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This happy little girl just turned 3!!!

 She is at that age of professional quality pouting, she is quite amazing at it. She spends the majority of her days pretending to be a dog, sometimes it's Clifford, sometimes it's Bubble Puppy, other times it's Slinky, or perhaps a Chihuahua. On her birthday she was "Birthday Chihuahua" and if you called her Katurah she would quickly correct you. She also has different barks for each type of dog, our favorite is Clifford because she sounds like a dog who has smoked for a good portion of his puppyhood.

She requested a Bubble Puppy cake and was pleased with the results. She got a lot of Toy Story toys (yes, yes the same ones I donated to goodwill a few years ago...ugh) and was so thrilled. Her Bullseye toy is her prized possession now. She has lost said doll like 100 times since she opened him, I love to be the one to find him as her reaction is amazing and sweet every time.

She has quite the attitude these days because she can. The other day she wanted to get in bed with us and we told her there was not enough room. She got so mad and said "I SUGGLE MAMA, HMMMM!!!!" And she climbed right up and forced me to snuggle her. She is still hooked on the pacifier or lala as she lovingly calls them. She steals Seneca's but gets so mad if Seneca takes hers. Katurah is currently sleeping on the couch and Seneca walked over and took one right out of Katurah's mouth as she is sleeping. Payback sister!

We sure love this crazy 3 year old.

10

Pantera turned 10 a few weeks ago! DOUBLE DIGETS!!! We had a pretty darn low profile b-day bash with our little family for her this year. She got an Ipad and has been obnoxiously texting her extended family every day since.

 She ran for class "Mayor" something she has talked about for the past year or so. Right before the campaigns began some of her guy "friends" told her if she ran they would not be her friend anymore. I knew something was up when all of the sudden she informed me that she was going to run for secretary and help Nick with his mayor campaign. OOOO, some of these kids just tick me off so bad, but I just try to remain neutral and encourage her to try regardless of what they say. So my brave girl did. She came up with her own poster idea that I thought was so fun...

And guess what? SHE WON!!! She is now the Mayor of Barkeyburgh. Regardless of the outcome I am just glad she tried. A few days after she won she got a threatening note in her desk that said "If you don't resign, I will hate you." She said "Mom, the problem is that it was signed anonymous so I don't know if I should care or not!" I'm telling you these kids can be rotten. She has taken her post so very seriously and has vowed to end bullying within the classroom.

For school picture day I curled her hair up real cute and when she got her proof she said "I knew I looked good that day, but I didn't know I looked THAT good!"

 

I hope you always stay you Pantera, you are so awesome.

Halloween

 I keep finding new projects to do instead of blogging ever. A lot is getting done, but I really need to catch up here! Halloween was so fun, we were all Star Wars characters except for Pantera, she was Black Widow from the Avengers.

 We all got to dress up for our ward's trunk or treat, but Jess had to work for our neighborhood trick or treat. So I took all 5 kids by myself and it was kind of chaotic. We went out for maybe an hour, but Katurah was SO SLOW that I couldn't handle much more. After the first 3 houses Zeke said "I think I have enough candy." He wanted to go home and read.

 Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, R2-D2...

After trick or treating Katurah crashed on the couch, all that hard work takes it out of a girl!

Unfortunately the candy takes its toll on our house as well. She and Seneca are obsessed with the big bowl of Halloween goodies I keep up on top of the fridge. Seneca will point and babble at it until I get it down and Katurah just says "I hab it? Is really good." Pantera on the other hand I guess has started to learn she said "My stomach is telling me 'more' but my small intestine says to 'stop.'" Crazy kids!