Livie had her Preschool Harvest Party today. She got to dress all up in her Little Red Riding Hood outfit along with her other classmates! She said (and I use that term loosely) that she tried pumpkin pie and also ate lots of cupcakes too. I think they played lots of games, carved a pumpkin, and probably a lot of other loud and obnoxious preschool stuff!



She also got back her Preschool school pictures today as well! She has a cheesy smile, but oh well! at least she's smiling! Not too shabby, for $30 photos....grrrrrr.....(i know, seriously, right?)

and we're making progress!

hubby and i met with Liv's speech teacher Rachel, and Avery's 2nd grade teacher Mrs. T last night.

both were wonderful,

Rachel said that Liv is making wonderful progress on her "L's, and we're now working on using pronouns correctly "she, her, his, him, etc". She also said she is so sweet and is a a fun little girl to be around. She's ever so spunky, and we look forward to seeing how this personality of hers develops! Olivia will continue speech until she enters Kindergarten. Her preschool conference is Thursday.

Avery conference with Mrs. T was wonderful. Every parent loves to hear nice things being said about your child, but it was just really encouraging to hear that Avery is continuing, year after year, to challenge herself and keeping her abilities over and above what they should be. We are so proud of the gifts she has been given, and that she has such a hunger to learn. Mrs. T seems to be so willing to want to challenge her as well, which is so important to helping her to keep on learning. We were able to share personally with Avery the words that Mrs. T and some of her other teachers spoke about her, and that was encouraging for Avery to hear. She loves to please others!

Good job girls! mommy and daddy are sooo proud of you!

Nana Dianne and Bapa Craig are here and we're celebrating Nana's birthday and also Liv's 4th birthday, which is actually next weekend!








Liv wanted a blueberry muffin cake for her birthday, so that's what she got! She also got "Olivia" party theme plates, napkins and cups!!!
















we couldn't leave Nana Dianne out, since it was actually her birthday, after all....we didn't have the number candles for her, so we used the 8 from Avery's birthday, and Liv's 4, so, she's 84! :)


Daddy didn't think that was too kind, so he wanted to move the candles around!

okay, so we're celebrating that she's 48 instead of 84 I guess now!








onto presents!!!


For Avery's birthday, Olivia gave Avery a #8 doll, so for Liv's birthday, Avery gave Liv a #4 doll!








she was super excited for this next one!

ahhhhh!!!!!

















it was a great birthday!!! we get to celebrate again next weekend with the other grandparents and Aunt Holly too!!!