heavy wetter!

I just had to share what we find nearly every morning. This picture was the worst morning, but almost every morning the bed and her pajamas are a little wet. Obviously, we had to go straight to the bathtub that morning! Neither Morgan nor Mollie ever did this. The dr told me to double up her diaper at night and put a bigger size on top of her normal size! We're trying that tonight!

Happy Halloween 2008!

We Trick-or-Treated for a short time tonight before the girls got cold and tired of walking and wanted to come home! I think they had a better time answering the door and handing out the candy. At least Mollie didn't cry and go hysterical this year at every mask or painted face she saw. She only cried once because of a dog!

Mia must be thinking..."Do I really have to wear this huge fluffy dress again?!"

Our three princesses...
Here's how Mia felt after her first night of trick-or-treating! Check out her thunder thighs!

Pinkalicious!

Morgan had to dress as a storybook character today. They weren't supposed to just wear their Halloween costumes....so this was the way of getting around that! We chose Pinkalicious about a little girl who eats too many pink cupcakes and turns entirely pink. It's a really cute story.

Mia's new talent!

Just tonight while we were eating dinner, Mia discovered that she can hit her toys in her bouncy seat. She was so cute winding up to swing at them. I think she's right-handed. Her eyes would get huge after she'd hit something like "did I do that?" and then she smiles like she's so proud! So sweet!

She lost it!!

Morgan FINALLY lost her first tooth yesterday at school. She had been very anxious since she's about to turn 7!!! It had been barely hanging on for a couple weeks now, but being her first, she wouldn't let anyone touch it to get it out. She said it fell out and didn't even hurt. The tooth fairy was very generous since it was the first one!

Columbus Day skit

Morgan's 1st grade class had a Columbus Day skit this afternoon. Mollie, Mia and I were able to go. Mia was tired and fussy but fortunately an E.A. (that we know well from me helping so much last year) took her so that I could video and stay in the room!

Mollie and Cecily's play day!

On Wednesday, we had Cecily all day (the time that Morgan was at school anyway 7:30-2:45). Cecily is 3 months to the day older than Mollie. They haven't played together in over a year because her family moved to Chattanooga last June. Her mom, Shelle, is one of my very best friends who I spent nearly every day with, either working out, having lunch or doing school or church stuff. Their son is just 3 days younger than Morgan, Tim and Shelle were married the week after Jason and me and on and on. Needless to say, we miss them very much and Mollie was thrilled when she got to spend the day with Cecily!

....watching a few minutes of TV

She wouldn't smile for a pretty picture!

....swinging on the glider

She decided to play dolls...with Mia!!! Mia thought it was funny though!

....coloring pictures....Notice Mia laying in front of them!
....silly faces!!!
They had a fun day together!

Fall Festival with church group at Pumpkin Farm

As soon as we returned from our weekend in Birmingham, we hurried and got ready for our church's Fall Festival at the Pumpkin Farm. The kids were supposed to wear their costumes, but when you're a princess, it's a little difficult to run around a farm! We made do and had lots of fun. ...ready to leave...I had Mia propped up in a Bumbo seat so I could get her dress better but she couldn't hold herself very well!

Mollie and Morgan...
Mollie feeding some goats!
They finally made their way out of the corn maze!
A family picture ...except Sleeping Beauty (aka Mia) was asleep and I wasn't about to wake her for a picture!
The girls with some of their friends.Cinderella and Snow White

Pumping water at a well...
They loved the tire swing!
..another sister shot