Dr. Pepper Mama: 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: