Fall Fun with Friends

A couple friends from church organized a big fall playgroup.  I was already running behind and thought it was at Kollen Park.  Imagine my surprise when I show up and no one is there.  I call my friend Joy...ummm where are you?!  We are at Dunton Park.  Oh.  Whoops.  Let me drive all the way around Lake Macatawa and come 40 minutes late.  Better late than never.  Argh.  It was a lot of fun other than Joelle being super clingy..  Adelyn had a blast and was so excited to see her church friends

Adelyn painting me a pretty picture :)

                                                                                                  But I can still get a pretty cheesy smile out

     William painting.  It's serious stuff..                                                                    of him =)

Helping Brecken and Joelle make their acorns...err donut holes with frosting and sprinkles.  Yum!

 If only I had advanced my photo editing skills enough to combine these next two..

Brecken's pretty cheesy..but at least he's looking.  And he's kinda cute ;)

 Adelyn and William eating their acorns.  I'm pretty ok with them getting married someday.  Just saying..

BUSTED! I turned my back for a second and I caught him eating the "acorn" Joy had made as a sample for the kids to follow.

What a pretty lady :)

Such a handsome dude.

Pumpkin Pickin'

We went pumpkin pickin' tonight and had so much fun.  The kids loved wandering around the pumpkin field and Eric and I had so much fun watching them and picking out our own.

We went to Fun Pumpkins just down the rode from us.  We will be going there from now on.  Decent prices, not super busy and they were SO friendly!

 

Adelyn picking out her pumpkin!

Daddy pulling the pumpkins, 130LBS!, and the babies helping :)

My pretty little ladies.

 

Goofy little boy

 

My twinkies :)

My pretty babies.  Who are getting way tooo big.

A little something to offset the enjoyable pumpkin pictures.  When I showed this picture to Eric and asked him what it was he, seriously, thought it was toe nails.  It is the food gunk/boogers/spit from my son-his side of the table.  There are some grooves along the sides of the table and occasionally I take a fork and file them out.  Yes I have to take a metal fork to our wood table to get it out.  Eric cringes every time I do it.  I cringe every time I see THIS.  So stinking gross.

New Salem Corn Maze

We went to the New Salem Corn Maze with the Lampens tonight and had a blast.  We were hoping to do the corn maze but no such luck.  The kiddie version is not open on Friday nights.  I know, we were confused too.  They told us we could check out the animals and play on the playground.  They had quite a few animals and when we went to check out the cows they had this poor fellow in the calf barn.

They had him set aside because he has to see the orthodontist.  I wish I could tell you that I edited his teeth in there.  But those are his real teeth.

All the kiddos.  On the non-moving train.

Joelle wasn't sure if she should be driving...

So Brecken took over to man the wheel...

I took this of Adelyn with my cell phone when we were downtown Zeeland with playgroup.  She's making a really attractive face, I know ;)

Mommy strikes again.

Brecken took a long nap this afternoon and I heard him wake up around 4:15.  I was trying to finish some muffins for Bible Study tomorrow so I just left him up there.  B and J are always happy to sit in their cribs and play.  Today B decided to take it to the next level.  HE CLIMBED OUT.  I never heard him fall.  I heard their door knob rattling upstairs and I was like who is that?!  Then I heard the pitter patter of feet.  I ran upstairs and B was running around with his pajamas stuck around one foot.  *Sigh*  So I did what I always do when my children climb out way before I'm ready.

I put the mattress on the floor.

Take that Mr. B.  Take that.  Humph.  I had to put his bumper pads back in because there were some gaps in the corners that I foresaw him getting his foot stuck in and waking up screaming.  I've got my sleep all covered over here.  I have SERVED my time waking up in the middle of the night, I tell you what.

And, yes, his teething guard thing is duct taped on.  Because I was sick of him taking it off and still going all beaver like on the edge of his crib.  Little does he know he has to use that bed until he moves out.

I am moderately concerned.  While I was dissembling his mattress he was attempting to scale the side just by pulling himself up and walking up the side.  So not ready for this.  He may get a crib tent.

Lollipop, Lollipop...

...ooo la, la lollipop!  For those of you who don't know, we have for about 2 weeks officially!, taken the child lock off of the inside of Adelyn's door.  I kept talking to her about it and one day she told me I could take it off and we haven't looked back!  I busted out our marble jar again and she gets 1 marble for staying in bed at night and 1 if she asks before she comes out in the morning...and 3 if she does both!  I think there was only 1 night where she didn't do both..  She also gets 1 marble for taking care of her dishes at each meal, any other type of chore and 1 marble for doing extra nice things for her siblings or her parents.  She was told, when Momma's jar is emptied into hers, she can have some type of present or pick supper for that night.  When we talked about it she told me she wanted spaghetti for supper but when it finally came down to an actual "present" she decided she wanted a lollipop.  Her jar was full yesterday and when I told her the Peanut Store was closed on Sunday she cried...and I wanted to cry.  So, so sad.  So we went right away this morning.  She picked out her lollipop...and it cost me $2.75.  Ridiculous.  We had a reallllly nice morning walking around downtown Holland looking in the stores, getting some books for the kids and a scarf for Mommy.  So nice to be with pleasant children :)

My pretty lady with her lollipop!

He is so hungry..

he has resorted to taking the furnace grates off and eating the old crusty food in there.  Because, when you have three toddlers, that's where food/bugs/sand/dog hair go to die.

Not that he just finished THREE pancakes for breakfast.  These were no "silver dollar" pancakes either.  And they were whole grain-so super filling.  Soooo gross.  Only my son would do that.  Yes, I said son.  The daughters never would have thought of that.  But they will now that they saw him doing it.  I halfheartedly cleaned up the 10lbs of dog hair, 40lbs of sand, 50 cheerios, 12 bugs and other random pieces of food in there.  It's moderately clean now.  As clean as things get around here.

ArtPrize!

Tiff and I took the kids to ArtPrize today.  It was a bit chilly in the shade but really nice in the sun.  Brecken cried pretty much the whole time because he wanted to walk but not by the stroller.  When I would try to talk to him about it his legs would go limp and he would have a fit.  Ugh.  I'm really striking out lately with activities. 

The Mommas actually took a picture of themselves, with the kiddos.

 

The kids throwing pennies in the little pond.

B HAD to ride the motorcycle.

Thought this one was so neat and intricate.

               Adelyn by the flowers                                                         Joelle was trying to get away here ;)

 

Pretty lady.

Smelling the roses...err tulips.

B wanted to smell the flowers too..Sophia kept telling me she couldn't smell them ;)

Silly little man

Sophia and Adelyn waiting for lunch.  Please take note of B in the back ground.

...aanndd again.  Still not happy.

Sophia, Adelyn and another little girl were dancing in the Rosa Parks Circle and EightWest was filming them.  Watch for them on tv..not sure when they'll make their debut but I'm watching the internet for it!