Some nice stuff

The girls were "getting me stylish" for zumba. It's a good thing too, because Grandma Connie was there and I was glad to have had their help to keep up appearances :)

Happy Hauntings

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

team amelia and mom

team dad and jane

Amelia and Mom's pumpkin

jane ready to go trick or treating. The gloves make her fingers look unnaturally long

Amelia the monkey

And not to ruin it for next year... but all costumes were 50% off so we got stocked up. Jane is plum pudding from strawberry shortcake and Amelia is a devil, but if  you ask her she'll refer to herself as the 'girl vampire'. She'll be wearing a shirt underneath this little number so it doesn't look like lingerie :)

Kids don't belong at school. I promise.

So.....I'm taking Amelia out of school. We're doing kindergarten next year. This school thing sucks.   My child hates school. She says she cries to come home all the day. Her teacher just affirmed it to me in an e-mail. 3 weeks of this and I finally called the principal and talked to him about it. Joe and I decided that we're keeping her home. (She just turned 5 years old 3 weeks before school started.) I need to teach her some more before I send her off. How do you raise well adjusted kids? Her teacher said she was "bright scholastically" but had "anxiety about being away from home". Hmmm. Can I just go with her? I wouldn't mind being in kindergarten again.

Off to school

The following are pictures of Amelia's birthday party.... fishing. She said that instead of a party she wanted to catch a fish. Her grandpa is an expert fisherman and took us all up to camp on panguitch lake. Here he is showing Amelia how to cast.

All the Gubler men possess the coveted ability to make the strangest faces known to man. I hope it passes onto my children. 

Amelia putting the net to good use

Jane being pleasant, reverent and respectful as always.

Thinkin' Dirty

My kids are into mud lately. We have a lot of our yard that is un-landscaped and it provides much more entertainment than if it were finished. Yesterday night we carved little rivers down a hill with a hoe. This morning the girls were right back at it.

I found some surprise pictures when I was doing this post. Amelia must have been having a good time. It's fun to see what was photo worthy to Amelia....

a potty. of course.

 One of her masterpieces

The finer side of my monster.

And finally, Jane, my professional two year old. "professional two year old" was originally said by none other than auntie Sid, master of all things praiseworthy and good. 

Kindergarten? Really?

This little treasure is going to enter into the big world of elementary school next week. Heaven help us. Heaven help the elementary school. I LOVE THIS CHILD. She is so wonderful. So strange. So Huck Finn/Dennis-the-Menace/Scout(to kill a mockingbird). I'm going to miss her every morning. Thank goodness she's only doing half days. Got to break me in slowly to this business.