K Laughing

Kirstine was sitting on the potty last night. I asked her some question and the answer was "nope". she made the p so hard that spit came out and got all over me. I wiped it off and she thought it was hilarious and couldn't stop laughing. so i got the camera to make you all smile today.

Big Girl Bed!

I don't know why, but for some reason I decided yesteday to turn the crib into the toddler bed. Will was a little younger than this when we put him in his big boy bed. I gave it a gamble and it worked! She stayed in bed all night and when she woke up she just cried sat up. What a perfect little baby!!!

Will's bedtime story

This is the 2nd bedtime story I got tonight. (word for word - i left immediately go come write it down.

‘Once upon a time there was a little baby boy, and his name was - There was a little baby girl, and her name was – and she was Will’s mama. And she was soo little. And Will was soo big. And Papa was sooo big. And Gran was soo little. And Uncle Matt came and said, “Look at those people. Some of them are so big and some of them are so little.”’

And then something about them floating up into the fan. but then it started getting just silly and weird and no longer interesting.

Story #1 was all about a little baby boy (they always start this way) who asked his mom if he could ride his hummer and she said, no! because he left his hummer out in the rain and it was broken. so his papa came and put it in the back of his truck and took it home and fixed it and brought it back. and on and on. his stories are usually a mix like this one between fiction and reality. but the top story was obviously pure fiction, and those are the most fun.

Cats and Dogs

This is a video of Will's thoughts on cats and dogs:


The first word of this one is "Aunt Pat", and listen for the "these people" part - it's my favorite!

Texas Trip

These are pictures from our trip to Texas. These first ones are from the playground on Saturday morning:
Here's the boys wrestling:
This last picture is in front of the neighbors' house.

update to sleeping bug

Another funny thing from the trip. Kirstine was asleep, and Will sang to her, "Sleeping Beauuuuuuty, Wake Uuuuuup"

funny stories

from the trip home from texas. as will said it, i quickly grabbed a marker and wrote it down on the cardboard box sitting next to me as i drove. i'm surprised at how legible it ended up being, seeing that i wasn't looking at all while i wrote.

"me: What do you want to eat at McDonald's?
W: I want flowers. I love flowers. They're so good I even like to eat them." and then that was it for about 10 minutes (he was listening to music and watchig movies), and then all of a sudden,
"Mom - I'm just teasing you, I don't want to eat that."
So RANDOM!!!


And here's the other one (this one made his dad VERY proud). And remember, i wrote this down word for word. Also know that absolutely nothing happened during our trip to prompt this, and he hasn't seen Star Wars in MONTHS!

"Luke's father is Darth Vader. Darth Vader is a bad guy. When Darth Vader threw the dempader down, he became a good guy. Darth Vader was dying when he threw the dempader down." (Me: you mean the emperor? W: yeah). "The emperor is a bad guy. He's sooooo bad."

And that was it. I was cracking up.

Question of the Day

"Why is heat hot?" (from Will, obviously)

sleeping bug?

when we got home today Kirstine was asleep in the car. i called scott and asked him to come help me carry a sleeping bug upstairs (i had other stuff to carry). will said, "she's not a sleeping bug, she's sleeping beauty!"

Old Baker Farm

Saturday we went to the Old Baker Farm, about 30 minutes southeast of us. It was awesome. I am such a city girl, so it was all so new to me. This is the kind of stuff you see on tv and movies, and people who live out in the middle of nowhere get to do, and now that's me! I have always been so jealous of people that got to do this kind of stuff. I am sooo happy that I live in an area where this is possible! Anyways, we went around 1:00 on saturday and stayed about 5 hours. There are tons of posts below this one with more pictures. This first one is from the cotton bounce. It was just a big trailer full of cotton. SO COOL! A little dirty, well maybe a lot dirty, but it was still really fun. Kirstine got in and out in less than 5 seconds. So i went in with her and she sat on my lap for about 10 minutes. She liked it if I held her and bounced her, but it took forever for her to venture off on her own. But she did, and she liked it.

Cotton Bounce Video

Cock a doodle doo

Tractor Time

This was our most fun of the day, for both of the kids. Will could have driven this thing for 24 hours straight.

Hay Maze and Hay Mountain

In the Fields

Cotton Fields

And in the corn maze. This was a lot of fun. It took us about an hour to finish. Will did not want to go in at all at the beginning, but after about 10 minutes he loved it and ran in front the whole way. He would yell, "DEAD END" and then run back to us so we could find another way. Kirstine enjoyed it very much, especially when she realized she could actually walk inside the corn rows where she wasn't supposed to go. She had fun in there. But she was very slow most of the time. She liked to just lolligag (sp?) and drink her sippy cup.