Halloween Preview

After an entire week of having sick kids, I've never been so happy to see solid poop in their diapers. Yes, I said it, solid poop!  Hard enough having one sick kiddo, but two at the same time, plus a sick husband!!!  Four days of little sleep, cleaning up vomit, loads and loads of laundry....lets just say I'm exhausted!  One afternoon when I was changing the sheets on one of the beds I threw the comforter on the floor, and for a few moments I got a glimpse of normalcy.  Both boys had a ball rolling around on it, playing peek a boo, etc.  Who knew it would be that entertaining?  But it only last a few minutes, because soon what little energy they had was zapped and they were both needed a rest.

 Today is Friday and Halloween is just three days away.  I'm sewing part of Weston's costume and was trying to convince him to put it on to size it.  But he wanted no part of it.  In an effort to convince him costumes were fun, I tried one out on Tyge since I'm still debating what he should be....turtle (costume handed down from his cousin Reese) or Giraffe (costume handed down from his brother).  I have to say, he does make a pretty cute turtle. 

We also made and decorated cookies....because what better thing for a sick kid to do than eat cookies?  Weston cut all of them out for me, including "footballs for Daddy" and "Dinosaur's for Jay".  The dinosaurs for Jay threw me off a little....but then I remembered that we were over there last week and he must have saw Jay's dinosaur Halloween costume hanging in the living room.  I was able to frost most of the cookies while he napped, but he got up just in time to help me finish them.   

Yesterday the boys received Halloween cards from Aunt Tracy, Uncle David and cousin Matthew....Weston's with cut out glasses.  Only got him to put them on for a quick picture because he thinks they are better suited for Flo (poor dog). 

Hopefully in a few days we will convince Weston to finally put his costume on (I'll admit that we will likely bribe him with candy) and I'll have lots more pictures to share.

Cows, Cows and More Cows

One of our favorite parts of each day is helping checking cows. Moving, feeding, vaccinating or just checking on them...Weston will tell you all about it.  Tyge is getting in on the action now too.  He was pretty content watching them run through the chute the other day.  But soon he started walking down the fence line to check out the ones we already turned back out.

Both kiddos really enjoy riding the four wheeler out to the feeder by the pond.  Weston will yell "here cows", and thinks it's pretty great when they try and eat out of the trailer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weston tells us all the time that he "gotta go check Jacob's cows".  Usually that's followed by "and see Madison and Stephie", he thinks since we are there he needs to play with the girls too.  Right now we own a bull with a neighbor, and one of our momma cows is out in that pasture as well.  Even in a group of black cows Weston can pick the bull out of the herd "that one is Bif".  The rest are all "Jacob's cows", regardless of who's cows are actually out there.  If they are at Jacob's house, they are his and don't try and tell him any different...apparently my 3 year old knows it all!

Follow up to last week's Wordless Wednesday...

Not just spoons anymore!

Wordless Wednesday

Bees

 That great new swing set I just told you about, well the bees like it too.  Weston got stung his first time playing on it.  This time it was a honey bee.  Danny got the stinger out, but unfortunately it was really close to his eye.  Shortly after we had breakfast....you can see some slight redness.  And no, Weston didn't eat that entire plate of bacon (but close to it!). 

Twenty-four hours later....

 We know from previous experience that he swells up like crazy, and there isn't much we can do about it but wait it out.  Luckily he isn't allergic, and it doesn't seem to bother him. 

Garage sales

Like any normal person, I just can't pass up a bargain and from time to time I've stopped at a garage sale or two to see what I can find.  A few weeks back I purchased twenty canning jars for just $2 (and they already have been used for spaghetti sauce).  Danny finds often finds tools he can use for work, and I'm always on the lookout for random old stuff (milk cans/bottles, old brands, etc.).  I even got a steel on a Preifert cattle chute once!  This last weekend I was headed to the grocery store and saw some signs for a "reduction sale".  Since the property was out in the country (those are the best ones), I couldn't help but stop.  This time I found something for the kids and for only $20 bucks I couldn't pass up this gently used swing set! 

I bought it with little hesitation and Danny headed back to the sale with me the next day to pick it up.  He wasn't even finished putting it back together before Weston was climbing all over it (still in his jammies too).

We moved Tyge's swing off the patio so he can enjoy the new swing set too.  And he thinks he's figured out the slide already. 

Lone Pine Farms

I guess I can say it's a Fall tradition....last Saturday we headed out to Lone Pine Farms for our third annual visit.  We were in Eugene for a calf sale, and since it was a sunny Saturday afternoon I thought it would be a great day for a visit to the pumpkin patch.  And so did everyone else!!!  We actually pulled in, saw all the cars and started heading for the parking lot exit thinking to ourselves "no way, not today".  Then a spot opened up right in front and I thought it must be a sign that it was meant to be.  So I made an executive decision (Danny wasn't so sure about it) that since we were already there, we would brave the crowd.   

We started off the visit by checking out the goats, who weren't that interested in us.  Likely because they had already had their fill of 25 cent food from a thousand other kids that day. 









Next we headed to the corn maze.  Weston thought it was pretty cool but we were a little worn out at the half way mark and so we skipped the option to continue. 

Then there was the tractor ride out to the pumpkin patch.  Cousin Alexx came down to visit us from school for the weekend, so she was able to keep Tyge entertained.

 

 

Overall not a bad afternoon...even with all the other families out there that day!

First Haircut

The shaggyness was really starting to get to me, so it was time to take Tyge for his first haircut.







The before picture (earlier that morning when he was unloading the socks I hadn't yet folded all over the floor). 









He sat really quietly and mostly still throughout the whole thing. 

The after.....all cleaned up and looking handsome.  All afternoon I kept thinking "wow, his head just got a lot bigger!". 












And since we were there, Weston got a hair cut too!

Happy Fall, Ya'all!

Last Saturday the calendar said October 1, and since it was a nice sunny day I thought it would be a great time to harvest our pumpkins and do some fall decorating.  This year's pumpkin crop wasn't the greatest, and we won't be giving mini pumpkins out to everyone we know this year (2010 was a great pumpkin year).  We did get just enough to decorate our own front porch.

Weston started off by helping me cut the pumpkins off the vine.

Then he rolled them all over to where Tyge was hanging out on the grass.  Finally the pumpkins made it to the front porch, where the two of them repositioned them multiple times (much to my dismay).  We also had a few flowers to put with them, thanks to our customer dinner at work a few weeks back.  

Wordless Wednesday