Birthday girl Marian

Spelling

Isaiah had a spelling test this morning.

"You forgot to give me my spelling test!" Kateri told me.

"I did? OK. How do you spell 'Kateri' "?

"In English."

Bernadette

"Those Bob Books just tumbled me into reading! Soon you are going to see me with my little nose in a book all day long!"

"I actually know how to cut out a shirt because my heart told me, and I got it from my mind."

Uncle Paul

Plus three girls.

KU-KSU

Pia and Levi

Sleepee

Pep talk

I came downstairs this afternoon feeling frustrated after trying to help the girls clean their room. When Isaiah saw me, he said, "I know how hard it can be. It's OK. You're doing a great job."

Raised eyebrows

Isaiah, at his sisters' request, got creative with a safety razor.

Halloween

Pia didn't go out with us, but I'm sure she would have raked in the goodies, too.

Give me a firmness.

Last night I was telling Betsy I'm trying to be more consistent with my discipline because Bernadette needs more firmness. Enter Kateri (i.e., little person with big ears).

K: I need firmness, too!

M: Yes, you do.

K: Can you give me a firmness right now?

M: What is a firmness?

K: It's something for your bottom. Because sometimes your bottom gets sore.

M: So then you put a firmness on it?

K: Yes.

Second tooth in 24 hours

Pia

Slip sliding

Sisters

Amusing Pia and themselves. 

More questions from Queen Bee

Who was the first person to say the rosary?

What makes water stick together?

Butchering Day

Here's an image: Bernadette, much to her own amusement, shaking a bucket full of chicken heads and shouting, "Wake up, you guys! Wake up!"

A few hours after being told not to bring the chicken feathers she was collecting into the house, Bernadette came inside carrying a bag and, as she crossed the living room, kept her eyes fixed intently on her mother. This made her mother suspicious, and the following conversation took place:

M: "Bernadette, are you doing something you're not supposed to?"

B: "Yes."

M: "You're not bringing chicken feathers into the house, are you?"

B: "Oh, no! They're duck feathers."

A moment

Group shots

Posed fun