Christmas

Christmas day was in interesting day to say the least. We all got up and Autumn was SO excited to get a trophy from Santa (her something shiny). Then she went through her stocking to find some very large chocolate coins wrapped in shiny gold foil. We at our traditional coffee cake and then opened presents. It was lots of fun, she was so excited not only to open her own presents but also to watch Kurt and me open ours. She totally gets the "giving spirit" part of this holiday. After that I took some things downstairs, tripped and broke my ankle. Oh happy day!

Muddy dinosaurs from Dinosaur Train (they get clean in warm water)

Aunt Jane (my sister not my aunt) has GREAT taste!

I see somping!!

Let's play your game Mommy

Or we could play my game

Look closely and you can see the break. I broke my navicular bone if you wanted to know :)

waiting in the ER room. Took 4 hours to get this far and another one to get seen and splinted!

(a week later) Autumn was in heaven when the nurse asked her to help put my cast on. She also picked the red color I now have.

She even signed it for me. After the first 'A' we decided she should probably write a little smaller.

Sesame Street:Song: I Love My Hair

We've watched this quite a few times this morning. :)

Quick Catch Up

Iron Man Pumpkin

It's been a while since I put anything up here, we've been BUSY lately.

Making pumpkin soup

Need more goop please

Reading with Grandma P

Making rolls for Thanksgiving dinner

Now for the sweet potatoes

The bestest birthday cake

Safety goggles

REAL tools!!!!

The three trouble makers.

Great Grandpa Crosby

 We were in Kansas City over the weekend and had a great time! We spent the day with Great Grandpa at his house. Autumn explored the backyards of the neighborhood and found some great bird feathers and sticks and rocks. She had fun playing with Grandpa's pattern blocks. She pretended they were a birthday cake and we had to take turns blowing out the candles and singing Happy Birthday. She also discovered that one of his chairs goes WAY up and you have to work hard to keep from sliding off of it. I'll put more pictures in another post, I just wanted to get these up.

It's your birthday Grandpa

These sticks are your present for your collection

I'll take a piece of cake, thanks

WOW this chair goes high

Renaissance Festival

Today we went to the Renaissance Festival. It is Pirate weekend this weekend and Autumn wore her pirate costume, she had a lot of fun and got a lot of compliments.

Let's be off me hearties

He's pretty good at that.

Pirates can belly dance too

Come on fella, you need to sit down a bit

Owls are very cool

She's really really big

Elephants are good pirate transportation

Snake or parrot.....hmmmmmm

This pirate needs some food

This way me hearties

A good pirate can entertain the crew

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

My Sunday

Here is a summary of yesterday:


Drag home from church because the coffee never did kick in. Make lunch for Autumn and then crash on a bed and attempt to take a nap. Autumn and Shadow are making lots of noise, ignore and try to sleep anyway. Kurt comes in and needs help getting a chicken bone from Shadow: forget nap, ain't gonna happen. Get bone away from dog and make myself lunch. Discover the dishwasher needs to be emptied, ignore it. 

Try to get a couple of things done on the computer, end up turning on a game for Autumn to play instead. Get Kurt to help Autumn so I can go start laundry. Get all the laundry downstairs and start to sort, can't find any laundry baskets. Go on a hunt and have to empty them of all the things that don't belong and put them all away. Back in the laundry room open the washer to put a load in only to discover there is already a load in there. Open the dryer to put wet sheets and only to discover there is a load in there as well. Apparently I actually started laundry yesterday! Fold dry sheets, put wet sheets in dryer, toss load of clothes in washer. Take hamper back upstairs with intention of setting timer to remind me to go check laundry. Get upstairs and have to take the dog outside, help Autumn with some thing or other, answer a question for Kurt......discover it's supper time, so I start supper only to hear "i don't want that" "i don't like that" give up and make popcorn. Get Autumn in her pjs, read a couple of books, sit at the piano and play through a few tunes, take a shower and head to bed.....oh, wait.....there's wet laundry in the washer....fold dry sheets toss clothes in dryer head back upstairs. I think I want some ice cream, discover the dishwasher still needs to be emptied.......Throw up my hands and go to bed.


And yet at the end of the day, the spontaneous hugs, the singing shows on the deck, the "special rock just for you mommy" and snuggling at bedtime......it's totally worth it!


Definitely worth seeing the neighbors faces when your child is singing at the top of her lungs on the deck "every dinosaur poops"


Now what was I going to do yesterday? mend a costume for Autumn, work on some prep for school, go for a walk (by myself!) and play a game with Kurt and Autumn. :P Good thing today is a holiday!

Furry

Wednesday evening Autumn and I took Shadow for a walk. A half mile into our mile and a half walk we met Furry. Autumn decided he needed to come home with us so she carried him all the way home and then we put him on our tree in the front yard where he can have a new home.