My wild child

Funny story and a random thought...

Brady and Chloe were playing yesterday, pretending to be animals. Brady was the daddy lion, and Chloe was the baby lion. After being persuaded to include Avery, Brady named him uncle monkey. That name is funny enough on it's own, but hearing Chloe say it is hysterical!! The names have apparently stuck too. Last night at church Chloe wouldn't call them by their actual names, but by their new animal names. She has also learned that Keith and I think it's hilarious when she calls Avery uncle monkey. Avery is less then thrilled with it, but at least he sees the humor in it.

Now for my random thought...I was literally inches away from being hit by a van today in Sam's parking lot!! I actually screamed while trying to get out of the way. I think that's why I didn't get run over. Turns out it was an older lady, and she was backing out of a space. I'm glad I didn't yell at her or give her any dirty looks. I know it's hard to see people when you're backing up. I didn't notice any lights either, or I would have waited. Anyway, it really scared me, and my heart was racing afterward. Luckily Chloe wasn't in the buggy, or I would have really panicked. She was ahead with Keith, who met us there for a snack and a little visit.

Our Sunday pictures

I love seeing the kids all dressed up, and they really enjoy looking nice too. They always get comments from people at church about how nice they look. You can tell that they chose their clothes, and take pride in their appearance. Even better then that are the compliments about their behavior. I think every time we go, someone mentions how well behaved they are during church. I don't always agree, but I guess that's because I expect a lot of them. (sometimes too much!) I'm not saying all this to brag on my kids....oh, nevermind, I am!! I'm really proud of them, and the little people they have become. I feel like if I look away for a moment they're going to be grown! Lately Avery just looks so grown up to me. I can't get over it. We are rapidly approaching the day he outgrows me!! It brings tears to my eyes just to think about it. I actually didn't mean to get all emotional. Oh well, enjoy the pictures and ignore my emotional rant.

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a great time at Keith's Granny and Granddaddy's house. We all look forward to it every year, but especially the boys. I'm not sure how many other boys there are, but it's a lot of boys! They all play outside in the dirt pretty much the whole time we're there. It was a nice break for us.

My sister-in-law, Stephanie, and I went shopping on Friday. We had fun and found a few good deals. I'm still in denial about how much money I spent!! :)

Keith and I always shop our way home. We stop at some outlet malls on the way home. We had a great trip, and now we're all resting up from it.

More pictures from the weekend...

We had a great time with family this weekend. We celebrated Chuck and Avery's birthdays. It was fun to hang out. We all live within a couple of hours of each other, but we don't get together very often. The boys were outside most of the time, so I don't have many pictures of them. Emma played with Chloe and Ethan pretty much the whole night. It makes me wish we lived closer, because she's an awesome baby sitter already. Chloe didn't let Emma walk too far away without calling her. Chloe and Ethan had fun together also. They were really good about sharing,(everything except Emma)!! They shared the vacuum cleaner well even though they both really liked it. Chloe wanted to actually vacuum, but all Ethan wanted to do was push the button that makes noise. It was good cooperation!

The pictures of the trees were on our drive to my sister's house. It was so beautiful!! I've been really surprised with the color this year. I just thought with the crazy weather we've had this year, that we wouldn't see much color.

"Mom, I'm throwing up."

This is how I woke up this morning at 4:45. All I could do at first was point to the bathroom and say, " go." Poor Brady was the unfortunate one this morning. I always feel so bad for them, especially since I have to turn my head and gag. This is especially hard for me since I have an irrational fear of stomach bugs. I know no one likes them, but I really start to freak out. You can literally taste lysol in my house. That isn't very appetizing either, but at least I feel like I'm stopping it from spreading. Keeping Chloe away from Brady today will be challenging, but definitely worth the effort if I can keep her from getting it. Our kids usually get sick right before we travel, but not usually with stomach issues. I'm going to pray that if anybody else gets this, they do so by tomorrow.

Pictures from the weekend

This is my first attempt trying to catch them all. The boys inhaled some food and were gone.




Chloe being silly. I'm thinking about having her wear this at every meal so her hair won't get in her food. She usually doesn't want me to put it back, but she'll wear a sock hat.



Chloe finally gets to hang out too!!



Keith actually caught all the boys at the table, but we couldn't get everyone to look. Oh well, at least they're all in the picture. They had so much fun together. They were outside by 7:30 Saturday morning, all bundled up. I'm sure they woke someone up, but I was just glad they were being crazy outside instead of in my house!! They all smelled lovely after playing outside all morning. What is it about boys and playing outside? They could be out there for five minutes and come in stinky!! We had to roll the windows down on the way to take them home.