(sigh) There's been so many super exciting, amazing things that I've been up to this last month it's going to be hard to choose what to blog about...
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Let's see. Danica is liking school. She tells me about recess(if they get to go out-which they seem to not if it's really raining. Poor kids.) She also tells me about what they had for snack which more often than not seems to involve some combination of crackers, carrots, bananas and apples. She spoke every day about not being the "shining star" of the day until lo and behold one day I picked her up and she was wearing a great big star sticker on her shirt. =) Apparently there is a "star" everyday who gets a couple extra tasks to do. Moving nametags was all I got Danica to tell me. When I went to open house I did see that they also get interviewed. She comes home with a lot of crafts and practice sheets for letters and numbers that she's done. She also has acquired a knowledge of nursery rhymes? I thought that a really random thing to be teaching the kids. She got to go to the pumpkin patch with her class last Monday. Her first field trip! Isn't that the greatest thing about school?! I always loved field trips. Anyhow. I'm really glad she's enjoying it.
And in other things Danica...She got a hair cut the other day. She's been begging me to get it cut since last year when she came home from daycare saying her friend got her haircut to her chin. I kept putting it off because I liked her hair long and was afraid if she chopped it off I wouldn't be able to do anything with it. It's curly underneath and straight on top so I liked it long enough to braid and put up in ponies and pigtails, etc. I thought maybe she'd change her mind when she got to school. Nope. BUT when I took her in she decided she wanted it shoulder length instead of chin length. Phew! I ended up really liking it so I'm glad she kept insisting. =)
Mira is doing well. I like to call her Mimi just to drive Rob crazy. She is still so fussy but also quite entertaining and darling. As soon as she's put down she flips over. She's made it pretty far across the room rolling. The first night she started this, just a few days ago, she rolled over to the xbox(which was in use) and was stretching with both her arms and legs to get to the lit up 'on' button. haha. Her daddy caught her in time. =) She is still spitting up buckets but she's got enough chub that we're not worried. She likes pulling her socks off and playing with her feet. She also likes knocking down her stacking cups and getting read to. Which of course I enjoy. =) She's been really hit and miss with her sleeping habits. She resorted to waking up every one to two hours during the night several times these past couple weeks. That was... fun. She won't sleep in her crib well at all in the morning. I tried to get her to go back to bed in it several times this morning...I think it was around 6-7...She would just fidget and whine. As soon as I laid her down on my bed she zonked. Hmm, her hair is still slowly coming out. It's still long in the center on the top of her head. She could have a great mohawk. =)
I'm good. I've been in the mood to read. I've been rereading the Twilight series, including the excerpt from Midnight Sun, just for kicks. I need to go to the library, desperately. I got released from my calling in primary so I get to bum around for a little while. I love my life! I play around with my kids and hang out with my mom a lot. =) I'm getting my haircut on Thursday. That's big news for me. haha.
Rob has been working about 20 hours a week at the courthouse. He is still "enjoying" that. I would find it depressing hearing all the terrible things people do to one another. It's way out of the la-la land I prefer to live in. He has turned in part of his application for the masters program at U of O. He takes the GRE later this week. I know he's also applied for some jobs around the U.S. I think gov't jobs?... Is it terrible that I'm hoping he gets in/chooses the masters program? I'm not ready to leave Eugene. =(
We got family pictures taken the other day. I LOVE them. Click
here to check them out.
Okay, this is really pathetic of me but that was the first link I've made. I had no idea it was so easy. Since I am now so talented I can post this
link to Mimi's newborn photos. Considering babes was crying the whole time I was impressed at the great pics Brenley got. =)
And here are the pictures that should be expertly dispersed throughout the text... don't you think blogger should allow you to insert a picture wherever...easily?!
Mimi pulling her socks off.
The girls right before walking Danica to school. (We walk most days.)
Awe =)
Danica at the Rotary Duck Race.
Danica has been making gingerbread men at home and school...new hobby?
Danica posed for some pics while I played with the settings on Neil's camera.
Getting her haircut...
Mimi at 4 months...
She rolled OVER her toys to get there. haha. What fun tricks!
Neil thinks I should chop my hair off...
They had things like this set up randomly around the farm. Fun!
Bone's Bend Pumpkin Patch...of rotting pumpkins.
My there's a super bright pumpkin out there...
Danica and I with our favorite rotting pumpkins....maybe it's so you don't need to carve them? You can just jab your finger into them and make designs? Kid friendly pumpkins anyone?
We played tag. 
Sisters.
