A Cold, Rainy Day Activity

Last year at a consignment sale I bought a set of tents with a tunnel and probably close to 300 plastic balls. I really hate the balls, they make such a mess and I am constantly finding them all through the house, even after I have cleaned them up a thousand times! BUT, they keep those 2 boys occupied! So, I keep them around because they have such a blast!

Mommy got to sleep in!

Last weekend Michael took the boys in the morning and let me sleep in for a little while! Being the sucker of a breastfeeding mom that I am, I still get up around 5:30am to nurse Logan. This is something I am working on though and hopefully will be pushing up slowly to make him last all night. Michael was sweet enough to take the boys and feed them breakfast and then play...I got a whole extra hour!!! And I think the boys enjoyed their Daddy time!

Just a thought...

Landon is a very particular child. He likes things a certain way and once he is in a routine, you can't break him of it. The "Easter Bunny" brought Landon some sunglasses last Easter. At the time, the Easter Bunny did not realize how much of an impact these "Cars" themed sunglasses would have on Landon! Now, as soon as we get in the van Landon has to have his sunglasses. He sees us wearing them I guess and now he's figured out he doesn't like the sun in his eyes at all. If we do not have these sunglasses all hell breaks loose! I really need to get another pair...maybe Santa Claus will pull through!

Monkey Joe's at Home!

Last Saturday we were cleaning out the garage and got out the inflatable pool that we had for the summer. It was still blown up, but being November we were not going to fill it up with water. So, we decided to fill it up with plastic balls! It was a real hit and attracted most of the kids on our street! Logan got in on the action as well, the big kids love to play with him.

Happy Halloween!

We celebrated Halloween this evening! Michael came home early from work and we finally got our pumpkin carved. Usually we do this at least the weekend before, but we've all been sick so we haven't gotten around to it. After carving our pumpkin, we joined our neighbors in the culdesac for a pizza party and then hit the streets for trick-or-treating! Landon was supposed to be a pirate and went to school as a pirate this morning, but when he saw his Nemo costume from last year he had to be Nemo again! Logan was a frog, which was Landon's costume from his first Halloween. We have a HUGE neighborhood and didn't come close to even making a dent in it, but Landon got a lot of candy and became a really good "trick-or-treater" saying "trick or treat" and then "thank you". Now for Mommy to go pick out the good candy and put the kids to bed!!

Farm Festival

Landon's school had a farm festival last Friday. They had different games set up and after each one you played you got to a pick a prize. I think it was supposed to be held outside, but that was one of the Friday's that was a complete washout, so it was held inside. I think it would have been more enjoyable outside for the kids, it was very loud and crowded and I think Landon got overwhelmed. I didn't get many pictures, and the ones I got didn't turn out very good, but I did get one of the two both looking at me half way smiling!

A trip to the playground!

Rock Climbing

Thank goodness we live in Georgia, where the weather is still warm in October! Going to the playground is always a good thing to do when you want to keep both kids busy and wear them out at the same time. Logan really enjoyed crawling around and trying to put bark in his mouth and Landon enjoyed the freedom of being able to run up and down stairs and slide down the slide many times!