Halloween!

Here our some of the decorations that we have put up for Halloween. This is one of my favorite Holidays and the kids and I have had a blast putting up all the decorations! The witches are noise activated and cackle when they see movement or hear a noise like clapping and we have spiders that are also noise activated that drop down when you walk onto the front porch.


 

Baby's first teeth

Here are some pictures of Paxton's first teeth he had 4 poke through last Sunday!
 

Birthday Girl!

Mika turned 7 today! We are so proud of our little princess!
Here she is on the phone with her Granny and Papa in her ballet clothes.

 

My Latest Crafts

Here are some of the things that I have been up to latetly.
This first one is in our kitchen and is the Hungary version of enjoy your meal or good eating. This next sign is above our office and means "Faith can move mountains" in Hungarian.
This sign is a little harder to read and says "Because everypicture tells a story" I thought it was the perfect sign to go with the pictures that Aunt Chris gave to me that I posted earlier. They are in our front entry was and everyone asks about them. I even made the frames and mats myself. It was my first attempt at making my own.
 

Mika at soccer and her random pictures

here are some pictures that Mika took last Friday at Trent' s office of Paxton.


 

Mika the smarty pants

We had an amazing talk with Mika's teacher yesterday. She is far beyond what we thought in reading and in the other subjects in school. They teacher said that Mika "blew her out of the water" when they did more testing with her. Then she showed us a graph and the were she should be at her age and their are 28 reading levels in the Oregon school system K-12 and Mika was on 16, most first graders are on 2-3 at this point in the school year! Then she showed us some math problems that Mika was making up in class with Ladybugs and their legs and was multiplying them and such on her own! Trent was just beaming with her abilities in Math. We discussed ways with the teacher to keep her challenged in class as well as her having extra homework to keep her learning process up to speed. We are keeping her in first grade because she is happy and loves her friends and we don't want to disturb that. We are just so proud of her! Trent and I really enjoyed talking with her teacher and having her tell us what an exceptionally gifted child she is in academics. We thought she was smart and doing well but she is the first and we weren't sure what was normal and expected at that age! So that is my little brag piece about Mika, again we are just so proud of her.

update

The Paxman has begun to get his first teeth. Yes teeth. He has been quite fussy for the past two days and I saw the one coming through on the bottom on Saturday and on Sunday he wouldn't eat much and was fussy at least for him. On Monday he was flipping his head back when I was trying to hold him and I saw two new teeth on the top and one more on the bottom already broken through.

Maxman said something completely blog worthy the other day. We were driving in the car discussing dinner and the kids settled on Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup. Max sat back and said how he hated gril cheese and did not want grill cheese. I asked him what he wanted and he said that he wanted Boy-cheese sandwich and that Sissy could have a girl-cheese sandwich.

Mika is quite the reader lately. She reads the bedtime story most nights and has asked if she could start reading Harry Potter, I told her a long time ago that when she read the book she could watch the movie so I am going to get her the book today. We meet with her teacher tomorrow about the advanced reading program they want to put her in. She is on par with everything else in her age group, but just loves to read and it shows.

Now on to me. I got an email from my friend Angie the other day and I thought it was so funny to see something in her post that she was doing. So I am going to let the cat out of the bag, I have been training for the Rock and Roll Marathon in Arizona with some people here. I am on week 4 of the program. I wanted to get a little ways into the program before I made an announcement to make sure that I was going to stick with it. It is not until January over the Martin Luther King Holiday weekend. I am scared because this weekend is a 9 mile run!! I am going to pass out after I know but it will burn all the calories that I am going to eat that night at the melting pot. I love that place.

Trent and getting through the 15th of October deadline and we are staying extremly busy.
Mika and I head out to VA in two weeks and she is so excited!