Locks of Love

Sophie has been growing her hair out for a couple of years and decided it was time to go shorter. She donated her hair to Locks of Love.

Before: Going...
Going....
GONE!!!!

After!

Halloween '10

So, I am a little late...please forgive me!! Here is Allison all decked out for her class Fall Party...All of the kiddos, er Hannah Montana, Minnie Mouse, and Darth Vader, anxiously waiting to go...
And they're off.....
Our friendly ghost...
And at last --- sorting the stash!!!

Orange It Is!!

Had to happen sooner or later...right?

Jason took a fall yesterday. Nothing exciting...just started to run, lost his footing, and fell. The scream was awful, but arm didn't look to bad and he was able to move it, so we decided to wait and see.

He was pretty tired when we put him to bed and he fell asleep okay. But, a while later he was awake complaining of arm pain again. After the second wake up, we gave him some Motrin.

This morning he was up and around okay, but the arm was still hurting and he was not too excited about going to school and someone bumping into the arm. So, he stayed home and we call the pediatrician. Several hours later and after an additional visit to the pediatric orthopedist, here it is.....the right arm with TWO broken bones just below the elbow!!!

Here he is enjoying his treat for being such a big boy at the doctor! He's in a temporary cast for about a week. Then he gets a hard cast to wear for about 4 weeks? Any guesses as to the color of the next cast?????

Allison Jumps

Allison likes to jump!

EGGS-periment

Sophie's 'I Wonder' project for school was to test whether different drinks stain teeth. So, we hard boiled some eggs yesterday to use as teeth doubles. Then Sophie was up and dressed at 6:02 AM this morning!!! Here are the pictures from the day:

Supplies ready...
Dropping eggs in different types of drinks...

From left to right in the pic below, the liquids are water, tea (which she brewed herself this morning -- extra dark), Orange Crush soda, chocolate milk, grape juice, Cherry 7UP, Fruit Punch KoolAid, Dr Pepper, V8 Spicy Hot. Sophie's guess was that Dr. Pepper, tea and grape juice would be the leading offenders. The older kids had an Early Release day today, so school got out at noon. After 6 hours of soaking, Sophie took the eggs out...

She really didn't like the V8!!

After taking notes about what they looked like right out of the liquid, Sophie then tested the benefit of brushing!! You can even see the white spots on a couple of the eggs that she had already brushed.

Turned out that grape juice cleaned up OK, but tea and Dr. Pepper drinkers ........BEWARE!!

Summer Sketches 2010

Sophie, Jason, and Allison love to draw. Many summer afternoons were spent coloring in the game room. Here is a sample of their sketches from this past summer.

Allison mainly likes to color rather than draw.




Jason sometimes draws things like these butterflies.....

But he more likes to color a patch completely. This is an often rendered portrait of Daddy (or it might be a self portrait).

Rockets were a main topic this summer for Sophie.

This was actually from back in the spring. I couldn't believe Sophie drew this one because it looks so good, but then I saw the humor and sure enough, it's Sophie's.