The kid can EAT

Dillon's Lunch (ravioli, applesauce, corn on the cob)

Dillon's Dinner (fish, shrimp, brown rice, peas)

Just so you know that I'm not messing around when I say that the kid can eat. This was only a small portion of the shrimp Dillon ate the other night ,and yes, he did come back to suck off the remaining meat left on these tails.

Sleep

Molly has been having bad dreams lately. She visited Kirtland recently and saw the video with Joseph smith being tared and feathered and was pretty concerned. Then Travis was telling them about the legend of the headless horseman the other night. She has seen the video before and heard the legend previously. She child lives for Scooby Doo, these things just don't usually get to her. I'm not sure what it is but lately she has just had a very vivid imagination and been very worried about "bad guys". She's been having a hard time getting to sleep and staying in bed. Last night she had a dream that our neighborhood pool got a new pet shark and forgot one day to take it out of the pool while the kids were swimming and it ate her friend Sophie. That would certainly be a pretty traumatic thing to experience. Tonight when I was tucking her in she was telling me that daddy said the thing about legends is that we just aren't really sure if they are true or not. I assured her that we ARE SURE that they ARE NOT true and daddy would be up shorty to confirm that. Man, I just want to sleep through the night. Isn't that what being done with having kids is all about?

Dear Santa

Today was a great day. We got to have a "real family day". Those are few and far between these days with Travis studying for the bar. Anyhow, I think he was in desperate need of a break so he took one and we used some free passes we had and went to the Botanical Gardens. We haven't been since we moved here and I had forgotten just how much I love it there. So if anyone is looking for a future gift idea for our family, let me just tell you now, before I forget, that I would love a membership to the Cleveland Botanical Gardens!

Worms and Centipedes and Stuff

I just sent the kids in to the bathroom to wash the whip cream off their bodies. They have whip cream on their bodies because they thought maybe it was similar to sunscreen (or sunscream as Dillon would call it) and maybe it would be appropriate to rub it on their arms, legs, faces, and feet.
Anyhow when they went into the bathroom they noticed someone had used the toilet and not flushed which frequently happens with the children in this household, but that is a story in its own. They started talking about how a robber must have used the bathroom and not flushed the toilet because they were sure that it wasn't one of them. Then Dillon asked me what a robbers peeps looks like. I told him that it would probably look just like his peeps. He told me that he was sure that it would have bugs in it like worms and centipedes and stuff. I really do wonder what must go through that little guys head, because I got to tell you the visual that was going through my head at that time was not so pretty.

One Down, A Bunch To Go

I know this isn't the best picture, but the point is that Molly finally lost her first tooth. This little tooth was also the first tooth she ever got when she was three months old and was the only tooth she had until she was six months old. It finally loosened up about four or five days ago by the adult tooth that was growing up underneath it. For the last two days all she has done is complain about that tooth and how she can't eat anything and how much it hurts and how she doesn't want anything to touch it. This morning I finally got so sick of hearing about it I asked her if I could see if it had gotten any looser over the night and after much hesitation she finally let me touch the tooth. Quick as a flash I yanked it right out and she had no idea what had happened, until she did and then she was overjoyed. That was that.

A Berry Great Day

Well if any of you are confused about where we went today then you can just read Charlee's shirt. We had a great time at Rainbow Farm U-Pick Strawberry Patch today. It's a bit farther than Patterson's, but way worth it for much larger and nicer berries.




Our older children were actually pretty good at helping us gather lots of berries, and the younger ones stayed occupied eating lots of berries so it really made for a good overall family/friend outing.


We even found a strawberry that looks like lips.

Got Milk

I grew up in Austin Texas and I would certainly consider myself a city girl, but there is definitely a part of me that loves the country. My dad finally bought a ranch, about 180 acres, a couple hours outside of Austin a few years ago. He can't convince my mom to move out there so they still live in the Austin area and he just commutes out a couple of times a week. Anyhow, he finally got a herd. I guess this makes him a real cowpoke or something. I'm excited to go back and visit in October, I know the kids are going to love going out there and driving the tractors out to the cows and feeding them and stuff. It will be a lot of fun as long as we can steer clear of the patties.

This is an old house from the turn of the century that they haven't fully demoed yet. We always have fun "exploring" the "haunted" old house when we go to Poppy's ranch. It's pretty cool.

There's my Daddy, feeding them cows their cubes.
I guess they're pretty much all pregnant, this should be interesting.