Holly potty training herself???

Holly appears to be potty training herself. Meaning she takes her diaper off right after she goes to the bathroom for the last few weeks. Well now she took off her diaper and went potty on the tile by her toilet. I'm not sure if I'm ready for this...yet...

I still love you!

After Meg does something wrong, like draw on a wall, she says "I'm sorry, but I still love you!" Very cute way to make us laugh.

Princess Megan's request

Meg was snuggling with me and said "Hey mom I have an idea, let's go get ice cream and then a pedicure. That's a good idea, huh?" Yes it is Meg. Brian and I were just laughing. She is such a cute princess, a total girlie girl.

Yesterday we had to decorate a Turkey for Meg's school as a family- Megan made it a pink Princess turkey, including diamonds and other jewels and lots of flowers. Mark even had fun putting the bling on it. We had all my scrapbooking supplies everywhere. Thank God Holly and Jenna napped.

Always fun at the Goudge house especially when no one gets their hair cut!

Megan's charming Thanksgiving picture

Halloween pics with the Hills

School pics

Megan

Megan's parent teacher conference went very well. Her teacher reported that she is the most polite, respectful, and helpful child. She gets along well with everyone and is very secure of herself. She has great self esteem and a great outlook on her life. There is a little girl who tries to get kids to not play with anyone but her and Meg tells her "I am everyones friend and I will play with all my friends, not just you." or if she is the one the little girl is telling others not to play with Meg tells her "I don't care if you are my friend today, I have other friends and my best friend is Gracie!" Good for you Meg! She was able to piece together her first and last name correctly from cut out letters and her teacher said she needs to practice cutting more, but I told the teacher she will have to cut at school, as Meg has given herself too many hair cuts and I don't want her to try to cut anything else. Meg is doing great! PTL!

Mark

Mark is staring to read! All it took was some bribery from his teacher and competition from me. We race to finish his homework, the loser clean up after the dog- but of course I don't actually clean up after the dog, so when I lose Brian has to do it and Mark thinks that is really funny. Mark is earning pizza coupons from his teacher for his reading. 3 weeks ago he read 17 words in 1 minute, 2 weeks ago he read 33 words, and last Friday he read 74 words in one minute- ythe most in his class! Great job Mark! We are so proud of his hard work. practice does pay off. Also, Mark received a award at school this week for his fall Math test. He scored advanced in math. We are so proud of our young man.

Mark had a excellent report from his teacher for his parent-teacher conference. She said he just needs to work on his reading. He gets great scores on his spelling tests- usually 100% plus his challenge words, excellent on math, listens very well, is respectful and polite, and loves to play tackle football. WHAT??? My son loves tackle football, what will I do? Pray, pray, pray.

Brian and his Pearlie girl

Brian called Megan into the bathroom, to admire her new artwork on the bathroom door. Meg loves to write her name on anything and everywhere she can. As they were looking at it Megan looked at Brian and said "Sorry I drew on the door, Dad, but I still love you" and with a hug she was off to play with Gracie.

Mark, Jenna, Holly, & Meg together Holly is very proud of her creation- that Daddy carved.

Mark and his "Jack Skelenton" pumpkin

Jenna and her first pumpkin.

Megan wanted to give her pumpkin a tiara, but chose a scarf so it wouldn't get cold.

Happy Halloween 2008!

It's hard...

Megan and I were driving to school and she said "Mommy, its hard to be the Megan." What??? "It's hard to be a good princess, it's easy to be bad." That's my girl!