Fall

When we lived in Houston my favorite time of year was spring hands down.  It was still cool enough to play outside and the heat of summer wasn't bearing down yet, fall we never really had until maybe November and even then we'd be lucky to have a straight week of temperatures in the low 70s.  However here in Tennessee I think I may be switching over to a lover of fall.   We haven't had a day over about 85 in about a month and this weekend we're looking forward to a few days in the 60's.  Tomorrow I have big plans to sit on my front porch and drink hot chocolate.  I love fall!  Here's to pumpkin muffins, apple pies, and chicken and dumplings!!!

Why I Love Sunbeams

I teach four 4 year old boys at our church.  They are energetic, adorable, and hilarious.  Today for example I was trying to keep two boys from being a little to silly so I decided to try and sit between them.  I leaned over to one of them and asked, "Do you want to sit in the big chair?" My chair is a lot bigger than the tiny ones used for the kids.  He was excited at first and switched seats with me but after about a minute he'd had enough and wanted back in the smaller seat so he leaned over to me and said, "Hey can I sit in the little chair again.  I don't think you should sit there you might brake it."  Thanks a lot.  I gave him his seat back and laughed to myself that he had no idea that was maybe not the nicest thing to say.  He then proceeded to fall asleep with about 30 singing kids around him.  I picked him up and took him to class where I then laid him on the floor, he then woke up and the first thing he asked was, "Did I miss snack time?"  I love getting to hear all the weird funny things they say.  The other week I asked the class how would they show kindness to someone that was sick.  The best response was, "I'd bring them a donut."  I'm pretty sure that'd make me feel better 99% of the time.  We also get constant updates on Super Mario Brothers, Heman, and other superheros during the lesson, there is never a dull moment with my class.

How to Get Acrylic Paint Out of Carpet

Step 1. Do not murder the child that did this, take off all painted clothes and lock them in their room for safety.
Step 2. Consult the internet and be grateful that you can find just about anything on google.
Step 3. Gather all your rags and flood painted area with water and blot dry with rags.  Rinse rags out and repeat until most of the paint is gone.
Step 4. Pull out the big guns and use the steam vacuum, and be eternally grateful to your in-laws for letting you inherit their old one.
Step 5.  Throw out all the acrylic paint in your house (for the second time)
Step 6. Vow to never again buy acrylic paint (for the second time)
Step 7. Take a nice LONG bath and keep telling yourself that tomorrow will be better.
I'm sure I don't even have to tell you which child did this, if you've ever read this blog you should already know. The funny thing is its not the first time this has happened. A certain oldest child did the same thing about 2 years ago in our old condo.  These two are so much alike it scares me.

Please tell me I"m not the only person this has happened to twice.

I was happy with the end result until the carpet dried, I can still kind of tell what happened but its nothing  another round of cleaning and a well placed rug can't fix.

A dud

What good is a flu vaccine if it gives your kid the flu?  No good at all if you ask me.  Granted its nothing a little Tylenol doesn't fix, I just think its funny.  I think next year we'll skip the vaccine and take our chances.

Yuck

I love my kids, but sometimes kids are gross.  Devin has had a rash for the last two days so I took him into the dr. to see what I needed to do to get rid of it.  After some questions and looking at it for a while she decided that it was scabies.  I thought to myself ok whatever I"ll put some cream on it and it'll be better.  Towards the end of the appointment she said, "You have taken this news better than most moms." And then I told her it's because I had no idea what scabies are.  Then she told me they were little mites that burrow under your skin.  Eww, that's yucky.  I didn't freak out but I do cringe a little every time I look at Devin's skin.  Poor boy.  Luckily its a relatively easy fix, I have to rub this stuff all over him before bed and in the morning wash it off, oh and wash EVERYTHING in my house.  Well she didn't say everything but just to be on the safe side my washer and dryer are going to get quite a workout in the next day.

A visit from Reed and Papa

My parents came to town for the weekend and we had a great time with them.  We did some fun stuff and of course forgot to take pictures of most of it but I do have some pictures to prove they were here.  You'll have to ask them if they had a good time.
Saturday we made the most important part of the trip, a visit to the Pancake Pantry.  We got the same sweet potato pancakes we do every time we go and I loved every bite of them.  Then we headed off to the Adventure Science Center and I don't know who had more fun, the kids or my mom.  We love that place and can't wait to take the Petersons when they come.  After running around there we tried to get cupcakes at the Cupcake Collection but they were closed for the weekend so we ventured to Gigi's to see if there cupcakes were as good and they were not.  Oh well next time we'll go to the best spot!  For entertainment for the evening we went to the Folks Festival downtown and mainly ran up and down the hill in front of the captial.  We did hear some good music but it was too often interrupted by someone talking.  Sunday was pretty boring and rainy but we managed to get a few games in here and there.  Monday we wandered around Opry Hotel and stayed out of the cold rainy weather.  We had a great time and hope to see Reed and Papa again soon!

In front of the capital.  Not nearly as impressive as Texas' capital but that's ok.

Playing a rousing game of memory.

Hanging out at the hotel. That place is HUGE.

And of course flip over tickle monster. I think it was one of the first things they wanted to do with Grandpa.