100th day of school shirts

 This year the kindergarten classes had to make shirts with 100 items on it instead of dressing like a hundred day old woman.  Eliza picked buttons which we made into this cute tree.  Lucky me I got to sew 100 buttons on.

Grace didn't want to be left out so she made 100 thumbprint ladybugs on hers.

Adam had no interest in making a shirt but told me about 15 different types of beyblades during the conversation about shirts.

Now entering the teen years

 Happy 13th birthday dear Merry.

 She requested red velvet cupcakes as her special treat.

 Such a pretty girl.

 Crazy how the time flies so fast.

 Her blue steel look or mom I am sick of pictures.

 She is a lover of books, drawing, swimming, volleyball and sleeping.

We love having her as part of our family.

Eliza is 6!

 Eliza is six!

 It is taking a little more lung capacity to blow the candles out now.

 She looks so sweet in her pictures.

 But don't let that cute face fool you she is sassy to the bone.

 The whole time I was taking her picture, she was telling me that this was the worst outfit I have ever picked for her.

 Yet she turned on the toothless grin as soon as the camera came up.

 I am hope this strong will makes her an independent woman some day.

 Hope fully after she leaves my house.

 We love our sweet, sassy Eliza.

And her cute freckles too.

Getting in the Christmas Spirit

 All the kids, looking very grown up.

Jacob with a fresh haircut which he dislikes.

Merry in her fuzzy sweater that Eliza kept petting.

Grace and Eliza still like to dress alike.

Adam sporting a Mr. Rogers sweater, I am loving it.

Eliza had a rough day at church, thus the unbrushed hair and lack of shoes.

Halloween

 Jacob as Waldo.

Merry as Rocket Raccoon.

 Grace as Rey

 Adam as Obi Wan

Eliza as Moana.

Front tooth

 Look what happened to Eliza.

 Her other front tooth came out.

Or I helped it out.  It had been hanging there all snaggly and crooked for a couple of day.  So I tied a piece of floss to the tooth and told her to tell her sisters she was going to attach it to the remote control Bat-bot.  She came back in my room giggling because they believed her.  I said let me take the floss off.  I took the string and pulled, the tooth flew out so fast it hit the ceiling and almost hit Brian laying on the bed.  So now we have this cute look and Eliza will have a flossing complex.

It is just the right spot to store something in.  I have no idea what is in her mouth.

I love this cute smile.

Fallish

The beginning of fall is here!  We are color appropriate but the weather here is hotter than the summer.

Merry wore this dress to school for one her dress up days for a volleyball game.

One of her friends told her she looked like a bread maker.

What a cute bread maker she is.

One of Eliza's front teeth came out before church, I love her picket fence smile.

Grace and Eliza posing together.