Giggle, Giggle, Quack

The Orpheum has productions through the year aimed to get kids to live performances. They are stage adaptations of children's books. This year the whole season is comprised of plays from some of our favorite books. The first was a couple of weeks ago, and Will and I took Trey. He got to go through the petting zoo and feed the llama, make a animal crown with the people from the Children's Museum, and sit next to Will the Thrill. It was lots of fun, and we would love to have more friends join us at the next show.

Gingerbread House-aka sugar high

We decorated our gingerbread house yesterday. I take that statement back I decorated, Trey placed a few decorations, and Trey and Robb gorged on every sugary confection they could get their hands on. Needless to say it was fun, and I think we got a pretty cute product.

Thankful

I am of course thankful for all the blessings in my life, but as I was looking through all of our Thanksgiving pictures I realized some silly subcategories of things to be thankful for. They are as follows:

I am thankful for . . .

Will taking over carving duties.

having a glass of wine with my 95 year old grandmother.

sleepovers with Hank.

nieces and nephews who keep me laughing.

a mother in law who encourages this at her house.

a sister in law who doesn't forget a thing!!!!

curls.

a brother in law who will drive close to 20 hours to make my sister and many others very happy.

and sisters who love mine like their own.

I am truly blessed.

Hollywood Kiss

Robb is a kisser. He kisses family, he kisses friends, he kisses toys . . . he does not hold back. I can only imagine what people think when I'm not around and he comes at them with mouth open for a big, wet one. I realize that Robb is getting too old for the open mouth "aah-wah" kiss. But I just love the Hollywood kiss. And I am not going to teach him the real one; I know he will learn it soon enough.

Out Takes

I take a lot of pictures of my boys. I may be a tad on the bias side, but I think they are the cutest kids in the world. Well, they are really cute until one is trying to get a Christmas card picture of them sitting next to each other. OK so they are still cute when they are not sitting still for the camera but it is a little on the frustrating side. Here are a couple of out takes from our photo shoot yesterday.

PS-I actually did get a picture. The very last one I took before I gave up:)

Indian Summer

We have been enjoying the unseasonable warm weather in Memphis by being outside as much as possible. We have had numerous trips to the zoo, the Big Backyard, playground, and just being in our own backyard. In fact we have been having so much fun that I have not been taking pictures for practically all of November. Here are a few of a fun trip the Big Backyard with my boys.

Everyday Heros

The neighborhood firemen came to Trey's class at school. They told the children about 911, stop/drop/roll, and they put on all their gear so the kids could see what firemen looked like when they are working. Then everyone got a chance to walk through the fire truck and talk to the chief.

Trey and two friends listening very intently to the fireman. Looks serious, doesn't it . . . they were talking about the fire museum:)