Lexi's volleyball

These punchballs were the most played-with toy for today. They wanted their names on them and happy and sad faces, too. Ava also has a pantleg full of stickers, we find stickers on everything these days. Papa took the girls and met Charb and Kelly at Lexi's volleyball game in Camas this afternoon while I picked up Riels and took her to piano. He said they are always so good when he gets them out of the car and they walk with him like big girls.

Luke and Ava

Lexi found out today that she made the Cowlitz 14's Blue team. Auna is on 14's Red and Macee and Tierney are on 18's Black. We will have lots of club volleyball to watch.

Auna came over later to watch the last night of Dancing with the Stars with us. She was excited because they are going to look at a puppy tomorrow.

Frosting cookies

Ava, Harper, Luke and Rielee came to stay with us this morning while their sisters went to club volleyball tryouts. I made some sugar cookies and let them frost their own "fall leaves". Ava and Harper were very serious about the process, and sat there working on their cookies for a half an hour. Luke opted to play video games instead of joining in. Their cookies got many layers of frosting and sprinkles.

There is a cookie under there somewhere.

Harper's motto: you can't have too many sprinkles. She ate every bite of her cookie, too.

They had napkins on their laps, but when it was time to get down from the table, I noticed that Ava had been wiping her hands on her jeans and they were also frosted.

Mixing it up

Maybe it is because they are starving in the morning, but they stack all their bites on their forks like this, maybe it is just to beat sister and be the first to ask for more. They have the funniest habit of changing things around now. They took the cars out of the hotwheels case and replaced them with dominoes, the hotwheels are now in the jewelry box. If I give them puzzles, they take all the pieces and put them in their purses, along with some play food. Most of the Candy Land game pieces are missing, yesterday they had Papa searching for the longest time for a yellow piece so they could play the game.
This morning I had a headache, so I was sitting with an ice pack on my neck and Papa told them what was wrong. Later in the afternoon, Ava put Elmo to head and told me he was sick and had a headache, too.

ABC's

It is getting harder to get a picture of the twins these days. If I pick up the camera, Ava frowns, puts up her hand and says "no picture". I had to bribe them with M&M's to get them to sit down and sing their ABC's for me:

Table tent

The twins were up right away this morning and had eaten breakfast before Rielee got here. They were very busy today, making "messes" as Ava says now, right and left. At one point Ava was taking dominoes and happily throwing them, one by one, on the floor. When she was done, she threw her hands up in the air and said "MESS", very proud of her accomplishment. Papa helped her pick them up.Harper playing under the table.

Crafting

Charb brought Ava and Harper up this morning while he went out elk hunting with his Dad. They got an elk early in the morning and he was back to pick up the girls about 1:30. Rielee has early release this week and was disappointed that the girls were napping when she got here, and then they had to leave before she could play with them. Papa let the girls sit at the counter and have their apple snack. They had been taking food orders on their little tablets before that.

Rielee asked if she could get the easel out and do some painting. I said okay since the twins weren't there (I am not ready for them to start painting quite yet). She pretended to be the art teacher and showed me how to paint a flower. She has missed doing crafts, so she made a turkey out of her cut-out handprints and she also found some animal coloring pages on-line that we printed out for her to color. She seems to be wall-papering the playroom with those.

Sunday

The story of our Sunday, Rielee doing her cheer-"Give me a "D", give me a "U" give me a "C" give me a "K" what's that spell "DUCKS" Say it again, who's gonna win, one more time...to a very unresponsive Nathan and Parker. Doesn't matter to her, she will just go on cheering. We left the motel about 9, the kids were pretty good and watched a Wallace and Grommit movie on the way home.