Emily reads...

...everywhere!

Halloween!

We are all still alive although the absence of any posts here may suggest otherwise. Big changes have taken place around here: Will is cruising, Emily is reading, and Claudia is working on a career in stand up. All in all we are well.

Here are photos from this years trick-or-treat fest. I should note that when I just typed that I first typed trick-or-teat fest which, in all honesty, is what it was for Will.

Here is Will as Charlie Brown. Clearly it was homemade... hopefully is is less clear that it was made just an hour of so before we set out.

Here is Emily as Cinderella. I think her pose tells you pretty much what Emily is into in a nutshell. She is a very girly girl.

Claudia, on the other hand, is not all pink frills and that is a nice difference between them. She went as a dinosaur.

Here are all three on the front steps in our annual photo. We have yet to carve a pumpkin in any of their lifetimes. I'm not sure why that is. We collected a lot of pumpkins this year and not a one was gutted. New this year was the lask of random stuff leaning against the stairs in the picture.

After we went out begging we were treated to a tractor ride by or dear friend Ashlyn (and her mom.) Ashlyn was kind enough to trick-or-treat with us and we were thrilled to have her along.

The girls loved the tractor ride in a "I GOT TO DRIVE THE TRACTOR!" (Claudia) and "I GOT TO SIT ON THE FLOOR!" (Emily) way. Really? I'm not sure that I would think that the floor was as great as driving but I am glad for them that they did.

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Emily, Claudia, and Ashlyn in the cab.

Claudia and Emily in the cab.

For Dean

For Janie I changed the answering machine message to include Will and now for Dean, since he called me to complain (and also to offer kids clothes) I have changed the description of the blog. In the interest of keeping things simple I will leave the address as simonsongirls (sorry, Will).

I am sure that this is just the first of many injustices Will will have to bear as the only boy in a family of girls.

Easter Pictures

Some of our kids are big fans of a local "get your photo taken with a real live bunny" tradition.


Although this is them without the bunny.

Here is the three of them with the bunny.

The girls have both decides that they want to grow out their bangs. Emily will not let me pin them out of her face during this awkward phase and it drives me mad. My mom used to always tell my brother and me that we looked like ragamuffins. I think this is the look she meant.

Claudia will let me pin hers back from time to time and it makes a huge difference.
William has no hair to pin anywhere. Plus, he isn't a real big fan of bunnies anyway. I think he may have been exposed to one too many Monty Python movies.

He's here!

We are thrilled to announce the arrival of
William Russell Simonson.

Monday, January 14, 2007, 11:26 pm
8 pounds, 12 ouncer, 21.5 inches long
Mom, Dad, baby Willl, and big sisters Emily and Claudia are doing well.