Is this Normal?

Elijah and Ada Liz are playing with playdoug and I go in to see how they are doing and Elijah shows me this:

-------------------This is the blood ------------ This is the water----------------------- This is the poison ivy

And the brown is where the cannons come out. Who knew play dough could be so .... graphic;)

Fun at the Park

Our friends invited us to come to their park and jump in the leaves. We had lots of fun, and a couple of funny mishaps:

It all started off well, nice lunch and good friends.

Then one of the kids shot the rocket into this tree. Do you see that van next to the tree? That is my van and I had to stand on it to get the rocket out. (very funny)

Next they shot it into this tree, no where near the van and on the lawn so driving the van up to it was not a good idea, so we decided to use a soda bottle to get it down, good idea right?

OK maybe if we where better shots it would be a good idea, but then we had 2 things to get out of the tree. LOL

In the end we got both out and got the kids to only shot the rocket in the open area. The rest of the time was just fun in the leaves.

This last photo is proof that if the battery on your camera is going and the screen does not show you anything you can still get a photo.

Wonderful Day

Warning: This blog is all about kids! Way to many photos, but they where all cute, so I had to put them all up.... anyway it has been some time since I blogged about the kids.

Today it was in the mid 70's and we where to go to a friends house, but I did not feel up to it. Ada Liz, Elijah and I all have colds and we all seemed bad when we got up, so I passed on going to our friends house (this is a bummer as she just got done with a bunch of construction and I wanted to see how her house looks now... but it can wait).

So we stayed home and played, and rested. It has been nice so far today.

Who would have believed that we would be playing in the sand box in Sept?

OK this so looks like a kid in the middle of summer not start of fall. Am I so loving the warm weather.

This is how I watched the kids play, after I got done cutting out all the eyeballs (it is a cute fabric I got at one of my many trips to the fabric store;) for a shirt I am making for Elijah... OK I could not have a blog about only kids I had to throw a little craft in there. I will show you the cute shirt as soon as it is done.

She was a sandy mess, but loving it!

She is standing now all the time and she can walk a couple of steps. She just keeps adding more and more steps to her walking. Elijah just up and walked one day and the next week he was running, but she is taking her time. That is OK with me, do not grow up to fast little girl.

After a bunch of playing we had our lunch outside. We have been having dinner outside for a couple of night now and it was nice to do it at lunch time also.

I think that laying down helps get more ketchup on your face and then you can look cuter after you are all done (beauty tip for the day;)