Pumpkin Patch

Overall, the pumpkin patch was a success. I thought I was lost when I was driving there but it was a actually a lot closer than I thought. Chuck took a power nap on the way there so he was in a good mood. Our biggest accomplishment was using a port-a-potty and Chuck not touching anything while we were in there! Ha! Here are some pictures of our adventure. I am no photographer and the quality is as good as the iphone can offer me.

Chuck when we first got there while we were waiting for the hour long hayride.

Chuck relaxing and having deep thoughts while on the hayride.

Chuck checks out the goats and won't give Mama the camera so she can take real pictures.

Chuck watched the cows and eventually offers the cow a goldfish.

Chuck and Mama on the hayride.

The sunflower field.

Chuck scopes out the perfect pumpkin.

Chuck guarding his pumpkins with his life!

Enjoying his first lunchable on the way home.

Our pumpkin patch outfit arrived in the mail while we were at the pumpkin patch. Go figure!

Pumpkins!

If there is any child that loves Gnomeo and Juliet, it is this guy..... look at how he is watching TV ( This is about as still as it gets around here. This lasted a good 3 minutes!)

Well tomorrow is the day..... We are going to hit up the pumpkin patch. It is going to be packed with a hayride, train ride, petting zoo, pumpkin patching (?), and lots of running. I am hoping that maybe daddy will wake up in time to join us. I am also hoping that someone special enjoys it so much that he has no energy left... at all. We will be going with my friend Heather and her hubby and baby, Molly. Her friend and her husband and their little boy will be going too. A few extra hands around is never a bad thing!

You better believe there will be pictures to follow ( not promising some brilliant pictures .... my iphone can only do so much!)

Terrible Twos

I hope what I am experiencing is the terrible twos because if it is not then I might as well go ahead and quit! I could post the picture of Chuck sleeping on the way to day care this morning but I am not. It will only remind me of the three times he woke up last night, and make me long for more than 3 hours of sleep. I could post the picture of his dinner the past two nights all over the wall and floor, but I will spare you of those pictures too.

Chuck is picking up more and more vocabulary and feistiness. He can now tell you if something is purple, blue, or yellow. However, he still really prefers pink over any other color even if he can't say it. He is still an adamant bubble blower ( as you have seen in past pics and videos) and is actually a relatively good bubble blower. He also can finally say "outside" but he just calls it "side" instead of "pool" now. This is actually not a good thing because he loves outside and although he spends a gazillion hours outside each day, he still wants to go outside every night. This desire to go outside either A) causes a breakdown because I won't let him go outside or B) causes a breakdown because I let him go outside but won't let him go across the street and knock on Nellie's door.

At one point, Chuck refused to let me put his shirt on him. We are now at the point where he throws a tantrum if the shirt comes off. Oh, the shoes! I am not sure if he just really likes his new shoes but many days he freaks out if I take his shoes off. Some nights, after his bath, if he comes across his shoes somewhere in the house, he insists that they be put on his feet. This is just not a battle that I am even going to waste my time on. I could care less if he sleeps in his shoes and lately, he has done just that.

Well, one a more positive note, as of next week we will have officially made it through the first quarter of school. Only three more of those to go! The big move is getting oh so close. Now that I have finally made some progress with the behavior in my class, I may just miss my job ( not my students) but my job. If I do say so myself, I think I am pretty darn good at it ( even if that means I don't hold up my end of the deal as a mama or wife or maid or banker or trash guy or yard man) but at least I am not in denial.

Hopefully, you will get some pictures soon. It all depends on how you-know-who is behaving himself, so I wouldn't necessarily count on it. I think I might try to take him to a pumpkin patch this weekend for a little hayride, corn maze, and pumpkin picking this weekend though.

Bored

This is what my child does when I don't play with him and he is "bored".

He likes to empty out the dryer and climb in it to play.

And empty out the wipes package to clean his feet. ( Have no idea where he gets this one from).

And this.... asking to play with water in the sink.

and yes, I let him play in the sink.

and then we went to wear ourselves out before dinner.

We also ventured to get me some new black pants. I tried this last weekend but Chuck was strapped in the stroller and yelled and whined the whole time. So, I had to try again today. I decided to take the " I trust you to walk around and not have to ride in the stroller". It did not go much better. Chuck ran around the store and pointed to all the manikins that didn't have shirts on and yelled "uh oh". Then he decided to wave and say hi to all of them while he made sure to point out all of the manikin's toes. In the end, I did get some black pants. I just grabbed a pair off the rack and figured I would just take them back if they didn't work. They did work though. So don't judge me on my style because it is mainly a mad dash to the first rack of clothes inside the door and a mad dash out before Chuck starts knocking anything over. I have many years to come to look pulled together. Now is just not the time.

And last but not least, tomorrow starts the biggest loser competition at school. You know I am one fore competition. In fact, our team lost the most weight when we lived in Hot Springs. I figure I need to lose weight before we move, there is also a cash reward if I win, and of course I need to get my health in check for my baby boy and I always have the fact that I have a strong line of breast cancer in my family so I need to be ready to fight anything! I am going to have to really work at it though. Exercise will not be a tool I can use. The time to exercise is non-existent since Dr. gets home so late when he is working. I will try and do a little Zumba in the den but I only have two hours a night to do everything I need to do ( as in cook, laundry, clean, and school work) so you can imagine exercise comes last on that list. As of tomorrow ( whenever weigh in is) I am going to give up cokes.... you can rest assured that I will guzzle one right before I step on that scale. THe competition is over on May 1st. I am telling you all this so you will hold me accountable.

Night, night....

This morning, Chuck and I went to watch the donuts being made at Krispy Kreme. We really needed something to do by 6:45 so I figured our first donut wouldn't hurt. We walked in and watched the donuts and Chuck immediately signed "eat".




They gave him a free football donut.




The donut was very much enjoyed.







I knew I was going to pay for giving him sugar so we went to the reservoir and watched the ducks, blew bubbles, and ran around.







We then stopped by the store for our Sunday morning grocery trip. It was a different store than we normally go to so the carts were different.




Needless to say we didn't last very long!







My mom says I entertain him too much and I just need to let him be bored and be creative. I have tried that since we got home from the store. It's not going well! Pictures to come later tonight.


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