Glasses!

Melissa got glasses today! She's very excited. She and Jessica both have strabismus, which means one of their eyes float toward the center when they try to focus on certain things. They actually have the exact same prescription, and they both get to patch their right eyes for a couple hours a day. If their mom can remember, that is.

Baby Girls in Overalls

Here are all my girls, mostly at 5 months old (missy's a little older), on my bed, in the same outfit. A post 9 years in the making . . .

Natalie

Jessica

Melissa

Amanda

Halloweeeeen!

Okay, I'm finally posting my halloween pictures! I broke my camera so I had to take these with Jason's fancy schmancy work camera. Then I had to like, figure out how to get them on my computer and stuff.

This year I really got to start experiencing the joys of hand-me-down costumes, so this entry will include costume history as well. Ahem:

Here's Jessie as a clown. I bought this one for Nat when she was this age.

Natalie decided to be a leprechaun because there was a box of lucky charms on the counter when I asked if she could be something a little easier than Nanny McPhee. So I made this. I really like the hat.

I also painstakingly taped all that gold into her pot.

And Josh was a mummy! This costume was so much more work than I thought it would be!

Missy wore the blue's clues costume that I made for Natalie when she was 3.

And here's Mandie in the pea pod costume that I made for Josh and has been worn by every baby since.

The three big kids went trick-or-treating all by themselves! They went while it was still light, then we all went to a trunk-or-treat.

We got home by 7, which was nice because we had time to watch the all-important Charlie Brown Halloween movie.