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Traveling with a Bunch of Kids

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So, I gave the stats for our trip to Houston.  I still can’t believe we drove that many miles with five kids.  Fortunately, we had some great help as Grandmere traveled with us.  And here, now begins the barrage of photos from our trip.  We traveled to Houston to celebrate the wedding of my best friend from high school.  I was ecstatic that she was getting married and on my birthday no less..this trip was a bit of a birthday gift to me that I was able to enjoy with the whole family.

After leaving Aunt & Uncle B’s place we started towards Houston.  We stopped about every two hours to walk around and potty (and get wiggles out).  As we were traveling towards Baton Rouge, I was at the wheel and looked over and saw a park.  We were approaching the two hour mark so we decided to pull over and get a break.  It was a beautiful park with lots of pretty birds…

These may look harmless but when we got out of the car, they started to come towards us…and when we walked away they walked faster towards us.  Mark quacked them away…my hero.

Watching the birds! Yes, Josiah has no shoes.  At some point we lost one of his shoes and had to make a quick (cheap) purchase in Houston.
Watching the birds some more.
 
Getting some sibling love
 
Houston or Bust!  Liam thought he’d try and walk there.  Through the water.  In his new tennis shoes.  Poor kid got them soaking wet!

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Off We Go

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We started off our trip to Houston by hitting the end of the hurricane/tropical storm Ida.  Our original plan was to go to Mobile, Al on Tuesday, however, the storm was pretty strong so we headed up north to Uncle & Aunt B’s house.  It served a great purpose in that we were able to visit with family and have a free place to crash.  My kids, needless to say, were ecstatic to see their cousins.

I put Ceili Rain in the “Freedom Center (a built in play pen…one of the boys had destroyed other playpens so Uncle B built this)” with her twin one year old cousins.  N and TJ were fascinated by her!  They even tried to pick her up by the head.   She wasn’t quite sure what to think about them.

These two little monkeys were peas in a pod!  H has calmed down some…but he still reminds me so much of Liam!
Josiah got some good reading time with Uncle B.
H and Liam are only eight months apart so when I see them playing together, it’s just too sweet not to get a picture.

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Phew!!

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We were able to travel to visit Ge & Granddaddy this weekend and guess what we forgot???  Our camera!  This weekend marked a month of travels so I am not surprised that I completely forgot to bring it.  But a little disappointed too as we celebrated my birthday with the family!

So here’s a run down of the weekend:
Friday night:  Football game.  Yes, my dad is retired but this was the last game of the regular season at the school where my parents work (and where dad coached).  It was great to see some of the game.  However, it was equally nice to be able to leave the game at half time, not feel guilty, and tuck our tired ones into bed.

Saturday morning:  Market Day where Ge & Granddaddy set up a booth and sale wooden pens.  They are absolutely beautiful too.

Saturday afternoon:  late lunch with all the family to celebrate my birthday.  My choice:  wings…yummm.  I get my goodies amazing gifts lavished on me by my dear parents and sister.

Saturday evening:  auction.  Ge & Granddaddy are hooked on the auction.  We enjoyed visiting a little with them.  Didn’t purchase anything though.

Sunday morning:  a little visit and then home for church in the pm.

And so, our journey ended and now the kids are blissfully sleeping (at 6:30 in the morning) as I type this.  This week may be a little sporadic in the typing area as we will, once again, be traveling.

Oh, and did I mention that Ceili Rain is sick??  She went to the doctor on Wednesday for a recheck on her ears and Thursday evening started running a fever (which I don’t think she picked up from the doc’s office…she was in the nursery at church and the gym on Wednesday too).  I’ll be taking her to the doctor today as I think it might be her ears again.  Anyone know where I can get a good otoscope??

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Happy Reformation Day

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So, this year, instead of celebrating Halloween, we chose to have a Reformation Day party.  The kids would rather hand out candy than walk around to strangers’ houses and we were able to keep whines for candy at minimum.  And so, now explains why the kids (except Ceili Rain) were dressed in Medieval/Rennaissance garb.  We ate supper with friends and the kids played and played.  Oh yeah, they got candy too.
Zoe’s friend, Laura, with her doll.  Kind of freaky no??

 
James rockin’ the pumpkin!
The Great Pumpkin and the Cat in the Hat!  Gotta love parents who grew up in the 70s and 80s.
Attack of the Great Pumpkin
Super Wy!  Isn’t he adorable.
 
Super Wy giving a little Super Explosion!
Start the sugaring up process now.
A game of “Grab the Indulgences”  (or grab for the candy).
Josiah didn’t want to give up the indulgences…by grace alone little buddy, by grace alone.
 
“Nailing” the Theses to the Door
 
 
 
Super Wy’s daddy getting in on some Theses to get some candy.
One more free for all for the “Indulgences.”
NEED-MORE-CANDY
Kristina included some more pictures (like I didn’t share enough) on her post here!
We had a great time.  I think this may be a new tradition for our family.

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Presenting…

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Let me just say there is no way to not post all of these adorable pictures, so bear with me.

Less talk…more pictures!

First up, the traditional first Halloween…let’s give it up for The Cat in the Hat!
 
The Littlest Prince
The Next to Littlest Prince
Not looking so princely here.

Our Not So Much Little Prince

I just have to say he’s pretty handsome.

And our fair maiden of the land…

All together (this was the best we could do)

Our little stairsteps!
Now for some words!  Big huge gigantic thank you goes out to Grandmere who sewed her fingers to the bone helping make these costumes.  Equal props go to Papa for entertaining everyone while we worked on said costumes.  Grandmere did almost all of Zoe’s dress.  I only hemmed and sewed sleeves in and the trim.  I did all the boys’ shirts and then went to Goodwill and found black pants (you can’t tell but Ace and Josiah are wearing tuxedo pants!).  And Ceili Rain’s costume, of course, was Josiah‘s two years ago.
And Zoe’s hairdo was inspired by Girly Do’s by Jenn.

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Happy Birthday Fire Station!

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Let me just say now that this new blogger post thing rocks!

Anyway, before everyone decided to get extremely sick, we were able to venture out last Saturday to celebrate our Fire Department’s 50th Anniversary.  They had a big birthday party complete with hot dogs, chips, and cake.  They also had a ton of fun and educational things to do.

This is Pluggie.  It’s an RC fire hydrant.  It squirts water and is supposed to “talk” via the operator…but the talking part wasn’t working.  However, the water worked and the kids enjoyed getting hit!

They also enjoyed running from Pluggie.  I think the fireman who was operating it had more fun than the kids.  He kept hiding from them.

Zoe enjoyed this, but I think the boys enjoyed it more.  They got to squirt a real fire hose and knock over a cone and tennis ball.  The fireman didn’t turn it on full power (obviously) but the kids only cared about holding a fire hose and using it.  We allowed them to do it, the first time, in age order, so Liam being third, grabbed the hose and turned it on before the fireman knew what was happening.  It was really funny!

We really appreciate our fire department and all the hard work they do.  We truly look up to and respect them as they sacrifice their time and lives to protect and serve us in our community!

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A Little Bible Trivia for Ya and Liamisms

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**UPDATE**
Josiah’s fever broke last night (it was a nasty scene too).  Liam was fine this morning but then complained of being tired at lunch and quickly went to lay down in my bed.  Yep, he’s got it now!   I’ll also note that this is the first time he’s been sick in over a year and a half.  NEXT!!  Oh, and Zoe’s not thrown up again…complained of a little tummy ache on Monday afternoon but that’s it.

What’s the second book of the Bible, Liam?

Liam:  Secondus
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Liam to Papa:  Papa, I need to tell you somethin’.  God loves you.

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On the way home from church.

Liam:  Daddy, I’m tired.  So, I don’t need to go to rest time.  I need to stay up and play.

*****

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Pumpkin Patch

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For your viewing pleasure…our field trip to the Pumpkin Patch…in pictures (with a little narration from moi).

This was pretty much his demeanor the whole trip. Lovely huh?! The boys’ behind us were part of a group who’s moms pretty much let us parent them. One little boy tried to throw a very large rock at some of the children before I told him (several times) to put it down.

Craft time! Lots of glue and small wiggly eyes. The kids enjoyed it and I had plenty of “glue skin” to play with the rest of the trip.

See? Happy Josiah.

Hay ride time!
Almost a smile!

This sweet little one has two older siblings who were with us. She thought the straw was awesome! Later she somehow managed a Cheese Nip down her onesie (saving it for later).
Most of the gang. Notice Josiah is absent.

He finally perked up when he found a granddaddy long legs (spider).
He is our boys’ boy.

And now we have our pumpkins that were not really picked from a patch…more like they bought pumpkins and threw them in this little area…the children, none the wiser and still enjoyed picking out a pumpkin.

Zoe’s BFF, Laura, came along even though her little brother was sick…they piggy backed in my van…cuz’ it’s a cool ride.

Ace’s BFF, Jack, who is Laura’s brother. He had a good time!

Liam enjoyed picking up the pumpkins, getting me to take a picture and the subsequently throwing them down.
Finally! A smile! Josiah was smiling because he was picking up the pumpkins and throwing them down (wonder where he saw that??).
Ta Da! Josiah loves getting pictures taken. We survived and had a great time! Thanks Kristina for letting me borrow your two!

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Sew Lovely (or how we like to torture our kids)

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My friend and I, on our excursion without kids and Mark’s lovely introduction to what it would be like with nine children six and under, found this adorable fabric and grabbed it up to be cheesy and make A-line dresses (not paid to link to them or give free stuff…just a disclaimer) for our girls who are roughly four months (the older ones) and four days apart (the younger ones). The babies were thrilled with this idea and chose to let us know by their cries of sheer anger happiness.

Okay, so they weren’t completely angry with us!
Yep, their best friends!

I used the different animals on the pattern in the girls’ shirts, cut them out, stuck some double sided fusible webbing on them and slapped them on some $3 long sleeve shirts for the boys! They turned out might cute and took about 2 minutes (but if anyone asks, it took forever and I gladly labored over it).
This here is James…he’s into a little bit of everything and is equally adorable…especially since what hair he has sticks straight up on his adorably drooly head.

And what photo shoot is not complete without Ceili Rain and Megan…

Screaming! In case you are wondering, I made Ceili Rain’s shoes too…they look a little better than last time…at least they keep her feet warm!

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I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends

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Obviously, I was not shoveling it in as fast as big brothers wanted. After taking something into the kitchen (which is a couple of steps away) I hear, “fee, CeiRai Mama.” And turn around and see this…
So then everyone else wanted to get on the act but only one other little person wanted their picture taken…
Is that a look of sheer terror on her face???

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