The tree

Tonight we had our annual setting up the tree FHE. We usually do it on Monday but since Satan runs dental school, Cyrus has to go to school every Monday night so FHE has been booted to a new spot on Sunday. We had so much fun!!! We listened to Christmas music, decorated the tree, hung the stockings, and had hot chocolate and cookies. It was so much fun!!! The kids had a blast!!!!

Sam isn't wearing a goofy tuxedo shirt, he just dumped Katie's hot chocolate all over himself when she wasn't looking. Poor Sam can't even help but make a mess every time he moves. I think he gets that from me. I didn't change him, because I figured, he was sure to make another mess before the night was over and who wants to waste two shirts!!!



I think the girls did a beautiful job on the tree (you can see a little bit of it in this picture). Plus, they patiently put all the ornaments Sam took off, back on the tree.



Of course Sam couldn't really help himself. He HAD to do something really naughty...would it really be a Javadi family activity if he didn't.

Halloween

This blog has been a little Sam-heavy of late...so a quick update on the girls to go with their Halloween pictures.

Carolyn is doing fabulous. She is a little book worm. I often have to tell her to stop reading to go to sleep or to eat. She has read all seven Harry Potter books and is jamming through them for the second time. That girl would read all DAY. She is doing well in school and is currently working on her 3 times tables. She already knows her 1s 2s 5s and 10s. She scored above the 90th percentile in every part of her California standardized tests...she sure is smart. She is doing great on the piano--mom has to practice Carolyn's songs before helping her. Sam thinks Carolyn is smarter than Dad. If Mom's not home, Carolyn is next in Sam's pecking order--he only wants her. Maybe that boy is on to something!!!




Hannah still loves owls. They are her thing. She is fascinated by their silent flight and pellets and anything owl. She doesn't even care that the pellets are pieces of bone and fur that the owls puke up, she still would love to find one so she could try to decipher which kind of owl made it. That kid is so smart!!! She has a great memory and is breezing through second grade. She sure has a silly bug. At church on Sunday a baby came crawling under the pew towards us and Hannah just got the giggles. Her giggle are always contageous so soon our whole family as well as the family owning the baby were giggling...Hannah is so excited to get baptised and thrilled at the idea of getting her own big set of scriptures like Carolyn's.



Katie is in joy school. Joy School is the bane of my existence. I do it every year and I love how much my kids love it every year but every time it is my turn to teach, I rue the day I ever decided to do such a thing. Katie loves joy school though. She thinks it is so very fun. Also, she met her future husband there. Katie told me she was going to marry Benny from Joy School. The conversation went as follows:

Me: Why do you want to marry Ben?
Katie: Because he was a monkey for Halloween (said in a duh mom sort of way)
Me: Oh really
Katie: It was cute (again, duh mom)
So I am glad for joy school. I wish someone had told me that finding a husband was as easy as finding a guy who'd wear a monkey suit. I'd have found Cyrus a lot sooner. Katie loves High School Musical and spends a good portion of every day dancing to the CD's and singing the songs.



Sam was his usual self on Halloween. He wouldn't keep his costume on (cowboy hat, vest, gun) so he had to wear a too big fireman suit that he couldn't get off!




Everyone was too excited to stand around and take pictures so sorry about the random shots but at least you can see how cute they all are!!!

Sometimes a picture says it all

Has anyone ever read their post, days later and been embarrassed by their total lack of writing ability? That just happened to me. Read the first paragraph of the post about Sam...yes, it is true, I dun graduated college.