Adelynn's Glasses

Adelynn got glasses! We think this should help with some of her learning-to-read problems-- she kept getting headaches after just a few minutes of reading.

Halloween

This Halloween was rather strange... I didn't trick or treat, and we didn't carve pumpkins. However, I did finish my Elf costume! William, Nicholas, and I all were Lord of the Rings characters!

The pictures were taken on Dad's camera, and they wound up with Grandma (since Dad is staying at Grandma and Papa's house during the week while he's commuting until we move), and she edited them and put them on facebook. Of course, these aren't all the pictures, but let's just call it a teaser, shall we? Someday I would like to do a true photoshoot. :)

Frodo, smoking the Longbottom Leaf of Hobbit fame as he stares, ponderously, into the distance. (Note that the Ring of Power is around his neck!)

< Frodo, in a very epic pose. :)Nicholas wore his Easter outfit from last year (I was the one who pointed out that the vest was quite the Hobbit style!), a cloak made by Mom, and the Ring of Power (from Ben's Lord of the Rings Risk game) around a chain.

Strider, a Ranger from the North

Elendil, king of Gondor and Arnor

Aragorn, son of Arathorn

< Aragorn, prepared to charge into battle. William saved up his money to buy a real (albeit unsharpened) sword- a replica's of Aragorn from when he was still known as the Ranger from the North (in other words, not the sword of Narsil). It is a very nice sword. William wore a "chainmaille" shirt found at Goodwill, a fake leather tunic made by Mom, jeans, Mom's boots, and a homemade cloak. He stole my Evenstar for the costume, and I also made him "The Ring of Barahir" (aka Aragorn's ring).

^The only picture of my cotume you'll get to see for awhile! I made the costume (jewelry included!) entirely by myself. Well, Mom helped me figure out the sewing pattern and she sewed the collar on. But other than that!

Okay, so Ben was just too funny. He sat there with the thing of candy, and would randomly start talking or moving. We got several screams!

Three our four people read the "Mean Ogre" sign. They read it aloud, and as they were finishing, Ben cried indignantly, "I'm not mean!"

The funniest incident was probably with a few teen girls. I didn't get to see this one, but from what he said...

The two girls walked forward and read the signs.

"Should I grab some candy?" (in a tone of surpressed horror)

"I don't know, its probably a person tricking us."

"I dunno, it doesn't look real."

"You get the candy."
"I don't want to."

"Is it real?"

"Let's throw a rock at it and see."

As you can imagine, Ben was rather concerned that they would chuck a rock at his head. Instead, they threw a bag of candy at him and then ran away without getting the bag or the candy from Ben. !!!

Marcus was originally going to be King Theoden (or at least, a king with a sword and all, us Tolkien geeks named him Theoden), but he wouldn't wear the costume. So he was a firefighter instead.

Adelynn was the most darling little pink bunny rabbit EVER!

The Little Physicist

For the past several months, I have spasmodically been teaching Adelynn ballet. Rosie is also quite the accomplished gymnast- not a day goes by when she doesn't turn ten cartwheels out of extreme hyperness. Yesterday she was twirling around the living room, jumping jetes across the carpet. I noticed that she was flexing her foot as she jumped. In both ballet and gymnastics, a pointed foot is important.

"Adelynn," I said, "What does your foot have to do when it is in the air?"

Adelynn, with perfect logic and sincerity, answered, "Land."

The Muny

On Sunday I went to the Muny!!! The Nisbetts and some other people from Fine Linen Drama rode up to watch "Annie" in the Muny's free seats. I hitched a ride at the last minute. :) 

Three "beautiful maidens" in the backseat. 

Best buds

Elise, trying on the beautiful paper hat that they were handing out. 

 Benjamin and the mutilated fan

The Muny is gigantic!

We were stuck in traffic for an hour on the way up. The guys in the Nisbett van decided to taunt us with Oreos. LOL

Then they discovered a dry erase board. The first one says Turn Around and the other one says Do a Dance.

"Annie" started after eight, and it was two in the morning before we got back. Weeeeell, I had to get up for volleyball open gym at nine. I was going to take a nap after volleyball, but then we discovered we were showing the house. To top all that, we were watching Michelle and Andrew because Bob is in the hospital with. After we showed the house and the Woodleys left, I babysat Nick, Addie, and Mark while Mom took the other boys to Boy Scouts. We were watching TV, Nick found a Star Trek Next Generation episode. So of course I got hooked on that and stayed up even later. The next morning I slep until TEN!!! !!! !!!

Oh, yes, one other thing. Adelynn comendeered by bed last night. I set up the canapy for her. WARNING: If you have a younger sister and a canapy, DO NOT set it up and let her sleep in your bed. SHE WILL WANT TO SLEEP IN IT FOR FOREVER!!!

Precious

Guess what? Marcus learned to smile for the camera! (I bribed him. If he smiled for a picture, I let him hold the camera and look at the picture of himself- he loved that!)

Unfortunately, he would reach for the camera too quickly. In this picture, he is less than four inches away from the lense!

I'm very speedy, you know. I can stick my face in the camera only moments before the flash goes off.

The little model. If the camera is out, there she is!

Fascinating! I can stick my finger on the lenses, and Shaylynn gets upset!

Go away

Playing with the volleyball that he's never allowed to touch!

Posing

Hello.

Awww...

Adelynn and I

Adelynn found a box with some of my old dresses and immediately fell in love with them!

Adelynn, age 5

Shaylynn, age 4

There doesn't look like much similarity there, aside from the dress. In this picture, however, there is a hint of Addie's grin.

Nick and Addie's Party at Trish's

Wednesday, we went to Trish and Nick's new house for Nick and Addie's Birthday party with Grandma, Papa, Trish, and Nick.

The two birthday kids.

Trish and Nick gave Adelynn a box of hair bows.

Too sweet.
Grandma and Papa gave her the new Tinkerbell movie

Nick's present was Mario Galaxy for the Wii

His big bro liked it, too

I told him to smile. This is what I get.

Adelynn got a bike! It is Kennedy's (Nick's neice, I think. My uncle Nick, not brother.) old bike, but looks like new!

The cake had TONS of icing! YUM!