November to Remember

You might think that moving in with her aunt, uncle and cousins might prevent Berlyn from getting the "real" college experience.  You'd be wrong.  Berlyn and I realized she has crazy roommates just like any "worldly" college dorm.  Roommates who:

• Never clean up after themselves
• Drink all the milk
• Are awake at unreasonable hours
• NEVER unload the dishes
• Claim all the desserts are "theirs"
• Have no respect for your stuff
• Always pick their favorite shows and hog the TV
• Give away their kisses waaay too freely
• Pass out on the couch
• Have public melt downs
• Soil themselves
• Poop in the shower
• Play their annoying music (the wheels on the bus go round and round!)
• There was even a pregnancy scare!  (don't worry, I just had the stomach flu, whewph!)

Berlyn got rear-ended twice - at the SAME intersection!  Luckily only one time was there damage, but she was able to get it popped back into place.  Still, what a bummer!  I was so proud of her for taking a test right after one of the accidents. 

We went to IHOP, the girls ate so much food!  Berlyn wanted to try a grow pill like the girls in the bathtub!  haha!  She's having all sorts of new experiences here!  When on their daddy-daughter date, Siena and Jake saw a super bright rainbow - it was even a double rainbow!  

Berlyn and I went to Target.  We ran into Sister Missionaries from UofM campus (this is their closest Target).  We went up and chatted with them for a few minutes.  They asked if our car is the one that had the BYU sticker on the back (yes!)  They said they saw it when they pulled into the parking lot and they said "a BYU sticker!! That's not something you see everyday!"

Skye officially joined nursery on November 6th!!!  She does ok, but there is a large group.  After the new year there will only be a 5 kids in the younger nursery class, so I think she will do better.  I loved these pictures of the twirls sharing an umbrella.  And I usually lay out all the outfits Sunday morning.  One Sunday I put out their clothes then realized I had a denim jacket and chevron skirt to match!

Family trip to IKEA. The older girls did great in the child play area.

On the 50th day of school Scarlett got to wear 1950s clothing.  I found a cute skirt on Amazon and a 3/4 length, tight-fitting cardigan of mine for her to wear.  It worked perfect!  I can't believe she's already wearing my clothes!  I styled her pony tail with a very puffy top, she told me "my hair looks like a Mayor's hair!"  haha!!!

I was telling Jake that something was 3 feet long. Scarlett told me "that's 36 inches!" Another day she told me "47+47 is 94! I LOVE MATH!" haha!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!! Just so you remember that she's only 6 still... she told me "phtha phtha - that's 'thank you' in my spit spit language."

Siena explained that she and Jaide are twins, she told me "We are the same cause dad calls Jaide 'Siena' and calls me 'Jaide'."

Jaide is a deep thinker. She told me "I want to live in the house forever...I don't want to die." So sad!

My new visiting teaching companion has a masters in speech pathology. She's been helping the twirls! They can be hard to understand. Especially with L and Rs. It's interesting to me how identical their speech problems are. They say Berlyn as "Buh-win". The words "Looking" and "Working" sound the same. One day Siena asked me "Why are cars on 'oweph'?" I made her repeat it, but after repeating something once they get frustrated and embarrassed. So Jaide asked me the same question, with the same weird word. Finally Siena said "Why are cars on 'oweph' and not flying around in outer space?" Oh EARTH! Why are cars on earth?!?!!!

I love that we have such great friends here.  It makes all the difference!  I love listening to the girls' conversations as they play.  One day I was listening to the twirls and Amber come up with some puppy princess dress up game.  They are in a phase where they spend more time making up rules and scenarios then they do actually playing the game!  haha!