Eating Cake

The Cake

Mom got decorator icing and an icing kit. This is my first attempt:

Nicholas put on the strawberry icing. He decided that he did not want to attempt the flowers.

Adelynn is 5

Adelynn turned 5 on November 25th. She was so sweet!

She wore the same outfit that she wore to the play, only without the ribbons in her hair. Instead, she but a bow right smack in the middle of her head. Oh, well.

I made her a little crocheted ballet bun holder. She wanted to be a "real" ballerina. I told her that we will ask Mom about getting "real" ballet shoes when she actually learns her first dance. (Walmart has pink ballet flats that look like the real thing.) However, I still have not finished choreographing her dance (I do not know that much ballet, and it is hard to teach her simple things- she keeps falling over when she does pirouettes and she waves her arms like a bird while doing an arabesque.)

Mom and Dad got Adelynn a Dora paint-by-number (she looks at the pictures and attempts to match the colors, stubbornly refusing to use the numbers) and a, what is it, Bella Dancerella dance thing. Basically, it is a movie "Bella", a teenage girl, dancing and looking positively ridiculous with a big pink plastic wand, five little girls dancing with her, and a dance mat that you stand on. Adelynn got upset that the movie did not teach her how to dance, but she loves to pull out the mat and practice first through third positions.

Mom made the mistake of handing Nick the video camera. I now have a video of Nick's teeth, the ceiling light, the bow on Adelynn's head, and someone's toe, but no video of Adelynn opening the presents. Oh, well.

I can't believe how old she is! Five already! And she is so sweet. Mom asked her if her birthday was good, and she said, "almost". Mom asked what she could do to make it better. Adelynn looked at her, and said, "No fighting." (Her birthday was a cleaning day for the rest of us, and everyone was being pretty cranky to everyone but her).

Oh, my, am I THAT late?

It's been alot longer than I realized since my last post! So sorry! There is much to post about... Right now I have some of my pictures downloading. New post in a few minutes!!!

So Sweet

Adelynn was going to see "It's a Wonderful Life- The Musical" over at OAT, and asked for "curly" hair. It just turned out so cute! I think that I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

And- of course we can't forget Marcus!

Swim Team

Whew! I had swim team tonight (my second time), and BOY am I tired. I am amazed at how well the other kids did- they kept passing me up and one girl was only half a foot higher than my waist. lol. I have alot to work for, but even though it is so hard it is tons of fun. Apparently, though, I have been doing the breast stroke wrong all along, and now in addition to having to learn the stroke from the top, I have to unlearn what I have been doing for ages.

Prayers

My cousin Kaleb was in the hospital. He had an asthma attack while watching his dad coach a basketball thing, and was unconscious for a long time. Last we heard (a couple days ago) he was in the ICU. Prayers, please.

Solved- finally

My aunt just told me that they finally solved the crime and the guy who killed my great-aunt Joyce (right side of the picture) 8 years ago is in jail for 27 years. Here is a link to a (really) short report on it:
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=160621&catid=3#c

UPDATE: There is a video in the right-hand corner.

Crocheting

This volleyball season, we had Secret Sisters. The coaches paired us up with other girls, and throughout the season, we left our Secret Sister gifts without them knowing who it was. My secret sister was Megan Reifer. She made me a cute crocheted hair scrunchie. So I decided to teach myself crocheting. Of course, Adelynn wanted to learn, too.

Some of my creations so far. I do not have any patterns for these, so I had quite a time figuring out how to do it! Adelynn's favorite is the doll scarf. It got progressively smaller. No clue what I did!

I like posting about random things- closets

The other week Adelynn and I cleaned out our closets. I took out the clothes that don't fit, then organized it all. First my old fancy dresses, then dress-up dresses, then dresses, then skirts, then sports Tshirts, then short sleeve shirts, then long sleeve shirts, then sweaters. Now Adelynn's dresses are all in my closet, too. Plus my art supplies.
Adelynn has got all of her summer clothes packed away and her shirts are in her wardrobe. Note the takeover of the doll clothes on the bottom of her closet.














Now if only the rest of our room were that clean.