Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Holidays....




It's been awhile since I blogged, so here are some pictures of the kids from today. Elizabeth and Caleb are with their "100 babies" as she said. Hmmm, does it really look like they need MORE toys for Christmas? They love to play in our huge play room. Lately Elizabeth has really been into building club houses and Caleb plays with his Geo Trax a lot. They are a hand-me-down toy from some friends whose boys were too old for them, and Caleb has loved them.

Emma is getting bigger - and her hair is getting longer and still not laying down on her head! She loves to grab things and put them in her mouth. We've been playing around with the rice cereal, one of these days it will become part of her routine.

Thanksgiving was a fun day. We had 17 people at our house - not counting babies. With babies I think it was 19 or so. It was hectic but fun. The next day we had some staff over for a game night which turned out to be a little hectic as well. Some of the kids are getting older and want to play games too which the adults hadn't counted on, so.... We've decided we need to re-think our game nights a little bit.

Not much Christmas stuff yet. I think we'll get our tree on Friday and decorate over the weekend. I did make some fudge. Mmmm.....

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Cutie kids


The Raughley kids

Harvest fun times


So now it's November and time for Christmas? No!!! Not yet! Not until we get to be thankful first, right? But I'm trying to go into Christmas mode and think of present ideas at least. We'll see how well I do when Thanksgiving rolls around....

Anyhow, we did go to a harvest party on Halloween. I let the kids choose their costumes and I was rushed and non-creative. So Caleb is Spiderman and Elizabeth is a princess. They got to run around and play some games and eat some candy.


I'm still adjusting to darkness in the late afternoon. The kids have all adjusted to the time change I think and are sleeping till 7 again. Our great sleeper, little Emma, sleeps until 7:30 or even closer to 8:00 sometimes! She goes to sleep around 10 P.M. so it's going well on the sleeping end for her. She's great all around. Speaking of Emma, it's about time to feed her, so.....