Av update

Av is doing ok. Better in school than she was. Things are looking up. Still not perfect or anywhere close but better. She is trying really hard and we are working really hard with her. Her teacher is also doing everything she can. I talk to her weekly. Av is happy though. She loves school and loves her friends and loves going. She rides the bus mostly and is very happy still with that. Her is a pic of work that came home today. They do one of these every day. This one just looked so good I had to take a pic and post. Small E's are hard so that makes me ever more proud. Look at her name at the top. Written so well just like the teacher wants her too. Her writing is coming right along. So proud of her!!!

C update

She is something else. Very strong personality. She wears her crown everywhere. Still. She has a mind of her own and no one is going to change it. She is doing well at school and likes it more and more. I think this weekend she is finally going to get her big girl bed!!! She is excited. She still says cold, "told." All her c's are still t's. She LOVES her gymnastics and is pretty good at it too. Somewhere she is picking up very fun phrases like "you are a bad momma" when I don't let her do what she wants to do or "you hurt my feelings" when I told her she had not been nice all day long. Good thing she is super duper cute bc it's the only thing that saves her. heheh

E update

Man he has become trouble trouble trouble. He is in to EVERYTHING. I get him out of something, turn my back and he is right back into it. The dog food, the dog's water, the toilet, the tree, the holiday decorations, the tv cabinet, you name it he is into it. He is at that very fun stage where he knows what he wants and wants to tell you what he wants but he can't so he just makes that super annoying hollering noise. All day long!!! He points at things and yells. If his sisters do something to him good or bad he yells. He just stands there and yells at you. It's kind of funny. He loves books all the sudden. One in particular. It's a big bright book with pics and first words. He demands you sit in his chair with him on your lap and look at it with him over and over again. No other book with do. He is still a TD too. Oh my he stinks. All the time!!! He is cute and sweet though and very happy. He loves life and all there is to discover.

new house

Well I've been MIA again recently. For a totally different reason this time though. We finally found it. We found our house!!! Now we are just in panic mode trying to get our house on the market. No we do not have a contract on the new house yet. It has been on the market for a year so we are letting them sweat a little before we make our offer. J is working on an offer as we speak. We hope to get our house on the market by Jan 1st. Since the new house has been on the market for awhile we are hoping they will accept our contingent offer and we hope we will have the time to sell our house. Our current house is a new updated house in an older very desirable area so we are very hopefully it well sell fast. The plan is to pack most of our stuff and put it in a storage unit while we are in the selling process. So between taking care of 3 crazy kids, getting ready for Christmas I have also been packing, packing, packing. I do it from sun up until well after the sun goes down. I pack while I eat and I swear I am packing while I am sleeping, at least I am dreaming I am. So keep your fingers crossed for us!!!!

Ace

Av said with a crafty grin, "Ace can't see us."

He was found hanging from the ceiling fan yesterday. This morning C said, "Ace gets into a lot of trouble."

they are cute!!

decorating the tree

The girls esp C were soooo excited to decorate the tree. C begged and begged to do it yesterday but the tree was wet from the rain so we didn't want to put lights on it until it dried. The first thing out of her mouth this am was "when can we decorate the tree?" As soon as J walked in they were ready to go. We listened to holiday music and had a great time pulling out all their ornaments. Only about 5 ornaments on the tree are J and mine. The rest are the kids. Each year I get them at least one so someday when they have their own tree they will already have a collection. So I guess someday when they all leave me my tree with be bare. (but they are never leaving me) They love seeing their ornaments from the past years. I love the holidays!!! We tried to take our Christmas card pic but no such luck. E was not a fan of decorating the tree. All we said all night was "no Everett" and everything he tried to touch was taken away from him. By the end he was MAD. Only his milk calmed him down.

Christmas tree

After driving all day Sat we turned around and drove an hour in the rain on Sunday to get our Christmas tree. We had to. J is having his big V this Friday so we can't do it this coming weekend. If we waited till next the kids and I would have one week to enjoy the tree before leaving for WV so it had to be yesterday!! So rain and all after our Sunday boot camp we headed out. We had the time of our life. It was like the best day ever. We arrive at Huber's and got all our warm stuff on. The girls and I have rain boots so they were perfect for the day. We loaded up onto the tractor and headed out to see the trees. We only say 2 other crazy fams out in the rain like us. It was kind of cold but super fun. We found a great tree, cut it down and then drug it back onto the tractor. J tied it to the roof and then we headed inside for some pizza and wine. There happened to be a group having a 60th bday party and a guy singing with his guitar so we joined right in on the dancing. We even got to play the hokey pokey and musical chairs. It was a blast. This is the second year in a row we have cut down our own Christmas tree. I love love love our holiday family traditions. Av was the only one that would go near Santa so she got her pic taken with him. E was way more into the tree than the camera so I could not get a cute one of the 3 of them and then he fell. Poor thing could barely move in the puffy jacket and the snow boots that were way too big for him.