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From last week.

Halloween

Dorothy, Glenda the good witch (or a queen butterfly, depending on the day), and the lion, plus a CG pilot. =) Not really the best pic of any of us, but since both of our cameras were broken on halloween, I have only this one pic that a friend took of us at our church's harvest festival, so it will have to do. =)

Quiz

Which McConnell girl is this? I had to do a double-take myself.

Christmas wreath

So I know this doesn't look like a backdrop in the Land's End catalog, but the girls and I made this wreath yesterday out of our extra Christmas tree branches and we are quite proud of it. Audrey designed, drew and cut out the ribbon all by herself.

Sugarbowl

Ths morning, while getting my coffee ready, I dropped the lid to the sugarbowl on the tile floor and it shattered. The kids and Iain were sitting at the table and they asked what happened. I told them the lid had broken but said don't worry. I was about to give a little sermonette on how things don't matter and how I was glad my family was all safe. So I said, "It's okay. Sugar bowls can be replaced. But you know what can't be replaced?" Avery confidently piped up with "LIDS to sugar bowls!" :)

Zipline

One of our neighbors was giving away a zip line so naturally we took it. =) Here are the girls on Sunday. They have since become very proficient and only need help to reach the handle ... when they swing, they kick the tree to stop themselves and then drop to the ground. Two little Doras. =)

 

 

Boys

So I've posted about this before, but Kai really is different than the girls. They are both taking tennis lessons and he uses their rackets to, um, hit them in the head. I don't think I've ever been hit in the head by either of the girls. He does it frequently.

Two days ago, he kept hitting Audrey in the head with his hand. I tried to distract him, move him, tell him no. He kept doing it. Finally I put him in the corner for about 3 seconds. When he came out, he walked straight over to Audrey, hit her in the head, then walked himself right back to the corner, turned around and grinned.

He also likes to throw things in the trash can. Yesterday, he brought me one of his shoes. I put it on his foot then started looking for his other shoe. Couldn't find it. Avery and I looked all over and couldn't find it. He had to go barefoot yesterday. This morning, I started thinking, "hmmmmmm, yesterday Kai brought me one of his shoes. That means there's a good chance he was holding the other one. Which means there was a good chance he threw it in the trashcan."  So I started digging. Under fish cartons. Through cantelope slimy seeds. Around broccoli stems. And yep, sure enough, there was his shoe. I was tipped off that it might be in there after I first found one of my own good shirts in the trash. Nice. =)