A new one for the Top 10 list

"You don't brush your baby brother's teeth!"

This morning while I was attempting to get ready I put Fletcher down in his crib thinking it was the safest place for him and I finished doing my hair real quickly in my bathroom. When I got done my mother's instinct radar kicked in and I went to go check on Fletcher and I caught Griffin climbing down from the chair he'd moved over to the crib and I see a few books he'd tossed into the crib and I notice that Fletcher's face was all gummed up with drool... but so was his cheek, his hair, and his hood.  I see Griffin running away with his toothbrush and toothpaste in his hand.... "Griffin, did you brush the baby's teeth?"  "No" he says as I see a blur of the back of his shirt.  I think in 2 year old logic and ask again, "Griffin, did you TRY to brush the baby's teeth?" (because clearly, he doesn't have any!) and Griffin turns around and looks at me and says "Yaaa" with a big smile.  I couldn't help but laugh and was thankful it was the edible children's toothpaste.  Another one for the history books!

A Jolly Holiday!

Some days you bump and stutter through the day and other days are days you bounce and float... today we floated and swept through the day!  Just a spoonful of sugar... made it a delightful day!
Here are the highlights...

 "Chim Chim a Roo!"  Chimney sweeps serenading Papa Tom

 Childhood is a "Step in time"

 Lucky Sweeps

 Serenading Nana

 Just blow me a kiss, and that's lukkeey too

 Mary Poppins floated in to join the sweeps

 Supercalifragilisticexpeallidocious baby Fletcher & Mary Poppins

 Being Shy

 Tuckered out Super baby

 Even Jim got into the spirit of things, too!

 The Boyz helped me pack my bag, I had a makeup compact, tape measure, large silver spoon & their magic chimney sweep dust that made them real chimney sweeps  (Carter wanted me to put a lamp in my bag!)

 The road show continued ... serenading Papa & Gigi

 Griffin was more interested in driving the tractor

 and digging out the dirt in Papas playpen - the back of his pick up truck

Good thing it didn't matter if they got dirty!

 Kiefer did a little brick moving to make a chimney

 Kiefer at the neighborhood trick or treating

 The fire department told the boyz he'd hire them to help prevent chimney fires! :)

 In the neighborhood parade

 A friend from the neighborhood - she must be lucky to be surrounded by two sweeps!

 Carter excited about his loot!

Kiefer is too!  It was a Happy Halloween!!!

Highlights of the week

I've learning there's not much time for this blogging thing...  surprise, surprise! :)  So I'm catching up a bit.  Last week we had a few funny moments.  Sometimes it's the simplest things that amuse the boyz...


One morning when Jim drove Carter to the bus stop, sweet Kiefer says "I wish I could go to school in the dark...." as he wistfully looked out the window watching his brother and Daddy-o drive away.  I'm fairly certain he won't always feel that way!

Griffin is really getting into books and if you ever can't find him, he's usually upstairs reading... here he is a few times caught reading!

 Doing the "Prilly Pose"

Fletcher is rolling around now... here he is on the playmat with his blankie wrapped around his head like a turban because he's been twisting around so much!

 And the best after school activity yet!  They decided one day that they wanted to wash their blankies and "Ellie" spelled L-E (I'm told) in their own wash load so they could watch them whirl and spin.  It was 10 minutes of peace and quiet for me, so I gladly accepted! Hilarious!  Who knew the spin cycle could be so entertaining?

Our pumpkins that we carved a few weeks ago imploded... so we started over.  Here are our four little pumpkins carving their punkins...  no injuries, either. It was a success! (In case you wondered it's hard to make a mean face as requested by Kiefer)

 Ice cream scoops are good at getting the guck out!

 Even Fletcher was into it...

 Carter wanted to keep all the seeds to plant more pumpkins... I did too, but it's easier to buy seeds next spring!

Then it cracked me up when they made this five hitch wagon get up in the driveway.  They amused themselves for quite sometime with this activity!  And then there's Kiefer, always with his blankie in tow- like Linus.

 note the red flag on the very back...

 Linus... I mean Kiefer.

And then we had to practice trick or treating - with treats, of course.

Next stop is the real deal!