Hmmmm, this is a first. Tweet Tweet

So the kids were nicely(which does not happen that often these days)in the back yard today. I was in and out of the house as they played and I started to hear the cutest game of what I would call "tweet tweet" bird game. There are lots of pretend games at our house and their age....so I was not thinking anything of it. I hear Drew saying, "Here Lilly. Tweet Tweet" and Lilly saying "Tweet tweet Drew, you hold it" So about 5-10 minutes later, I am curious as to what is keeping their attention and not causing any fighting.

This is what Lilly was holding high up in the sky as I came around the corner to the side yard.


RIP


Should I thank Frankie, our cat, for this special gift?

10 days

"I love a happy ending. They are so rare"
~ Aro

A...B..._____

So I am behind on posting the "letter of the days" as we call them around here, although we work on them for a week or so.


We read many books on cats, and then created some of our own.

I just have to share that Drew decided to draw poo-poo coming out of his Kitty's bottom. Awesome Drew.

We made a 5-minute Chocolate Cake.


Not really that pretty, I know. And if I was honest, it wasn't really all that great either, but if the ingredients are chocolate, sugar, coco, and chocolate chips I think my kids will eat it.



C week brought us our first family game night now that Lilly and Drew tuned three, they can play CandyLand. We had a great time playing, but Todd and I were reminded how LONG these games are. If you play it correctly and honestly, we could be playing that forever.

Just for the record...Drew has won fair and square every single time we have played. He somehow always gets the double color cards or pulls the princess frosting(or whatever her name is) and catapults close to the finish line. He is very proud.

Move over McQueen

You have been replaced





Drew will not put him down or stop saying at the top of his lungs, "To infity and ooonnnnnnnnnnnnn"

Halloween comes and goes...

The kids started out Halloween with a cute trick or treat/scavenger hunt at school out at the park by their school. It was orange and black day and everyone was very excited waiting to get the green light to go out to the park. **Please note Drew's new buzz cut given to him by his father...with clippers...he did great!


Sadly Nemo fell ill to a fever and could not go out swimming in the ocean of Halloween. She stayed come and answered the door and really enjoyed seeing all the costumes. As the story goes, Lilly would get a little spooked by the scary masks. BUT.... she would still run really quickly up to them, throw the candy in their bags and run away like speeding bullet yelling, "that scares me, that scares me"



Peter Pan was in high spirits and ready to take on Captain Hook for the evening. He loved getting into character and told many strangers to "watch out for the hook!" or "the pirate ship is mine!"


He braved every house by himself and rang the doorbell all by himself. Even at times walked into the strange houses looking for ????????? I don't know, his sister? It was sad with out Lilly. Drew missed her.


One of the best giggles of the night took place when Drew went up to a house where it was the on-your-honor-take-just-one-basket was left on the front porch. As the adults in our group were in the midst of conversations with each other, Drew made the trek up the long drive way to find the basket. When Drew came back, he decided to leave his relatively empty Halloween bag on the porch and take the FULL basket of candy down the driveway instead. It was a good laugh for us and smart on his part.

Practically a two week post birthday wrap up

So I was about to delete all the photos on my camera(I had already burned a disc)and as I was looking through the pictures, I realized that I had not posted about the kids birthday...so shame on me.

The pumpkin patch birthday is something I wish I would have done every birthday now that I have done it. Why not with October birthdays? The kids had a blast and have asked to go back everyday we drive past it on our way to Walmart.

My kids enjoyed the hay activities. Lilly preferred the hay maze. Her expression is one of pure joy, but the shadow makes it hard to see that.


Drew preferred climbing to the top of the hay stacks with cousin Matthew.


Uncle Matti flew into town for the big event and Drew spent lots of time with him.


Matthew is such an awesome big cousin. He hung out with Drew lots too.


Lilly could have done this single activity the entire two hours we were there. Feeding the sheep....


We all got to go on a tractor ride. That's not entirely the truth. Drew did not go on the tractor ride because he refused to use the port-a-potty(can you blame him really?) but he also did not want to pee in the bushes either, so Todd drove him home(less than 5 minutes)to use the potty.



This is what happened every time we sang happy birthday to the kids in a group setting. This was on there real birthday evening.


What makes me laugh the most is Drew's expression looking at Lilly, so puzzled as to why she is crying. That is what a confused Drew looks like.

They each had their choice for dessert. Drew went with the brownie and Lilly chose ice cream.

I have had enough of them

We are Yankee haters in this house and we dress our kids accordingly. When Drew does wear this in public, he either gets the thumbs up and "love the shirt" quote or my son is booed. Drew thinks they are trying to be scary ghosts and just says BOO! back to them. That's my boy.