An Angel, A Fairy and a Tourist

I hope everyone had a safe Halloween! Here at our house we had sugar highs and smiles! 

Happy Halloween

From three of the cutest kids you will ever see!  I hope everyone has a Happy and Safe Halloween!  Our kids are super excited! 

On a side note, I have noticed several new visitors to our blog.  If you are new here, please follow my blog and leave me a comment with your blog so I can return the favor! Plus...next month I am hosting my first giveaway and it is a great one!  You will not want to miss out on it. 

SWING!

Yesterday the lighting outside was perfect! We walked over to our park and snapped a few pics.  Don't you just love the faces the Hippie can make?  She is such a ham!  The Professor was unimpressed with sitting in a real swing, but he sure looked cute!  Hope everyone has a great Saturday! Enjoy your families and stay safe!

Professor Getting Down

Something Worth Celebrating Too

Yesterday was incredible!!! The Hippie ran in the door from school and flung her backpack down.  She began rummaging through it, grabbed a small book and literally threw it on my lap and exclaimed, "Look at this Mommy!"  On the front was a very cute picture of her. It read "Hippie's Sticker Book".  I peeked inside and there were several stickers.  One sticker said, "for pointing".  Another said, "Raised hand for needing help".  But, the last two stickers "Mouthed to her teacher" and "mouthed all her site words"!  We were in COMPLETE shock!  To be totally honest, I really thought that the Hippie was not going to progress any this year.  So what did we do last night?  Loaded up for some celebration ice cream!  The Hippie was so excited and proud!  I just wanted to cry I was so happy!  Our girls are making strides with their Selective Mutism!

When you go out with grandparents....

Sometimes you come home with candy. 
I am so thankful our kids have wonderful, loving and involved grandparents...3 sets and 2 great-grandparents! And in case you are wondering....no the Hippie could not finish it! It is sitting on a plate in the fridge just waiting for her. 
Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Food

When the Genius was a baby, she had some pretty serious feeding issues.  She was unable to eat even baby food til she was close to two years old.  We had her in therapy for months to help her be able to eat.  Because of that it seemed like we got both the girls off to a rough start on eating foods.  Now we are trying to make up for that and help them learn to like a variety of foods.  The Genius actually likes some healthy foods (grapes and spinach salad without dressing are one of her favs).  The Hippie could live on wheat bread, sugar and crackers.  We have started some new dinner rules at our house.  The girls were not thrilled with these new rules, but they have accepted them and our dinner time is going MUCH smoother now.  The other night we had grilled chicken, bacon wrapped asparagus, cauliflower mashed "potatoes" and spinach salads for dinner.  The Genius actually liked the dinner!  She asked for seconds on her asparagus.  The Hippie was not very thrilled and hardly ate any of it.  We asked her if she understood these new rules.  She said, "Yeah, it's cause you want us to eat new and yucky foods."  Kids!