Sliding fun!

Big girl on the slide!!

Hi Daddy

Sending Daddy love while he is busy working.

Lance fights the counter....

Lance was trying to earn $1 by drying and putting away the dishes. He was on the kitchen counter on his knees putting away bowls. I told him to get down and wait till he had all of dried and put them away at once. I was putting a new trash bag in the trash can and turned my back. The next thing I know I hear him hit the floor. I get him up and start checking....I can see blood in his mouth and can see he has bit a pretty good chunk out of his tongue. I get a wash clothes and then notice blood running down his chin. At this point he is pretty upset and screaming for Jeff. I wake Jeff and we get to looking at him. He chin has a cut, but not too bad. He tongue looks pretty nasty, but we figured there isn't much to do for that. We decided a visit to the urgent care was in order to check. Figured they might glue his chin. He calmed down and was pretty quiet while we waited. The doctor did put glue on his chin, but said he tongue would heal pretty quickly on it's own. She did suggest letting him drink tea to help it.

He got it on both sides. Poor kid!

His chin doesn't look so bad and he honestly didn't complain about it at all.

 

When we got back to my mom's to pick the girls up I said, "maybe you slipped because you had on socks". We were still trying to figure out exactly what happened up to this point he had said he didn't know. He said, "I jumped". WHAT?! So apparently when I told him to get down instead of just sliding down like a normal child he stood up and then jumped!!! The dishwasher was open so he is lucky it didn't up worse than that!

 

He had a little trouble eating dinner last night, but other than it hasn't slowed him down AT ALL!!

This boy shortens my life a little everyday!! Good thing he is sweet and handsome!!

Attracted to you

I go to a Moms group a couple times a month. They provide child care for the kids during the meeting. Lindley has never gone, but this week for her first time. Lilly and Lance were not very fond of the idea. They said she was too young and shouldn't go. Lilly asked me why she couldn't just stay with Mammaw. I explained that she probably could, but that she needed to be around other kids and that she would be ok. I explained that both Lilly and Lance had gone to Mary's when they were both younger. Lilly agreed, but just said she was too little. I finally asked her why she was having such a hard time with her going. She said, "Well, she's really attracted to you, Dad and me". (She meant attached). She said the same thing to mom and neither of us corrected her. Once I explained that she would be very close to me and they could call me if she had trouble she was ok, but they were both very concerned!! Lindley cried when I left her, but was fine when I picked her up. They said she played for a bit and then wanted to be held (sounds about right). She told her friends bye and the workers and seemed to enjoy it!!

I love how protective they are of her. She will always be taken care of by her big sister and big brother!!

Last game of the seaon

Monday night was Lance's last tee ball game of the season. Before the game he told Jeff that he was going to hit a home run. He had several good hits and then he went up for his last bat.....and guess what??? HE HIT A HOME RUN!!! It was the last hit of the game and the season!! He was SO PROUD!!!

He couldn't stop smiling! He was even talking about it the next day! So proud of him!!

Happy Halloween!!

We have been busy the past few days!! On Saturday the kids I went Trick-or-Treating in downtown Fairhope. Then we went to a Halloween Bash at 5 Rivers (think state park like), THEN went to Bass Pro!! Monday night was Lance's last tee ball game of the season (separate post for that) and today Lilly had a field trip, Lance's class Trick-or-Treated downtown and had lunch at the park, Lilly had a Halloween party and then we went Trick-or-Treating!!! GEEZ I'm worn out!!! We had a lot of fun though!!

Trick-or-Treating in downtown Fairhope. Lance noticed that his shadow looked like a real Transformer!! Lindley FOUGHT me to get her dress on and sat in the stroller for quite awhile. She finally got out and started figuring out what it was all about!!

5 Rivers!! There was a TON of stuff! Crafts, games, hayride! SO FUN!!

I have no pictures from today with the kids classes... I was either keeping kids in line or chasing them down...no time for pictures!!

Happy Halloween!! (Lindley wasn't up for her dress again until Jeff mentioned candy! She even wore her hat for a few minutes)

Umm....I'd say he did pretty good!!

Not too bad!! She liked it when they handed the candy to her or she got to pick it out. If they put it in her bucket she would hold her hand out for more!

Lilly only did a few houses then went to help Mammaw hand out candy!! I think she ate about as much as she handed out!

Trying to calm down after a VERY busy and fun day!!

Field Trip Fun!

Lance and I had a blast on his field trip to the corn maze this week. It was nice to spend time with just him.

He found the perfect pumpkin!!

He had a blast playing on the hay!

Seriously....he needs some of these!

Feeding the animals!

He loved it!

Shooting the corn cannon!

Racing ducks!

Will, Fisher and Lance....such sweet boys!

Hayride with my boy!!

A sweet group of kiddos!!

He was WORN out!! He caught a nap on the ride back!!

 

I'm so glad I can have a job and be there for my kids. Lately, I have been struggling with balancing our crazy schedules. Keep in mind that neither mine, nor Jeff's schedule is the same each week. For someone that is a person of routine I find this very difficult. However, it's what we need at this time in our lives in order to be the family we want to be. I just have to embrace the craziness!!