Saturday, October 25, 2008

Pumpkin Patch!

It's been almost two weeks since I posted last! Wow. A lot has happened in two weeks, and an entire week of those two was my time to play "single mom." Jeff was out of town from last Saturday to yesterday afternoon. It was a sad time, indeed. We all missed him terribly, and are SO incredibly happy to have him back. And I am so incredibly less stressed out! The night before he left, we all got to visit the pumpkin patch down the street from our house. It wasn't a spectacular event. Just a large patch of pumpkins in someone's front yard (about an acre of pumpkin patch - not too small...). We had planned on visiting a larger one with activities, a corn maze, kiddie games and other festivities, but opted for the closer, smaller one because Sarah had not been feeling well for the few days before, and we wanted to make sure to be back home early enough for her to get some rest. Here are some of the fun memories from the kids' first pumpkin patch! I'll post pictures of the cool jack-o-lanterns these pumpkins will turn into once we carve them for Family Home Evening on Monday.

Pickin' out mine.

That pumpkin's as big as me!

Apparently, they all thought that when they found the one they wanted, they were supposed to sit on it!



Trying to figure out how to sit on it.

Sarah's pick.

Some other fun pics from the outing.








Sunday, October 5, 2008

Sarah, What's Your Favorite Color?

This is the question Jeff asked Sarah tonight. She responded as follows:

"My favorite color is a lot of colors. I can't tell you. It's pink." Only it sounded a lot more like this: "My favorite color is a lot of colors I can't tell you it's pink." She didn't pause a millisecond between sentences. It made Jeff and I both laugh out loud. The humor of the situation was lost on poor Sarah, though. But it was definitely cute. Had we asked her a few months ago, her response would most definitely have been "Red, Blue and Green." Lately she has become quite the girly girl. She loves her pink, purple, red, white, and wearing skirts, dresses and sunday shoes practically everywhere. She's a cutie!

In other randomness for the week:

Here's Audrey trying her latest to be like her older siblings. Can you imagine where she learned this neat trick from? All the other kids get in trouble for trying to climb the stairs on the outside of the rail. But for Audrey? "Hurry! Get the camera!"


Alex decided he was going to take a "nap" the other day. He went and got his blankets and passie from his room and laid down on the floor in the kitchen. He covered himself all up and said "night night!" with a huge grin.

And here's Lucas, so graciously sharing his chair at the table with his brother. They were very accommodating of each other that day. They shared and played and got along nicely. If only every day were so pleasant...

And that's what's been going on the last week with my little kiddos! Stay tuned for "A Week In The Life..." coming Monday, October 13, 2008. (or as close to that date as possible... we'll see how diligent I am this week in keeping up with the photographs...)