Stop the Presses!

This post is coming a day or two late, but it must be posted anyway. . . the other night at dinner, EMILEE ATE!!! And I don't just mean ate a little meal, I mean made her belly hard with food. She ate so much pineapple, rice, chicken, and corn that I thought she was going to make herself sick. And this food fest followed a day of record eating or her as well! Her little belly was sticking out like a pot belly pig. We all thoroughly enjoyed it and I knew Grammy would too, so we had to take some pictures. . .

This is Emilee's new "say cheese" smile. She makes it whenever she sees a camera within 10 feet. Lovely, I know!

Any girl who eats like that gets big kisses from everybody!

Have I mentioned that Emilee gives the best kisses?

Service Auction

About a year ago, I participated in a "service auction" within my ward. I bought 3 hours of babysitting, and offered two items. Family portraits, and a cake. Well, 11 months went by and NONE of these items had been redeemed! But, we all finally got on the ball, and I got my babysitter, and I have now taken family pictures and made a birthday cake for a good friend.

This was the first cake I ever had to dowel. It was quite an adventure, but very fun!

Rocket Ship Crash Landing

"I should have saved myself!" That's what Chandler kept telling the doctor today at the ER. Which I think meant, "I should have caught myself with my hands instead of diving head first into moms bed frame while my body was stuck inside the rocket ship (hamper)." Poor kid. He was pretty tough and left with three stitches and an order to keep it out of the sun for the next couple of years. Yea. That will be easy! :) I predict longer hair for Chandler. . .

Numbing Gel. . . a godsend to little ones with big ouchies everywhere. . .
All repaired and ready to go, we get the thumbs up!

Phew! I don't care to ever see that far into my childs (or anyone elses for that matter) head again. I'll sleep well tonight, this wore me out!

Curls

There was a little girl,

With a little curl,

Right in the middle of her forehead. And when she was good she was very, very good,

and when she was bad she was. . .

well, the poem ends "horrid," but I can't say it, because this little girl is never horrid. She's a love.

Let's Twist Again!

This evening we were getting a little bit of cabin fever and really wanted to go do something fun with the kids. We got our options down to Chuck E. Cheese with a side of swine flu, and staying home to play games. So, we decided to stay home and taught the kids to play. . .

Emilee was really good at weaving in and out between peoples legs, while we tried not to smash her.

Chandler wins the award for showing the biggest muscles in yoga positions,

and of course tackling the players if they're taking too long to get "out."

Aidan had some good right from left moments that helped us see that we need to work on that a bit. . .

We got all squished together!
And Ethan wins for best stretch. Whose arm is that anyway?

Sometimes staying home is the sweetest thing!

No news is good news, right?

Hey there blog friends. Mom has informed me that Pedro has been up long enough. The problem is, I'm feeling a bit lazy. Rather like Emilee here, who took matters into her own hands when nap time rolled around today.
It's been same old same old for about a week. Luckily, that means nobody is sick! Just homework, housework, catch in the backyard, wrestling, and piano. Stay tuned. . . I'm sure we'll get more exciting shortly. . . or at least more creative!

Pedro

We called Chandler Pedro all day Sunday. I suppose we could have just washed his little mug and cleaned captain hook off. But we were enjoying having Pedro with us for a time.

Vote for Pedro!

the Halloween Report '09

It was a wonderful Halloween here at the Wilde house! Having Halloween on Saturday was great fun, as we filled the day with Halloween anticipation! First, we carved our pumpkins!
Daddy did all the top chopping, and I became the official goop scooper.

Everybody got in on the action. Emilee even helped by dropping seeds into the trashcan from her perch.

Here are all the trick-or-treaters! This year we had R2D2 again, a cowboy (which was a last possible minute switch from Ninja - we're still not quite sure why), Captain Hook, and Super girl!

The little guys were so cute and excited! Chandler was quite the trick or treater. He made sure to chat it up with everyone on the porch with deep thoughts like, "wow! You gots a lots a candy!" "What happens if you run out of candy?" or maybe just "AAarrrggh!!!" After one lady said "ah!" to the Arg, he kept that one up for a while. That is until somebody Aaarrrgh-ed him back, and then he asked, "Why did you say aarrgh?" It was pretty entertaining.

And here is our little super girl. She was a great little trick or treater and tried very hard to worm her way up to the front of the candy line at every door. She's so little that she was often not seen until they were about ready to close the door and then "Oh! Look at the little super girl!" and she was given free reign over the candy bucket.

It was unseasonably warm yesterday, around 60 degrees and not raining a bit! Probably the best weather we've ever had for an OR Halloween. Happy Halloween!