Halloween

 

Here are the kids as they are about to go out to gather some candy. Ilea is a mummy and Kyler is the Blue Power Ranger (obviosouly). 

Sad Day for glass

Hi All,

Last week during the night of 10/24 someone took a bat or a sledge hammer to our front yard lamp. I had stained glass of autumn leaves in it. I have had stained glass in it for almost a year, changing the panels out with different seasons. It made me so sad to see the lamp smashed. They hit it so hard that they broke the concrete block it was set in. No other vandalism in the neighborhood, so I guess they just didn't like that light. Also there was glass all over the place. You can see some of the yellow and red on the ground.

Ilea beats herself up!

On Oct 13, the kids had the day off from school. So Marian and I took them to the zoo. Walking INTO the zoo, from the parking lot to the front entrance, Ilea was balancing on a curb. She slipped and really got hurt. She scraped up her whole right shin quite badly, left thigh (she was wearing a skirt since it was such a nice day), left elbow, and she must have hit her head. I didn't notice that one right away. At the front, I asked about bandaids. They said she was hurt too badly, and we should go to the first aid station. So Marian took the kids to a play area, and we went there. It was starting to hurt Ilea a little more, and the leg was bleeding more. She said her head hurt, so I pulled back her hair and saw the knot forming. The nurse was alarmed at that, and called an EMT who is on staff. He didn't think anything was seriously hurt, and Ilea really wanted to stay at the zoo. The poor nurse forgot how this happened, and trying to distract Ilea, asked her what her favorite thing she had seen so far was. Ilea wailed, "Nothing! We haven't even gotten in yet!" Poor thing. She got LOTS of bandaids on her legs, arms, and ice for her head. She was fine.

Kyler loses his first tooth.

Kyler lost his first tooth on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006. The tooth started wiggling while we were in whistler (a month ago) and he was very stressed about it any time we told him to keep wiggling it. That night it was so wiggly, it started to bleed so we used some tissue to dry it and Jenny ended up pulling it out without any pain to the patient.

Eniey Miney Minny Moe

Tonight it is Kyler's day to take a bath but he didn't want to so he decided to do "Eniey Miney Minny Moe" between Ilea and him to decide who was going to be the one to take the bath. After going through the whole thing, he ended up still being it.