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.

Fall weather ...

Makes you have to wear a jacket and sun glasses.




How cheese-ball straight out of an 80's movie are the kids expression in these pictures?

Two things that don't go together

Lilly and a bell


It's my clean up bell that I have to say works rather effectively with Lilly and Drew except when she gets her hands on it.

26 days

I can hear the piano now

Add another letter in the mix

So we are still doing some at home letter work and letter B week was fun. But the highlight(by far) was our field trip to the bowling alley. I was laughing pretty much the entire time. If I wasn't laughing I was making sure Drew didn't drop a 10 pound ball on his foot, or Lilly wasn't putting her hands on the moving belt where the balls come back up.


We were the ONLY people there in the entire bowling alley(besides the employees). I think this worked to our advantage with two three year olds running around.


We helped them at first, but they caught on pretty quickly.



This was pretty much Drew's permanent expression while we experienced the bowling alley. He was in heaven.


Lilly and I were on the "nemo" team and here is an example of our team work and high five skills.(we did lose in the end, much to team T-rex's pleasure)



Six pound ball, but still a little challenging to hold correctly.




This is just outright disgusting at a bowling alley.


Lilly's after a roll, bowling, happy dance


Slipping during the dance

I need some love

I am considering retiring from doing this blog. Would any one out there really care? Really? I need some blog love people. Something to keep me going.

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