Crazy Hair Day

This week at school they had spirit week.
They had crazy sock day, backward day, tie day, wear red day, and today CRAZY HAIR day.

Ethan has been looking forward to today all week. There isn't much you can do with boys hair, but here are our attempts.

Or in Zachary's case- not so crazy hair just extra gel!!!

Webelos Badge

Tonight at Pack Meeting Zachary earned his Webelos Rank. He has been working very hard to get it done. He has also finished all the requirements for his Arrow of Light and will receive that at the special Arrow of Light ceremony next month.

Way to go Zach!

This is him going on the obstacle course to find his award

This is him pinning me with my mothers pin.
(Photography by Brandon)

Girly Stuff

Recently Rachel has had a thing for purses. She has been carrying around Ethan's scripture bag for about a week now. So I bought her a little Barbie bag at the store. She thinks it is OK but prefers to carry my big bag or Ethan's scriptures.
After Brandon's recital on Saturday she walked over and grabbed one of the girls purses off the chair put it over her arm, and out the door she went.

This is Brandon trying to bring her back to return the purse.

Thanks Aubrey for being such a good sport. Rachel is not sure she really wants to give the purse back.

I did happen to be at the mall this week, and she now has her own pretty sparkly purse. I don't remember the boys ever carrying bags around. I must be a girl thing.

Piano Recital

Tonight Brandon had a piano recital. He did such a great job. He performed two pieces.Tum-Balalalka and March Salv.
Take a listen.

Cute, but Trouble

She sure is cute, but she sure likes to get into, and onto things she shouldn't.

At 11 months Rachel is starting to develop quite an attitude. She loves to get into things, especially if we have told her NO! She loves to yell at her brothers, and run away when she know she is doing something wrong. She doesn't really talk yet, but still manages to get her point across.

She weighed exactly 20 pounds at the Dr. last week, and can hardly wait for next month when her car seat can turn around.

It is hard to believe that next month she will be 1 years old. Where has this year gone?


Last Sunday I tried to get a good picture for her 11 month picture, but she was on the move and wouldn't have anything to do with it. This is the best I could get.

SICKNESS

Sickness has hit us hard the past few weeks. So the above products , soap and hand sanitizer have become an obsession of sorts for me.

It all started about 2 weeks ago, Ethan got a really bad cough,which went into pneumonia. All the other kids also got the cough, but that is all. Other than a week home with sick kids all then was well. Then Rachel got an ear infection last week. She is now doing great, we caught it really early.

Then Sunday night Brandon started running a fever and complained of a headache!!! So I took him in again on Monday morning and he tested positive for influenza. Yeah Us!

He has now been secluded in his room for almost 3 days and being such a good sport about it. We had lots of fun things planned for fall break this week, but now we are staying home.

Since we have been taking tons of precautions since everyone got sick the first time and now have added the lovely masks below, I am hoping beyond hope that it won't go through the whole family.