Lost another tooth

The tooth fairy will visit again tonight.  This could get really expensive.  Nicole's second tooth was holding on for dear life.  The tooth underneath was half way out before the one on top finally let go. 

We are expecting a visit from the tooth fairy tonight.

Pumpkin  went to work with Daddy today.  She had fun playing in the dirt.  Like that's a surprise. Daddy bought her an apple and she lost her first tooth today in it.  She handed me a empty water bottle that had her tooth in it.  I almost threw it out twice.   Her tooth right next to it is going to come out soon too.  This could get expensive for the tooth fairy.

Sunflowers

I just love sunflowers.  I remember several years ago a farm near my parents old house did a whole field of sunflowers.  It was soooooo beautiful.  Here are some of my sunflowers.

Halloween Crafts

I raided Ed supply of scrap wood and we had some fun yesterday.  The kids always enjoy painting.  We still have a  few things that are in the basement drying.  I'm trying to control my urge to hit the craft store today.  Most of my paints are dried up.  I haven't touched most of them in at least 6 years. 

in the garden

Mom when can I get a phone??

Yes my 5 year old son asked me when could he get a phone?  The same boy who refuses to talk to anyone including his grandmothers on the phone.  When I asked him what he needed it for he said so he can call his cousin Ben on his phone.
We had gone out looking for beds last week.  We figured it's about time to get this same five year old out of our bed.  He starts school in a couple or weeks so it is  - Yes WAY passed time to get him in his own bed.  So we were talking about the beds and if we got him one he would have to actually sleep on it.  So as the conversation went on we asked him when he would be ready to sleep on his own bed.  He said and I quote "When I thirty!"

Chore chart

The kids are loving their new chore chart.  As soon as I put them up they ran around the house to try to do all their chores.  I'm hoping they will still be excited about do them in a few weeks.  They have yet to complete a full days worth of chores.  Yeah for me!  One of their chores is to get to bed on time.  This seems to be the one they have the hardest time accomplishing since they have never had a set bedtime before.   I have yet to make the KOCH CASH they will earn for completing them.  I got a couple packets of magnets from the dollar store and printed out pictures of tasks they have to do.  Things like brushing their teeth, getting dressed and making the bed. You know things they should do everyday.  This is just a visual to help remind them of what the have to do.  I want to make special ones for sweeping, vacuuming, helping with the laundry.  I have to figure out what the KOCH CASH will equal.  What is appropriate for five year olds?  I'm thinking 1 KOCH CASH will equal $1.  If they complete a full day they get a smiley face.  If they complete a special chore like vacuuming they will get a smiley face.  Then they will get 1 KOCH CASH for each smiley face.  Well that's the idea.  I hope it works.

Painting T shirts

Last night we decided to work on some t shirts.  Michael picked out a robot for his shirt.  This one was hard to cut out because of all the little pieces

Here are the steps we did.

1 print out an image on the computer.

2 cut out the image from freezer paper

3 Beat you son for 15 minutes because he blew all the timy pieces across the table

4 piece everything back together like a puzzle

5 iron them on quickly before son comes back into the room

6 paint

7 dry

8 peel off paper

9 wear

I don't like the silver on the blue but that was what he wanted.

Nicoles puppy was so much easier to do.

For Cinderella we used a iron on pen put the outline on the shirt.  There was no way I was going to cut those lines out.

Garden Visitors

Happiness :)

Legos everywhere

 This morning I woke up and went to make coffee and I found a bunch of Legos in my coffee pot.  I cleaned it out and went to add water to the maker and found some more in the maker.  Cleaned that out and opened the basket to add the coffee ground and found it full of Legos.  When I asked him why, he said he needed a safe place to hide them so they wouldn't be stolen.

Silly Pictures

visiting daddy and drew at work

keeping busy with garbage a roll of tape and nails

National Night Out 2010

this one just looks wrong

Az pics