Those Murdering Teenagers!

Tory finally turned 13 on November 28th. We had her friend Carter over (just a friend) and we all went to Jack Astors for supper and then came back to the house for a Dairy Queen Cake.

The first summer after we moved into our house, Tory would come back to our house with stories of the teenagers loitering on our street. The teenagers would just walk by casually, but the imaginations of Tory and her friends were in overdrive. I'm not even sure how the joke came about but we've been joking about the murdering teenagers ever since.

Cute Pictures from Around the House

Here is a picture of Ryan and Charlotte. I know that it looks like Charlotte is threatening you with a fist but that is her sign for the okay signal. She also uses this motion when she is trying to go on the potty. It's rather cute. Another thing she likes to do is say something repeatedly and if she thinks you don't sound suitably impressed she keeps tapping on your arm.

Ryan and Charlotte get along passably well at times - he has big smiles for her and often gets chuckling at the things she does (sometimes just moving). He can also start getting upset as soon as she comes around. Charlotte's latest misbehaviour is pushing him over as he sits up by himself. She is also very fond of taking away his toy. If she's in a nice mood she may make a substitution but not always.

This is the three of them making a fort in my bedroom. These are nice times - no screeching or crying.

Charlotte or technical difficulties!

 We finally gave up and purchased a new battery charger.  I was starting to get things updated (around the beginning of November) and we then realized that Charlotte had dropped our external hard drive one too many times.  I found this slightly distressing as we had lost a period of photos stetching from August to the weekend immediately preceeding Hallowe'en.  We had a some good photos taken of the kids doing the pumpkins that were lost forever.

So I had to come to terms with this.  Then when we thought we'd transfer over what was currently on the camera, the USB cable wouldn't work as the end had been nicely chewed and compacted.  Then there were further delays as we waited for our Ebay purchase to be shipped to us.  Add this to the expected delay while I procrastinated and that's why our last picture was posted in July!

I wanted to show a picture of Claire's Hallowe'en costume.  Do you think little miss princess Claire would go for something simple like a princess outfit?  No, she wanted to be a sparkling flying unicorn.  This was a homemade unit - John threw together the horn and the hat.  I did the ears, mane and forelock and some sewing to make the horn more spirally.  Then I tried to do the main body outfit which I was very pleased with, then decided to add a tail and some feathers for the front legs and thankfully was able to purchase a pair of wings (that moved) for $5.00 at Giant Tiger.  She was pleased (not an easy task with Claire).

 

Charlotte ended up wearing the ladybug costume that I made for Claire when she was two.  This is the two of them getting ready to go out with Dad.  Charlotte has been making these faces when you ask her to smile or when you ask to see her eyes.  Charlotte was probably out for about 30 or 40 minutes before being dropped off before Claire - here is a picture of her with her loot.  And a picture of a sulky ladybug.



More to follow later!  By the way, Tory went as a witch but she didn't hang around for the pictures.