Latest Happenings

Well, can you believe that it is already October? Where did the summer go? Here is the latest on Mads and Kar.....


Mads has her last soccer game this coming weekend. It has been quite an adjustment this season, with moving up to the next age bracket. She hasn't scored many goals.....but she is holding her own with the older girls. I know that Mom and Dad are having a hard time sitting down on the sidelines.....so you can usually find us hopping up and down the sidelines. For those in Wisconsin, we videotaped her last two games, and we will be sending that home for you to watch.


She is battling hearing problems....AGAIN. And not just the normal I am six and I am not listening to you! The ENT doctor said that her hearing in her left ear is the equivalent of having a finger stuck in your ear - and trying to hear. (And that fine feature has made soccer a challenge too). It sounds like we will have an appointment just before Halloween, and the doctor will decide what needs to be done. It may be another round of tubes again. But, in the mean time, the teacher is watching her to make sure that she doesn't fall behind.



Maddie is reading up a storm, and I am told by other moms that she is so smart. (Yeah 0 I know that she is smart, I just didn't want to be the braggy mom =0) It amazes me what they are teaching kids in first grade! Counting money, spelling lists, graphs, etc. We have graduated to sometimes taking hot lunch - which is a treat for mom!



Karleigh is our problem child. Sweet as pie one second.....and downright evil the next. She is the first one to shower loves and kisses, but if you want her to do something, and it is not on her terms WATCH OUT! Her favorite pastime is digging holes at daycare. She comes home SO dirty. She has been visiting the Hippo Preschool room and loves to see her friends.



Most of you know that she got into my nail polish. Six different shades. All over my carpet, the comforter, her new pjs, my sheets and pillowcases, and the bathroom floor. She not only had her toes painted, but her entire foot and pieces of her hair. Mommy was not amused. Daddy gave her a bath to get her cleaned up, while Mommy used the carpet cleaner to get everything else cleaned up. Needless to say, 98% of the carpet came clean! Amazing!



Karleigh still loves her babies. In fact most days she has a baby connected to her at all times. Such a good mommy. Loves to get into the candy jar. And LOVES to brush her teeth until you need sunglasses to look at her.



This coming weekend I think that we will figure out what the girls are doing for Halloween. Kar wants to be a princess (surprise, surprise) and Mads says Little Red Riding Horse (Hood).