November 7, 2021

Carson has begun telling me "I wuv you so much".  It's so adorable and melts my heart. Kind of makes up for all the diaper changes and messes ;-)  I've also heard him say it others in the family and it's sweet to hear how they respond.  A day or two ago, I took Carson to the playground in our backyard to push him on the swings.  We've been having a vole digging tunnels in our landscaping and piling dirt on top of the mulch.  I heard the little vole rustling in the tunnel and saw that it was open.  Usually, I'm not there at the right time and the vole has already pushed out the dirt that he wanted removed and covered himself in again.  This time it was still open and so I ran into the house to return with vole poisoning.  I told Carson what I was doing.  We had previously talked about how the vole is eating some of the plants and ruining some stuff and so I'm trying to get rid of him and that Carson should never eat the poison (I cover it up so Carson doesn't get to it).  A few days ago, Carson saw the cover of the vole poison bag and said, "Mom, I wuv him!"  since there was a picture of a rodent on the bag.  It was so cute.   I told him that I love the vole too but I wish I could move him into the woods because he's ruining my plants.  I put some poison into the hole and then put some dirt over the opening.  Carson began singing, "I wuv you..." to try to get the vole to come out. Kids are so sweet.

Cam got a new Lego Minecraft set this week.  I had told him a while ago that he could set up Lego scenes and narrate a story to me that we could make into a book.  He really wanted to make a book from this new set.  He set up a dozen scenes and narrated Dragon Slayer to me.  He was so thrilled to make his own book!

An excerpt from the book reads, "I am Dragon Slayer.  I have an Ender Pearl and an enchanted bow and arrow.  And then, a zombie snuck up behind me.  I was super scared." (Jumping ahead) "This is what The End looks like.  See that crystal on top of that End Pillar? Do you know what that's for? The crystal is for when you hit the Ender Dragon with an arrow.  He'll take damage.  That is what The End Crystal comes in handy for.  The crystals heals the dragon." (Later) "I had finished the dragon with one last hit.  The dragon had fell to the ground. It had died." Intrigued?  You may just get a personal narration from the author himself next time you visit! :-)

Brit mentioned that when he played piano, his sock would get wet from the carpet.  We had to pull the piano out of the closet and rip up the carpet.  It was soaked.  Landon thinks it was the combination of something missing on the shower head, a lack of sealing around the shower handle, and long kid showers that made it drip into the wall.  Hopefully that's right because that'd be an easy fix.  Meanwhile, it looks like this.  Glad that Landon's handy because things like this could get really expensive if you had to pay someone else to take care of it.

It's been a huge help to have Marin and Sophie come on Mondays and Wednesdays.  They pretty much do all of Lexi and Carson's school work those days, which I greatly appreciate.  I was looking at the kids' school charts.  Since Brit has 8 things a day, Ty has 7 things a day, Cam has 5 things a day, and Lexi has 3-4 things a day, it's over 100 school items I have to make sure get done every week.  Thankfully, Brit does pretty much all of his on his own, but Ty needs me for half of the items and Carson and Lexi need me for almost every thing.  And that's just school work! It feels like a busy season of life for sure! 

 

We still have our Halloween pumpkins.  This week, Carson was moving them around. Some of them were pretty heavy.  "Hoo ah! {grunt} I willy big!" 

A little Sunday morning walk.  At the bottom of the slanted side walk, there are some big rocks.  Carson asked me to take a picture and then proceeded do burp during the pictures.  "Wet me see my burp!" I told him it wasn't a video but just a picture.  He seemed content looking at the pictures anyways,  "That's my burp!" This guy!

Notice Lexi's Elsa and Anna tennis shoes.  I have held out for a long time getting tennis shoes that are so blatantly character themed.  I think they're a bit much and tacky.  But I have realized that soon she will be too old to wear these types of things.  And since I only have one girl, and tacky as they may be, I want to embrace all these fun stages.  Bright shoes and all! Bonus: they light up :-)