Christmas 2013

Merry Chrismas from the Alts!

After not posting anything since April, I'm finally caught up! (For now.) Click through the old posts to see what we've been up to this year!

 



Christmas Recital

Erin did really well at her piano recital. She played “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”

 

 

Decorating for Christmas

We always spend the Saturday after Thanksgiving decorating for Christmas.

 

 

It wears us out.

 

Halloween

I didn’t make the kids’ Halloween costumes this year. Robbie has been wanting to be a Jedi, especially since we went to Disneyland. Erin decided to be a 50’s girl.

 

 I did buy some fake hair from the dollar store and braided it for Robbie’s Jedi costume. I resisted giving him a haircut the weeks before Halloween because I needed his hair to be long enough to attach the braid to with a rubber band.

 Since Erin wears prescription glasses, we didn’t get her any cat-eye 50’s style glasses. But I used some mailing labels to draw a cat-eye façade that I stuck to her prescription frames. It actually stayed on all night and didn’t gum up her glasses. Win!

Every Halloween, Rob wants to make a temporary enclosure around our front walkway, and this year we finally did it. He brought home some cardboard from work and we painted it all black. One Saturday, we all went out in the garage with neon paint and went to town painting it up. Rob set it all up on Halloween with the black lights, and it was pretty cool.

 

Teeth

Erin will eventually need braces, but she’s had some stubborn baby teeth that need to come out before she can get started with orthodontics. After her checkup in August, the dentist scheduled an appointment for five extractions.  She was a little nervous! Especially since she’s never had any real dental work done besides cleanings. But she did great. Some of these were pretty big!

 

Robbie is finally getting rid of some baby teeth, too. He lost his first tooth last September, and the next one didn’t come out until February. In July, both his front teeth finally came out, a few days apart.

 

I love it when kids are missing both top teeth! Very cute.

Robbie's Room

We re-did Robbie’s room on Labor Day weekend. I was a little sad to see the “little boy” décor go, but he was SO happy with his new ASU room!