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Playing at the Playground

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Yes, we’re still here. It seems that having six kids and trying to teach them has slowed me down a bit on my blogging. I’ve declared that we are going to have a boring week and weekend this week so I can catch up on our adventures the past few weeks!

While visiting in Kentucky, we went to a beautiful park with the intention of feeding the ducks. However, we didn’t actually get to feed the ducks, but we did see a house that Abraham Lincoln’s father helped build!

Okay, less talk…more pictures…here they come:

The house that was mentioned above.  It’s being restored due to a fire.  Arson seems to be a theme in that town as a pretty neat kids park we wanted to go to was destroyed due to arson…hmmm.

Who’s cute kids are these???

We found a tree just begging to be climbed…however, the older kids chickened out!  But the younger ones let Mark put them up there.

Zoe spotted a large beetle and Josiah wasn’t too keen on the idea of one being so close to him.

Mark loved climbing too!

Sometimes I do take cool pictures!
Megan and Ceili Rain were so cute but on this rare occasion when I turned around with the camera Ceili Rain refused to pose.

Anywhere we went, you could hear Kristina or me yelling, “James, this way!  Come back James!!!”

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It’s off to Ge & Granddaddy’s

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A couple weekends ago, we headed to Ge & Granddaddy’s house.  They had not gotten to hold Bryant since he was born…so he’d grown a little…
 but he’s still cuddly.

 We got to go to a high school game where Granddaddy used to coach.  Liam used Granddaddy as a chair while we watched the game.  I think he had the best seat in the house.

 Granddaddy put Mark to work cleaning out the fish pond.  Ceili Rain was a bit in awe of the fish.

 Mark got a nice little workout in the 90 degree fall weather!
 Taking a break from football to blow bubbles.

Again, the best seat in the house!

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In His Shoes

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So, I’m getting lunch ready and I hear Liam and Josiah discussing something and climbing into the Freedom Center.  I walked into our bonus room and found this.

“I’m Daddy!”  Josiah announces. (by the way, those are clothes boxes.  I was in the process of swapping clothes out…it’s finally fall weather!)
Those are pretty big shoes to fill! 

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What We Did…

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When Papa and Grandmere came up a couple of weekends ago…guess what we did???

Zoe is getting super better at balancing!  She’s also being pretty patient about it.  Liam really, really, really needs to have his training wheels either off or moved up and it looks like Josiah’s close to needing a “real” bike soon too.  Even Ace is getting brave at riding his bike. 

Now if we could just have a little bit cooler weather (going on over 100 days with it being over 90 degrees) then they can get in more practice.

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Say Hello to My Little Friend

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In our morning chores last week, I sent Zoe out to put some cards in the mail.  Upon her return, she did what she always does, left the front door open (the screen door was closed).  I walked into the living room, saw the door open, and started to ask her to please close it but stopped when I noticed something big and brown on the floor.

Hmmm, I thought,  that is a huge leaf she brought in.  I took a few steps closer and realized it wasn’t a leaf but a frog.  I know frogs aren’t yucky.  I know they are just one of God’s creatures and can’t hurt.  But for some reason, I also knew I wasn’t about to try and pick it up.

So, I called the boys to see if they would pick it up and take it out.  Nary a one volunteered (this is the time I miss living out in the country and near a creek where they can do country boy things).  So, I took Zoe out the back door and towards the front with the intentions of shooing it out of the house.

By the time she got to the front door, the frog had jumped under our shoe bench.  The bench is too long to pick up and shoo him out (especially since my brave knights wouldn’t fight for me), so I did the sensible thing.  I called Mark.

He laughed and told me to move the bench away from the door and put a bucket on top of him.  I put the phone on speaker so Mark could laugh at our adventure and found the necessary supplies.  Since I couldn’t move the bench and place the bucket at the same time, I handed the bucket to Ace and asked him to put it over the frog.

It’s at this point that all children who are capable of walking (that’s five if you’ve lost count), were gathered around the bench awaiting the viewing of “the frog.”    I moved the bench and as I did so Ceili Rain plopped down next to the frog.  She had no clue what was going on and just sat there.  Ace froze and wouldn’t drop the bucket.  Even after much encouragement, he wouldn’t move.  I grabbed the bucket and plopped it on him.

Then, after talking to Mark, I grabbed a file folder and pushed it under the bucket while “the frog” hopped on top of it.  And then I (all alone but with five little followers) carried the folder, bucket and frog outside to where his home should be.

After lifting the bucket, it was at this time that Liam bucked up and got the courage to touch the frog.  He touched it several times but never picked it up.  My poor, sheltered, posh little boys.  Next summer we shall spend every day in the woods chasing and identifying different creatures of various sizes.  Yeah right…it’s too hot for mama to do that!  Oh Mark…

Our Little Friend
Liam got brave after the frog made it out of our house.  He decided to touch it.  Several times.

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Family Visits

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While I should be working on lesson plans, I decided the wait was long enough and here are the pictures from our weekend a couple of weeks ago to honor and say goodbye to Mark’s grandmother.  As previously, there were 13 children and six adults in one house.  And the ages of the kids this time were 10, 7, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2 mths, 1 mth.   I may have been the only one who felt this way but at one point I looked at all the kids gathered together and wondered where the rest were.  It just didn’t look like that many kids all together.
Bryant & K meet
Book time with Grandmere is always a must!
Miss G was my shadow for a couple of events and so enjoyed watching Bryant.
Papa got some good Bry lovin’ in.
I’m probably getting this wrong but I think this is TJ.  If not, it’s N.  I’m still not good at telling them apart.
Now, I really don’t know who it is 🙂
He, I know.  This is H.  And behind him, a very small Ace man.  We enjoyed watching videos from a looong time ago.
So if that was TJ above this would be N and if that was N above, this would be TJ.
Watching the videos.
J loved holding little Bry.
They almost look like Siamese twins they’re so close…and both have spit up cloths over them.
Brotherly love!
Cousin love
And lots more cousin love.  Zoe got a quick hold of K before they headed out.

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Party Time!

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Party Day arrived and after five days of telling Ace that he turned six on his birthday, he finally believed us (he thought he was going to be six at his party).
Lots of pictures less talk!


This year’s cake request: Blue dinosaur with red polka dot sprinkles (hey, it could’ve happened…have you ever seen a dinosaur with skin on???). Made by using a cake that fell apart and cream cheese icing smushed together and molded to look like a dino, covered in blue dyed buttercream icing…verdict: Adults thought it was yummy. Kids tolerated it and quickly took off to play the Wii.

Look what we installed in our house just for Ace’s party!!! Nah, we actually went off location (which is a big first time for us…didn’t think I could plan and get ready for a party at my house after just having a baby). This is our Family Y (YMCA). They just moved into a new facility without a big play gym and I was iffy as to whether it would go well. The kids loved it. As a friend said, “They make their own fun!” The above is actually the toddler nursery room.

Ace enjoyed climbing but he had fun on the Wii more!
And everyone on the Wii had an audience.

We did manage a game of “Pin the Skull on the Dinosaur” planned out by one of my best friends, Tracy.

And, yes, the pinata did get destroyed…

And there were a few tears shed…as is tradition for the pinata scramble!

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Getting Ready to Party!

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The morning before the party, I woke up and asked the kids if they wanted to make a pinata.  Why not?!?  It’s not like we had anything else to do.  Mark just laughed at me and so, the challenge was on to occupy their time and prepare for a party complete with a homemade pinata.

I’ve made one before with my mom, so Mark and I thought for sure the kids would enjoy it.  Zoe and Josiah did.  Ace and Liam weren’t thrilled about getting their hands dirty.  Mark and I had a blast.  This was his first pinata making experience.  It was ready to decorate the next day.  I decided that since Ace chose a dinosaur birthday cake, we’d make a volcano pinata.

Saturday morning…trying to get it decorated before the party that afternoon.

While I painted, Ace and Liam got the party favors ready.
Ta Da!!!  It turned out pretty good.  Although I did have to tell some people what it was supposed to be!  It really didn’t matter what it looked like…the kids just wanted to know what was inside and grab for it!

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