Thanksgiving!

Unfortunately, Ali wasn't well enough to make it to Thanksgiving so mom stayed home with her.  Looks like the others had fun at Mimi's this year for a Cape Cod Thanksgiving!

Happy 2nd Birthday Ali!!!

Ali turns two!

Our sweet little Ali is two whole years old today, hard to believe.  She just learned to say “ONE” when asked how old she is, now we have to re-train her. 

She is so fun and everyone’s favorite “go to” family member.  When the kids get home from school, the first thing they want to know is “Where is Ali?” She loves nothing more than playing with them in their rooms.  I’m pretty sure she thinks she is about their age.

Ali loves popsicles and lollypops. These are her two absolute favorite things.  She gets very upset when someone is eating one in front of her and she isn’t included. I sometimes send the kids to their rooms to have a lollypop if I don’t want her to have one, otherwise…WWIII

Ali also loves “school”. She goes to a little playgroup for a couple hours on Thursday.  Loves it.  Always asking to go to “school”.  She also loves her music class.  I don’t think I’ll have trouble getting her out of the house when the time comes for real school.

Ali also loves music.  She absolutely loves singing just about any nursery rhyme.  Her favories are “The wheels on the bus” and “Five little monkeys”.  Her favorite pop song by far is Whip It by Silento.  She can do the nae nae with the best of them. We have many many videos of her doing this dance.

We are trying to potty-train but so far that hasn’t gotten off the ground.  She says “no potty” when anyone tries to get her to sit on her little white potty.  We’ll keep trying.  

Ali is currently weighing in at 26.6lbs (66%) and 34.5 inches tall (65%).  

Poor Ali was a little sick for her birthday.  She has an ear infection and is on antibiotics but still not her happy little self.  We had a little party for her with the neighbor kids with pizza and cupcakes.

The airplane ate my homework?!?

Hi Mr. Dooher - 
Hope you had a nice Tgiving. 
You may or may not remember that Luke did not turn his homework in the Wed before Tgiving break. 
I feel compelled to explain. 
As far as Jay and I knew his homework was turned in as usual. 
Luke came home from school on Wed and said, "Mom, this was my homework for today." Pointing to a paper airplane. See picture. Now, Luke makes paper airplanes and an array of other "projects" on a daily basis. I was very confused, "your homework was to make a paper airplane?" He said, "yeah, this is it and I have to turn it in next week". 
After more back and forth I finally realized that he had in fact made a paper airplane out of his homework. Luke said "but I'll just straighten it out. It will be good", Without a care and onto the next thing. 
I hope you get a kick out of this as we did. The best part of the story is that he actually did complete the homework before he proceeded to turn it into a paper airplane. 
Only Luke! 

GET OFF THE COUCH!!!

The problem with getting old is that you can't hear when the people come home and you get caught sleeping where you shouldn't be!!!

The kids made this video with ivideo which is their new favorite thing to do.  They made this one at poor Ali's expense but it is pretty funny.  The neighbor girl made it with them.

Video of the girls dancing -

Bed Head

Paige has the worst bed head, every morning.  See for yourself.  She loves it!

Anne's Baby Shower -

I had Anne's baby shower today.  It was a great time and a lot of fun to put together.  Paige came too, loved being the big helper!  So excited to meet little baby boy Balu!!

 

OUR Alex Morgan -

Paige is playing fall soccer again this year.  This year they go to a practice one day and a game on Saturday afternoons.  Her league is 1st and 2nd grade girls.  I must say, they are pretty good!  We were able to get on the same team as our friend, Caroline, in the neighborhood.  Paige definitely holds her own.  She is great on defense and even scores goals on offence.


First day of practice -

Ali is a great cheerleader.  She yells "GO PAIGE" even when she is on the sidelines -

On goalie -

The obligatory participation trophy.  Love it!

The dream team, they were actually pretty good.  Even though they don't keep score, everyone keeps score.  They only "lost" one game all season -

Paige and her buddy Caroline -

Thanksgiving is almost here!

Thanksgiving is a favorite meal for many people.  Apparently, Luke is not one of them.  I found this in an activity book Luke recently completed.  

He is too funny sometimes.