Mousey's 7th Birthday

Today is Mousey's birthday. It was low key, as Addie's was. She asked for spaghetti for supper and she had an ice cream and oreo cake, which seemed to make her happy. This week she was pulling on her gloves with her teeth and out popped two of her bottom teeth. I guess they went flying across the hall. The nurse said she never had a child lose two teeth at once. Mousey has a gap between her two top teeth and now with missing her bottom teeth she has a hard time talking, which is hysterical. Sometimes we make her say words a couple of times just so we can laugh.

Mousey, 3 days old


Bottom toothless



Saturday Cupcake Party


Birthday Dinner

Addie's Birthday

Today is Addie's 4th birthday. Birthdays are when I notice how fast time flies the most. This week I get triple whammied, since my birthday is first (and I just keep getting older), then Addie, and then Mousey. On this day, four years ago, we turned in our initial paperwork to the adoption agency. When we accepted our referral, we realized that we had turned in the paperwork right on her birthday. Coincidence? No way. Some things are just meant to be.

Miss Addisyn Lucia May, 5 days old


Addie after a makeover by her sister (can you SEE all the glitter?).


Tonight's celebration.


Saturday's Cupcake party.

Addie's Christmas Concert

This was a small portion of Addie's Christmas concert. She sang and then was a Wiseman in a little play of the Nativity scene. It was adorable of course, except for the fact that someone else's boy kept stepping in front of her so we really only got to see about half of her performance. It was still great though.

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Wrestling

We have stumbled into the wonderful world of wrestling. Goose decided it was something that he wanted to try and so we put him into a free wrestling program that is offered through our HS wrestling program in the district. My thoughts are that they are "grooming" future wrestlers. We were unsure how this was going to go. Goose has never been in anything on his own. Someone else in the family always does whatever he does also. Rocket plays football, Goose plays football. Rocket plays baseball, Goose plays baseball. Mousey does gymnastics, Goose did gymnastics. They all go to religious ed together. This was going to be different for him, but I think it is going to be a huge self esteem booster which would be awesome for Goose. Thankfully, he is naturally very good at this. Gymnastics has made him very strong, even though he is a skinny little bugger. He lost his first match of his first tournament to a little guy who had been wrestling for four years. We were just glad he didn't get pinned! The second match he wrestled a little girl who was one tough chick. He won that match 7-6. Once he gets some strategies under his belt we think he is going to do really well.

Halloween Week

This week we finished up our Halloween festivities. We went to get our pumpkins late because we didn't get them before it started to rain, and it rained for about 7 days straight. The result was slim pickins at the pumpkins patch. It was also that it was a mess actually getting the pumpkins because it was so muddy that if you weren't careful you could sink up to your ankles. Rocket's pumpkin was still green on one side.






We carved the pumpkins on Thursday. The kids always like basic faces, although Mousey and Goose went for stars for eyes this year.










And finally, Halloween. Yesterday was a fun Halloween. I wasn't expecting it because it was so flippin' cold out, and I am not a big fan of the cold. Addie was a total trooper. We think she was just so happy to be Cinderella.