Monthly Archives: October 2010

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Pumpkin Carving

I love the way Joey is looking at me.

What the…?

Is this skinny arm really going to one day be a big strong hairy man arm!??

Photo by Hazel

I don’t think Hazel’s tiny pumpkin ever got carved.

Hooray!!!

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TMI

Because of Sylvia we’ve had to say, “TMI!!!” (Too Much Information) many times.  Our hope was that she would learn that, for example, describing your “poo family” in detail is TMI or that letting people know what kind of private parts they have is TMI.

It was a good idea in theory, but of course has backfired.  Now whenever we say anything, “I’m going to the store.”  She quickly retorts, “TMI!!”  We’ve created a monster.  Speaking of monsters, here are some fun Halloween jokes!

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Tuesday: Our Errand Day!

Tuesday is our errand day.  We certainly run errands on other days of the week, but Tuesday is when we go crazy.  Luke and Isabel have piano for an hour and a half in the morning so that means that I get a couple of errands done with only two kids (wish they were the easy two.)  Since our errands are so much fun and exciting I think I will list them…

1.  drop off Luke and Isabel at piano
2.  go to scout office to buy Webelos paraphernalia
3.  let Sylvia waste her Target gift card on some toy hamsters
4.  pick up Luke and Isabel
5.  eat at Wienerschnitzel for the first time (it was wieneriffic!)
6.  buy huge sheet of watercolor paper at art store
7.   go to Office Max to use their cutty thingy to make huge sheet less huge
8.   watch people at the post office give me and my ketchup faced kids dirty looks.
9.  pick up papers to fill out

All in all it was a good errand day.  Here we are at Wiener Schneezer’s (as Sylvia calls it.)

Sylvia loved that she could touch the roof.

And I loved this guy’s pony tail.  No seriously, I want my hair to be long enough to do that.

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Bloody Barbie Mummy

At the end of this Halloween Pie book it has a recipe for pumpkin pie.

Today we read the book and made…

PUMPKIN PIE!

For the first year ever we have bought a few Halloween decorations.  Tonight Sylvia asked if we could get five more.  Being in a good mood I said, “Sure! What kind do you want!?”  Here is her list…

-a half skeleton half bird with bird wings.
-a skeleton with “plug cords” coming out of it’s eyes.
-birds with blood coming out of their eyes.
-a fake cheeseburger with a mad face.
-a mummy.

I explained to her as best I could that these Halloween decorations were pretty specific and I don’t know if they will have any of these at the store.  I suggested that she could at least make the mummy with a Barbie and some toilet paper.  Here is her bloody Barbie mummy.  (The gruesome earing through the forehead was already there by the way.)

Yesterday at the cemetery when someone started up a chainsaw to trim some tree limbs, Sylvia asked me what that noise was.  I told her it was a tool to cut branches off of the tree.  She then calmly replied, “Oh, I thought it was someone here that’s buried screaming to get out.”

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Service Project for Kids

I am always on the lookout for service projects that get my kids involved.  As it turns out, soup kitchens and other service opportunities don’t allow mischievous destructive toddlers…go figure.  Not saying Hazel is necessarily mischievous or destructive, just that I am pretty sure all two year olds are. Yesterday we were able to clean up the cemetery for a church service project.  It turned out to be a lot of fun and it was work that all of our kids were able to do.

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Park After Dark

Once a year the Tohono Chul Park puts on a Park After Dark.  As you can see, there were so many docents holding live reptiles, birds, insects, mammals and anything else found in the Sonoran Desert.

Here is a docent holding a Mountain King Snake.

This little snake eats rattlesnakes.

Our friend, Tommy, came with us.  (the boy, not the tortoise.)

Here is Luke with his idol, “Karl the Bugman.”  Karl was holding and playing with a scorpion!  Ack!

This Great Horned Owl is missing an eye 😦

Elf Owl!  I want to keep him in my pocket!

Bat Lady.

Poor little docile brain damaged bobcat.  The docent was opened for questions and one kid kept asking, “would it eat us because we are meat?” and “could it kill humans?” ….no and no.

Hazel was there touching all of the animals too but I never got a good non blurry picture of her, so here she is eating some animal crackers from earlier that day.