On The Loose..

A telegram for you:

Thursday at 7:04 p.m.
Miss Greta discovered that she has a loose tooth. It is a front, bottom tooth. She is quite excited. She wants to tell her kindergarten teacher, get on the tooth list and get a sticker from the school office. She says Fieldin won't loose a tooth for 10,050 days. She is waiting for tooth fairy, wiggling her tooth and holding her tooth pillow.

end of telegram.

As for the rest of the day, we enjoyed a walk down by the river with my dad, ate Jeff's ribs o' fire, and visited a farm for produce for the last time this season. Happy Thursday!

A Rainbow and A Weekend

Happiness
Fall

Love

Fun

This weekend, Jeff's mom visited for a couple days. We had good weather so we headed to the ocean to get some sun and get some ocean air for our sinuses. While eating lunch we heard a woman sing a beautiful version of "over the rainbow", only to see a rainbow a hour later.

The weekend is over and Monday has brought us a little rain, a little sun, a little hail, a new reading book for Greta(that she has already read..twice), spaghetti and kalamata olive bread, a rucus bath, a popsicle smeared face from a world series party at school, a nap and a goodbye.

Hope you all had a wonderful Monday.

Afternoon Routine..

I guess we are finally in the swing of things and there is a routine emerging to our weekedays.

Fieldin and I wait for the big yellow bus to pull up and we run out to the porch to wave at Greta and the bus driver. Greta then comes in the house throws her coat, backpack, socks, shoes etc all over the entry hall. She speaks a mile a minute about the bus ride and what's in her backpack. Fieldin gets bored at this point and starts digging in the pantry for a snack. I sit down and see all the beautiful schoolwork Gret has brought home for me.

Then we have lunch. They both are STARVING, they tell me. They both want juice and have to have the same thing to eat.

Then Greta reads to Fieldin. I love this.
Then they get all goofy and chase each other and play. They snuggle up together and tell secrets and giggle.

Then off to naptime for pudge(on a good day) and more reading with Miss Greta.
We are still trying to get down a morning routine. We usually only make the bus on time by the skin of our teeth. We end up driving since we never have time to walk. Since chubs is in the cube, he always wants a morning joyride, as we call it. He says"I like it, wheee fun". I've been using this time for errands and he is my wonderful helper. When I am about two miles from home he starts to notice and cries"no home, more drive in the woddsies" (he likes to drive by the river and see the pretty Fall colors in the trees). We get home. He has ANOTHER snack. We play. We read. We go outside. Then we wait patiently for Gret's bus.

Routines are nice. I never thought I'd say that.

Today..

( Picture taken by Greta )

Today Fieldin and I both got hair trims because Fieldin is such a good boy.

Today Greta finally answered a question that has always stumped me. What is it, that a candy corn tastes like? she told me.. cake batter. That's it!

Today we are walking in the wetlands by our house at night with flashlights and warm cider in hand.

Today was the most insanely beautiful Fall day I have ever seen...

Today Fieldin put his own pants and shoes on.

Today Greta read a whole learning to read book on her very own. Very cool lovey.

Today my friend made me laugh about our yearly holiday decorating. If you don't go Griswald, you don't go Christmas! Just wait people.

Today I miss my mom, looking forward to seeing my mother in law and dad in the coming weeks and hope my sister is feeling better.

Today I learned I don't like buttered rum mochas.

Today I checked email for the first time in days.

Today I am content. Happy Wednesday everyone.

Falling Leaves in Flip Flops

The Halloween decorations are down and the Thanksgiving decorations are gradually making their way up. First we worked on a cut- out of a Horn O' Plenty, we turned small pumpkins into turkey centerpieces and today we gathered Falling leaves in short sleeves and flip flops. The weather has been so nice and I am still expecting the Pullman "don't forget your fleece hat!!!!" weather. I am digging the weather this year. This is my first Fall in this area since I was eleven and the feeling of a warm sun and a light breeze during after school play is all coming back to me.

I've been a bit lazy on the pictures as of late. The cameras are charging after working so hard during Halloween. The kids start soccer next week so they will be paling around with me again soon.

Happy post Halloween sugar rush everyone.

If You Don't I Don't Care, I'll Pull Down Your UnderVear!!!! wah ha ha...

We have been celebrating Halloween since Friday morning.

Our kids can party like they're rockstars. Schlepping Halloween bags full of candy has not slowed them down.

The weather has been good and there is so many celebrations around here, the kiddos have been trick or treating since Friday afternoon. Friday morning I put on a Halloween party at Greta's Kindergarten(very fun!!!) and somehow ended up staying for music class, a fire drill and an assembly while dressed in my witch costume... I really love you Greta. I think I proved it:)

Then Friday afternoon and Saturday afternoon we trick or treated hard core with uncle Mark locally. The kids loved it, and Fieldin kept a death grip on a Kit Kat bar for about a hour. Then today, Halloween (finally!) we took the kids to see Disney on Ice. Greta loved watching the princesses. Fieldin loved Stitch and Goofy. Good Times, Good Memories.

Greta and Fieldin at the Rose Garden for Disney on Ice. Both in Chuck Taylor's and one in a princess dress.
Disney on Ice show....

Saturday Trick or Treating downtown. Fieldin's costume was trashed Friday so we had to come up with a new costume...A coug fan.

Checking out his goods on Friday night...he ate most of it on the way home.

Fieldin checking to see what Greta has....

Tonight we pass out candy. Maybe take the kids around the neighborhood and say goodbye to another awesome Halloween. We will have candy laying around til' August.

She Can Read!!! And Some Pumpkins....

First off.. I am full of pride today. Miss Greta is a reader. She came busting off the bus today so fast Fieldin didn't even get a hello. She said she wanted to read to me so we sat right down next to the front door and she read. Then Jeff came home for lunch and she read to him. It is an amazing thing. This afternoon, I got out the old school Dick and Jane book and she did great. Sounding out new words that came along. Good job, Love. We are so so proud. I always said if you were a thing, you would be a book. You love them so. Now you get to experience them in a whole new way.

Now onto the pumpkins...

Greta scooped and cut up her own pumpkin this year ALL by herself. No help was accepted or needed. Here pump is the firefly next to her. I carved an owl and James the train, Jeff did Tinkerbell and a face and there is a batman pumpkin in there somewhere for Fieldin as well.
Fieldin was all over these pumpkins. He liked cleaning out all the seeds and then putting them back in the pumpkin.....

Us... covered in pumpkin goo and a day of roasting pumpkin seeds ahead of us. We roasted three mason jars full of seeds.

oh, here it is. His batman pumpkin... "I....Batman!!!" he says. And my gynormous pumpkin. This was my fault, I get carried away at pumpkin patches. I couldn't even lift it. It was too big really. I will try to scale down next year... or so I say.