Last week we reveled in the thrill of victory.

This week, it is the agony of defeat…Ducks 42, Stanford 51.

It just hurts so bad…

Because Grace is so tiny, she is able to wear a piece of clothing for years. I buy something a size too big and then she can usually wear it for three years. The first year it’s too big, the second year it fits, the third year it’s a bit short. Depending on what item of clothing it is we can usually work with it.

Dresses are a prime example. We buy them when they hit her shins and by year three she can usually still wear them with shorts or pants. As a result we have implemented the “bend-over” rule. If when you bend over and touch your toes, your underwear shows, you need pants or shorts.

It works for us.

Well, towards the end of the summer Grace came up with this gem of an outfit…

Ok, the girl is five. The shorts are 18 months, the pants are 3T.

She came out and said “do you know why I am wearing these pants?”
Me: “Uh, no Sweetie, why?”
Grace: “I am wearing the pants because the shorts were a little bit too short when I bent over.”

After much thoughtful consideration (and taste-testing), it was determined that the peanut and regular M&Ms are gross-nasty according to Owen.

However, the mini M&Ms are quite yummy, albeit a bit messy.

The difference must be the crunchy candy-to-chocolate ratio.

Me: “Later today we are going to go to Les Schwab’s and get new tires on the van.”
Grace: “Oh, are we going to get Halloween tires because I think that would be neat!”
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Grace: “I always wear a scarf when I read a story because that story makes my neck cold.”
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Grace: “Do we have hand sanitizer?
Me: “Yes, on the counter.”
Grace: “Oh, good I need some sand hanitizer on to kill the germs. Oh shoot!”
Me: “What’s the matter?”
Grace: “I just touched the bottle of sand hanitizer and got more germs on my hands so I need to use sand hanitizer again!”
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Grace: “I’ve decided I’m going to start calling you Mom from now on instead of Mommy.”
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While reading a book on leaves and photosynthesis…
Me: “It says here that the sun turns into food, but it doesn’t turn into a cheeseburger or anything like that.”
Grace: “Mooom, it doesn’t turn into people food, it turns into plant food!”

I recently took some pictures outside on one of those crisp, wet fall mornings that we have here.

The spiderwebs were so pretty.

Our rascally green pumpkins…They still haven’t turned orange.

The last of the roses. It was nice to have some blooms well into October.

Hope she doesn’t get a crick in her neck…

Yip, Yip, Yahooooo!!!

The #10 Ducks beat the #5 Trojans 47 – 20. We are 7 and 1 so far this season.

The game was awesome, the Ducks were fantastic. And Pete Carroll was oh-so-sad…Oregon handed USC’s their worst loss in 12 years…

Hopefully we’ll break the top 5 with this win:)

Here are Grace in their “Go-Ducks”/Halloween clothes…

Yep, that’s right, the two fuddy duddies didn’t even want to wear costumes…We finally told Grace she had to put her actual costume on to go trick-or-treating during half-time.

Owen wouldn’t wear his at all. He said his “comstume hurts me.”

One of the blogs that I enjoy reading is Big Mama. She is quite humorous. Every Friday she has a segment called “Fashion Friday”.

While anyone who knows me knows that I could really care less about fashion, I decided to do my own Friday fashion edition based on the keen fashion sense of my 5 year-old daughter.

Starting today I am going to post a few gems. I had originally planned on just doing a single post with many pictures. But, alas, Grace has provided me with more pictures than should be put in one single post…so we will spread them out for your viewing pleasure.

The key with Grace is usually accessories. Blue swim goggles, sheer black ballet skirt (worn in an unexpected manner!) and a pink leotard.

Previous posts of interests Goofy Girl and Shy Fairy.