Happy Hale-O-Ween from us!
Archive for the ‘Holiday’ Category
Halloween 2016
Friday, November 4th, 2016
Oktoberfest
Sunday, September 25th, 2016
September 17th the German American Society held it’s 132nd Oktoberfest. Our babies were all dressed and ready to dance for it.
The dresses on the three big girls were made by one of the club members and we will use them until they grow out of them. But I was excited for another opportunity for someone to be able to wear one of the two dirndls we got in Germany when Lily and Clara were small. Gerhardt would have to get his lederhosen at the club once we got there. And gosh did he look so cute in them!
Mercy could have danced too even though she’s a little young to officially be one of the tanzers, but we expected she would probably be too tired. We were right.
Happy Father’s Day!
Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Some “cards” and a quick gift made up for the Daddy of the house today. Some POPcorn, a POPtart, and a POP.
Aubri: There’s a gift for you on the table.
Phil: A Sprite! Aannnd a poptart, which I don’t like.
Aubri: THAT’S NOT THE POINT! Read the card!
Phil: World’s Best Pop. Ooh. I guess I am the World’s Best Pop….
We think so.
Our St. Patrick’s Day
Monday, March 21st, 2016
We celebrated St. Patrick last week with a new book for our collection and the obligatory Green Food. The babies are in the habit of calling this day “Leprechaun Day” and I’m in the habit of correcting them. Not that I have any problems with Leprechauns. It’s just one of my peeves since they typically celebrate this holiday at school and at school we can’t really talk about saints so it’s all about little green mischief makers.
The girls set a Leprechaun trap in their bedroom the night before and were disappointed to not have caught anything. When I woke them for school they saw it empty and assumed they hadn’t added anything shiny enough to lure the leprechaun.
I quickly went downstairs remembering I hadn’t put the chocolate coins on the table for them. I hoped this wee bit of ‘leprechaun gold’ would cheer them up….and now I’m officially as bad as their schools!
