Birthday Week 2011

We celebrated some big birthdays this month. Caroline turned 6 and Dave turned 30!

Caroline asked for a Hello Kitty cake and Dave asked for pies. So we invited some friends over to celebrate.

We played the usual party games like...

Feed the Baby Icecream,

Stuff the Friends in the Exersaucer,

and Try to Understand the Teenager's Weird Jokes.

It was a great time and our friends spoiled the birthday honorees with cards, gifts, hugs and laughs.

November is always a fun month for us. Dave said, "Wow, it was a good year for birthday cards!" So thanks to everyone that remembered him on his big day ;)

Caroline is getting so mature so fast. She is a lot of help and she is learning so much. She is the best big sister EVER and no one makes Miles laugh like she does. Dave is one good-looking 30-year old and the best Dad I could ask for our kids. I love these two SO much and I love that they have back-to-back birthdays!

Rest of Oct. + Month of sickness

Well, Caroline is home sick again today. This time it's Bronchitis! Poor girl. Our family has been so healthy this year and it sure seems like we're making up for it this last month.

Last week Miles ended up in the ER when his fever reached 105. It was a long, scary night, but they pretty much said it was just a virus. For days afterward he had low-fevers that we treated at home, but now he's back to himself - thank goodness.

Except now I believe he has an egg allergy.

I suspected it a while ago, when I let him lick the beater after making a cake. He got red spots all over his mouth. Then a little while later we were having scrambled eggs and I gave him a taste, and yep, red spots.

So this morning we were enjoying some delicious muffins (some of us more messily than others) and...

The red spots again. Hives? Great.

But other than stomach flus, allergies, fevers, and bronchitis - October was pretty great!

The weather has been beautiful and the scenery even more so,

Caroline had "spirit week" at school and some of her outfits were pretty fun. Here she is on Wacky Tacky Day (she came up with this one all by herself)

And on Hippie Day:

And here is Caroline creating tithing and savings banks as we have just started giving her an allowance! She pays her tithing and then half goes to savings and half is spending. We have been doing this for 6 weeks now and she hasn't spent a dime :)