Jenna......

Since I am so far behind, I decided that I would just make a post per child and catch up... so here goes.

Jenna loved climbing into our little tree in the front yard and playing.  She would take books with her or a stuffed animal and because of so many leaves she was pretty well camouflaged.  she had to take a small step stool out to help her get up in by herself but she did it!  She spent several hours in the tree. 

new favorite place to hang out...

ahhh to be a kid again

 On one of our trips to the dollar store Jenna decided upon a cowboy hat.  She wore for about 2 days quite a bit.  She would put on her jeans and her boots and then a checked shirt so that she "looked" the part.  We even braided her hair one day.  She even wore it just before bed....  she wanted to pose as a cowgirl for the picture. 

she got a new hat at the dollar store... matches her pjs

 She got this mouth appliance quite some time ago.  We had to turn the expander every morning before she went to school.  It really didn't bother her too much, in fact it actually helped her with her speech a bit cause it gave her a place to put her tounge when she was trying to for the "r" 

expander in her mouth



Crazy hair day is always a fun thing...  This year she wanted to have really tall hair.  So we put a cup on her head and then brought all her hair up around it and then made a pony tail.  She said it stayed in for the morning part of the day then fell out.  With the way things bother her, I am betting she helped it come out but it was fun anyway.

crazy hair day

Our ward had a Halloween party and they had face painting.  Jenna got her WHOLE face painted.  

face paint from fall festival

Without Brad here, there wasn't too much interest in  carving pumpkins this year.  Jenna was the die hard.  She and Spencer carved her pumpkin.  Brad was disgusted with the other girls when he found out they didn't do it.  He promised Jenna he would carve pumpkins with her next year. 

pumpkin smile...

carving...



finished product...2 days later

After several weeks of turning her mouth appliance the big day came for braces.  She only has them on the top teeth right now with the bottom to come later.  She thought it was super fun about the first day or so and now hates having to brush her teeth so often and the extra fluoride and such.  She has already had them on for 8 weeks now and goes to her first check up tomorrow.  

new braces