Another minorly confusing day – mainly due to the fact that the entire crew had to be dressed to the nines and out the door by 5:30 to make our 6pm photo appointment! Early dinner for the kids, quick nap for Ken, the usual mass confusion getting dressed and out the door. Of course once we get there Trinity decided to have what best could be termed as a strop (thank you Cheryl for the awesome British term!)… This year they did the photos in a smaller room which was dark with the lamps and the flash she full out FREAKED, but our photographer Morris was calm and cool and got some terrific shots… even a couple of sweet ones of Trinity. I was just happy all the kids were dressed and in the picture!

I will not have the pictures for a little bit but I do have a few we took at home afterwards to share here. Trinity’s dress was a gift from my mom (a total deal – 4.00 tags still on!), the boys all wore what they wore to my mom’s wedding, Ken wore his one of two dress shirts and I wore the top I actually bought and wore for our first Anniversary back in 2002!

Zander Had Suspenders On Too

At Home She Smiles!

A Favourite Outfit

I got a package in the mail, in a plastic bag no less! Open carefully it said and I did and WOW! Thank you Michaella!!! I had mentioned to her that Trinity kept stealing Emanuel’s Pocoyo dolly (we really lucked out with that one as we got it the one time Toys R Us carried the merchandise) and low and behold what was crammed in the box?? A tiny perfect Pocoyo dolly… a card game AND skull lollies! How spoiled do I feel! I cannot wait until I have the postage to send off the stitches and craft I have waiting for her and the kids!

Tiny Box!!!

Thank You!!!

School wise the boys worked on their shapes and colours lapbook – completion is imminent and I feel we have learned enough to NOT have it drag out  this long next time (ie. FALL). Sadly I ran out of toner so now only black and white printing until we can scrape together the 100.00 (GULP) for the new one – the thing is we just ran out of the one that came with the printer 6 months or more ago… and our brand new black one is still too full for it to even know how many pages we have left. It is so worth it but it is that initial 100.00 that makes  you go OUCH! Luckily I got all the Pumpkin stuff printed. And of course we took some time to glitter some pinecones!

Glittery!

Pumpkins was the other focus today – we mixed red and yellow to make orange, coloured P is for pumpkin and the twins coloured the stages of a pumpkin from seed to pie… I will cut those out, mix them up and then have the boys sort them to make into the little book.

P is for Pumpkin

From Seed to Pie

With the mixing of paints we also painted… today was more of a one colour day – Emanuel blue, Gavin brown and Zander purple… water, water and wall… creativity abounds! They had fun for sure!

Finished Paintings

Tomorrow is going to be a baking day… two different kinds of cookies AND the soon to be birthday boy has requested Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! I will definitely post the recipe… that and a trip to the library and I am hoping the local thread store for some advent exchange hunting will keep us busy.

So Busy We Wear Out the Baby!