That's how we roll

This is how we roll

 Just another day

In our house we step outside the box

We tend to make our own rules

If painting in the bathtub makes us happy

 Then we paint in the bathtub

Because in our house that's how we roll

Three times

Three times in three years...

Back in 2009

Then again in 2010

And now in 2011....


Katelyn has another cast! A blue one this time. This time it's not for a broken wrist and this time it's not on her left hand. It's on her right hand, which is going to make writing pretty much impossible...

How, you wonder? Last Friday she picked up Ben to look at a fish tank. No, there's no more to that story... She picked up Ben... That's it... After two doctors, a lot of x-rays, then an orthopedic specialist today we got an answer. Somehow when she picked up Ben she displaced a growth plate and injured a ligament in her thumb/hand. What a crazy fluke!

She has had a lot of pain this past week so we are really glad to finally have an answer and hopefully a solution! She will have the cast on for three weeks and hopefully it will be completely healed when the cast comes off.

This is an annual event that I hope ends this year!

We need more pictures

Last week I was printing pictures for a scrapbook I was going to make for Maggie. I was trying to include pictures of all the people close to her.



However, I quickly discovered that finding a recent picture of her and I together was quite a challenge.

Since I am usually the one behind the camera there are very few pictures of me.

So I tried to take a few of us together by holding out the camera and snapping pictures.

That worked ok but then Katelyn helped take a few. Connor came running in for one too, although he didn't smile!

So I have to try and remember on occasion to hand the camera over to some one else so there will be a few of me and the kids!

Stylish

Yep, we are stylish around here!

Our kids are setting the upcoming fads, you know, the ones that people on TV will be copying soon.

Cause we are stylish trend-setters around here!

Calves and chickens

Near the farm stand that I buy our produce from during the late summer and fall there are chickens and baby calves to visit. And even though they are near the corn field I let the kids visit.
I hate corn fields, yes hate, I know that is a strong word but it fits for me and corn fields.
Anyway, I digress....
The other day we stopped to get some vegis and decided to visit the chickens and calves. There was also a big proud rooster there, we hadn't seen him before.

These are future milking cows as this is a milk farm. They are so adorable.
Although I will quietly admit that I feel bad for them being all cooped up in these small areas. Calves are playful and fun and need space to run and play, just like my kids.

Within a minute of being there Connor spotted an egg, this was a very exciting first. Since there is a rooster now it may possibly have a baby in it but it was just laying in the middle of the ground and not being taken care of so I don't really have any idea.

Connor tried to get a chicken to come out of the corn to get the egg, haha. So cute!

Ben got close to the baby cows, for the first time (wow, there was a lot of firsts that day) and tried to give them hay.

The big kids made a nest out of hay and laid the egg right in it and told the chickens where it was so they could come take care of it.

Then we left hoping maybe a chicken would take care of the egg once it got quiet at the farm again....

Benny's backpack

Ben had been asking me for a spiderman backpack. I wasn't sure why or even where he came up with the very specific idea of a "spiderman pack-pack". I kept telling him that we'd see.


A couple of weeks ago we were headed to Walmart and he said to me, "Mama, you pease buy mine spiderman pack-pack today?" Oh, so very polite and sweet. I told him that we would look and see if they had one. Plus I hoped we may find it on clearance if we did see one since school is back in full swing.

Sure enough they had one! It wasn't just spiderman but he didn't care, he was sooooo excited to have his very own "spiderman pack-pack"! He put it right on and it was so big on him but he loved it!

Then he commented about me dropping him and Maggie off at school. I said, "yep, we are dropping Maggie off at school now."

He said, "Mama, you drop me off at school too." I said, "No, you don't go to school yet." He, in his most serious way said, "Yes mama, now I have mine spiderman pack-pack so my go to school too!"

I told him that he wasn't big enough to go to school yet and that even though he has a pack-pack he can't go to school.

Oh, he cried, his heart was broken. He was so very sad. He really thought that once he had a pack-pack he could go to school. That was why he had been asking for one, but I didn't realize that.

Poor guy... He did get over it and still loves his "spiderman pack-pack"

However, he has not given up. In the past couple of weeks he has come to me a few times and said, "look mama, I bigger, now mine ready for school?"

Soccer

Fall is here, which means soccer season is here! Actually I am so behind that now soccer is half way done! But can you really blame me, I am busy?!?!?!? Soccer is three nights during the week and pretty much all day on Saturday.
Poor Maggie, I signed her up for a different league and they cancelled the team the day before it was supposed to start. By that point it was too late to sign her up for the town league so she isn't playing. Which is such a bummer because she was so excited about it!

So far the season is going very well. We have had lots of great weather with just a few days of not so great weather.
Look at these skies, oh, soccer days don't get better then this!

Katelyn is on a U10 team for the second year and is having a lot of fun. Her team is pretty young. It's nice to see her so confident.

Connor's team is also young but he is having so much fun and is playing really good! He has the same coach as last year which is great for Connor. He is a very devoted coach and doesn't coddle Connor which is just what he needs!

I got to cuddle with this kitten at the soccer field a couple weeks ago! Oh she was so sweet! The family was hoping some one would fall in love and take her home as she was the last of their cat's kittens that needed a home. Nope, she didn't come home with us although if it was up to the kids she surely would have. With Ben's high probability of severe allergies we won't get any more furry pets before having allergy tests done at four years old or older.

Even though Maggie isn't playing she loves to go watch whenever she can. She would go to all the practices and games if we would let her but too many nights out late don't do her mood very good so we have to limit the night games.

Of course Nana goes whenever possible!

Yay for Connor and go England!!!!

And yay to Katelyn and Crew!!!! I look forward to the second half of the season! I love soccer!