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madeline and hana... and brooke-ism

ok i guess it is time to put up another post (but i just wanted the 5K one to be up as long as possible!)...
the other day hana was holding madeline, they were SO cute, that of course i had to grab my camera.


brooke- ism
lately brooke has been doing this spitting thing with her mouth, something we have been trying to break her of for a while. so after the race, jack spit in front of the girls (nice, i know). so brooke began asking why she couldn't spit. so jack told her that when she ran like we ran, she could spit. so we were sitting in the den a few days after the race and brooke was pushing on the table. i asked her what she as doing, to which she answered "i am stretching so that i can run... then spit" nice

i was r-u-n-n-i-n-g!!

(i hope you hear forest gump's voice when you read that!)
it is official... i ran my first 5K!! this morning at wrightsville beach jack and i ran the flotilla 5K. it was a bit chilly, but other than that it was a great morning for running. i will say that i am super proud of both of us! i plan to run some more... i am not so sure if jack will... but it was still a great race. here are the very exciting pictures!! thanks jodi for running with me!

here we are pre-racejack in the pack at the beginning of the racei am in this crowd i swear... you just have to really want to see mejack after he crossed the finish linejodi cheering me on as we bring it in.
and look...there are people behind us!!!just after we finishedpost-race picture
jack is not smiling so much. i am not sure why... could it be because we just ran 3.2 miles!??

oh and our times... jack 30:02 and me 32:19. not bad for our first race ever!!

tay is 3

saturday tay had her 3rd birthday at a gym (the same one hana had her camp this summer). the kids had a blast playing on all of the equipment! ... here come the pictures!!!

hana jumping in the pitbrooke jumpingno fear!a little fear...brooke on trampolinejust a swanging......swinging...i can't believe i'm out here on the front porch in a swang... :)all the kiddos in the pit!a line of friends :)yay! birthdays!

today's happenings

we are on day 2 of hana sick days and hopefully the last. so for the last few days i have actually felt like i have 3 kids. hana had thursday and friday off of school (workdays or something) then she was sick monday and today. but alas during these filled days, a lot has happened.

madeline smiled some more (she does this a lot these days, i just don't normally have the camera pointed at her face)brooke woke-up like this (yes she is wearing christmas jamas... she only has 2 pairs and one is christmas... sue me)then she dressed up like a dog (this is a hand-me down costume from our neighbors)she really did want to take these pictures... i am not pulling "a christmas story" on her or anything. (if you don't know what that is... rent the movie!)

so that has been my day. smiles and dog costumes. ahh the life of a stay at home mom!

madeline 2 months

ummm i accidentally posted this on my photography blog yesterday... ooops...

last thursday we took madeline to the doctor for her 2 month check up (and she was actually 2 months on the 25th of oct). all is well, she is doing great for her age. he asked me how she was sleeping and we told him that she was sleeping through the night. he said "she is?" i said that she was and that we had no plans of waking her up to feed her :) it was not a problem because she is growing quite well. she weighs 10 lbs 8 ounces and is 22.5 inches long. those are the 35% and 50% for her age... bigger than the other 2! all in all she is great :)

this was taken last week at the folands :) she was watching the other kids decorate halloween cookies

i had to add another brooke-ism.
we have jokingly called the hand sanatizer hana-tizer since hana started calling it that. well brooke looked at it the other day and said "brookie-tizer" i guess you have to work hard to not be left out when you are the middle girl :)

halloween take 2

since saturday was halloween, we dressed up the girls and headed over to leland to meet jimmy, hilary, and taylor for some fun leland-style. they had a trunk-or-treat at their town hall. it very much made me miss our church's trunk-or-treat (we didn't have it this year...). i really don't like halloween, i don't like what it stands for or what people do. but since we have always done something church-sponsored i never really minded it. this year, just reminded me why i don't like halloween (not at all because of leland). most of the costumes were scary, there was even one kid dressed in the "scream" costume that had blood pouring over his mask... gross! not that the scary costumes were only in leland... no they were here when we got back to our neighborhood to trick-or-treat. i am amazed at how much people do and decorate for this holiday. one house down the street even had a smoke machine... really people, isn't there something else you should be doing with your time??!! well whatever... we dressed up, got candy, and had a great time. here are the pictures.

the girls pre-tripmadeline in her "my first halloween" sleeper... it was not very girly so she needed the bowdaddy and the girlsall five of uswalking through the trunksbrooke getting candythe girls playing on the playground post-candy

hopefully next year our church will do the trunk-or-treat thing again... if not we will have to find another church sponsored function that we can crash!