Future Rock n' Roller?

Forget the stand-up comedian bit, check him out! (LOL!)

(the downside to a smaller-memory-sized memory card is that this is as much of the song as I could videotape of him)

"Pumpkin Head"

Connor has a big huge head, and Dan started calling him "pumpkin head" as a nickname (affectionately) and I've found myself calling him that lately as well. I knitted him a pumpkin hat for Oct/Nov and now he really IS a pumpkin head. LOL

Taking Care of Business

Connor LOVES sitting at the little table and chairs we have in our house. We have a kid-sized wooden table and chairs set, and we have a little patio-style set. I'm not sure which he loves more. I will say it's probably the patio-style set because it's lightweight and he can move it around the house wherever he chooses. Lately, he likes to haul it all, piece by piece, to the other side of the diningroom, behind the dining table. It's pretty funny to walk into the room and see that he's done some rearranging!

Notice he's got the table and BOTH chairs here and I'll point out this is NOT where it started out this morning!! LOL


Apparently I should take the hint and do some rearranging of my own?

Zoo Boo!!

We met up with two other families yesterday and went to Zoo Boo at our local zoo. It's a Halloween event where the kids dress up in their costumes and get to do little activities along their way around the zoo and get some candy. There was pumpkin bowling, matching the patterns on hidden bats to a worksheet, decorating a paper pumpkin, beanbag toss, searching for eyeballs in straw, and painting spider webs. The kids had a blast!!

Jared REFUSED to let me take his picture before we left the house, so I only have Emily (Little Bo Peep) and Connor (lion)





All the kids lined up in front of one of the statues. Sort of lined up, anyway. LOL!! What can you expect from 6 kids?!?! My kids are in the middle, my friend Beth's son, David, is on the far right, and Beth's friend, Stephanie's kids are on the far left (Kaia (sp?) and Reegan).


Connor was running around like crazy in the Sea horse exhibit checking out all the litte viewing tanks. He was so excited and so curious, he hardly knew what to do with himself!


Pumpkin bowling!




Emily at the bean bag toss (Jared was in the bathroom with Dan so I didn't get pictures of Jared doing this)

Mission Accomplished!

Emily and I set out a few days ago to get her able to tie her own shoes and LOOK what she did BY HERSELF Friday!!!!!


I was off in the other room and she was by the door alone and TA-DA! We're so proud of her. It's something we should have tried to do a long time ago, but it's not something I think about until we're getting our shoes on to leave the house, at which point we don't have time to sit and practice...

Straight from the Auntie's Mouth

My Auntie watched the boys for me yesterday while I attended my grandpa's funeral. This is the email she sent me about her day:

I learned some stuff today!

About little boys! I used to have one, but 29 years have passed, and I am
officially NEW.

I baby-sat my great nephews Jared (3) and Connor (1 and then some) today.

I figured Connor might holler when his mama left but he didn't even really mind.
Sorry Mama! He just figured "this old auntie" was here to stay so make the best of it, and he did.

What did I learn you ask?

I learned that when you ask a three year old boy if, perhaps, he might need to
go potty, he might say, "Auntie, nothing needs to come out of my penis right now."

Okay!

I learned that if you give The Baby a dum dum and he sucks on it and never takes it
out after you give it to him, and the "stick" gets soggy, and THEN you insist he take it out to show you "how it's going" the dum dum breaks off in baby's mouth
and you are left with a stick and have to sweep your finger through his mouth
to retrieve the dum dum and then you are sweating, and if you have never had a
hot flash you are sure you did. No more dum dum's on this Auntie's time. Sheesh.

The baby luckily didn't know what happened and I was so fast at "sweeping"
the dum dum out, he didn't realize the dum dum time was over. I was pretty surprised I pulled that off! His nose wrinkled but that was it. I got him a gram cracker!

Auntie hates dum dums now.

I learned that Jared's blue blanket with the silk edges has SUPER POWERS.
He insisted that I was to be "the baby" and I was to call him "daddy". I did.
I cried for a bottle and "drank" it and hollered for more. He was rather lazy as
he didn't walk back to the kitchen set up for more milk (which I DID when he
was the baby!). He told me his blue blanket had special powers and he could
REFILL the bottle for me with milk from there. Sure enough, a faucet appeared
and the bottle was refilled. Lazy man.

I am still not sure who made the better baby.

We watched the new version of Ariel (that little mermaid chick : ) as THE mama.
Her daughter was named Melody and sort of disrespectful. I don't know what to think other than I learned that her daddy was pretty much NOT INVOLVED. Sheesh.

I learned that Connor really likes to sit in the baby doll "umbrella stroller"
and he really likes to try to buckle himself in. I also am pretty sure that he usually hears from the people he lives with that "he's too big to fit" in it. But I learned today, he really isn't! And he can buckle himself in!

I also learned what great fun it is to be THE GREAT AUNT!

Interesting Day Yesterday

I called to check up on Em's glasses and found out they were in. The gal that answered the phone told me that so many had come in, she wouldn't have gotten through all the phone calls and we probably wouldn't have gotten the call until TODAY that they were in, so I was glad I called! Em's been desperate to have her glasses and she would have been really disappointed to have to have waited until Monday to show them to her teacher and her friends at school. SO, right after she got off the bus, I dropped the boys off with my FIL (it was WINDY and I didn't want to hassle with dragging them around with us) and took Em to get her glasses. The guy spend about 5 minutes fiddling with the nose and ear parts to make sure they were a good fit and we were on our way.

she looks like a totally different kid!


VERY excited about her glasses


Ever the diva:


They're a soft metallic pink, which shows up much darker in the pictures than they are in real life. You can sort of see the pink in this close-up pic:


And the parts that go over her ears are a see-through glittery pink (SOOO Emily)


After we picked the boys up, we met Dan at McDonald's becuase it was Em's school night there (meaning a portion of the proceeds earned at McDonald's between 5:30pm and 7:30pm would be donated to Emily's Elementary School). We got to meet Ronald McDonald, and he did a quick juggling show for my kids (we were sitting in the far back corner). Look at Connor checking him out! My friend Carole took the picture and that's her daughter Rachel in the picture with us (Carole and I just found out last night that the girls refer to each other as sisters at school and several of the staff thought they were fraternal twins!)