Braces Phase 1

Today was the day that my 7 1/2 year old Avery got her first round of braces and expander.  She was a trooper and was very excited about it.  Gotta love them at this age!  Although it is very hard to see, she chose heart shaped braces with purple and pink rubber bands.  The hardest part of the morning was selecting the rubber bands!!!

Halloween 2013

This year our trick or treat was moved from the 31st to November 2nd, due to the weather.  I guess they were expecting some severe wind gusts (upwards of 50mph) during the trick or treat times.  Unlike most neighborhoods who moved their times to earlier in the evening,  Delaware decided to move beggars night to a whole different day.   The weather last night was not very good!  It was clear all day up until about 5:55 pm, and then it started to rain and the temp dropped.  I guess that is why Drew only went trick or treating for 15 minutes and the girls only lasted about 45 minutes.  On the plus side, they did not bring home much candy.  However, I only had about a dozen or so trick or treaters, so that means we have lots of left over candy!!!  The kids did get to do a lot this year when it comes to dressing up.  They got to trick or treat the weekend we went camping on October 11.  They got a ton of candy!!!  They also had a costume parade at school too.  Drew had 2 costumes, he was Buzz Lightyear twice and then he was an army guy. 

The things they come up with

The kids crack us up with the things they say. 

Afton came home from school and told us that her friend Braeden was dressed up as a "Ghost Catcher"  Afton, do you mean "Ghostbuster???"  Um, yeah.

We were in the van last night on the way home from the YMCA and Avery just blurted out that reading in the dark makes her cuticles smaller.  What??!!?? 
Avery corrects herself and says " I mean it makes my pimples smaller!" 
What???!!!  Avery, do you mean pupils?

While learning about Asia, Avery informed us that the capital of Tokyo is Japan.

 I wish I could remember more and I really should start writing their words of wisdom down.