Jacob's field trip

Yesterday I got to go on Jacob's first field trip with him!

(Thank you, Mrs. Linda for keeping the littles)

We went here:

This is our local children's museum. Can you see my little

man in the shadows up there?? I wanted him to stand on

the top, but that black metal rail completely covered his face.

They have lots of exhibits, some are large areas designed for

imaginitive play, some are areas for learning, and our guide told the

kids they could touch anything they could reach.

And they did! They had a blast!!

'All aboard the choo-choo train, all aboard, all aboard!

Choo-choo!*'

*this is the song from Choo-choo Soul, if you don't

watch The Disney Channel.

Hey, Skipper, where's Gilligan?

Pull!!

Time for a spot of tea.



This was a giant climbing apparatus that went from floor

to ceiling through the middle of the building.

(yeah, well, saying 'apparatus' sounds better

than saying 'thingy')

Jacob loved it!!

After our time inside, we went out to the picnic area and

ate our sack lunches. Strangely I don't have any pictures

of this. Maybe I just didn't want any evidence of me

stuffing my face like a hog eating. :)

Jacob's class (most of them)
Cheese!

Silly face!!


I wish this picture had come out better. I think my camera
focused on the tree instead of Jacob. I suppose it is the bigger
object in the shot!


Notice the boo-boo on Jacob's chin that isn't in the rest of the
pictures. He fell outside and managed to skin his chin and
the insides of his elbows. I still haven't figured out how he
did that!


Other than the fall, it was a wonderful day. I love that I got to
spend the day with just Jacob. We don't get time alone too often.
He's a wonderful, sweet boy, and I adore him!


Thank you, Jacob, for letting me tag along!


TTFN,

I♥Faces-Halloween dress up.

The unhappy Mickey.

Most of the pictures of Noah from this period of

his life have this exact face. He hated pictures!

It was funny, and not very funny all at the same

time.

When I saw this weeks theme over on I ♥ Faces,

I immediately thought of this picture.

TTFN,

Wordless Wednesday-pet peeves...I mean, come ON.

Is it too much to ask...??

(tell me I'm not the only one whose kids do this...)

(please, please tell me...)

TTFN,

"You know me..."

Sorry about not doing a Not Me Monday yesterday.

It's not that I didn't have enough to do one,

I just had a horrible headache and couldn't get

excited about doing it.

So, anyway, Paul called yesterday from work, and I

could tell from the sound of his voice that something

was wrong. Then he said,

"You know me..."

And I cringed.

The rest of that sentence went something very much

like, "if there's a way to get hurt, I'm going to find it.

I fell down a flight of stairs that didn't have a hand rail."

And I cringed again.

"How bad is it?"

"Oh, it's not that bad. I landed on my right shoulder, though,

and the metal step shoved right under my shoulder blade."

Luckily, he went down on his back, and not end over end!

He went out to the company hospital and they sent him home early,

but didn't do xrays or anything which frustrates me.

The reason he pointed out that he hurt his right shoulder is

because he tore his rotator cuff in that same shoulder in

another accident at work about 6 years ago.

That one required surgery and around 6 months out of work.

That one could so easily have killed him.

That one still gives me chills to think about.

But thank God, he walked away with just a torn rotator cuff.

And thank God for workman's comp!! LOL. We'd have never

made it without it.

My poor husband is an accident magnet. Surely you remember

that less than 3 months ago he cut his thumb on his table saw?

Yeah, it was his right thumb.

{sigh}

Then my thoughts start going places I don't like to go.

Morbid and melancholy places I don't like to think about.

And then I pray about it and feel better.

Until the next time he calls and says,

"You know me..."

Well, as long as he can still call I guess I'll be ok.

Sorry this was such a downer. This is just where I

am today. Thanks for listening. Or reading.

Or whatever.

TTFN,

Finally, a winner!!

Ok, so after having no laptop and then no

internet at all, I am finally back!!

And so, without further ado...

The Joseph DVD giveaway had a whopping

14 comments.

Random.org was kind enough to pick a winner for me.

And the winner is...

My newest follower, Rachel! Her comment;

sweetpea08 said...
My favorite Bible Story was always Jonah and the Whale!

rachel_demille@yahoo.com
October 13, 2009 5:30 PM

Get me your mailing address, Rachel and I will get you

your DVD. I know you and your family will love it!

Thanks for commenting and following! I hope to get to know

you better soon!! :)

Thanks to everyone who entered.

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On an unrelated subject...

Blogger is driving me nuts with again with the spacing-

and even worse, when I try to fix it, it really messes up! I

know HOW to fix it, but when I type instead of adding

what I'm typing, it types over stuff that's already there!

Anyone else having that problem??

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BTW, I am catching up on my reading, and trying to

comment too, but I'm backed up since Wednesday!! It's

crazy, so if I don't comment, please know that I DID read

your posts, I just didn't have time to comment.

TTFN,

Postponement...

Frustration.

I am sitting at the library typing this.

Our DSL is out and the technician couldn't

come today.

So, I'm postponing the Joseph DVD giveaway

until at least Friday!

If you haven't entered, now's your chance!!

I'm going to be so far behind in my reading and

commenting!! Ugh.

Oh, well. I guess I'll see ya when I see ya!!

TTFN,

How'd that happen?!?

Don't forget to enter my Joseph giveaway HERE!!

Ok...yesterday was Columbus Day and the kids

didn't have school. So being the mildly insane

good mom I am, I decided to take the kids on an outing.

Now, having kids of such varying age means that I

have to get creative with our outings.

So we went to lunch, shopping at the Aero outlet,

and {grimace} Chuck E. Cheese.

Shopping to make the older girls happy, and Chuck E.

to appease the boys-mine+Steven. 6 kids total.

Neither is my idea of fun.

{come on...dragging 4 kids 5 and under shopping

and then dragging ME and the 10 and 12 year old

around Chuck E. Cheese??

Nope. No stress possibilities at all.}

Throw in how long it takes for us to load and unload

everyone and monsoon-like storms by the end of the

adventure, and it was one heck of a day!

But I did get some great buys at the outlet, and it

really was a good day altogether. Everyone behaved

very well, and Noah only wandered off at Chuck E.'s and

had to be brought back to me crying twice. Seriously.

The funny for the day happened when we pulled up to

Chick-Fil-A for lunch. Ashton went to unbuckle Emmie

from her carseat. Then we heard,

"EMMIE! Where is your diaper??"

After some deep breaths and prayers for composure I

went to Emmie's seat to see what she could

possibly be talking about.

Sure enough, Emmie was buck naked under her dress.

All I could say was,

"How in the world did THAT happen?!?"

Taking a page from Noah's book, she had apparently removed her

diaper at the house before Ashton put her in the van.

And somehow Ashton never noticed.

Thank God she didn't have any bodily functions

on the way there!! That would have been pretty much

par for the course around here.

Ugh. Did I already mention duct tape for diapers??

Don't forget, today's the last day to enter for my

Joseph DVD giveaway!

If you haven't entered already, please do so now!! :)

TTFN,