The past two days....

Ok, y'all gotta bear with me. I have had a busy weekend!! First, we did the pumpkin patch! Then, I had to get the game day shirts and "outfits" for the big Rebel game for me and JinJin.

Then, because of the cold front, I had to make sure my girls had tights and undershirts to go with the cheerleading uniforms and get them to the high school game Saturday night to cheer with the big girls!

Next, Sunday, afternoon, we had to ge ttwo little ones AND Lizzie, to a portrait shoot for our potential Christmas cards.

In the meanwhile I had to orchestrate costumes for me and several other groups at work.

Including finding 80's stuff at the MALL! Which is a chore in itself. Then, I went and marketed all day Monday to physicians who deserved to see MMPT in all its glory, all costumed up!

And finally, I made sure my baby girls had all they needed to be happy trick or treaters.

Oh, and then helped get a whole hayride full of girls down the neighborhood for candy.

So forgive me for kind of skipping tonight. I have pics from each of these events, and want to make each post a good one. Stay tuned!!

Oh yeah, and all this time, my oldest kid hacks through the night due to her asthma, so there has been VERY LIMITED sleep. But I am still smiling!!

One tired puppy,

MO

Pumpkin Patch 2011

Well, it finally happened! We made our annual trek to the Pumpkin Patch. It struck me how "grown" up my babies are becoming.

And once again, I had another opportunity to realize how blessed I am to be their mama!

Gabbi Girl is, was, and may always be, all about posing!

These two were a little more about piling E.V.E.R.Y small pumpkin they could find into this wagon. And in no way about taking pictures.

Take this for example. Cute as can be.

And now one can see the actual paparazzi for whom she was posing!

And so it began. They hauled that wagon all over the place to find all small pumpkins.

Ahhhh. And yet, I can still bribe them every so often! Today the bribe was all about cheering at the high school football game. And voila... it worked.

It worked so well, I even got a few poses!

And the pumpkin gathering continues!!

Today was the last day of the pumpkin patch, so we ended up with a whole, whole bunch of pumpkins. I have got to be the craziest person in town to buy her pumpkins two days before Halloween.

I figured we'd just really doll up the outside of the house for Thanksgiving. And, I promised the girls we'd have a painting/ glittering party for all those mini pumpkins.

Ellie held tight to Madi's doll, "Ulga". And Gabbi held tight to Madi.

WHOA!

Awww... may be one of my favorites!! By this time, Ellie had put her own hair up in a ponytail, but I like all three girls' facial expression. I may have to use this one as my wall decor!

I was lucky that Kimie came over to hang out and run around with us today. She was so helpful at the pumpkin patch. We even later braved the mall!!

Gabbi Girl LOVES her Kimie. See later... this is HER friend... noone else's, per her, ONLY HERS!

She and Kimie actually do share a love of animals, namely cats, so this is their common bond. Kimie never sees me in any situation where she doesn't bring my girls a little treat. And they do LOVE their Kimie!

GG has got to be the world's most affectionate kid!! When I come in from work everyday, she immediately grabs my forearm and starts hugging on it. She loves it and kisses it, and tells me how "beautiful" or "precious" I am. Now, that is Sa-weeet!! I wish everyone could have a Gabbi!

And then, just for the excitement level, I wish everyone could have an Ellie Sue too!!

She REFUSED to just smile. She had to poke that nasty tongue out!! And it seemed to start a trend.

See what I mean?!

Poor ol JinJin She wasn't asking for much!! Just a simple little photo with her grandgirlies!!

This is Melanie signifying "victory"! Wanna know why?!

Ok, remember when I told you about Ellie not wanting to cooperate in photos lately!?

I finally just held that kid down, had the other one sit on her and turned her head toward the camera. By then, she was all laughs! So, that's it... this year's photo of the three of us!

And don't you love it when it seems that a good shot is totally impossible, because of this poor cooperation?

That's what happened here! Another totally uncooperative 4 year old, who we made laugh by being silly, and then we kind of got a cute picture here!

The First United Methodist Church is our pumpkin patch of choice. Year after year after year. Remember Ellie standing behind the pumpkin at 3 months in her body cast? And then a six week old Gabbi being pulled in a wagon surrounded by mini pumpkins? Well, all at this very place!

There was a whole lot of running this way and that!

Not sure what exactly was going on with my hair, so just look at JinJin and Staci. I'll feel better about this picture that way.

Now, this is a rarity!! Kimie was with us today, so we had an extra friend (or at least Gabbi did. She told us "she's MY friend" any time we tried to talk to her or when Ellie thought she would sit in her lap) who could take the picture of all the girls for us!

Happy Halloween!! Take lots of pictures tonight. Never know when you might come to a MoZart Retreat, and we will want to make a mini Halloween book!!

MO

Girls in Halloween clothes.

I know that lots of you are friends of mine on Facebook. For those of you who are not, and who want to be, please just send me a little note that says you follow MoJoy and I will be glad to add you as a friend. And hey, while I am at it, why don't you all go like or join or whatever you do to my Melanie Massey Physical Therapy page. Ok, anyway...

All of my FB friends know that I try to take a picture of my babies every morning as we are heading out to daycare. You may have noticed that there has only been one baby for the last week or so. My oldest is going through a stubbron phase of not wanting to be in any pictures, primarily because she knows I want her to be. So, ya know what? I have decided to just leave her out of them. And on this particular day, it was tough, because they were actually dressed somewhat alike, and the pics would have been so cute!

I guess you know that one major difference is that Ellie did NOT have on a skirt. Suddenly she hates dresses and skirts. Whatever?! (insert eye roll here)

My sweet little Gabbi Girl continues to let me put her in anything I find appropriate.

I have found the best thing to do with Ellie is to just act like I don't really like it at all, and then MAYBE she will kind of like it herself.

This is her AFTER school. Her hair had taken a turn for the worst, as she can now do her own ponytails, "messy buns", side ponytails, or whatever else she may be in the mood for!

I actually have no idea what shoes she originally put on this morning, but rest assured, she liked them and I didn't. I just imagine that would be a good guess.

Those polka dot pants were a bit of a victory in my corner. Maybe we are making strides. Maybe NOT!

Mo