Friday, October 31, 2008

Pumpkin Time

Here we are at Mrs Anderson's to buy our pumpkins. As you can see from the picture, Brookles is being her usual happy self.
Bubba complained at first that it was too slimy inside her pumpkin but by the end of the night she was playing in the orange tub of pumpkin guts. It was actually pretty nasty because when D cut the top off his, we found out that it was rotting from the inside out. It smelled terrible!


Brooklyn had fun pretty much just poking, scraping, and otherwise murdering her pumpkin. Derrek finally helped her by carving the face almost all the way through. Brookles just had to cut the rest of the way through and poke out the pieces. This was the first year that we have let her do her own thing and she had a blast.

This was Libby's contribution to the pumpkin carving.




Daddy's
"The Face"



Mommy's
"Nemo"


Bubba's
"The Scariest"


Brookle's
"Happy"


Libby's
"The Baby"









Halloween Shirts

We have another tradition in our family. The girls get a new Halloween shirt to wear on Halloween. This year I found these darling shirts at The Children's Place. (They glow in the dark too!)


This picture of the three of them makes me laugh. Brooklyn's hair is all over the place and she looks like she is so confused. Libby looks half asleep. Bubba actually looks pretty good which is opposite of how it usually is in pictures of the three of them together.






More Halloween

Jennika chose her costume all by herself this year. I admit, it was very hard for me to step back and let her do her thing. Halloween is a big deal at our house. We have a tradition that all costumes must be home made. That means that I usually sew them. This year Jenn did not need me to make anything. I did have to laugh though when she came to me and told me that I could make her some black pants because she new that I felt bad that I did not get to make her costume this year. She is such a sweet girl! I had a lot of fun making the lamb costume for Libbs. I have never worked with shearling fur. It was a little bit difficult to work with but the end result was well worth the effort. Isn't she the cutest little lamby you have ever seen!
Little Brookles has developed an attachment to blue. Everything must be blue. So a blue princess was pretty much the way to go for her this year. She is such a little stink pot a lot of the time but deep down she truly is our little princess.


OK, wow! Isn't he just so sweet and adorable!


Jenn and Brookles could not wait to get going. In fact, Brooklyn took off down the street all by herself several times and D had to whistle to get her to come back home till it was time to go.



Halloween 2008
The Bitner Girls










Halloween 2008




The Lamb


The Mad Scientist



And the Princess









Houston, we have a thumb sucker!

Well, it is official. Libby loves to suck her thumb. I think that it is pretty dang cute. Sometimes she sucks so hard that she pulls half her hand into her mouth. We are not too worried about this new development especially since she will still take a binky.




So, you can't tell too much by these two pictures but Libby is having some issues with her neck and head. We have an appointment at Primary Children's next week to have her looked at. They call it Torticollis. ( I don't think that I spelled that right but I am sure you get the idea, just sound it out.) Basically what happens is the muscles and such on one side of the neck tighten up or are too short. This causes her to always put her head to one side which then causes her head to become misshapen. Hopefully we can get this taken care of with therapy and not have to put her in a helmet. Even worse than a helmet is surgery if the tendons and such in her neck are too bad. Wish us luck next week.