Little Miss Personality

 Look at this precious little girly-girl.  She looks dainty and maybe even frail.  She looks like Alexa, but that's not really Alexa.  Or that's not an accurate portrait, anyway!

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THIS is Alexa.

She's doing what I can best call back-flops (as opposed to belly-flops) from the top of her pack-n-play.   In her other Halloween portrait, she is sitting on, rather than delicately holding, the pumpkin.  She climbs and jumps from everything in sight.  In fact, she was hanging from the edge of the desk at the portrait studio, walking her legs up (similar to the picture above) and letting go to imitate (as best as I can tell) Big Brother during his gymnastics classes.  And when she'd fall on her back, she'd just laugh and do it all over again!

This little princess has beauty, brains, and brawn.  Watch out world!

Bubby's!

I think there is nothing Billy gets more excited about in his world than his grandparents!  He starts bouncing off the walls, ceilings, floors, and me at the very mention of them.  He got to spend last Saturday night with his Bubby and Papa. He was excited to tell us about all of the things he got to do there that he doesn't do often here, such as watch TWO movies and to show her his new soccer skills.

He's been having some reservations about the monsters that supposedly hang out in his room at night, but after a good night at Bubby's and a heavy dose "love-your-monster" books, he seemed to do much better last week! 

GO DOGS! and Wolves, and Tigers, and Boulder...

Kids will always keep you on your toes.  And laughing.  Friday we took the kids to the football game against Manhattan.  Billy and Daddy had gone to the Homecoming game against Three Forks the week before.  They stood on the Three Forks side, and Billy, of course, was the only one cheering for the dogs.  Well, as we were walking in with our Batman-costume-clad Billy on Friday, he starts cheering for the Tigers.  Hopefully the Batman costume was proof enough of his innocence! 

But was it?  Later he wanted to start cheering for Boulder! 

WINNER!

We finished soccer today and Billy had an AWESOME season!  He loves playing and says he can't wait to play again.  The best part, he says, was the ice cream party with some of the kids at the Hot Spot tonight.

He's very proud of himself and his new medal.

Alexa just can't wait to be big enough to play, too.

Fall Day!

Fall is my favorite season, and I've spent quite a bit of time exploring the sights, sounds, and smells of the season with the kids in preschool.  So each morning Billy looks out the window and is excited to see the leaves on the ground and proclaims it to be "Fall Day!"  He loves the cider, hot chocolate, pumpkins, and most of all, they both love making it rain leaves! 

Fall Fest

We all had a blast at Fall Fest this year.  The weather was beautiful and we could all be together for most of it!  The kids loved the parade.  However, Billy was worried about the Army guys until I explained to him they protect us like a knight protects the princess.  And Alexa was not at all happy about the fire truck sirens.  Billy was in awe over how they turned a Vote for Ben sign into a balloon, and Alexa got caught stealing his candy (see the shadow picture above).  The festival had great food, fantastic people, and crafts and face painting for kids.  Not to mention, Billy spent three days playing at the playground with all his friends.  No complaints from anybody. 

On Friday we went for ice cream at the new Hot Spot arcade.  Billy's friends Hap, Phillip, and Ben were there and he got to play with them for a bit.  We all left at the same time, and as Hap sped off in the opposite direction on his bike, Billy yelled "Bye Happy!  Don't forget to exercise!" (on account of the junk food!)