Laurie + Grayson

 Laurie and Grayson got married!

That cake stained everyone's mouths. Then, at 1:47 am, Ruby sat up and vomited bright blue EVERYWHERE. So, that was fun.

Asthma!

Maggie cooked dinner on Saturday. She made a cajun chicken dish. It was pretty good. She was scared to cut the onion, but she did, mostly. 

Nana and Gran came over to have dinner with us. We played Clue after dinner. It was so much fun!

Ruby told me this morning, when I woke her up, "Mom, I just want to hibernate." Me too, kid!

We went to ballet last night and. . . this Nutcracker performance is a whole thing. I have to learn how to do a perfect ballet bun. Plus, Ruby cut her hair all crazy and it all has to be in the bun so lots of hairspray, I guess. Her rat costume:

Maggie bought herself a new suit. She's very proud of it. 

Ruby was SICK! She slept basically for 36 hours. It was crazy. I guess her bootie was hot. 

I took her to the doctor. Her doctor said her constant, never-ending cough is asthma! Who knew? She took a steroid for several days to get her over the hump and she has asthma medication she takes daily, and an inhaler as needed. She definitely seems better so far. 

Glue

Maggie had a full weekend sleepover with her friends. I'm not sure about the girl's name because Maggie called her Mel, but the girl's mother called her Geneva. 

Ruby's school is doing a fundraiser based on acts of kindness. Her class won with the most acts of kindness in the whole school. Yesterday, our act of kindness was to pull people's recycling bin up their driveway for them. We were only going to do one or two but then Ruby wanted to do every single one we passed. So, yea, kindness!

Ruby has glue in her hair, and it WILL NOT come out! We have scrubbed it and scrubbed and it's still there. Someone at work suggested washing her hair with Dawn so I'll try that.

Halloween

 We had Halloween. We were supposed to carve pumpkins on Saturday at Laurie's house, but Jilli had a fever, so we skipped it. We went trick or treating on Monday with Grandpa and Joanne. It was very nice. The weather was perfect. 

I am SOOOOOOO proud of Maggie. She brought every one of her grades up. She got all As and Bs. I have been telling her as often as she'll listen how proud I am of her. I know it's hard for her. 

I have a lock on my closet door (that's where I hide anything like presents or Halloween candy). After I put the Halloween candy in there, Ruby kept getting it open. I changed the passcode two or three times and she kept getting it open. I could not figure it out. I really thought she was figuring it out (I mean it was only a week or so ago that she used the Amazon passcode to buy a movie). But finally I figured out, the door wasn't locking, no matter what. I was seeing whether or not the lock turned green or red but not just trying it. So, yeah. That closet is filled with Christmas presents but I moved the candy. Hopefully, that'll keep Ruby out.

Maggie was really mean to Ruby one morning, so that afternoon, I told her no more. I told her if you hit or otherwise hurt her, you lose the iPad for two days. If you are ugly/cruel to her, you lose it for a day. And that was it. She has been quite kind to her since then. Occasionally, I have to warn her but it's mostly better.