14 November 2005
playfulness cont'd: i just had to add this. last week jenna came and told me that my pumpkin sitting on the endtable in the living room smelled like poo_. i thought she was crazy and went and checked the two still in diapers. well,.... i should have checked out the pumpkin. i was going around throwing out pumpkins today and discovered that she was right. the pumpkin was a big ball of mush that had a very scented puddle underneath it. YUCK!!!!
along that line of pumpkin humor, we had a squirrel chew the top off of our pumpkin (on our outside steps) and clean out the inside. landon, however, decided that a lion had been the culprit. after telling him that there were no lions around to do the job, we decided that it must have been a "lion squirrel".
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14 November 2005
praise: kids are down for a nap.
prayer: i have an abundance of things that i need to complete before thanksgiving. landon frequently complains about his belly hurting. i took him to the doctor last week, and she said there was no medical reason for him to be complaining (after doing a thorough exam).
playfulness: my big highlight of the week was when i earned my AVON pin. didn't know i was even in the "running" for it. you acquire it if you sell a certain amount of products in your first three campaigns. i was surprised when i opened my order up last wednesday and saw the congratulatory note with the pin. here's a pic of it on my coat.
landon had a funny the other day. he was in bed for his nap and wanted to listen to afraidika fever. i looked in the cd player, saw that it was the correct cd, turned the music on and then left the room. about 5 minutes later i heard him just bawling. after asking him what was wrong i was informed that it was cherish the moment and not his music. i then realized that it was and was very confused, i had just checked it! so... i opened the system up and found, to my amazement, that some little munchkin had put 3 cd's in, one on top of the other. afraidika fever was on top, but cherish the moment was on the bottom. after showing him the three cds, he thought it was funny and admitted to doing the deed. all was well after that and he was out shortly. good thing.
auburn and landon love cheetos. i found auburn in a chair next to the cart that i keep chips and such on, holding a bag of cheetos and taking the chip clip off. thankfully, i found her before the chips were all eaten.
auburn has also recently decided that she should be the one doing her own hair. here are some pics of the results.
i made a big mistake this past saturday. auburn's hair was finally long enough to put into real pigtails,
but dave had been after me to trim more off the front of her hair so that she could see when her hair wasn't up. i tried to give her a little bit of a face frame, but ended up cutting a chunk out of the back that i didn't mean too. the end result was that i had to cut quite a bit off to even things out. the only good thing about the mistake is that most of her hair is one length now and should be able to grow out that way. the mistake haircut is cute, in it's own way. i actually cried after i cut her hair. i loved the length it was.
l to r, front row: lydia aloisi, megan flower, adelina elwart, jenna dobbertin, jenna georing, julia elwart
there is one more girl in his class, not pictured, alice tulloss. they are a fun bunch of kids!
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