New PJs

I love this picture.

Fall Collection

Halloween

Two ballerinas and a fireman.

Lots of candy.

Birmingham Visit / Fall Festival

My mom and the kids and I found a great Fall Festival outside of Birmingham. The weather was perfect and there were lots of fun things to do. (Interesting note: It was on the Baker Family Farm, and Earl Baker turned 100 this year; he's lived his whole life on the farm!)

This one is not from the fall festival, but it was cute, so I stuck it in :)

There was a 15-foot high "hay mountain" for the kids to climb up and slide down.

Hay ride to the pumpkin patch.

Not quite the Christmas card photo i was hoping for...

Cotton Bounce (incidentally, they got hundreds of little specks of white cotton and black boll in their hair which made hunting for lice and nits much more complicated!)

My cute little boys!!

What do you do all day?

This one is dedicated to all you stay-at-home moms out there. I kept a little log the other day and now I know why I feel like I have A.D.D. and short-term memory loss and at the end of the day don't see much tangible fruit for my labors. From 7 am to 9 pm I literally did not do any one thing for more than 10 minutes straight (except a little cooking and dish washing.) Some things happened so rapid-fire that I didn't remember to right them down. And I omitted a few choice activities like wiping little bottoms. Well, there, now I guess it is no longer omitted.

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cook breakfast
feed Caleb
help Kate put on dress up (see previous post)
dishes
cut Caleb's nails
start laundry
read to Caleb
change Caleb
put Caleb in bed
strip Nate's bed (a daily chore due to a case of lice)
read paper (why now? It's the A.D.D. I guess)
make my bed
help Nate assemble Hot Wheels track
switch laundry
fertilize pansies
draw on water mat with Kate
cut Nate's nails
cut Kate's nails
scrape yellow goo off Meg's mirror frame
make phone calls
switch laundry
start grocery list
more phone calls
help Nate with computer game
more grocery list
fix lunch
feed Caleb
lunch dishes
read to Kate
put Kate in bed
play with Caleb
put Caleb in bed
help Meg with craft
help Nate find a ball
check email
put chicken in oven
more phone calls
discipline (this only made the list once...?)
make snacks
switch laundry
supper prep
get Kate up from nap
help Kate get dressed (again, previous post...)
more snack
more email
more phone calls
more supper prep
open mail
feed Caleb
eat supper
put Caleb to bed
start dishes
give Nate a bath
clean out pumpkins (to be carved later)
more dishes
put sheets back on Nate's bed
declutter downstairs (oh yeah, this also took more than 10 minutes!)
vacuum couch (again, the lice)
snuggle in bed with three cutie little kids
more dishes
more laundry
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I'd say I got a lot accomplished, wouldn't you?

Clothes Horse

noun: a conspicuously dressy person (or in some cases un-dressy; see below)

Recently I decided to document Kate's many wardrobe changes throughout the day. She kind of tapered off after naptime, but this gives you an idea of what a revolving closet door--and sense of style--she has.

8:03

8:18

8:20


9:37



10:48


3:15

(Note the book in her "pocket." She is a school girl.)