Busy kids!

Things have been in full swing around here at our house! Susie and Aaron have been going to softball twice a week to get their team ready for their first game on Saturday. She loves spending time with daddy just the two of them and I love it for both of them too! I've been working hard with my friends to get VBS stuff in order...which by the way, I'm so excited about. I love the bible character Joshua. Grace and I sat down the other night and read the first 9 chapters together and it was fun to hear what she thought about all the battles and such. I love reading (actually, listening) with her.

Parker has been busy just being Parker. Man! Little 2 year old boys are always up to something, aren't they? Last week, I didn't hear him for a few minutes...you know...trouble. I went looking for him. He was under the dining room table with a block, yes a block, of cheese. He was eating away on the cheese.

I said, "Parker! What are you doing?"

His response, "I hungry, mama!"

Little stinker!

He is rocking on the potty training. I say training but he has been in big boy underwear for quite some time so I guess we are almost done. I just don't want to jinx ourselves and get too excited. The final step was to wear them to school on Tues./Thurs. and I just didn't put him in real underwear on those days because I thought that if he did get busy and forgot to tell his teachers he needed to go...that would be a HUGE mess for them. So, he has been wearing a pull up on school days. Well...he went to school Tuesday in his SpiderMan underwear and was so very excited. His teachers said that after lunch, he got a worried look and yelled, "I NEED TO GO POOP RIGHT NOW!!" He made it, they just said he was so very funny.

Oh, one more Parker story and I'm done.

In bible class, Parker's teacher, Ms. June had just handed each of the kids a bible and they were talking about the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Then June says to the kids, "Who gave us the Bible?"

You know, the kids are supposed to say, "God did!" or "Jesus did"

Yeah....


Parker yells out, "MS. JUNE!"

Yes, Parker...you are right, Ms. June DID give you the bible in your hand....Silly boy!

Okay, Jill, you are it!

We have been so busy this week...I know, who isn't with 3 kids, right? Yesterday we went to the zoo with some friends and it was the best. The best, why? Oh my word, the weather was incredible until about 1:00 and by then it was about time to go to the car anyway. You could totally tell that the animals were loving it as well. We took the girls inside the snake house (yuck, I so do NOT like going in there, but I have to act like the adult and go in with my 4 year old who isn't scared) and the snakes were all moving around. Yes, we have been to the Ft. Worth zoo a lot this year (passes from my Mother-in-law for Christmas, GREAT gift!!) and we have never been when the snakes were so slithery. Yucky for me, really cool for Susie and her friend. The male lion at the zoo was having a grand day, just roaring away every few minutes. It was just a great day in God's kingdom, no matter how you feel about caged animals, it was so pretty and nice to be outside with OUT sweating and enjoying being with our friends!

Today we are off to a birthday party at the Pumpkin Patch!!! I just can't wait and neither can SusieQ. What a great place to go for a birthday party, isn't it? I hope to get some cute pictures of the kids and enjoy our day in the kinda fall weather...is 80 degrees fall? It may not be for most people, but we will take what we can get around here!!!

Oh, by the way, from my last post, I tag Jill and Steph. Steph, you can just type your 7 random facts about yourself on my blog or on Jill's blog!!! I'm off to pick out a pumpkin.