Christmas Sunday

HERE THEY ARE ON CHRISTMAS SUNDAY AFTER CHURCH! THANK YOU FOR THE DRESSES MRS. BECKY!!!

Twin Love Part Two

Ali & Cami

Cami and Ali came to spend the night with us tonight and I thought I would take some pictures of them....
Look at how much they love each other!! They are growing up to be such sweeties and the girls are constantly doing cheerleading stunts and cheers the whole time they are here. We love to spend time with them!

Addie's Turn

This is for you Tanner!!!!
This is Adeleine's all time favorite song... I think it is b/c she gets away with saying the "s" word and the "h" word. Stupid and Hate... she delights in singing these words loud and proud.....but when David is around she has to sing "silly ole pick up truck" !! anyway, anytime anyone says "stupid" around her she says... Mom, she said stupid!!!! it is kind of embarassing when she says that when a stranger slips up and says stupid....she ALWAYS hammers down on Mawee when mawee slips up!! She is the Stupid word police!! so beware....

Go pick out a WAT dress

markers and pens= microphone
fireplace shovel= guitar
fireplace hearth= stage
aunt jessi=videographer/director
mawee,pawee and josie= audience/fans

WINTER WONDERLAND

A DREAM COME TRUE FOR THE GIRLS!! THANK YOU LORD!!
their little fingers were too cold to build a real snowman, so they opted for a snowbear, snow puppy and a snow turtle instead! This day was so much fun, but the best part was when we all had a big snowball fight, I really felt like a kid again!! We were all trying to get David!!

I WAS RIDIN SHOTGUN

We stayed at mawee's the night it snowed bc our power was out...

so as usual the girls got on stage and gave us a little improptu performance!! The stage, aka fireplace hearth has been the center of entertainment for two generations now...for the last twenty years it has been the platform for all of our sleep over beauty pageants, modeling shows and concerts!! Now it is the stage for the Dart girls!! And as you can see they love to be centerstage!!

That Minivan was Flying!

David on the evening of December 4,2002: "Kelli, we need to call the doctor, you have had SIX contractions in one hour...!!!!!"

Kelli trying to go to sleep, David is bugging her to death by keeping his hand on her big pregnant belly to feel her very mild contractions: "David, I am fine, just go to sleep!!"

David, working button holes: "kelli, I am calling the doctor"

Kelli, getting very annoyed, I could barely feel these little contractions: "Whatever David", as she rolls back over to go back to sleep.

David on the phone with Dr. Moore: "Hey Dr. Moore, This is David Dart..Kelli has had six contractions in one hour!!" and Dr. Lawler said for us to call when this happens...."

Dr. Moore: "Ok David, let me talk to Kelli"

Kelli, very annoyed and embarrassed that he called dr. moore at midnight, getting ready to tell Dr. Moore that everything is fine, these contractions are very very mild: "Hey Dr. Moore" then SWOOOOSSHSHSHSH there goes my water......"Oh my gosh dr. moore, my water just broke"

Dr. Moore: "well you better get down here, I will see you soon" (all cool and calm)!

Kelli"omgosh david ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, go pack me some clothes and the twins some clothes......(a lesson i learned, pack early next time!)

Kelli dials pepper - omygosh momma, my water broke, OH KELL, she says.....momma, i need you to pack me some of jessi's clothes, b/c i dont trust David...Ok kell, we will meet you at the hospital...."terry, get up!" David is calling bill and patty!! oh my gosh we are so nervous.....That mini van was FLYING down the highway, we left grammie and poppa in the dust....David with the emergency lights on, flying through all of the redlights!! kelli, a nervous wreck, praying that we would even make it to the hospital ALIVE!!

Ok we did, and before i knew it we were in the delivery room...me with tears rolling down my face b/c i cant believe that I am about to become a momma...David is giddy and holding my hand, momma getting ready with the video camera, cool and calm.excited..her daughter is about to have some daughters....

Then after several pushes....HERE SHE IS!! a little old wrinkly lady with beady eyes looking all around - Genevieve Claire Dart..."IS she o.k. was my first question...She is so little!! Three pounds eleven ounces to be exact!!! She is fine the nurse says..and I know she is, I touch her little bitty cheek and cannot believe that she is out, a little tiny person wrapped up tight...not crying, just looking around....then I hear momma...sobbing sobbing sobbing....she is so proud...sob sob sob.....me too, the proudest moment of my life!!! Then some more pushing,,,oh no...i dont think i can do this again...so much pain...."You can do it" says David just like he is coaching football......six minutes later...out comes my BELLA,...they swooped her up and took her to the resuscitation room...i only got a little glance of her tiny self, but I heard her scream loud!! Is she ok...yes says the nurse, she just needs a little clearing out and some oxygen....David keeps kissing my wet cheeks and keeps saying "kelli, they are so beautiful!!!" oh my gosh...so much pain and love melted together....I am in awe, they are finally here, I think to myself...what do they look like, something that I have wondered for nine months or rather all my life...I have always wanted to be a momma before anything else, and i had always dreamed of what my children would look like...and now, here they are...two little old wrinkly ladies with beady eyes...one is a pound bigger and an inch longer...womb mates...best friends for life...tight as ticks as they say now!!!

Then the nurse comes in to say that they will be going to the NICU...everything is fine with them, they are just small....ok, I am so blessed, thank you Lord! then later that day we get settled in my room and David brings up our bags....well....in all the chaos of that morning when i told him to pack some things, here is what he packed:

Several 12 month outfits for our premature babies

a hand print kit, which consisted of concrete - he thought that they could do this in the nursery

some things for him and I, which I cant remember what he packed,(thank God for mom packing me some stuff),

But the funny thing was not what he packed, but what he packed our stuff in:

A PAIR OF DRAWSTRING SWEAT PANTS

Yes, you read that right, a pair of Mississippi College Football sweat pants: he packed all of the above in a pair of sweatpants and tied the legs together: TWO WORDS: RED NECK!!!
Even though our suitcases were right underneath our bed, he couldnt remember, and i was so flabergasted that i didnt notice that he was doing that.....well, here comes david, proud as can be with a pair of loaded down sweatpants draped over his shoulder, think Santa Clause..!! So embarrassing..I will never forget that!!He says that he was a boy scout and he is always prepared!! haha..

well for the next two weeks we are on the road between the nicu and moms house...

I have never been so tired and happy in all of my life (except for my next two girlies)!! David and I listen to Crazy Love by Van Morrison everytime we get into the van to go visit our little Loves...we sing every word...and we decide that this is the song that he will dance with them at their weddings....their special father daughter dance...

Maw is mad at me for naming my firstborn after her, but secretly she is so happy _ "she is not going to like that name, she says....I tell her..maw it is not about the name..it is about the person that she is named FOR!! then she smiles, so proud!! I am proud too, b/c If my little genevieve is anything like her namesake, that will be GOOD!! Then Isabella Louise ..I named her right....because she IS A BELLA..so beautiful as soon as I get a good look at her through the incubator I see how pretty she is...she is more filled out that evie, fat little cheeks and rounder eyes and head...she is named isabella Louise after pawee....and if she is anything like her namesake, that will be even BETTER!!! Named after her Paw, like I was named after my paw! Evie and Bella, they are a hit in the NICU, their little incubators are decorated with christmas decor, they smell so good and david and I get to bath them and feed them everyday! We are amazed at how tiny they are, little little little everything....We come home to march street with reports of how much they ate and how much they weighed...dreaming of the day when we can take them home...then it happens, we get to take Bella home...then I sob all the way home b/c we are leaving our little evie all alone and without her bella.....its ok, b/c a couple of days later, we bring the little grannie home!! and they are together again, i immediately swaddle them together, sisters missing each other, reunited!! and they sleep so calmly...

Fast forward six years later...time is flying...they are laying in their bed sleeping now, still swaddled together, now with a little sister in between them...blond curls everywhere, sleeping so calmly...love!

Evie and Bella,

Thank you for bringing so much joy to our lives...the moment you were born I realized so much, like what real fear is, how i could walk through fire without thinking...and what love is...a different kind of love, bittersweet, CRAZY LOVE...Daddy and I are so proud of you both, you are learning new things everyday and you amaze us with how sweet you are!! Thanks for being our little girls....we are the most blessed and our hearts swell with pride....Thank you JESUS!!

the Six Chicks!

Evie and Bella

were honored today at school for their birthday! They do not have school tommorrow so we are going to go to mawee's and celebrate!! They may have a special visitor?!?!?

In a far away land...

We had fun pretending last weekend....

The King needed to go to a meeting in a far away land (Vidalia,La)...so he took the mother queen (grammie), his queen and the four princesses to a castle (the comfort suites). We had to drive over the moat (mississippi river) on a bridge (ms bridge) to get there...This is the story that we told the girls to get them excited about our trip. They really believed that we were in a castle! It was really fun...

We went shopping and the girls and grammie rode on a trolley into town..it was there on the trolley that bella met a kindred spirit...an old lady named Rose...and everytime Bella saw Rose in the hotel, she ran to her with hugs...they just love people...what can I say...for instance, they met every hotel worker that they came into contact with...."hello sir, how are you??", "how are you doing today ma'am?" and then while they ran ahead of me down the hall headed to our room i saw them stop in a doorway talking to someone in a room...and then they went into the room...kelli getting a little nervous, starting to run down the hall towards them.....and when i get to the door, it is the laudry center and i see evie and bella hugging the maids saying "nice to meet you ma'am", these ladies are so happy and they kept saying how friendly these little girls are!! they just couldnt believe it,,,,grannie hopkins rubs off on them..Now addie is another story - she embarrassed me so bad at breakfast this morning when a lady stopped to say hey to us "look at these pretty little girls" she says then addie says to her "you go home" (alot like Aunt jess in the morning) omgosh...so embarrasing, she got a major lesson in hurting peoples feelings that morning...anyway we had so much fun! we swam in the indoor pool and played mother hen with the colored chicks for hours in the pool! Josie is cutting two teeth and is enjoying eating food more and more......she is also starting to get up on all fours, ready to start scooting around... We also went to an antique mall called Addie's antiqe mall and found 3 porcelain dolls...the girls named them such fancy names....Bella's - Matilda, Evie's - Marabelle, and Adeleine's - Lillyannagrace!

Thanksgiving

WE had a great Thanksgiving!!

I Swoney!

We had so much fun with granny!

That woman can work circles around all of us!! I had to beg and plead with her to stop cleaning up my house and stop folding up the clothes! And y'all know that she meddles in stuff, like bills... you can not leave stuff like that out when she comes over!!! She will write on bills that she meddles in: "pay this",,, "past due" !! she is so funny, well, While I was trying my Hardest to get Josie gurwa asleep...lights out in my quiet room, trying desperately for her to go to sleep..maw comes in, KNOCK KNOCK on the door LOUD...and says...(knowing I am trying to get Josie to sleep, I guess she forgot) Kelli estelle...i just have one question....(she was meddling in my bills on the counter)...do you mean to tell me ,that this medicine (i had just picked up from the pharmacy) was SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS!!!! Yes maam maw (kelli whispering very quietly, Josie turning to see what all the racket is about,miss nosey)...loud again...you mean SIX - EIGHT!!! I SWONEY!! that must be a high faluntin' pharmacy!!! door slams!! hahah...she was just appalled!!

Wednesday I took her McComb, MS to go shopping at this little outlet...we didn't get to hit all the dollar stores in clinton ...her favorite thing..so we headed to mccomb...she was so excited! She just HAD to find her some new tops...she can never have too many flowery tops, not too low on her neck, covering way past her belly, not too short...to go with her black elastic waist pants and her favorite red shoes!!! anyway, we were excited to see that they were having a huge sale, so we gathered a bunch of tops for her to try on in the small dressing room..(which opened up to the entire store). Her and Adeleine, were in their together and I was on the other side of the store, when all of the sudden I and everyone else in the store heard a loud noise in their direction....Adeleine had slammed the door opened for the whole entire store to see maw in her black elastic waisted pants and her little bra!!! and then I heard from her...I SWONEY!!!! really LOUD!! then she couldnt get the door closed....adeleine was staring at herself in the mirror outside the door not worried a bit...I said addie close the door...nothing...so then I darted across the store with josie in one arm and pushing the stroller with the other hand as fast as I could...maw's eyes were

as big as saucers underneath her little glasses...i tried to keep a straight face when i finally got up to her...nobody saw you maw, dont worry...little bit of a lie....i closed the door...then i heard her giggling...I Swoney...that little thang (talking about addie)..i swoney!!! she said!!! hahah..

For those of you who don't know..i swoney is like a curse word i guess...her little Christian self would not dare swear...but she can "I swoney" all day long....she also says things like" I don't shive a git" !!

Later that day we had lunch at the golden corrall...perfect place for old people to eat...she was so proud to be there with her little grand daughter and her little great grand daughters....i just knew it!! One thing i learned while there....she whispers really LOUD....I felt my face blush as she "whispered" about the lady sitting inches away from us...the lady heard every word...hahah...She is so much fun to be around...and LORD knows she can talk..

we talked about:

=What we needed to cook for David's supper every night..."do i need to make him a lunch for work"..."do you want me to make yall some biscuits in the morning" "how about a pan of cornbread" !!! He was so spoiled like always when she comes over..
=how the Lord was faithful through all of her trials: little Ricky, Doonie, Aunt Eva, Holly!

we always talk about Holly and how much we miss her...and how pretty she was....long dark thick hair...

Then she recalls so easily her little seventeen month old son Ricky who died of pneumonia..I told her that he may be one of the first one she sees when she gets to Heaven...yep!!! She can recall every detail of that really sad night, and I try not to let her see the tears welling up in my eyes as she tells it like it happened yesterday...so sad!! I am thinking to myself poor maw..how did she ever get through it all.....the answer comes with her next breath....The Lord is Faithful, she says...her legacy....then she talked about what a beautiful baby aunt eva was...curly black hair, skin like a china doll...beautiful...she then thinks back to when pawpaw was in the hospital and she went to see him and she brought her baby eva with her..she said that the nurses immediately took eva and showed her off to all of the nurses b/c she was so pretty...she even remembered the dress that baby eva wore that day...pretty little pink one! Maw has such a sweet look to her when she tells those stories...she then talks about her own mother...martha...who suffered with asthma...died at age 44...she says that she was so sweet..and I try to imagine that she was probably alot like maw...my mawmaw had to get her sweetness inherited from someone...she tells the same stories over and over..but i like to hear them..and maw likes to tell them..so i listen...greatful that I still have my little maw here with me!! I love her so much!! She is my favorite person in the whole wide world!!

The girls LOVE when granny comes over b/c they get to sleep with her...So we hear them justa talking in their rooms about God and everything else, maw inclined on her 2 pillows. saying their sweet little prayers...they each got to take turns sleeping with her since she was here for three nights...but we kept hearing the pitterpatter of little feet going into the room she was sleeping in...really late...david yelling girls get in the bed...then we hear maw begging them to go to sleep...b/c she doesnt want them to get into trouble...i go in and check on them later, maw asleep with her flashlight nearby...i just knew that she was going to try to wash some clothes or do some dishes by the light of the flashlight...i guess the girls wore her out!! haha!!

I SWONEY!! we had a blast with her here..Come back soon GRANNY!!

TWIN LOVE

Evie and Bella

Yesterday when we pulled into our driveway, I told the big girls to jump out and let me take some pictures of them. They had fun, and so did I...

Look how sweet!

Conversation with Bella

here bella is very proud of her smile, which may look a liitle bit different soon

Bella woke up this morning saying that her front tooth was hurting....I looked and wiggled...nothing.....I told her to go show daddy......David looked and wiggled....nothing....but told Bell that her tooth was LOOSE and then they talked about the tooth fairy....she got so excited.....head held higher....big huge smile on her face......so I then put an apple in her lunch box and told her that it might do the trick:





This was our conversation this morning:


Bella: Why will the apple do the trick mom?


Kelli: B/c when you bite into it, your tooth may come out and get stuck in the apple! but you need to be careful and make sure that you are not swallowing your tooth...so be careful, b/c it may come out in your mouth...


Bella: What will happen if I swallow my tooth?


Kelli: It will come out in your poo poo...


Bella: (eyes really big) ooooooooooooooooooooo the tooth fairy will NOT like that!!


Kelli: hahah No I dont think that she would!

Happy Birthday David!!

Thirty

Today is David's birthday, so I feel that it is ok to brag a little on him. I can hear yall now saying.."oh, brother"...

So here are some things that I love about David.....

1. he is Daring. As in jumping off a very tall cliff into a lake, chasing after snakes (my worst fear). He also runs into burning buildings to rescue people and just the other day he cut a women out of her mangled car and helped save her life. His crazy dream is to jump out of a plane and fly a top gun jet...over my dead body....one time he swam in the gulf during a tropical storm while his wife, pregnant with twins watched him from the condo, praying...and the thing that scared me the most was when he jumped the rail we were sitting behind and broke up 2 gangs that were about to fight in the movie theater!!!! I just knew that I was about to hear gunfire....Here I was, very very, pregnant with Adeleine, enjoying the previews when candy started flying overhead, one gang of thugs above us, one gang of thugs to the side of us, throwing candy at each other.. can you picture that...then angry words started flying, me and a very packed theater of people getting more nervous by the second, people looking around thinking, is this really happening...then the guys from above headed over to the guys to the side of us.... head to head...a fight to ensue...only feet away from his pregnant, very scared wife wanting to hide under the seat.....then up jumps David over the rail......as in Dukes of hazard....demanded they sit down....and they did....immediately.....david shocked them....their toughness melted away in seconds, eyes big as saucers looking at this guy who gained all of the control....then he went to get the authorities and pointed out the troublemakers..."it was him, him, and him and him...pointing at each guilty thug....who were thrown out of the theater...then he got a huge applause from the audience and a swoon from me!!!! Just like ole John wayne....all business!!! that's how he rolls!!! my daring protector!!!
2. He is A Comic:

Everyone who knows him knows this... He is the Funniest person that I have ever met...he can reenact dumb and dumber in any given oppurtune moment, whether appropriate or not...I laugh at him at least 100 times a day...sometimes my cheeks hurt so bad that I have to hold them together to relax the muscles in them... and he can also make my stomach hurt so bad, sometimes there is no sound left in me from laughing so hard. then, all day long i laugh just thinking about him and how silly he is...Oh my gosh the things that he has done...like intentionally tripping up the movie theater steps in front of 200 people .. so immature..he did this like everytime we would go to the movies... , he really can't do those things anymore being the c.o.c. of e.f.p. haha.. When I am having a not so good day, I will say, "dave, I need to laugh", no problem...seconds later, i am rofl at him and I am better...Laughter is so the best medicine! and our poor girls cant ever cry for long, anytime they get hurt bloody knees, bruised chins, they are laughing through the pain at their daddy in a matter of seconds....and for that matter I can never get mad at him, which is so unfair...he can just make a face...and their goes my anger....not an issue anymore...he is funny to a fault, sometimes embarrassingly funny....I LOVE that about him! I have my own ben stiller, jim carrey, will farell - David Dart!!

3. he is a Very hard worker - He perserveres and takes very good care of us. You rarely catch him on the couch. Last year at this time he was knocking on about 13000 doors meeting the people of our parish to ask for their vote. this year he is building a house for us!!He is always outside working on our property, riding tractors, bulldozers, fourwheelers with the girls... My favorite part of the day is when he comes through the door all dirty and sweaty with his very worn out mc football shirt, carharts and work boots on. nothing more attractive to me than this...hahah....i am serious... He works so hard to make our place awesome and That makes me so proud!!

Calloused hands, sunburned face and farmers tan....what a MAN!!

4. He Is the very best husband and Daddy

He is the answer to my prayer that i prayed in high school. a million fold. He is what God intends for a husband..such love and security....he truly values me....AND spoils me....He is definetly in charge of our family.....which I am so glad....what woman would want such pressure....ask me if I have ever paid any of our bills or know who to pay them to or how much...the answer is NO.... i have never worried over any of that stuff, stress free from all of it..

he takes care of it all and i am SO GLAD!! I trust and love him and know that he takes care of us!! He even goes to the grocery store and cooks the most!!! He gives me the sweetest most romantic cards and makes a huge breakfast for us girls every sunday before church.. He is teaching bella and evie how to jitterbug and he plays hide and seek with addie everyday when he comes home for lunch!! he always has time for his kids....except when Josie has a dirty diaper...he can always maneuver his way out of that... he gets upset when we start talking about the girls going on dates...and says that they will be baptist nuns one day...when the girls put on their play lipstick...he tells them.."now girls you cant wear lipstick in the convent" haha... so silly...they just look at him confused, then smile, then melt their daddy's heart!! At the end of the day when we are laying in bed, he always says, Kelli...we are so blessed,,, And i say AMEN to that...

I am so blessed to have YOU david,,,, Happy birthday!! You are my everything!!!

Taking care of BIZ-ness

Yesterday I took Adeleine to MONKEY BIZ!!

It was her special day!! She was SO EXCITED to be going by herself, well, Josie was there too, but she goes where momma goes... We had a fun day, playing in the tunnels, throwing balls, eating pizza, sliding down the roller slide a million times and climbing on all of the rides...at one point she was the only kid there, so she had the whole place to herself.... WE HAD A FUN DAY!!!

Snuggling 10-11

I just finished snuggling with the big girls.

I do that every now and then. For them, but mostly for me. Picture this...We (evie, bella, addie and me) all snuggle together in a little full size bed, with a tent made out of old lace curtains hung overhead with dangling flowers, stars, etc., inside to see when they look up...then there is addie, she doesn't like covers, so her legs are sticking out usually spread eagle, leaving only inches for our legs, bella and evie are so happy that I am snuggling with them so they are rubbing my back and legs (they are getting really good at this), and telling me all about their day (who they played with, what they learned, who had to go on the fence at recess, who there little friend boys are -"momma don't DARE tell daddy" "girl power secrets", how much they LOVE me, and how cute Josie is...)

Then slowly they start fading into their little slumbers....

Whoever is still awake secretly gets the best snuggle from me... I pull her closer to me and we snuggle tight and I rub her arms, legs... and run my fingers through her hair and kiss her cheeks lots and lots............

tonight it was Evie....

so naturally my mind starts to remember back as we snuggle close.....

MY FIRSTBORN...the one named after my sweet grandmother genevieve....my little one....who weighed only three pounds eleven ounces....my little sweetie who could make my heart stop when she would turn blue and pass out when she would get upset....the one with the smaller eyes and the crooked little smile... the one who loves to dance, draw and dress up, a true girly girl.....the one who loves to fish and get dirty too....The one who tries her hardest to put others before herself and LOVES to help old people up the steps....

she is my little love

.....as I am rubbing her arm, and feel her little scrapes, i start to feel the tears stinging my eyes....man, being a mom is so bittersweet, because I remember when this little arm was premature, only inches long. Now i feel muscles growing underneath this soft but tough little skin!! these little arms now swing wildly above her head when she dances and high vees when she cheers, so coordinated!!! these are the little arms that pack her little sister josie around and rescue her little sisters from their nibbling daddy..haha....her little hands...her little bossy fingers that point and direct her sisters and also tickle them.."gitty gitty gitty".... her pinky is bruised from being shut in the car door, still sore, but she says that she is tough! sweet little hands that always hold her sisters when they walk into school everyday.... her long legs, with tons of scrapes, bruises and mosquito bites...playing outside legs.....legs that run really fast!! Now her hair....long, soft and curly, blonde with streaks of brown throughout... beautiful, her hair parts perfectly naturally to the side, her daddy LOVES to brush this little head of hair after baths and he comments on how beautiful and LONG her hair is getting.... bound to be very tight ringlets all over her head when she hits puberty! Then her face, soft cheeks, slightly chapped little pink lips, she loves her cherry carmex that i bought just for her....eyes closed, dark lashes against her cheeks......

sweet dreams EVIE claire,

Thank you LOrd for blessing me with this little girl who is growing up too fast!! Even though I sometimes say when things are wild, whiney, messy, etc..."this too shall pass"....

please LORD let it pass SLOWLY!!!

Thoughts on the Election 11-5-08

America is changing

A new man is on the American "throne."

This is the Psalms that ran through my head today as I started to feel upset:

This is the day that the LORD has made, we will REJOICE and be GLAD in it!! Psalms 118:24

He reminded me that HE is on HIS throne, He has given us life to live for HIM ,

and for goodness sake Kelli..

BE GLAD AND REJOICE!!!

Don't be ANXIOUS about ANYTHING, but PRAY about EVERYTHING with THANKSGIVING!!

Thanks Lord for Blessing me!!

(look above for a few pics of my favorite blessings)

NOW I feel BETTER!!!!

I do believe in Fairies! I do believe in Fairies!

Last night was the annual Halloween Festival at school.

We had so much fun getting all dolled up into fairies... Mom, Dad, Aunt Ree and Uncle Will were all in the kitchen with Adeleine, Josie and AnnaKate while I was putting the finishing touches on the big girls..

Then I hear Aunt REE: "I don't believe in fairies",

then THUD down goes Adeleine, "dropping dead", on the floor, still as a dead fairy.....

then someone would say after some time...."I do believe in fairies".... then slowly she would "come alive"..... then louder..."I do believe in Fairies"....Addie, more alive....then louder..I DO BELIEVE IN FAIRIES".... Adeleine is up and ALIVE!running around ! YIPEEEE!!!
we did this about a million times before we headed off for the festival!! hahah...

Evie's favorite part about Halloween was giving out her candy "prizes" that she won,

"here ya go, Happy Halloween", she would say to:
1.her little friend boy from school,
2.a little 10 month old baby,

3.every classmate that she saw,

she gave them candy..so benevolent..her little heart swelling with goodness... and everytime she would do it she would look at me so PROUD...she knows how it impresses me when they "put others before themselves" - that is like our family mantra! So I was especially pleased when Addie popped her butterfly balloon, Addie started to have a meltdown....

and Evie proud as ever, stepped up to the plate and gave Addie her pink butterfly balloon!!!!
...she looked up at me with those baby blues and just smiled!! She knew I was so PROUD! My heart was swellin' too!!

Bella was flittin' around, in lala land.. (she takes after me) miss social butterfly fairy!! She will make friends with the whole world! Her favorite part was the horse ride and being chased by Hasting and Mills! AND OF COURSE eating cotton candy! I thought she would just die if she didn't get any! And when she saw her teacher, mrs. karen, she almost tackled her down.. she loves that lady!

Josie's favorite part about Halloween was PAWEE! She and Paw hung out the whole time and visited. Then Paw let her pinch and feel his face and then Josie went to sleep on Paw's shoulder... He is such a good Pawee! Josie also had fun walkbouncing with mr. craig! I know some arms were sore that night!! Thanks pawee! you are the best!

OMYGOSH!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS.......Tonight Josie is going to mawee's (the first time for her to be away from me - ever!!! , and the 3 big girls are going camping with grammie and poppa! David and I are headed to New Orleans for the night!! YEAHHHHHH!!! I am a little nervous about being in N.O. on Halloween, with all the voodoo and crazy people! Y'all pray for us!! AND PLEASE PRAY FOR MY BOOBS TOO!!!

Have a Happy Halloween!