October 09

Well October has come and gone (fast). To start off with, we were blessed with many visitors. We had Leslie, Matt, Roman, Jenny, Ben and Maddie come stay at our house for a few days. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN! Greg asked me yesterday when they were coming back. On Friday Night we had everyone over, there were 11 kids running around (except Roman he can't even walk yet) It was very noisy and chaotic and I Loved it. We went to the lake with them everyday! We hope they enjoyed it too and would love for them all to come back again next year. Then a few weeks later we got to spend 5 days with Mike and Allison. We always seem to enjoy there company!
Okay, I never wrote about this before, but it started last month not in October, but Little Morgan is in School. It it kinda sad that all my girls are old enough to be in school. She loves it. I really don't get to see her there, she goes to school when I'm at work. Greg drops her off at Jenny and Steve's and they take her and pick her up. Its Wed and Friday at a Baptist Church, and I love her Preschool, they do some really neat stuff. They had a Father's night on the 28th so Greg and Morgan went and they did some crafts and painted and ate Ice Cream. Greg had a great time with her.
Riley LOVES kindergarten. She has the same teacher Julia had in Kindergarten, Mrs. Salce. She is a really nice teacher and Riley is doing very well. She brings homework home every Monday and she is supposed to do one page a night, its done Monday night and she is asking for more! I hope she keeps up the good habits! Tonight she brought home her first book from school. She read the whole thing to me with out help! I'm very proud of her and glad she is so excited to learn. She is also playing soccer, her team is awesome! Riley plays very well and that's definitely one of my favorite parts of the week is to go to her games. She seems to have a nice cheering squad, Steve and Marcel have been to every game to support her, and she had many other family members come out to watch too.
Julia is doing so much better in 2nd grade than 1st. She likes her teacher and she just started to like reading. I'm SOOO happy she enjoys it. She reads every night before bed and she loves to read to her sisters. Julia has been busy with Brownies, they meet every other week and have a fun schedule this year. So get ready everyone, Girl Scout Cookies this year!! Julia fit in well this month will a jack o lantern smile. She has lost a total of 6 teeth, 3 within the last few weeks. Julia went to a Vet Clinic this month, she has started to become real passionate about animals (she always has been, but she is definitely expressing it more now). I have had many conversations with her about killing animals. I have a feeling that she will become a vegetarian pretty soon, except I don't think she could give up the bacon (Like her Aunt Jessie) She asks me all kinds of questions like if I would ever kill an animal, I told her I would if I was stranded on an island and needed food, she said she would die first.
Which brings me to the next story, Julia and Riley got bit by dogs a few weeks ago. They went to visit the new puppies next door to Jenny and Steve and the owners weren't home. The mom and another dog didn't like the girls coming over so they were protecting the puppies and started to attack the girls. Julia got bit once and Riley got bit 3 times. Poor girls I felt really bad, but in the middle of the attach Julia was trying to get away and stepped on one of the puppies. It was very sad. I felt bad for poor Jules, but she seems to have mad a full recovery!
We just separated the girls into there own rooms. Julia took over the toy room and Riley kept her room. Now we have to start the decoration process. Julia is going to have rainbow room(sorta, more like a colorful room) and Riley, well....not sure yet since she changes her mind all the time, but right now she is wanting a zebra room. We started on Julia's this last weekend, and its coming along, Greg is paneling the walls. I hope to post a picture when the wall are done, but we've got a long way to go on the decorations.
Halloween this year was fun. Now that they are older they are funny, even Morgan can keep up (for the most part) with them. We went to all four blocks in our neighborhood and they said Trick or Treat and Thank you to everyone, which is a big deal since the majority of kids that came to my door never said thank you. They got so much candy, when we got home they dumped there candy on the ground and started to dig in, we let them eat as much as they wanted and they took full advantage of it! Julia even received a King size Snickers bar because the guy thought it was the best costume of the night(which I was very happy about because she came up with the idea herself and we had to put it together, which is something I don't do very often). We have hundreds of kids in our neighborhood, every year I run out of candy, and we aren't even home much for the trick or treaters! When we were out the fire truck came by and they were passing out candy, It was pretty neat, they turned there lights on for the girls and everything. I was exhausted by the end, I have now Idea how they ran the whole time, even Morgan. Wait.. I know..it was all the sugar!Ok that's it for now, hopefully I'll write again sooner.