Papa's birthday

Ava and Harper were spending the night with us, so they got to have birthday cake with Papa for his 69th birthday. They were getting kind of tired after dinner but as soon as they saw the cake, they perked right up. Harper blew out one candle, then Ava blew out the other.
He had lots of help opening his cards. We all laughed when Ava kept repeating "scratch-off tickets" just like she knew what they were. The girls stayed up and watched "Survivor" with him before heading to bed.

Singers

The girls were very animated this morning!

Lexi v'ball

Sharing their blankets with their babies, they are very nurturing, and they are sharing, too, because that is Ava kissing Harper's baby. They don't share those blankets with each other or anyone else though.
While I took Rielee to piano this afternoon, Papa took the girls back and met Charb and Kelly at Lexi's first volleyball game of the season. He said Lexi did a great job and is a really good player, and they won. Unfortunately none of the pictures he took of her turned out.

District Champions

Ava and Harper had their first soccer practice today. Ava was kind of unhappy about it.

Harper stretching, from what I saw on the video Charb sent, she was having fun, kicking the ball as well as the cones.

Parker played his first basketball games today. He was really hustling and scored 6 points in the first game, 10 in the second game. Nice to see him liking basketball again, he even said he tried to get #13 jersey so he could be like Will, his idol.
The Rockets won the District championship this afternoon, beating Montesano in 3. As usual, Macee and Tierney played great. They are so excited to go to state and try to bring home a trophy.

The 4 Juniors on the team, Maddie Seidl, Kenzi Dahl, Tierney and Macee

Baby Rie Rie

Rielee had early release today and was full of energy. She had Ava and Harper playing babies, then the next thing I know, SHE is the baby and is pretending to be asleep on the floor. Ava and Harper were loving this play, and then Rielee started to pretend-cry and they went into action. "Matter Rie Rie?" Harper asked her, then gave her a baby doll while Ava bent down to try giving her a kiss. Auna and I got a kick out of watching this exchange. After babies, they played restaurant, Ava and Rielee were the servers and took orders, Auna was the customer and Harper was the cook. Auna wasn't an easy customer either-she knows how to push Rielee's buttons, when Rielee started to give her a "menu", Auna said she didn't need one since she had been there before, Rielee was so mad, she told Auna that no, she had not been there and if she was then she must have had a different server. Too funny.

Laury's cat

We took the girls out for a couple of walks today. It was chilly so they had to walk with their hands in their pockets, which makes Papa very nervous for fear they might trip and do a face plant. The girls were happy that the scary Halloween decorations are gone and they can safely walk around the yard.

They were very curious about this cat statue in Laury's yard, Ava had to get up close to it and even gave it a little kiss. The big drama today was over Harper's little dog. It is a little brown dog from the doll house that she has carried around from time to time, she really loves it. Today she put it in her pocket when we went for a walk and must have dropped it along the way. She was devastated and she and Papa had to go back out and look for it, but couldn't find it. She cried over her lost little dog.

Super nappers

We had kind of tired girls today. They went down for naps at 11 and I think they would probably have slept all afternoon if we had not woke them up to feed them before Papa took them back. We took these pictures of them during the waking-up process. Ava

The Rockets won their first 2 games at the District Tournament in CR tonight, beating Hoquiam and Kalama, both in 3, and secured a trip to the State Tournament next week. They will play for the District Championship Saturday at 3:30.