28 October 2006
praise: all three kids are healthy. we are all planning on being in church tomorrow.
prayer: my nephew has surgery on thursday.
playfulness: thursday was our 4th annual trip to the pumpkin patch with the moms' group. landon jumped out of the van and went running to the giant pumpkin jump. he climbed in, coat and shoes, before i even had dalton settled in the stroller. you know what he likes! he even remembered getting his picture taken by the big scarecrow. here are the pics from the day. landon's picture by the scarecrow will be posted at a later date. i need to fix somethings on it.
landon also filled this wagon with pumpkins while i was talking to one of the workers about pricing. this is after we were almost done and he picked out the pumpkin he wanted to take home.
the next few are of auburn and some girls from her sunday school class.
left to right: megan, marissa, evelyn, auburn
if you look real closely at the ear of corn-you can see a white spot. this is where auburn tried to eat it. yes, my kids definitely livened the pumpkin patch up a bit. if you've read some of the other mom's blogs about "mom's chasing their kids"-that would be me!
both kids loved the jump. thankfully we didn't have any temper tantrums getting out of it this year.
i'm so thankful that auburn is seemingly getting over her fear of people. she still has some issues to conquer-but i think we're seeing some progress. she had a "melt-down" tonight at my church class activity, but it wasn't a long drawn out problem. she even eventually went out of my sight to play upstairs with the rest of the kids! yeah. if you think of it-pray for her in this area. please pray for me to-that i would know best how to teach her to be friendly and cheerful-as this is not her nature.
have a good night and enjoy the extra hour!
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28 October 2006
here are some silly pics of the kids.
this was right after i came home from the store with a new coat for auburn. she wanted to put it on-so landon wanted to put his on. goofy kids.
daddy wanted a ventriloquist dummy for his birthday/christmas. unfortunately-when it arrived at the house-he was home and i wasn't. no surprises for him-just not possible. speaking of surprises-i haven't blogged about our "not-so-surprise" trip to south bend. maybe tomorrow.
anyway... here's pics of the dummy.
the kids love it. dave named it rufus. sometimes rufus "reads" the kids their bedtime story. auburn likes to tickle him.
i'm not sure why auburn put her diaper on like this-but she spent several minutes getting just the way she wanted it.
here's a pic of auburn as the black panther.
auburn got a hold of our camera and took some fuzzy pictures. so i decided to let them take a picture with the camera (as an approved activity-not a sneaky one). here are their masterpieces.
auburns:
landons:
this was supposed to be posted last night-but it obviously never happened.
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