Auna last 8th grade match

This morning we split up, I took Parker to football practice and Papa took the twins back.  From there, he and Rielee went to watch Auna's team play in an end of the season tournament in Woodland.  The Pirates won their first match so Parker and I had time to make it down there to watch their second one.  They won that one, too, ending their season on a high note!  Auna played so well.  Afterwards, Parker jumped up to get a picture with her and teammate Trinity.  He tried to tell them the only reason they won was because he came to watch but they weren't buying that.

 

 

Braids

Since there was no school today,  Rielee finally had time to braid Ava and Harper's hair, she did a good job and the girls loved it.  We took Rielee to an open house at Gymnastics 4 U this afternoon.  She was surprised by the amount of time they had to run and stretch to warm up, but enjoyed trying out all the equipment and wants to take lessons.  When we got home it was time for her to feed the chickens so she brought out a couple of the chicks to show the twins.  Ava had checked for eggs and found one, she was holding it

carefully but kept picking at it when oops, it cracked right open, she felt so bad!  Rielee told her it was okay and we had her toss it in the brush. 

Ava and Harper's first bus field trip

 Today the pre-school went on a field trip to the Fire Station.  The girls were excited to be riding on a school bus for the first time.  Harper was partnered with Alysha, one of the other twins, and Ava was with her friend Boden.  They were very well behaved the whole time.  Once we got to the Fire Station, however, the teacher took them from their partners and let them hold hands with Charb and I.  Suddenly, both girls regressed and they were afraid of everything, Smokey the Bear, the Dalmation and the firefighters, too.  They were clinging to our legs or asking to be held, we actually had to force them over to their teacher so they could be in the group picture.  They didn't pay much attention during the tour but at the end, when all the kids (except them, they wouldn't have anything) were enjoying a snack, an emergency call suddenly came in and the red light flashed, we could hear their radios going off, and one of the fire fighters ran out, jumped on the truck with some others and took off !  That was exciting and Ava got to wave at them when they drove out of the station.  She may have smiled, not sure.

 Once they were back on the bus, however, they were happy again, Harper sat with Dad and Ava wanted to sit with Teagan.   If you ask them about the trip now they say "it was fun and I cried".  So true, loved the bus ride but not the fire station.

 They were all smiles on the way home and loved their hats!

Harper the pincher

 

After school, we gave the girls dry erase boards and Harper sat down to show Alan, who was visiting, how she could write her name the correct way, "pinching" the marker, instead of her old way of holding it between her index and ring finger.   This morning she wrote her name perfectly on a picture for her teacher and it was high fives all around, Ava was just as happy and proud of Harper as we were and as she was of herself.  They both love school so much and are eager to please their teacher.

They learned about fire in school today and how they should get out and stay out of the house and not go back for their toys and also learned to stop, drop and roll.  They learned sign language for "stop" and "roll".  Harper was  questioning leaving her toys, she said she loves her stuff and didn't want it in the fire,  Ava said "no, we leave it and then we can buy new toys!"  

Rielee soccer/Auna & Rielee overnight

 Rielee had an early game this morning, she played hard and scored a goal and the team won 10-0.

Auna was staying with us while Laury and David went to Bellingham to watch Emmy play.  We went to see the movie Gravity, it was really good.  When we got home Rielee came over and decided to spend the night, too.  She and Auna worked on a couple Halloween kits with over 300 pieces, they got tired before they finished the second one and set up the little table to relax and color instead. 

Hats

 We went to garage sales while the twins were in pre-school this morning and found several old hats for them to play with.  Ava picked a hydrangea to pose with.

 Another garage sale find, some egg beaters for them to make bubbles with, they kept coming in and getting more dish soap, later I realized what they did with it when I noticed  that our fountain was surrounded by bubbles a foot high. 

Ava's first drawing of a kitty, she was so proud of herself!

Sisters

We went to Union tonight to watch Lexi's team play Heritage, Charb's school.  It was fun to see Lexi playing on her home court and they won easily in 3.