Picture Day at school seems to be Sofia's enemy...

Well, the first picture day in October, Sofia was sick on the couch with a fever and looked very much like she had earlier in the month:

But luckily Ava looked like this:

We just had makeup picture day yesterday.  Little did I know Sofia would wake up with her right eye looking even worse than this:

Conjunctivitis.

No school for her on the make-up picture day.

I guess candids & non-professional portraits will have to do for her First Grade year...

Gratitude

Both of my girls have now officially lost 2 bottom teeth.  The picture of Ava below was taken after her first one was lost and the second one was SUPER wiggly & crooked!!

I was just going through their schoolwork that I had put aside & I want to share what they wrote for Thanksgiving.  I wish I knew their thought process as they wrote these gratitude essays...The cuteness is just overwhelming!

Ava:

"I am thankful for God and pets.  I like puppies the best.  My cusins and my dog and terkey.  Cus all uve tham are cute!  And I love tham.  And I am thankful for frands and I am thankful for animals."

Sofia:
"I am thankful for turkeys and corn and cows and God and my family and my ster [sister] and trees for my oxygen.  I just love trees and spyders and Amarica because I lieev in Amarca and I love pumpkins and crayons and my flowers and food and Purell and Mrs. Morrocco and my dog and my fish and chick."