Funny!

So we're driving to church and Ben says, "Hey Daddy, member (he leaves off r's) when I swallowed my dum?"
Jason, "No. When?"
Ben "Member, I got dum out of your truck and ate it but then swallowed it."
Jason, "Oh yeah. Why?"
Ben "I was just membering."
Jason "Why did you swallow it? Did you want to blow bubbles out of your butt?"
Long Pause
Pause, I look at Ben and he has this very thoughtful look on his face and then says,
"NO!"
Jason, "Then why did you swallow it?"
Ben, "I don't know why."
Jason, "Who?"
Ben, "What?"
Jason, "Why?"
Ben, "Why what?"
And so it went on!

First Trip to Boston!

We went to visit Aunt Marcella and Paul yesterday. We had so much fun!
The trip up was eventful of course! For those of you who don't know, Jason does not like driving anywhere near Boston. It could be the fact that he has to drive into Democrat Territory. It could be the crazy drivers. It could be that he knew he was going to see tons of Obama signs.

So Jason got directions off MapQuest for the last time. They were correct in a way. The way of going the back roads into Boston! Yes back roads. It was very pretty, until we came up to an intersection. Now, first I must say, Jason was already thinking we were going the wrong way since the exit sign was slightly different than the MapQuest.
So we see a big intersection coming up, we slow down, see police cars, lights and all of a sudden the traffic cop, two cars in front of us, stop traffic. Oh, there's a fire truck coming out of a parking lot. Okay. Then, Jason says, "What?" Behind the fire truck are all these people walking with little kids dressed in Halloween costumes!!!! Jason said this is the last time he's coming up here!!! We were in Walpole by the way. I said, no, we are going to have a great time visiting the Children's Museaum! Jason says, Marcella can come down to us, we have lots of Children's Museaum's around us!!!

So we call Marcella and find out, yes, we are a little off, but not far. She sets us straight and we make it to her condo. AHHHH. The kids jump out and are so happy they can talk again! LOL!!!!

So I'll stop talking and let the pictures tell the rest of how are day went. We started off at the Children's Museaum in Boston and then went to Quincy Market.

Going to get on the "T" Green Line. Ben was in awe, his first train trip. Katie went on a train to NYC last year.


Ben liked looking out the windows.


Boston...Here we come!


Katie's favorite stop was the "China" exhibit. Ben's favorite was the Construction Zone! Go figure.


















"Wow" Ben said.




The end of our very fun day. Thank you Aunt Marcella and Paul!

Hair Cuts at home

Jessica, the kids hairdresser, comes to the house to cut their hair. Ben is so cute with her. I think he has a little crush on her!


Katie checks out her new look, she decided to cut it very short, like mine.


TA-DA!

Ben's turn. He likes to use the tickle brush to get the hair off his neck.



Sorry, not a great picture of "Shark Boy"

What's New...

We've been busy as usual with our day to day activities. Last weekend the kids had a ball outside playing and raking up leaves. Katie loves to drive the cub tractor and now has the job of picking up leaves with the attachment! WoW! Ben is a little ticked about this, but handling it well. He loves to be out with Jason and be his big helper! He helps stack the wood after Jason chops it and brings some up to the back porch for us. When Daddy's not home he's in charge of watching the fire. As soon as it starts to get down, he yells for me to put more wood in the fire!


Ben finished up gymnastics and loves to do head stands against walls.


Katie loves to flip!


Ben is showing lots of interest in reading


Katie and I spent some time last weekend scrapbooking together.

Helping Daddy out in the yard last Saturday.




Heading down the back to dump the leaves in the back woods.


We are so blessed to live here. The kids love to head down the back to walk in the woods. Later on this particular day they took me down to the "cave". Ben had me bring a sword in case I fell down. He was very concerned about my ankle. Thank goodness for my sword.






Jason has been very busy getting all the wood ready.







There she goes!

DogSitting

"Flash 1 and Flash 2"

This was taken in the morning. It started to thunder just as we were leaving the house. Koda and Dakota were going crazy. Ben went in to check on Koda, he was so sweet, he lined his animals up in front of his crate so he wouldn't cry and be sad when we left:) He is a sweet boy.

So yeah we have been watching Koda my parents dog. They went down to Disney with my sister and her family. Jason and the kids volunteered to watch him. I thought to myself, great one more thing to get ready in the morning!!! REally he was fine and I like the little guy.

The following I will give them as a bill for the week we had him, actually over a week!
ITEMS
4 new pairs of socks-1 pair for Ben, 1-pair for Katie 2-pairs for me
1 set of AA batteries...I don't think he swallowed them, but did chew on them
Popsicle sticks
1 smurf
one new queen size comforter (he peed on mine)
1 new hair band for Katie
New pack of woman's underwear
Paper Towels (he threw up 3 mornings in a row)

Cost of Labor
1 hour per day x11 days for walks
1 1/2 hours per night x 11 nights for extra time getting Ben to bed due your Hyper Active Dog
2 hours for time spend refereeing the two dogs
6 hours a day refereeing Ben and Koda (seriously)
11 hours total for time spent disciplining Ben AND Koda!!!!!!!
11 hours for time spent searching for Teddy's Ear
24 hours spent looking for TEDDY!!!!!!!

I could go on but I'll stop.

Time Spent on Koda having fun with the kids= Priceless