THE CAST IS OFF

The cast is finally OFF!! EKS got her cast off last wed. and it was great. She has been it for 6 weeks and needed a bath!!! SHe still has to be careful but we are on the mend!

Bass Pro Shop

I can't believe Christmas is almost here. I finally STARTED baking yesterday!!! Thankfully i am not baking that many kinds of cookies. About a week ago we took the girls to Bass Pro Shop in Prattville and let me tell you they LOVE it!!! We have gone a couple years now and love it, it is so much fun and free!!!

you have to stop and hop on the pink four wheeler!

EKS and Mad at the North Pole

And Lilly stuck in the cart!!!

Maddie playing on of the games at the North Pole

Now it is EKS turn

on to the craft table to color the ornament that Bass Pro Shop gave us

Emma Kate working away

Lilly loving her ornament too

Maddie's handiwork

Lilly was being so funny sticking out her belly

our friend Justin went too. He ended up helping EKS with her letter to Santa

Even Lilly got to color

Maddie's letter to Santa

EKS letter to Santa

The girls(minus Lilly) in front of the HUGE fish tank. Look at the fish behind EKS, it is almost as big as she is!

WAR EAGLE

This is Lil and Blake enjoying some celebratory M&M's. My girl knows she likes M&M's!!

Who would think that Auburn just won the SEC championship by the looks on these two faces!!!

Lilly and her face that she makes when she doesn't like something...food...things you ask her to do...sending her to bed...ect.

"Daddy are all the M&M's really gone? Look at my cute face...can't you find just one more?"

It's Chistmas Time In The Smith House

We put up our tree tonight. I was trying to hold out until December, well i made it barely! The girls all helped dad put up the tree.

Maddie waiting to turn the lights on and off.

Lilly playing with the light cord, supervised of course!!!

Emma Kate found an ornament that we forgot to take off the tree last year.

                                                          Rosie helping decorate the tree

Blake doing his job.

Now Lilly is playing with lights...was anyone watching this kid? I think even stood up on the ottoman one time. She did have a good time! And lastly Maddie is having a hard time sleeping because" I am too excited about the presents!" Maddie you know it will be a long time before presents...I know there has to be snow on the ground first. I have news for my child...there will be no presents this year if we are waiting for snow in Alabama for Christmas!!!!

Wrestle Mania and Fashion Shows

This seems like a theme in our house, not only today but many, many days. Our girls will be wild and crazy one minute and then dressing up the next. Today it was not the girls being wild and crazy but two dogs. We are puppy sitting for my brother and sister-in-law. Our dog and their dog get along great and LOVE to play, hence WRESTLE MANIA!!

Look at Eli...He is mean looking...a rabid dog just missing the foam at the mouth. The dogs play wide open and then...

They pass out...well Eli passes out, he is the old man of the group. Lilly loves Rosie, she follows her around and squeals with excitement when Rosie comes up to her. Tonight she was trying to tell Rosie to lay down, Lilly will walk over to eli's bed and pats it telling Rosie to lay down.

This is Rosie who is not camera shy...i think her mom takes lots of pictures of her.
Then we go from dog chaos to The Fashion Show!!! This is the first look.

And then we have the posing that goes along with a fashion show. Emma Kate wanted me to take so many pictures of her doing different things, i think i only have a couple.

Notice the Lilly puff.

She had her hand under a red ornament on tv and right when i took the picture the screen changed to the cookies. She wanted a picture in front of a backdrop( my words not hers...but close to hers).

And then Maddie's second look

Let The Christmas Activities Begin!!

Blake's mom is here for thanksgiving and we started getting in the Christmas spirit. She brought some sugar cookies that she and the girls baked and then we all decorated.

Look at poor Lil just watching..."Hey anybody see me...Who wants to let me help?"

My creative child taking her time, putting lots of thought into her decoration.

Notice the look of concentration. She is working hard.

"Please won't someone give me something...anything...one little thing? I can decorate cookies too!"

"YEAH!!! Grandma gave me a bit of frosting!!!! I am happy now"

All About the Cast

So we go in the day before thanksgiving, hoping to get Emma Kate's cast off. The girls waiting for Emma Kate's cast to be cut off. Maddie was dying to go and see how they were going to take the cast off.

Then the guy comes in to cut the cast off. Emma Kate was a little anxious, but did awesome.

Then they took her out to get an x-ray of her leg and this is what Maddie and I did while we were waiting. We took pictures of each other!

Then we found out we would need another cast!! The doctor said we had the right treatment, but the wrong diagnosis. The fracture was in the bottom of her ankle not in her growth plate. So we are back in a cast for three more weeks. This time Emma Kate picked blue instead of purple. She picked blue because her dad had a blue cast and for Auburn. WAR EAGLE!!!  I was in such shock that i forgot to get a picture of them recasting her, i just knew that we were going to be free. I even had my blog title FREEDOM!!! I guess not...maybe next time.

The Planets Must Be Aligned!!

You have to see this to believe it!! This RARELY happens , but once in a blue moon my girls will be really quiet during quiet time. Once in a while too quiet, as they were today, in which case i go to check on them and this is what i find

I told you you would have to see it to believe it. I have no idea what causes this phenomenon, but it sure is nice

Two Peas In A Pod!!

Please note the cast. EKS will climb a tree any time you let her...cast or no cast! She is soo much like her dad!!!!

This is EKS spot in the tree to chill. "Mom take a picture of me in my chillin spot in the tree." Short shorts (you might be able to see a cheek) and posing... you have to love this girl...i sure do. She is soo funny and loves adventure..if you can't tell from these pictures.

A Funny Picture From Our House

This is a common picture as of late. The big girls will play games on the computer and Lilly will get the blue stool from where ever it is in the house and put it by the computer so that she can see what is going on. She just wants to be apart!!! Sometimes she will try to play the computer by herself, she will even wiggle the mouse and when the computer comes on she looks around to she if she is caught.

The Countdown Is ON!!

We only have 5 more days until we get Emma Kate's cast off. Lord willing the x-ray they take that day will look good and we will be free and clear. I think if it doesn't come off soon she will run out of it!! You wouldn't know she had one on just by watching her. She plays just as hard as before, she just has a little hitch in her run. Good thing is it doesn't cause her much grief!!

The Three Piggy Opera

The three piggy opera had to be the cutest thing i have seen!! As you can tell by the name it is a take on the three little pigs with singing...hence the opera part. Emma Kate was a brick peddler. All the children that were not pigs dressed up as animals and EKS was a chicken. She wore a red shirt with blue jeans and bare feet. She had a yellow beak on her nose and a red feather plume on her head. She was soo cute. I hope to get a video up soon, but need help from blake to get that done. I will post pictures soon.

Kids say the funniest things

So first, today Maddie, Lilly, and I picked up Emma Kate from school...she gets in the car, gets settled, gets her seat belt on and Maddie asks her in a very calm, motherly voice.." So, how was school today?" What a funny girl.

Then tonight Emma Kate wanted to pray before we ate supper. So she started " Thank you for a great day, thank you for our food, thank you for my great school...please don't let there be a fire, please let it just be practice. Please don't let my school fire, please let it practice." So she gets done and I ask her about "practice" and what that meant...she has had a fire drill at school, AKA practice. HILARIOUS!!!  She was so sincere, she was wanting the Lord to protect her school.

FIRST DAY OF KINDERGATEN!!!

Our Kindergartner...WOW

My sweet girls

Daddy with his sweet girl

Lining up with her class at the front of the church

Heading out with her class

Off she goes...i can't believe it!

My wonderful family on a very special day

Sorry i am working backwards, but this is what happens when you just start blogging...i have to catch up!I can't believe the first day has come and gone already!! Time really does fly. We all got to go to school to see EKS off on her first day of school, it was a really great and exciting day.