October Otherness

Just a bunch of random stuff from the past month. 

A sweet neighbor friend gave Maggie this great Minion hat - and even though its 100degrees in Austin still, she's been sporting it a lot. And then there's Owen - who has discovered the selfie. It used to be that if I coudn't find my phone it was because Maggie had stolen it and was hiding watching a show somewhere but now its more likely that Owen is taking selfies. Oh how the times change.

Kyle was the Garden Helper one day with Rebecca's class - here they are pulling some weeds. Love everything about this.

Rebecca was a sweet friend Ivy - with matching missing teeth.

Rebecca was "sick" one day so she and I went to Ikea because what else do you do with a girl who's "sick" but feeling fine? We did some serious damage.

I think I already shared the story of Uncle Carlos pulling the tooth - but here is a great before and after shot.

Maggie rediscovering banilla ice cream after the Blue Bell drought of 2015 ended. She and her daddy were the happiest ones.

Cousin time. And Maggie/Blair hugs.

I got to take a sneak peak int Rebecca's "afternoon class" where she travels the world (a different country every week) to learn about culture through music and art. She loves loves this extra part of school and its fun to see her world get bigger. Its also really funny to hear her talk about it - because she has a hard time remembering the names of the places but can remember all sorts of interesting facts about the people so we have to piece things together.

Oh this girl. Give her an okay to use some face paint and this is what she's going to do.

Even with a sweet friend from school who wants nothing to do with anything messy - except a little nail polish.

Can you see Maggie's toes? She's quite talented.

Fun times with the Warren.

Owen has been playing soccer again this semester - its been a great little time - most of the guys from the previous teams. Plus a great coach, and Kyle as the assistant coach.

Owen working on his birthday present. Four days and it was done. Now safely on a shelf.

Random selfie with this girl.

I went to Atlanta to see these two precious sisters - Megan in the middle just had her first baby - sweet baby Molly. Megan lives in Atlanta, and Cary (on the right) lives in Raleigh - so she and I met there and we just had the best weekend. Mostly laid around in our PJs oohing an ahhing at Molly. Got to serve Megan a little by doing a few fun chores around the house. On the last night stayed up until 4 something talking - we're crazy, and it was so worth it.

Sweet Molly

Also got to see this dear friend - Geanine who lived with us for a while and moved to Atlanta to work with a nonprofit. So great to reconnect with her.

So, there is sometimes an ice cream truck right outside school when we're picking the big kids up - we usually bypass and my excuse is that we need to get our carpool buddy home, but one day when he wasn't with us I caved. Love what each of them picked.

The minion.

Traditional chocolate goodness on a stick.

Some sort of crazy ice cream taco.

Random funness with Maggie. She still loves the incredibly boring little "rides" outside Little Randalls. My baby. But loves to do everything on her own - packing her lunch. Big girl.

Random early morning pic of this sweet girl.

Good October.