My Little Chef

I was in the middle of making dinner when I was called out of the room for something (I can't remember what now). When I came back Allie had slid a chair over to the stove and was stirring dinner!


She looked at me and smiled and said "Ayee help you!" (Ayee is how she says Allie) I guess I need to be careful about leaving the kitchen when I am cooking!

Soccer Finale

The regular soccer season is officially over. Last Saturday Emma and Gracie both played in their last games of the season. Emma's team won 6 to 1 with Emma scoring 3 of the goals!

In the third quarter of Gracie's game the score was 5 to 1 the other team. In the fourth quarter they came from behind and scored 5 points to win the game! They were both very exciting games and a great way to end the season!

Garage Doors Shouldn't Do This

This is what happened to my garage
door today when I tried to open it

This is SO not what I wanted to do today!

Pancake Characters

Emma has been working on her pancake characters,
and she got a couple of really good ones!

Mickey Mouse

Tweety Bird

Emma's Example

It drives me crazy when you have these sweet children and other kids are mean to them! Before Emma's soccer game yesterday, one of the girls on the other team said something really mean to Emma. The other girl told Emma that she was going to lose the game because she is fat. It bothered her and hurt her feelings. I tried to tell her not to let it bother her and just focus on the game. I told her that what the girl said wasn't true and she knew it. But it still hurts when someone is mean.

For the rest of the game I stewed about that. How could she say that!?! Any way Emma's team won the game and the other team all started crying. Emma went over to the other team and told a friend of hers that she played well. Then she went over to the girl who had been mean to her and gave her a hug and told her she played really well!

I was so impressed with Emma. I was considering all kinds of mean things to say to this mean girl, and my daughter was trying to make her feel better! I have always hoped that my children would end up being better than me, and in this case Emma was so much better! I am supposed to be a good example to her, and here she is 10 years old, being the better example! I hope when I grow up I can be just like Emma!

Playoffs

Emma's soccer team played yesterday. The team they played, they have played twice before. One time Emma's team won, the other was a tie. The game yesterday was to determine who goes to the playoffs. Someone had to win. If the game was tied at the end they would play another quarter. If it was still tied they would have a shoot out. If it was still tied they would go to sudden death. They went to a fifth quarter. Tied. They went to a shoot out. Emma's team won 2 to 0! She is going to the playoffs again!

Soccer

Soccer this year has been very fun to watch! Gracie and Emma have both done very well. They love the game and are so good at it! They really are amazing to watch. I know I am their mom and you might not think they are as good as I said, but they really are! It's not just a proud mother speaking! The refs and other coaches think the same thing! Here are a couple of photos of them. I wish I could put a video of them, but pictures will have to do for now!

Emma and a teammate both go for the ball

Waiting for a throw-in

Gracie chasing the ball

Gracie up against the other team

I Love You Too Much

Another one of my favorites of Jacobs. When he was younger and we said "I love you" to him, he would say, "I love you too". Then I would tell him "I love you so much". And he would reply with "I love you too much". I absolutely love it when he said this. Unfortunately he doesn't say it very much anymore. I still say it to him though and he smiles at me and tells me he loves me too!

It is fun to watch them learn and grow, but sad at times when you love the little things they say and do, and you know that one day they will stop.

Be-licious

Since the blog is a sort of journal for me, I am putting things that I want to remember. Things that I think I will never forget, but I know will. I want to remember things that my kids say, and which kid says it!

Jacob wants burritos for dinner every night. Every time I ask him what he wants to eat it is burritos. Whatever I happen to put on the table, he says he doesn't like. Even if he has never tried it before, he doesn't like it. I guess he isn't that picky after all because once he tries it, he usually likes everything. If we can just get him to try a bite he says, "I like it, it's be-licious!"

In some ways I hope he always uses the word be-licious!

Best Patient

Today Jacob had surgery, a procedure more like, but he had to be knocked out. He was an angel the whole time. He sat there and let them put the IV in and only whimpered a little. The nurse taped it to his arm really well so he wouldn't try to pull it out when he came out of surgery. He hated the pj's they gave him to wear and he refused to use the crib, he wanted a big bed. They were very nice and brought a big bed for him. The nurse gave him a coloring book and some crayons to keep him busy until it was time to go to the OR. When he came out of surgery he would open his eyes and look at me, but I could tell he couldn't see me. Then one time he opened his eyes and made eye contact with me and smiled. I knew he was awake then. The procedure went well and the doctor expects a great recovery. The worst part of the whole thing was removing all the tape on the IV! Jacob kept saying to the nurse "be careful, just be careful with my arm." He also said to her "Next time use only one piece of tape, okay?" All the nurses said he was the best patient of the day. He kept making them all laugh. All the other kids were crying and grumpy, he was just his sweet self! He wanted all of the nurses to come to our house to play with him and his toys.

I explained to Jacob that I wouldn't be able to stay with him the whole time. I took a picture of him and the girls out of my wallet and told him that he could hold it while I was gone. That way he could at least take his sisters with him. He held on to the picture and showed anyone who would look at it. He told everyone their names. One of the nurses asked him which was his favorite sister and he said, "I love all of my sisters!" What a sweet boy!

Cute Pretty

My cute curly top kid - Her hair is past her shoulders when it is wet,
but the curl shrinks it right up!

Allie loves to put on dresses and have her hair combed. She always looks in the mirror and says "Allie Cute Pretty"! I must say I agree!

Halloween Visitors

We had some very cool visitors for Halloween this year! Check out the pictures of our new friends! Too bad my kids were gone somewhere, they would have loved to meet these cool characters!

Ginormica (complete with Derrick)

Tigger

Optimus Prime

Violet

The whole cute gang!

The Many Wigs of Michael

Gracie's wig

Emma's wig

There really are no words to describe what happens to my husband at certain times. We were out trick-or-treating and when we came home Michael had Chloes orange wig on. He had been wearing it to pass out candy with Jacob, Allie and Sydney!

Halloween Party

It has been a while since I did a slide show and there are so many cute pictures, I just had to make one!

Carving Pumpkins

Michael helped the kids carve pumpkins. Emma loves it!

Gracie loves it too, even though you might think otherwise!

Jacob and Allie think it is pretty gross!

Unfortunately, I am allergic to raw pumpkin, so I am not much help!
(Did I say UN-fortunately?)

Track Meet

Yesterday Emma participated in her first ever track meet. It was between the two elementary schools here and they competed in their grade level. For the 5th grade girls, there were 47 runners! They had to run 3/4 of a mile. Emma finished 9th place overall! She finished 5th place for her school! We are very proud of her, that is a long way to run! She is already talking about how she can do better next year, she absolutely loves to run.
(She must get that from Michael)

My Little Helper

Jacob has been helping me paint the bathroom. He loves to help. We have a little 3 inch roller and he has been using that to paint with.

This is Jacob's paint job. He was done at this point. He didn't want me to paint over his work, he wanted to leave it like this! He said it was cool!

Allie's New Hair

Gracie has a wig for her Halloween costume. It is wavy and messy in the pictures. We had fun trying it on Allie. Jacob didn't know what to think! I have since calmed it down and trimmed it to go with Gracies costume better. Doesn't Allie look cute though!?! Can you imagine a 2 year old with that much hair? Emma had a lot of hair at 2, but not that much!


Allie in Emma's wig, it is way too big for her though!
It is cuter on Emma, it fits better.

Story of My Life

Do you ever feel like this!?!

Monster Cupcakes

We had some friends over to decorate cupcakes for Halloween.

Allie made a cute monster cupcake that she couldn't wait to eat!

Nikki had fun making her monster,
there might have been more candy than cake!

Shawn could decorate professionally! He made a really cool monster!

Emma and Gracie may have been having a contest to see
who could stick more candy to their cupcake!

Here are the final monsters that didn't get eaten before the photo

Bathroom Woes

This is my kids bathroom. Tan walls, ugly shower curtain.
It is definitely time to decorate.




I bought a shower curtain that has several colors. I decided to paint the walls green to match. I bought paint and started with a lighter color for the ceiling.

This is the green ceiling. Are you thinking what I thought? UGLY!?!
I know that it doesn't look the same on the computer, but it does look as ugly as you think the picture looks! Seriously pukey!

I decided to at least try the wall color to see if it was as bad and here is the result. We are talking pea soup ugly!!!

So, it's back to the drawing board for my bathroom paint job. I have another idea, let's hope it looks better!!!

Students of the Month

Emma and Gracie both got student of the month in September. We are so proud of them both for the hard work they do in school! They are both great students! We are happy that Grandma and Grandpa Stevulak could be here for the awards ceremony and donughts!

Way to go Emma and Gracie!

Twin Hairdo's

Michael's brother Chris came to visit when his parents were here. Michaels dad decided to try his hair out like Chris's, what do you think? We are always glad when Uncle Chris can visit!

The Shed

We bought a shed for our backyard to have some extra storage space. Before we could put it up we had to clear the spot for it. I spent a couple of days with Jacob and Allie pulling weeds and moving rocks.

This is after the rocks and weeds were gone!


This is the finished shed. Now we just need to empty our garage out!


We need to finish around the bottom to keep out critters and it will be complete! This is one of many steps to finish our backyard. One down, 500 more things on the list!

Thank you to Michael's parents for all the help building the shed! We are grateful for your love and support! We love it when you visit!