Pearly Whites...

G and I have been working with K on brushing her teeth. Well the other day she just took charge...SHE BRUSHED HER OWN TEETH! Like literally put the toothbrush in and scrubbed those little "toofers"! I was impressed as she did just about as good as we could have done ourselves! The fun and adoration came to a screaming halt when she then tried to brush our teeth! YUCK!

OOPS!

I forgot to mention my beautiful sister's anniversary on Saturday! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY HEIDI AND BRYAN!!! I love you! But remember Heidi, my purpose was to play and entertain you as a child...not to be a calendar keeper :) I played hard and entertained willfully too I must say!

Happy Happy Day!!

Happy Anniversary Aunt Erica and Uncle Gary!
AND
Happy Birthday Aunt Erica!

We hope your day was special for both of you!

We love you LOTS!

HaPpY TUrKeY DaY!!!

Caught WHITE Handed...

K was home from daycare on Tuesday because on Monday she was sent home with a 103 fever (she's fine now, just has FOUR teeth coming in all at once!)

Well I went to the bathroom and I heard her little voice repeatedly saying "uh oh! uh oh! uh oh!"... that can never be a good thing...I quickly wash my hands and go into the kitchen to find this...
K was rolling around in it, "it" being powdered sugar!!


This would be K saying "uh oh!" and giggling!
And this is the mess Mommy was left cleaning.
I have to admit this is one of the funniest things! You see, Aunt Michelle and Uncle Pat got caught doing something VERY similar right before Easter one year. The only difference- they were a little older and they were using baby powder. Baby powder all over themselves, the room, EVERYTHING! Needless to say the Easter Bunny didn't hop in that year! So now here, 30 some odd years later, my sweet, innocent, little K pulls the same thing. I have to believe she was much cuter caught in the act!

Last Weekend...

Cousins Patrick, Courtney and Michael stayed the night Saturday and we made a delicious dinner...

Happy Campers!

Another Article on Coins for California

We're offically done now! I'm so proud of them!


http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/11/16/community/porter_county/doc4ab5b45beda8b76f86257393007bed94.txt

Official Coin Count

The Credit Union called me today after they ran all the change and counted the bills and the official amount collected for the victims of the California Fires is....drum roll...$1622!
I'm so overwhelmed! I know in my heart that this will help so many families!

Note from Miss K

The parental units caught me looking up their Christmas lists! I tried to play it off like I was looking at the Packers website, like daddy always does- don't think they bought it! I wanted to show you that my mommy was in the paper again! She collected over $1550! I'm not quite sure what that means...but I know she is VERY excited about it! I'm sure there are some really nice people in CA that will benefit from it. Article below- couldn't find the link to the online article.

This week was a little crazy for me, but I'm feeling much better now thanks to lots of hugs and kisses from my mommy and daddy. Yesterday we went out to grandma and grandpa W's. Mommy and grandma went to a huge craft show and daddy and grandpa watched football all afternoon. I slept for nearly 4 hours, so yeah, that's basically all I did. Then today we cheered on the Packers- we totally smoked those purple people eaters! FUN!

Mommy and daddy keeps talking about this thing called Christmas...they are really excited about it, so I'm excited about it! Sounds like fun- lots of family and friends come by and we eat lots and give even more! Lights, ornaments, trees- lots for me to get into :)

Ahh...much better now!

Yes folks, she is doing much better now. Thank you for all the phone calls and emails to check up on her :) I have to wonder if it was the fact that she had more dirty little stinkies in her diapers yesterday, or if the antibiotic kicked in. Either way, our little chipper-roo is back in action! She didn't disappoint this morning- up early, played with Molly, ate cereal- for over an HOUR I might add, watched a little Elmo show on sharing, read LOTS of books, vacuumed with her little vacuum, picked up HER kitchen- from grandma and grandpa W, gave lots of hugs and wet, really, really wet kisses. All by 10 am this morning when she very distinctfully told be she was ready for a nap. How you might ask?- She grabbed blankie and Elmo and headed to the stairs then put her head on blankie and grunted. Nice! Up we went and down she goes! No fuss!
I am getting ready to read my daily blogs, calculate the Coins for California spreadsheet so that I can let the whole school know that we have now collected OVER $1,000 (See previous posts on CFC) and possibly get a shower in! I'm VERY optimistic on this!

Icky...

Well that is how K is feeling. She was sent home today from daycare with a 102 temp. Like good parents we took her to the doc and it turns out that she has a double ear infection and a respiratory bug. All that plus she has about 2-3 teeth trying to push their way through her delicate gums :( She's on some meds now and sleeping the day away. Looks like one of us will be home tomorrow with her as well. We'll update you...

She blinded me with Science!

This past weekend we went up to the Museum of Science and Industry with Uncle Gary, Aunt Erica, cousins Clayton, Olivia and Isaac and M's niece Courtney (obviously also a cousin to K, but I'm just trying to simplify any confusion!)

The museum was impressive as ever, however it is quite special right now- there was an incredible STAR WARS exhibit!!! Needless to say the kids were VERY excited about this! They rode on a air cushion, to simulate the Hovercrafts in the movie, built a hovercraft using magnets, programmed a robot and saw several of the props used in the Star War movies and actual costumes worn throughout the series.

We also saw most of the other exhibits in the museum- all that we could in the 7 hours we were there! :)

For dinner we went out to Giordano's Pizzeria (thanks again Gary and Erica!)...oh was it good! No, delicious! By the time we got home we were all exhausted!

Today we are going to get caught up on rest, laundry and most importantly, FOOTBALL!

Coins for California

My senior class is taking on a service learning project to help the victims from the CA fires. I'm so proud of them! (just click on the link or copy and paste it into your address bar)

http://nwitimes.com/articles/2007/11/02/community/porter_county/doc576b4de54b5ebdcf862573860051a5e6.txt

We will be donating all the money collected to the Red Cross in Southern California! Thank you for being an inspiration Bill, Michele and Kiersten as well as our friends out in CA! I hope that it helps!
I just wanted to share what my class is doing...sometimes I defend my career as more than babysitting...and I know other teachers do as well.