So what have the girls been doing?
Sydney lost her first tooth on Sept. 25! The tooth fairy surprised her with $1 under her pillow and a book by the window. She sprinkled fairy dust (also known to humans as glitter) all over the window sill and left a trail to her bed and dusted over her pillow. The tooth fairy learned a valuable lesson. When you put the tooth in a small ziplock bag it slides really easily out from under the pillow! And when your child sleeps with like 4 pillows it's easy access when you insist on her putting it under the outermost pillow for easy TF access!
Sydney actually lost her 2nd tooth yesterday, November 14 on the way home from a football game. She let it go way too long and it basically fell out without any tugging whatsoever. It was literally sitting in her mouth and I was like, uh, pick it up! Here is a picture after the loss of the first one. She just lost the one to the right if you're looking at her.
Sydney also has learned to ride her bike with no training wheels this Fall! She's such a big girl. This really hit me on the big girl meter as a big milestone and panicked a little. This + tooth almost put me over the edge.
Mollie is getting better on her little bike with training wheels as well!
Mollie's little Kinderdance class held another mini-recital at the performing arts center. This is she and her friend Sarah. They're so freakin' cute!
Chase
loves him some Uncle Phil. He has always been drawn to Phil and we're not sure why, LOL. I mean Phil is a likeable guy. But it's so cute how Chase will pick him out of a crowd and run to him and want him to pick him up and stuff. This was at my Dad's 60th birthday dinner in early Oct.
Nothing says October in Raleigh like the NC State Fair!! We had an absolute blast!
The girls also enjoyed their first Carolina Hurricanes hockey game on Oct. 14th. Phil's company has a certain number of games in a suite/box so we took the girls since it was free and the night before we were leaving on our Charleston trip. We stayed for the first 2 periods or until about 8:30 and then left. Their favortie part was definitely the ice cream. It was so nice because they could move around in there as much as they wanted. You can sit or stand or walk around. His boss was happy to see them.
The weekend of Oct. 15-19 Phil and I got to go to Charleston, SC for the first time as a "reward trip" for him selling so much stuff for a certain software company. There were 3 couples from ePlus there. We had one common dinner the first night then were on our own. We stayed at the
Charleston Hotel and it was definitely the nicest place I'd ever been. It was unbelievably beautiful. They also paid for our breakfast every day in one of the hotel restaurants and we had a couple's massage on Friday that they took care of. We took a harbor tour, a carriage tour, a haunted dungeon ghost tour, it was great. We walked the whole time and never moved our car once we got there on Thursday until we left on Sunday. And major kudos to my Dad who watched Sydney and Mollie for the entire weekend alone! They all did great! And we really enjoyed our time together for longer than a night. We really miss things during the week when we're all go, go, go and Phil's traveling so it was nice to kind of "reconnect" and/or actually get to have multiple conversations in a row without an interruption other than maybe a server asking us if we needed more wine:)
Mollie's class had a Halloween songfest the Wed. before Halloween. It was really cute. Actually it was all the 3 and 4 year old classes I think. She was one of 3 Cinderellas there. Here is a picture of her whole class with Miss Lori on the left and Miss Amy on the right. I am loving her teachers and her class as a whole. She's getting a lot out of it and I get great feedback about how well Mollie is doing. We are very proud of her!
Halloween day was Chase's 2nd birthday party!
After we partied down with he and his friends we trick-or-treated with them in their neighborhood for a while.
Sydney was a unicorn. But you can't tell at all, haha, because she refused to wear the rest of her costume. The costume that I paid $30 at Target for just to make her happy. Aunt Courtney was around for the festivities and I thought this was a super cute picture!
Mollie-rella, are you surprised?
Chase was the cutest little firefighter I have ever seen in my life. He was hilarious TOTing. He ran from house to house and would say "trickortreatthankyou" all in one quick word and move on to the next stop. Not that he cares a thing about candy, haha!
There are 3 home football games in November! Yesterday we finally got close enough to Ms. Wuf to get a picture. Mollie was all over her and she was SO sweet to Mollie! This is one of my favorite pictures ever. Sydney is still a little wary of people in costume and was busy playing in our seats with her cousins Olivia and Emma. We hadn't seen them in a couple months.
I hope I'm caught up now. I hope I blog again in the near future!
This is Mollie and her friend Sydney. Sydney's birthday party was this past Saturday. On the girls' feathers it says: "I am thankful for..." and Mollie's says "my friend Sydney's birthday cake." HAHAHA! Sydney mom was there and had a picture on her camera still of the cake and had to show it to the teachers. It was hilarious. The cake really was awesome. It was a Thanksgiving themed party and the cake was a turkey on a platter:) She had cubed up spice cake around the outside with oranges and cranberries. Apparently it made an impression on Mollie!
