Last weeks crafts

Grandpa was here last week for a dental visit. Matthew passed. His dad survived, actually he better than survived. His dad said it was the best visit to the dentist he has ever had! What a superstar dentist!

While Grandpa was here he helped us with our holiday craft. We gotta have someone responsible to be in charge of the glue gun.

They're supposed to be wreaths, but Aleah decided to make hers a crown.

Another day we did pipe cleaner crafts. Daddy's cat was a big hit. We made flowers and a caterpillar too. We all loved it.

Magnet paper dolls

Step 1: Aleah cutting clothes and people out of magazines.

Step 2: Mommy sticks them to a sticky magnet sheet.

Step 3: Aleahs dresses a little person

Step 4: Nani dresses little people.

It's on a magnetic dry erase board so the the girls can draw on arms or legs, or whatever else they think a person might need. Lately they've just been tracing the clothes.

Having fun

We scored with 90% off halloween costumes! These were only $2.

Yes, They did pick them out themselves. Nani likes the bones and Aleah likes sparkles. The sparkles ended up all over the house and all over us.

Another one done!

It's done, 9 months later. Hey, I could have had a baby by the time I got around to doing this. Oh wait, my friend, whom this is for, did. How funny! Sometimes I make myself laugh!

Happy Birthday Great Grandma

Last week was Great Grandma Rios' birthday. On Friday we went to visit her in Manhattan, KS, after Matthew finished work. It was a really quick visit, but we were so happy to be able to make it. Aleah had started coughing the day before and it wasn't too bad. The next day it was a little more and by the time we got to Grandma's she had a fever. Aleah wasn't into to taking pictures that night so we don't have very many. Here are a few.

She had to look cute to go visit Great Grandma, so that morning I put a big green juicy apple on her shirt to match the buttons on her skirt. I love it!

She thinks she is so funny making her grumpy faces.

As you can see, Aleah isn't feeling very well.

These a some pics on the yummy dessert Matthew made. I don't remember what it's called, but it's Angel food cake, some chocolaty whip, cherries and a little chocolate syrup.

Great Grandma we love you and we were happy we were able to visit.

Happy birthday!

Love that Daddy!

Aleah: "Daddy can you play blocks with me? Please."

Too cute to resist.

This is their tallest tower yet.

Nani: "Daddy read me" (as she holds a book up)

How can he possibly resist?

I just thought they looked too cute reading together on the ground that I couldn't resist taking a picture.

Daddy went out Saturday morning and brought back doughnuts.

All his girls felt special! We love that Daddy!

Nani had a Maple Bar. She is unconventional how she eats. She has a hard time eating sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs. She doesn't really understand the concept of a "sandwich", she just wants to eat. And I guess this is how she eats doughnuts. Nothing wrong with that, just cute.

refashions

An old 80's sweater that I turned into a sweater dress for Nani. It needs work. The flower didn't turn out the way I had imagined. I think I'm going to take it off and put black ribbon across the bottom and maybe the collar. At least she's so cute that she makes the dress look better. She wore it on Sunday with a dark grey lace slip underneath and her hair was brushed. Brushing hair usually helps:)


This skirt became....

this.

I liked how it turned out. The big fleur de lis I had imagined bigger with less of the whole showing, but I thought it still looked good enough.

a close up of the small fleur de lis.

and this one became...

this.

Same as the last one. Converted it into a jumper, added a ruffle, and a design of some sort. I tried to get a close up of the design in the bottom right corner, but my camera has really bad exposure. The above pic is even edited.

Nani didn't have a black shirt to match this so I used one of my old t-shirts and made it her size and added elastic on the sleeves to make a gathered ruffle look.

~The girls' feet ghosts~

Nani doing the doughnut thing at the Trunk-or-Treat

(Wednesday night)

Cake walk



enjoying the loot, even though she wasn't feeling good :(

she ended up having a fever, poor baby

Halloween night. The girls were feeling good enough by Sat. night, so we went out and did the T-o-T-ing

of course, gotta snap a few cute pics!

Ready to go.

It was a great Halloween, besides Nani getting sick. It was stress free, the girls had fun and we kept the candy loot pretty minimal.