The holidays make me crazy!

I know I am a little behind on this. It has been a crazy month!

Thanksgiving was great, we went to Scott's mom's house and then came home to decorate the tree. We did all the work because the kids found all the Christmas books when Scott brought out the decorations.

 They did help with some ornaments and loved to look at the finished product.

During break we also went to Monkey Joe's (a bouncy place) with Diana and her kids. As you can tell I took this picture at the end when they were all sweaty and Grant was soaking wet from "drinking" from the water fountain.

I tried to take pictures of the kids for Christmas cards. Grant didn't really think it was a good idea so he wouldn't help. Reagan wanted too, but she just kept being a goofball.

 I made the kids a tree out of felt with felt ornaments that they could decorate themselves. It took a lot of work, but they liked it. I went ahead and made one for Vicki's kids too.

Grant had a program for his school. His class only sang one song. I thought it was amazing to get six 3 year olds to sing one song at the same time. Well they didn't sing all the song, but it was still really cute. They were suppose to wear a Santa hat, but of course Grant wouldn't. His teacher asked if he was afraid of hats because he was so adamant. I told her that he must consider that a clothing item and for some reason it is not ok with him.

Scott's work had their Christmas party at the Predators hockey game. The kids were so excited and talked about it all day. When we got there Grant was mesmerized by the guys practicing on the ice and Reagan was loving all the food available. Then a big saber tooth tiger head came down to the ice for the players to skate out of. Grant lost it and was scared have to death. We only got to stay for 1 1/2 periods and that took bribing him with a new hockey stick and a puck. He sat there the whole time holding on to my arm. Here he is with the stick and puck.

The next day when we talked to him about it and asked him if he liked the hockey game he said "yes, but the tiger balloon was scary. No more hockey games. Me want to go to football game." Reagan got to be on the big screen eating cotton candy and got so excited. The game was "free", but after parking, souvenirs, and cotton candy we spent $60 at that free game. I told Scott he can go with his friends when he wants, but it's gonna be a while before I take Grant again.

Thanksgiving lunch at Reagan's school

Reagan had a Thanksgiving lunch at her school Friday. She really wanted daddy to come and Grandma decided to come also. Grant and I weren't going to go, but after talking about it for a week Grant kept insisting "me have lunch at Reagan's school." So Daddy, Mommy, Grant and Grandma headed to Reagan's lunch for school. She was so happy to see all of us, but then maybe wishing we wern't there? She wanted to eat the cake first and not eat the rest of the food, but we made her. :-) Here's a picture...

Silly kids and seeing Uncle David and Aunt Nancy

The kids crack me up...

First Grant can't differentiate between everybody, nobody, and somebody so he always says everybody. An example, there was paper on the floor at the grocery store that someone dropped and he said "everybody dropped their paper." And at church he wanted to go to his class. It was Saturday night and no one was there so he said "everybody in my class." :-)

"Reagan be nice to your brother he's the only one you have!" Reagan "Can I have 2 brothers?" Evidently she figures this one is a lost cause and wants to see if it's easier to be nice to another one. :-)

As I'm driving and people around me are driving crazy and I'm yelling at them Reagan says "mommy how can they hear you?" Well I guess they can't. :-)

I have been searching everywhere for ball underwear because it's easier to get Grant to wear something if there is a ball on it. But I soon found out that even on amazon when you are looking up ball underwear lots of nasty stuff comes up. 1. I didn't know they sold sex toys on amazon and 2. My little boy just wants underwear with balls on them should they really be so hard to find?

Reagan had been asking a lot of questions about Scott's dad so we took her to the cemetery so she could see where Daddy's Daddy is buried. Reagan said "Mommy I feel something hard under my foot, is that the bones?"

Reagan wanted to take fowers to the graves of Scott's grandparents, his dad and his cousin so we did. She was so proud of herself for being grown up now.

Grant liked it too.

This was in Johnson City, TN. We went there to visit Scott's Uncle David and Aunt Nancy.

They had a great time and Grant even said "me go back to that house." Grant and I had to go back to the hotel for a nap. Scott and Reagan dropped us off, but when it was time for them to pick us back up and pick up dinner Reagan refused to go and stayed with David and Nancy. They also got to play Wii Mario Cart while we were there and were begging for it by the time we left.

Halloween

So for Halloween Reagan was a dinosaur that she says is T-rex. T-rex is her favorite dinosaur right now. I don't know if this actually is, but whatever makes her happy. I think this is the last year she will be able to be a dinosaur because I was even surprised to find this in a size 7. We bought it in August, by October when we put it on her it was 2 inches too small, but what were we going to do at that point?

Grant was Super Why. For those of you who do not know who Super Why is, I'm sure you will hear soon because Grant is obsessed with him. Super Why is a super hero that has the power to read. He and his friends a pig, princess pea, and red (little red ridding hood) help people by finding answers to every day problems by jumping in a book to find the answers. It's really cute with maybe a 70's theme. The songs are all 70ish. He makes us put our hands on top of one another to say "Super Readers to the rescue."

We went trick-or-treating with our neighbors/friends the Unkelbachs.

It had been a little bit since Grant had seen his love Sophie so he couldn't keep his hands off of her. Luckily she felt the same way... well at least for the first 30 minutes of seeing him. :-)

Reagan's first field trip and Grant's illness

Reagan had her first field trip on the 20th to Honeysuckle Hill Farm for pumpkin picking. I planned on meeting them at the farm after I dropped Grant off at his school. When Grant woke up that morning his face on one side was all red and rashy like, but I didn't think anything about it because he sleeps on the floor behind his door a lot and I thought it was from rubbing his face on the ground. When I got to his school though I took him to the bathroom and pulled up his sleeves to wash his hands and noticed the rash on his arm. After talking to the director I decided not to leave him. This meant I had to take him to the farm with me. He wanted to stay at school and was mad that we left, which translated into a grouchy kid on the way home. Scott called the dr and they wanted to see him. He had something called fifths disease which is essentially a cold followed by a rash. He wasn't contagious anymore and now the rash is gone, but it can come back anytime in the next 5 weeks. He may have just had a mild reaction to the virus though. Lets hope!

Reagan had a great time on her field trip. This was Reagan's first bus ride and she was pretty nervous about getting down the stairs.

They tried to teach them about how bees pollinate. I don't know that they understood it at all.

We went on a hayride with her friend Max.

And had lunch with her friend Jillian.

They had a playground there and the kids had a great time on the seesaws.

Grant is such a big boy and was climbing all over the place.

We did a lot of things with Reagan's friend Josie and her mom, which I like. My camera battery died though so this was all the pictures I got. They had a lot of fun, but mommy was exhausted and ready for a nap when we got home. Actually all of us took a pretty good nap and daddy had to wake us up when he got home.

Grant's 3rd Birthday Party

On the morning of Grant's birthday both kids had soccer games. His friends sung Happy Birthday to him after the game. Here he is...

Mommy made him 2 cakes for his party. A white baseball cake and a chocolate football cake.

Grant's party was at Master's Gym which is where Reagan had her party. He loves it especially the trampolines.

They also have a big ball pit that he LOVES.

All Grant's girlfriends came to the party. Emily and Sophie...

...and Eleanor from his school.

He had a lot of other friends there also. A bunch of 3 year olds don't sit very well for pictures.

He loved all his gifts, but Ms. Katy got him a soccer ball bean bag chair. He thought it was a huge ball at first.

He had a great day and fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Pumpkin Patch and Best Friends

 Yesterday we went to Bottom View Farms to pick pumpkins. Reagan and I have been going there every year since she was 1. They have a hay ride out to pick your pumpkins, a train ride (tractor pulling wooden train cars), animals, a huge slide, and a merry-go-round. Halloween is both of the kids favorite holiday. They look forward to this all year. Every year we meet our best friends there and take some amazing pictures of them all together. 

 Getting ready for the hay ride.

 Reagan picked a pretty small pumpkin and thought it was too heavy to carry.

 Grant chose one much bigger and actually carried his.

 Here is a picture of all the little ones together. It is very hard to get them all to look at the camera and/or smile.

 The big girls are not a whole lot better at the looking at camera thing. They all sure are cute though.

 Here they are trying to get a horse to come over to them.

 Grant thought this was funny and I thought it was funny when he first tried to put his head in the hand hole.

 I love Sophie's smile and so does Grant.

 Grant always wants to hold Sophie's hand. She doesn't always let him, but when she wants to she yells "hold my hand" at him. And he does. He loves her so much. He calls her "my Sophie."

 Every year we do pictures on this tire. Here they all are minus Jackson because he wouldn't stand here long enough for one.

 And for the third year in the row, here is a picture of the big girls on the tire.

 Grant and his girls. I can't believe they are all looking and smiling at the camera! It is a pumpkin patch miracle.

 How cute are my kids? They look so sweet here, not so much on the way home when they were screaming though.

 Grant is so happy to finally have another boy in the group. Almost 3 years of being surrounded by girls and now he can't wait for Jackson to be able to play rough with him. He still calls Jackson and baby and always wants to pet, hug, or hold him.

 All in all, it was a great trip and one of our favorite places. And now they can't wait to go back next year.