What a great Ladies Retreat we had. It was so great to have 40+ people in Heber Springs. Of course it was my nightmare come true on Friday night with the devotional, but it went great. This past week has been somewhat normal, but busy. We had our very first parent teacher conference. I was excited to go up to the school for it, and was so relieved that Emma has done so well. She is advanced with all of her skills, bonus, she is cute and smart. I was laughing at her teacher, because Emma wants so badly to go to a class called Reading Recovery, but she does not need to go to it. I think the main pull for going to the class is that Mrs. Sonya from church is the teacher, and Emma loves her to death. We have had many tear filled days because she was told she could not go hang out with Mrs. Sonya.

We are having crazy weather right now, and of course we have all had our bout with the sinus and head colds that go around this time of year. Emma has had her normal, congestion and cough that turns into a sinus infection. She was out of commission yesterday, and today we are getting well. It is not as severe as it was in the past, and I truly think it is because of her allergy shots. We did get flu shots on Tuesday, and the nurses were amazed that neither one of the girls cried. I too was a little shocked by it, but not making a huge deal out of it in front of the kiddos. The nurse went on and on, and told everyone that the girls are so very brave, and then kept giving them tons of stickers. Emma looked at me at one point and said “I guess she does not know that I am going to be Supergirl when I grow Up.” I just replied with a straight face and said “ nope, I guess your secret identity is safe” She is so funny. I took pictures of her in her ballet stuff, and in one picture that I will add here, she is Supergirl as a little girl pretending to be a ballerina for Halloween. She is so funny, I find myself laughing at her all the time.


Wednesday, I went to Little Rock to return somethings to ToysRUs. It was a great outing, except for one little thing. Abbi and I had lunch at a Brazilian café down off of Kavanaugh, and I had a great idea to get her a Brazilian soda. Now, let me remind you that I have been in the states since I was 1, and so I did not grow up like most Brazilians. Okay, so I bought her a gaurana, which I was very proud of. But I also called daddy to tell him about my new find, and brag that I was eating the food of “my people”, I told him about the soda, and he started laughing. He then informed me that guarana is what they add to energy drinks like RedBull, and things like that. Needless to say, Abbi was OUT OF CONTROL. I have never seen her so hyper in my life. It was almost like she was a bottle of soda that had been shook up, so when the lid came off all of her energy had her going all over the place. Chase came out while putting the girls down Wednesday night, and said Marli, you are in charge of getting RedBull to bed tonight. And as soon as the words came out of his mouth Abbi came flying into the living room chattering about how she was not tired and wanted to go and play. We laughed at her for about 20 minutes, and then the funny wore off.

For the past month or so, I have been trying to get the girls to commit to a Halloween costume, and for some odd reason Emma had her mind set on being a Blue Butterfly. I am not sure why, but I made sure she was serious before I went out and bought her some wings, of course she has decided now that she is going to be an Orange Butterfly, after the blue wings were already bought. It is funny because the Orange wings were for Abbi Grace, but now the girls have switched on me. I am anxious to see it all put together. The wings are for adults, but I thought that they would look more realistic if the wings were ginormous on them. I will of course post those pictures when I get them. I guess that was our week. We were busy doing little things, and are still looking forward to the end of soccer. We missed yesterdays game with Emma being sick, and it was nice to be able to not rush around on a Saturday morning.