Proud to Wear Pink!

In honor of breast cancer awareness month, Malia and I got pink streaks in our hair. Malia absolutely loved it. She told all of her friends at school "I have pink hair!" Sadly, hers fell out after only a week and a half. The lesson we learned is that headstands and hair extensions don't go together!

On a more serious note, our pink hair, and this blog entry, are dedicated to Sharon (who I worked with at Probation), Tina (who is one of my Panera friends) and Lisa (my friend, Heather's, friend). Keep fighting ladies! I am so proud of you and you have touched my life in ways you will never imagine.

Pretty cute, no?

The Real Reason You Should Never Leave Children Unatended in the Bathtub

Need I say more???

And We Say Goodbye to Another Baby Tooth

So Kai's second new tooth was almost completely in and the old one wasn't budging (sound like a familiar story?). This time, the tooth was barely loose and every I tried to wiggle it, Kai complained that it hurt. On the morning of October 6th, I finally decided to call the dentist and make an appointment to have it removed. Before I got the chance to call, Kai and Malia were messing around and I suddenly heard them laughing. From what I got out of them, it seems that Kai put the string to Malia's pajama pants in his mouth and Malia yanked it out. The result was quite a bit of blood and a very loose tooth! Talk about the old "tie a string around your tooth and pull" trick. Later that night, Kai pulled the tooth out on his own. Go figure!

An Apple a Day......

On Sunday, October 5th, we took our second annual trip to Edward's Apple Orchard with the Polek/Elliott Clan. It was a little rainy that day but it didn't seem to interfere with everyone having a great time. The kids picked two huge baskets of apples so feel free to send me your favorite apple recipes!

Emily, Malia, Jessie and Kai
(sadly, I somehow didn't get any pictures of Meghan)

Yummy, juicy Jonathon apples

Here are some more photos from our apple picking adventure...

Malia tries her hand at photography

Daddy goofing off, as usual!

Kai trying to loosen his second tooth

Kai Turns 6

Kai celebrated his 6th birthday on September 29th. Malia and I made him a cake and we had his favorite Chinese food for dinner. Malia and I had a lot of fun shopping for his presents and he had a lot of fun opening them!

Malia really enjoyed frosting the cake!

One of Kai's favorite presents

Another favorite

A-P-P.......L-E-S

Malia's first field trip this year was to an apple farm. She came home from school one day and said, "I know how to spell apples! A-P-P.....L-E-S."

It turns out, she learned a little song to the tune of B-I-N-G-O. "There was a farmer had a tree and apples grew upon it. A-PPLES, A-PPLES, A-PPLES. Some apples grew upon it."

So we went to the apple farm, picked apples, had lunch, went to the petting zoo and played on the playground. Unfortunately, my camera battery was dying so I didn't get many pictures. Fortunately, one of the other moms let me use her camera, so as soon as I get those pictures, I'll post them.

Malia and her friend, Ella
They met last year at Thunderbird

These Geese were hysterical
They made so much noise trying to get attention

Malia being silly with her new friend Callie