Carving Pumpkins

For FHE we carved our pumpkins. My boys REFUSED to "gut" the pumpkin. They'll coat themselves with mud, smash bugs and grubs BUT they will not gut a pumpkin because "it is so gross!" Go figure!

What a cute BABY!!

When Grandpa Carl was visiting, I asked him to take some photos, he does such an incredible job! In spite of the very difficult time that he had trying to get two energetic boys and a baby to look at the camera, he snapped some amazing shots. I am not the most interesting person in the photos but I thought that this photo of Marg Elise, as Greyson calls her and whose name we've all adopted, and I was just precious. Having a baby girl is pretty awesome. I love my boys and would love Marg Elise if she were a boy, but she's not and I love having this incredible little girl as part of my life. I realize sometimes how lucky I am that she is so miraculous and feel so extremely blessed that I can be a part of her life as she is to mine.

Happy Birthday, Rob

I realize that I am not so good about sending birthday wishes often times before the actual day or days for that matter. I truly think about the upcoming birthdays and other events for days in advance. I am going to invent a devise someday that can translate positive brain waves and their intentions into real life manifestations! I only wish my good intentions could be better. So from your sister, I wanted to say Happy Birthday, Rob!!

The Pit

THIS IS THE PIT...When Grandpa Carl was visiting, the boys energy was diverted to digging. This was not your typical digging in the dirt.. Oh no...this digging practically went all the way through to China. Okay, maybe not that far but Greyson's head is pretty much flush with the top of the pit. You can see his blonde head bobbing as he walks around. Grandpa Carl also put stairs into the pit to make for greater ease in accessing the pit's space. The pit even had boards put on top of it for a "roof." After Grandma Judy told the boys about her cousin who lived outside in his own dirt "house" because the family house was too crowded, the boys asked me if they could sleep out there too. I actually never heard them ask but once. I think that they may have realized that actually sleeping in the pit might be a little too much. I guess no one else is doing much with the yard and I don't want to be the one to fill in the GINORMOUS hole/pit, so I guess for now the pit will stay. If it's not about getting dirty, it's not about being a boy!

Just Because....

I realize that it has been a loooonnnnngggg time since I last posted anything! Well it doesn't help when your husband takes out the hard drive from the computer that you were using and everything that you had saved on the other hard drive is now lost in cyber space. Well, you ask why? So do I. I guess that the best, simplest answer is....Just because he can?

Rice Cereal...WHY?

M.E. has officially been introduced to rice cereal. I don't think that she thinks that it is very exciting. She does not have a great interest in it. Her brothers loved it on their very first bit. I wonder how much of her visual impairments affect her interest in it. She is doing well. There are babies that have issues far greater than M.E. I am grateful that she is still with us and doing well.

1st Day of First Grade

It's official! Ethan is now a 1st grader! His first day was great! Now on his fourth day, he is feeling the effects of a full school day! It is going to take him some time to get used to the time difference from Kindergarten. When we ask him what he did throughout the day he looks at us with a matter-of-fact, don't you get it look and his response is, "It was such a long day! I can't remember a thing!" As I picked him up from school on Friday, I told him that he was bigger then when I dropped him off at school that morning. I said, "Not only have you gotten taller, but I think that your brain grew too." He was pretty tickled by that and had to tell his Dad later that his brain had grown. I saw Ethan's Kindergarten teacher who told me that she was very pleased that Ethan has the first grade teacher that he does. When she told me that she thought it would be a "good fit" for him to have the teacher that he does was very good to hear. He has only started first grade but if it is anything like Kindergarten, he'll be in second grade before I know it!!