This was Bear's first time to help with a pumpkin and Kati doesn't remember last year so it may as well be a first for her. We had a lot of fun. I thought Kati would be a whip about pulling the insides out but she had a great time getting out the "guts". Brendon on the other would not do it. He enjoyed pretending to eat the inside. I will try to get a picture of the finished product today. We went in as soon as we could, there was little sprinkling of rain and the kids were being eaten by mosquitoes.

Makes you cry happy tears......

While talking about Heaven last night Kati asks, "When I go there if I take my book about Jesus will He read it to me?"

How rude

So I was feeling kind of sick and ran for the restroom. Brendon followed because I suppose watching people barf is interesting. So Brendon is watching and says, "Bite?". Might have been semi cute (since he doesn't understand what is going on) except for the fact that he thought I was eating out of the toilet.

Not the best picture

How do you like the fat lip Grandpa? We were dancing in the kitchen to Rod Stewart while I made lunch when BAM! Guess you shouldn't dance with your socks on

NEWS

Game time

Last night we bought two new games, well they really aren't new, just new to the kids. And I can't even really say they were both for the kids because we really bought one of them for us. I like playing games with family however if you catch me with a group a people I will adamantly claim that I don't. I really enjoy just being silly with Jeff and that is usually what happens when we play games. Anyway, last night we bought Hungry Hungry Hippo and Ker plunk. I could wait to get the games going. We started with Hungry Hippo. I was really excited about this one because Bear always wants to play Hi-ho-cherry-o and I won't let him. At first I couldn't figure out why at the end he never had any marbles. On the next round I watched him to see if he understood. He understood alright, his hippo would eat some and then he would put them back out to catch again. Occasional he would tell his hippo "eat, eat". He was so glad to be playing with the big kids. Kati had a good time too and of course she had to be the pink hippo. Ker plunk was really for us but Kati asked to play and you know Jeffrey and I have a hard time telling those blue eyes no when it comes to little things. They liked that game too but that is a lot of work when they don't understand careful selection of sticks. That's a lot of preliminary work to only play for a minute or two. Before Kati even got out of bed this morning she wanted to know if we could go wake up Bear and if we could play "hun-gee" hippo. Amazingly we played Hungry Hippo before breakfast. If you know Bear then you know what a big deal that is. Nothing happens before breakfast and I mean nothing, not even a new diaper.

Pumpkin Farm

What to see our exciting pictures from the pumpking patch........

Oh wait, we didn't get to go. We drove out there just to find out they were closed. Yes, I knew it was a possibility since it was raining at our house but we decided to take a chance. We had to try since I had been telling Kati about it for days. Can you tell from the pictures the kids were disappointed. They sprang back quickly though, it took me a little longer. Oh well, we will try again this weekend. Grandma G is coming for a visit soon, we can't wait to see you! You will be amazed at how quickly Bear has grown.