Spiders and Pumpkins

Well, as you may have heard Kara got a spider bite. Fortunately it wasn't a poisonous bite, but her hand was swollen and red and we had to get her some antibiotics.

Yikes. Poor girl. She's been on the medicine since Friday and her hand is looking much better now.

Now onto the funny stuff. The kids were playing under the stairs and I got a few funny shots. This is Aaron keeping his sister under the stairs

He finally released her:

And her cracking up because anything Bubba does is funny.

Kara said she was hungry, so I asked what she wanted. She told me, "hungy, hungy hippos."

The other morning it was really raining and about four something he came in our room and told me, "It's raining mama." I told him I knew that. He replied, "yes, but it's raining hard and I can't sleep." So he ended up falling peacefully asleep in our bed while I got pushed out. Hm...motherhood is hard.

Then we have a new games that is Lego star wars for the x box. So Kara was pretending she had a light saber. Unfortunately she picked up a block and bonked bubba on the head and tried to break the patio window. We have since replaced the Block Saber with a more people friendly Straw Saber.

Friday we were at the doctors getting Kara's hand looked at and the nurse had a stethoscope. So I was telling Kara what it was and what it was for. So when we got home, she used one of the old corded phones and put the handset on our knees to listen to our hearts. That was her pretend stethoscope. When she was done she placed it on the back of her neck like the nurse did. Too cute. So Aaron was kind enough to let Kara have his old doctor kit. So she took the clipboard and the play syringe like a pencil and walked around asking all of us, "how are you doing?" Then she would pretend to write on the clipboard.

Then Sunday was very eventful. Aaron woke up Andy telling him, "I know compound words, daddy." Then proceeded to give several examples. Hmm...what ever happened to Good Morning? We went to church and Kara was quite the comedian again. During the readings she was reading her book aloud. She was saying "God" then a pause, "Bad Guys," then she turned the page and repeated it. "God.....Bad Guys." Then after one of the songs she really loudly told Andy, "Good singing Daddy." Our proudest moment however was when Kara recited the Our Father with the rest of us. She did really good and only left out a few words.

That afternoon we went to a pumpkin patch. There was an old smokehouse there and Aaron read the entire placard to us. Very impressive. Then we went to see an animal barn and Kara was quite excited and made all the animal noises to the animals. It was cute to see her go up to the donkeys and say, "eee ooo." Adorable. Then a tractor pulled us and several others in a trailer to the pumpkin patch. Kara wanted every pumpkin she saw. Aaron was more selective and picked out a very slender pumpkin. I got to pull it off the vine so I was excited. (perhaps I should've let the kids do that?" On the drive back in the trailer Kara was singing Old McDonalds had a farm, which I thought was clever that she picked up on that. It was a really neat place.

Here are a few of the hundreds of pictures we took. Our ride:

On the trailer:

In the pumpkin patch:

I want this one:

Mama and the kids:

Lots of pumpkins:

Aaron's Story

Just wanted to share. This is a story that Aaron wrote at school. (yes, he's only 6!)


Just so you know what he wrote here is it line by line.
"If I had
a dinosaur for a pet
it would be loud.
It would run a
way. To feed the dinosaur
I would buy a ladder
When it rains the
dinosaur gets a shower."

I was pretty impressed when he brought that home.

More San Antonio Vacation

Well, I promised you more pictures from San Antonio and the kiddisms from our vacation so here goes.

Green Bean and Bob came over for dinner one night which was yummy. And so was the chicken and the corn. I helping Kara eat and getting quite distracted and asked for the chicken and the corn even though there was none on the table.

Another day, we were driving with green bean and bob when all of a sudden a bicyclist dashed in front of the truck. Bob made some comment about crazy cyclists, to which Aaron replied, "Bob try to be nice." On this same trip we were attempting to call GiGi and Green Bean was slowly and carefully calling out the numbers. After each number the OnStar would repeat it. When she finished there was silence and then Aaron hollered another number, so the OnStar repeated the extra number and was confused, so it didn't complete the call. When we finally did get a hold of GiGi we talked a bit and then said our goodbyes. She told us I love you too, so Kara hollered "I love you three!"

While we were playing on the playground Kara and Aaron were running around and then all of a sudden Kara ran up to me and said, "I precious, mama." And then went back to playing. Another time we hollered Kara to figure out where she was and she said, "I not doing anything." Hm..

One morning Aaron woke up Kara and was playing and then took her bear, so she told him, "Aaron NO swiping." because that's was Dora the Explorer says on the show.

Aaron was playing with the cars and called one a monster truck so from then on Kara called that truck Cookie Monster.

Papa was shuffling the cards and Kara thought it was neat. She told us that's cool. I said "Yeah, Papa's cool." Kara suddenly got very serious and looked sideways at Nana as if to say I wouldn't go that far.

After one of our too few shopping sprees we found a hat for Aaron and he tried it on. Nana told him, "Go look in the mirror. You look so cute." Aaron replied, "I know what I look like." Hm..perhaps a manners lesson is in order.

We were playing with toys in the morning and Kara was serving us some pretend pizza. So when Andy came downstairs for breakfast Kara ran to him shouting, "GOOD MORNING DADDY! GOOD MORNING DADDY! GOOD MORNING DADDY!" Then very quietly, "I made pizza." Then while we were playing Andy was lifting the kids up. Then he tried to lift me and struggled a bit and Aaron said, "Daddy your face is really red." Here Kara is trying to play piano, but stubborn girl wouldn't climb up on the bench to play.

The fun play place we found near Nana's house. First Andy, papa and the kids went. They had remote control cars there. Apparently Papa was crashing into Aaron's car because Aaron crashes his cars at home. They were relaying the story to me and after Papa mentioned that Aaron crashed the cars at home, Aaron said, "I guess I asked for it."

Then Nana and I took the kids with Andy. So Nana got to ride the over sized tricycles. She and I also tried the obstacle course and fortunately pictures didn't show up well in there so you didn't see how funny I looked struggling over the hurdles.


Aaron looking cool:

San Antonio Vacation

Aaron sporting an attitude:





We had a very fun time in San Antonio this past week. I can only complain that it was too short a visit and the drive was too long. The kids were very good on the 16 hour drive so that's good. We broke up the trip a bit, so I think that helped too. Andy and I played numerous ABC games while driving and the kids read tons of books along the way.


Playing at Green Bean and Bob's house






We did get a lot of visiting done and Andy's car was inspected so that was good too. We found a fun play place really close to the grandparents house which was also a plus. And I got to do some shopping, not as much as I would have liked but I did find puddle boots for Aaron and me, which will ensure a very dry winter for us here in Alabama.

I also wanted to update y'all on the roof. After I e-mailed that picture to the office the roof was repaired the next day (the thursday before we left). Surprise. And right before we left for our trip, our family photos came in so we have those for the Christmas cards. (they were two weeks late and we didn't want them sitting on the porch for a week.)

I will try to post more pictures and some of the kid-isms from the trip tomorrow. Right now we are still unpacking and trying to get back on schedule.


More pictures


We visited with Michael and Ava at an Austin Chick-fil-a. They had a play place and the kids had a blast. The three kids play so well together and we're all encouraging the others to play and slide. It was really cute.




Blurry but cute:

Then Ava shared her ice cream with Kara and Kara thought it was great!

It's always something

This morning we were trying to get ready for school and they kept forgetting this or that. I told the kids they were making me crazy. At the same time, Aaron said, "I like you crazy." and Kara said, "I love crazy mama."
Wow. They couldn't have planned it better.


Also, we noticed on Aaron's papers he was adding to his name. He has put his first name and last name and "silint t" at the top of his papers.I asked why he put "silint t" at the end of his name. He said so they would know how to pronounce it because the T is silent. They will say "drool-yea" instead of "druilYET." How funny. He never ceases to surprise me.


So for first grade project this month we had to make a community helper with a coffee mate bottle they sent home. Aaron choose a fireman, since the top of the bottle was red. I think we did a pretty good job and after we got him dressed Aaron put ashes from the grill on it. Very authentic looking. He also wrote out a description of what firemen do. He told me they save people and get dirty. :)



Aaron got a sticker from school and Kara wanted it. So she was playing with it and then asked us, "Where sticker go?" This is where it went:


Then today I happened to look out the window and see something white in our yard. So I go out side and this is what I find.

The white thing next to it is a ruler just for perspective. Apparently during the little rainstorm we had last night part of our siding fell off. Now if this was the first thing I could forgive, but this is the second piece of siding that has fallen off of our house and it wasn't even raining that hard yesterday. Talk about shoddy work. So I called in a work order and they are deciding if it's worth fixing today or not. So we have our buckets ready since it is supposed to rain the next two days so our stuff won't get destroyed. So I am a bit miffed again with Picerne and the "new housing" because we haven't even been in this house six months. UGGHH. It's always something. Another view so you can see where it fell off of the house and yes those boards are not flush with each other!

October

Happy First of October. O.k. I guess it's the second now.
Kara wanted her picture taken so here are those:




Such a cutie!
Kara's latest thing is that she sings everything. I am eating, eating eating. It sounds adorable but it gets old after a whole day of it. In the car last night she was doing it again so I sighed, "Oh Kara." Aaron piped up with, "It's a good thing she's cute, right?" He's too funny. Aaron is also having dessert after every meal so Kara wants it too. Only she calls it "slee-zert" instead of dessert.
We went out to eat last night because I was a bit distracted yesterday and forgot to defrost stuff. And while we were sitting waiting for our food out of the blue Aaron says, "I'm Bob Jay and it's going to be a sunny day, I guess." We asked what he was doing and he told us, "I am being a news person!" Hm.

Aaron was playing on Lego's. com and the computer kept freezing so he said, "See, that's why I need my own computer." Yikes, that's starting soon. Perhaps he's asking for big stuff so the small stuff won't see as expensive. I don't know.

Also, while I was getting some food for Aaron he told me, "You're a good girl. And I mean it." So that's always nice to hear.

Not much else going on here. I was formatting some recipes for the computer and I finished recopying my address book to the new one. Now I can shred the old one. Other than that just doing everyday stuff.