*MAREN'S STITCHES*

I received a phone call at work again from Jay saying that he was going to Children's Mercy South and that Maren had another accident. She fell going up the stairs and hurt her chin. Once I got there, Maren was sitting calmly holding her chin until they called our name to go in. The doctor said she would need stitches and put ointment on her sore to numb it. While we waited a nurse came in and showed Maren exactly what was going to happen, the string that they were going to use and the syringe that was going to clean her wound. They even let her use a DVD player to watch Alvin and the Chipmunks Shipped Wreck while we waited. Once, her chin was numb the nurse flushed her booboo and the doctor stitched her up. Jay told her he would give her $20 if she sat completely still through it all, so she sat on her hands the whole time and earned her $20!

*HALLOWEEN*

Every year the village down the street has tricker treating and then the neighborhood kids all meet at the fountain to get their picture taken. A few of the Alexa's friends met up after the picture to go with us. At the end of the night the girls all sat around and traded their candy.




My woodland fairy.




My little owl.

*MAREN AT HARVESTERS"

 

Maren's Girl Scout troop went to Harvester's to help out today. They took large bags of onions and put them in smaller ones that would be friendlier family sized. They did a great job of filling the bags and throwing out the bad, mushy onions. Maren's favorite thing to do was to peel off the top layer to see if the onion was a keeper.

*VISIT TO WESTON*

It's our annual trip to the pumpkin patch.  With soccer schedules and other activities, we couldn't get to the pumpkin patch until this weekend.  Of course it was super cold out, so our trip went pretty fast.  After hanging out at the pumpkin patch and picking our pumpkins, we headed to downtown Weston to go in all of the small shops. 

 

*ALEXA's 5TH GRADE REPORT CARD*

Alexa loves this year's teacher and really enjoys going to school. Now we need to get those B's to A's.

*TRUNK-OR-TREAT*

Every year the school has a trunk-or-treat where parents decorate their cars and pass out candy.  The kids run around the school parking lot going from car to car.  The candy always runs out within the first 20 minutes, so we always try to get there right on time.  Once all the candy runs out, the kids usually will play with their friends on the play ground for a little while.  This year the weather was so nice, they got to play for extra long.

*MAGIC WOODS*

It's our yearly trip to Magic Woods again.  The girls are getting a little to old for it, but luckily Alexa is pretty sentimental and wants to keep up the tradition and Maren goes just for the face painting I think.  They still looked like they had a great time going to each of the nature scenes.

 

I took a ton of these pics and this is the best one I could find.

The girls are actually sitting next to each other and not fighting.

 We always love Eco Elvis!