Like Mother, Like Daughter

Every night for the past couple weeks or so, Reece has claimed on average 2 additional items to bring to bed with her. It has accumulated to like 37 items or something like that. If you take items out and hide them, she can tell you which items are missing and refuses to go to bed until you bring them out of hiding. She says good night to each of them by name, tells them she loves them, and says prayers with them. It's a rather time consuming process. It is frustrating too when there are items you have to scurry around the house trying to find so she can go to bed. It dawned on me that I remember seeing a picture of me in a pile of items in my bed when I was little. I dug it out and sure enough...

Here she is...

Here I am...

Down on the farm...

We went to the Rader Pumpkin patch yesterday and had so much fun!

Reecey actually let the Zoo lady paint her face. I was really surprised! She even picked out the colors...she said she wanted an orange butterfly with pink and blue and purple!


Tried to get a family photo...


Brody at the "market"

Reece rode the caterpillar...

and painted her own pumpkin. If you haven't been there, you should check it out! There was a ton to do!

Monkey Business - Brody's 1st b-day

Brody's first birthday party was over the weekend. We did the sock monkey theme. I think all the little monkies there had a good time. We went bananas with dinner which was pork bbq, cheesy potatos, home made mac and cheese and hot dogs for the kids, salad, a monkey cake, banana cookies, and ice cream. We also monkied around with presents and playing in the yard which was wet and muddy!

Brown and red was the color scheme...here are the buckets of banana candy.

Happy Birthday banner made from bananas I drew and cut out.

Trash...bashura...monkey business...whatever you call it!

Monkey business part 2

Birthday cake compliments of Carol Jones. Party favors for the kids - mini sock monkies, banana candy and banana cookies.





Not diggin the birthday hat...



mmmmm...cake time

Red velvet...

What a mess!

My little fish

I finally broke down and bought the biggest box of gold fish I could find. My kids eat these like they are going out of style. Reece likes to pick up the big box herself. It's almost as big as her. I told her if she doesn't stop eating goldfish, she might turn into one!


Some things Reece is really into these days is playing dress up, watching videos/movies, and talking...and talking...and oh, talking. She is quite the conversationalist. She often gets in her dress up gear and tells me she is going places like "sales", "church", and the neighbors. She is fascinated with pregnant bellies and God/Jesus. Two funny conversations that happened recently...in the car on the way home from Target (where she saw a pregnant lady) she says "mommy...lady gonna poop out that baby and it's gonna hurt". This is when I realized I probably tell her too much, that she remembers everything, and that she MIGHT repeat things like this in public. Glad this convo took place on our convoy home. She also got all dressed up in her dress up gear...you know the usual stuff like a hat, heels, 3 purses, and an old pearl necklace. She put her baby in the stroller and said "bye, mom, leaving". I said "where are you 2 off to?". She said "church...gonna hang with Jesus 'day". I was floored and also proud! She is very independent and even goes potty all by herself - at this point it's not really a good thing since she takes enough toilet paper for 5 people wads it up as small as a pea and then tries to wipe. When I ask her to go potty before we leave to go somewhere or before she goes to bed says "don't have to...just went". I am just surprised at how much she can say and understand.
As for the little man...

He is standing and pulling up on everything...got his 7th tooth this week...and turning one in a week and a half. I can't believe it. He's so big! He loves playing ball and being outside. He's a momma's boy too. He is starting to not like being dropped off places like the church nursery. I have already been paged a few times. We'll update his b-day pics after the party next Saturday.

Park #11 - PJ Irving Park

PJ Irving Park is located on McKay Drive just off of Six Points Rd on the south side of Bloomington. It's a quiet little park of 16 acres. It has an 18 hole frisbee golf course, pavillion with picnic tables and a port-a-potty. It has a nice playground area with a "woodsy" theme which is different than I have seen before. It had a lot of mature trees with lots of shade and grassy areas. It was pretty clean and safe. It did have several climbing options which were rather tall and challenging for my 2.5 year old. We give this park 4 stars.

Fun times!

This is the basket that goes in her pelican bath toy box thingy. What an imagination...


Brody...pulling up on everything.

Just rockin in the rocking chair.

CHEESE - literally. She loves cheetos (like her mamma). Is anyone surprised to see her on my couch with this mess? Trust me, I was sweatin the whole time. And she was threatened the whole time as well.