Pumpkin Carving

You know I've said before that my child is as goofy over holidays as I am...and little things like making a Halloween house from Dirt Cheap or carving a pumpkin is as exciting as going to Disney World for this little boy. Since I helped him with the house, daddy helped him with the pumpkin...plus, I really hate carving pumpkins...so that worked out well :)

He asked at least 20 times if he could "do the pumpkin yet" All. Day. Long. So that made it even more exciting for him. The second Leon walked in, he was ready to carve it.  Of course, he lost interest during the tedious carving but he LOVES the witch he picked out. He keeps asking to go outside and see her.

I may or may not have bribed him with taking a picture in the yard with Abby before the pumpkin carving....

And, it may or may not have worked out . 

Halloween House

Back sometime this summer I found this "Halloween house" at Dirt Cheap ( aka "Burt Cheek") for like $4. Best $4.00 ever. Bishop was SO, SO excited to put the house together. He is so into spiders, ghosts, bats, and pumpkins. Finally after seeing it in the closet for months, it was time to put it together. It was so fun! All we did was mix up the icing and put on the candies. Everything was included and the house was already put together. I usually try and make things on my own...but for a 2 year old and for $4,  this option was obviously the best choice.

Everyday

So, my life isn't actually all parties, traveling, and cookies (although it is A LOT of what we do). What..really?! We actually stay home a good bit.  It's probably my favorite thing to do. I like to pretend on my days off that I'm a stay at home mom. In my head, I am a stay at home mom.  I just happen to be gone 3-4 days a week doing that whole pharmacy thing. Minor details.

This is sort of a "photo dump" post. I take a million photos with my phone and most never make it anywhere, so I thought I'd mention little of what we do in our everyday life.

We cook animal soup...which requires tweezers and gardening gloves.

We walk around in underwear wearing momma's shoes.

We make paper birthday hats while we wait on our pancakes.

We paint dinosaurs.

We play with Abby.

We LOVE to eat on our back porch. And, we especially love donuts. 

We watch a whole lot of Disney channel. Possibly too much. 

Sometimes we eat cereal on the counter in clothes that are too small and don't match. 

We play at the park. 

Sometimes we have lunch dates with momma at the park while she is working. 

We play with stickers.

We paint in our underwear. 

And play with bubbles..aslo in our underwear.

We drink out of water hose

And read books to our best friend. 

We help make pizza (and eat pizza sauce out of the jar and cheese out of the bag)

And play with play dough

And watch lots of movies with momma.

We dig out baby toys that haven't been played with in over a year. 

We go to high school football games.

We wear our maroon to church after a bulldog win. 

We play bean bags in our elmo slippers on the porch.

We make dinosaur puppets

And huge messes. 

We eat ice-cream sandwiches with our friend Claire. 

We dress like daddy. 

Sometimes we get sick. 

And a lot of nights, we fall asleep reading books in bed. 

We practice our pirate face for the big party. 

And, visit the library. 

Even though I do work more than I'd like (I'm sure you might have heard me mention that a time or two), I never let it stop me from spending time with my favorite little boy. He is a precious child and I love every minute of him. Our everyday life might not seem that fabulous and obviously we spend a lot of time in PJ's, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. 

Hazel Jackson

After getting Bishop over his sickness, we were finally able to make it to see baby Hazel. When we got there, JJ had the baby under a blanket and Bishop asked "JJ, what's in there??" She showed him her foot and said "It's a baby..." to which he replied "It's baby MOSES!!" Apparently he has been learning about Moses in Sunday school. He pretty much called her baby Moses all weekend. It was precious. I forget how tiny little babies are! And, how they rely on you for everything! Although I definitely would like more, I was reminded that it sure is nice to have one old enough to take himself to the potty and entertain himself! He was really good with Hazel which actually surprised me a little. He and Harvey had a good time...although they seem to argue more than usual but I'm thinking it may have been because it was just me and JJ and no dads around to help. Plus, it was cold and rainy and they couldn't play outside as much as they wanted.

I had intentions of taking a few pictures of Hazel before I left, but she had different plans. She wanted to stay awake the whole time so I couldn't get the pics I wanted but I did get a couple. Little stinker!

She was the most alert little one week old I've ever seen. 

And, I had to include one of the sweetest, cutest two little boys I know of.