On the way home from Casper Saturday morning Davin was busting us up with some of his comments. Some were just silly and others I wondered how in the world he could put that much thought into a comment that came out that quickly. I only remember a few:
Passing the rocks outside of Dubois--"Those are the coolest big rocks I ever seen in Wyoming!" The expression in his voice is what made this so funny! (He is on this kick about the fact that he lives in Wyoming and when he is and is not and what is and is not in Wyoming.)
I opened the bag of halloween candy just as we pulled into the valley and one of the box of Dots was empty. I commented that that was a rip off. A few minutes later Davin says, "I'm hungry for a rip off!"
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Road Trip!
The Braves had their first Playoff game in Buffalo so the boys and I decided to tag along! First we stopped in Rock Springs to do some shopping, visit Grandma and Grandpa Sheckler, and stay the night. The next morning we got up and headed to Casper, yucky roads and all! We got there without any problems and surprised Granny and Papa (who thought they would not get to see Kyson until Christmas)! It was way too much fun! Davin walked in with a boquet of flowers (too big for him to hold so it about fell out of his hand) and said "Surprise guys!" We really did surprise them and Papa kept saying how it was the best surprise ever. While there we visited, Davin and Granny built forts and foam block towers, and Granny spent lots of hours holding Kyson!
Granny crocheted this blanket for Kyson! A big accomplishment for her very arthritic hands! What a treasure!
Papa has this tradition of getting each of his grandkids a teddy bear when they were born. He started with me, both of my brothers, and all of my cousins. Now the tradition continues with his great-grandkids. He puts a lot of time and thought into picking out the right bear. This is him with the bear he picked out for Kyson!
Davin's foam tower! He even took the picture himself.
We took a quick time out from spending time with Granny and Papa to go up to the football game Friday night. It was perfect football weather and there were lots of Braves fans, however, the Braves just couldn't pull everything together and Buffalo was a tough team. The Braves lost 21-0 and ended the 2009 season. They had an excellent season and ended up doing very well after a rough start! Good job Braves!!!!
After the game we headed back to spend the night with Granny and Papa one more night before heading home for all of the Halloween activities. Davin woke up Saturday morning ready to go trick-or-treating so we practiced at Granny's door and she had a nice bag of treats ready for him.
Davin trick-or-treating at Granny's door!
Granny crocheted this blanket for Kyson! A big accomplishment for her very arthritic hands! What a treasure!
Papa has this tradition of getting each of his grandkids a teddy bear when they were born. He started with me, both of my brothers, and all of my cousins. Now the tradition continues with his great-grandkids. He puts a lot of time and thought into picking out the right bear. This is him with the bear he picked out for Kyson!
Davin's foam tower! He even took the picture himself.
After the game we headed back to spend the night with Granny and Papa one more night before heading home for all of the Halloween activities. Davin woke up Saturday morning ready to go trick-or-treating so we practiced at Granny's door and she had a nice bag of treats ready for him.
Davin trick-or-treating at Granny's door!Monday, November 2, 2009
Carving Pumpkins
Our carving pumpkins was kind of interrupted and ended up taking two days, one afternoon of Davin and I gutting them out, one night of Daddy and Davin carving batman, and a second night of Davin and I carving a jack-o-lantern named Spiderman!
I had planned to carve pumpkins Tuesday before Halloween but had a Young Women's presidency meeting. I figured the president would just excuse me so I called to tell her I was bailing to carve pumpkins (this was the only night we would be together before Halloween). She was really shocked and said they would manage. I felt really guilty because she seemed so disappointed that I wasn't going to be there. About 20 minutes later she called me back and said the meeting was a hoax, the girls were actually hosting a surprise baby shower for me and since all of the invitations had been sent out and food prepared they kind of needed me there. After that I felt even more awful! Anyway, Davin and I got started so he and Nicc could do some carving while I was gone. Nicc didn't get any pictures of them but Davin did not like gutting the pumpkin! He did, however LOVE carving the pumpkin. his idea of carving the pumpkin was poking it all over with the little poker to trace patters onto the pumpkin. Our pumpkins are covered with freckles!!! Davin insisted on a batman pumpkin so leave it to Nicc to figure it out. Nicc being a perfectionist sure pays at halloween, we usually have some pretty good pumpkins. I, on the other hand, don't do much more than a plain old jack-o-lantern. Davin liked helping me cut the teeth out of the other pumpkin. When we were done he asked what the pumpkin's name was and I mentioned Jack. He said, "No way, I think it is spiderman!" Everything is either Spiderman or Batman!
I had planned to carve pumpkins Tuesday before Halloween but had a Young Women's presidency meeting. I figured the president would just excuse me so I called to tell her I was bailing to carve pumpkins (this was the only night we would be together before Halloween). She was really shocked and said they would manage. I felt really guilty because she seemed so disappointed that I wasn't going to be there. About 20 minutes later she called me back and said the meeting was a hoax, the girls were actually hosting a surprise baby shower for me and since all of the invitations had been sent out and food prepared they kind of needed me there. After that I felt even more awful! Anyway, Davin and I got started so he and Nicc could do some carving while I was gone. Nicc didn't get any pictures of them but Davin did not like gutting the pumpkin! He did, however LOVE carving the pumpkin. his idea of carving the pumpkin was poking it all over with the little poker to trace patters onto the pumpkin. Our pumpkins are covered with freckles!!! Davin insisted on a batman pumpkin so leave it to Nicc to figure it out. Nicc being a perfectionist sure pays at halloween, we usually have some pretty good pumpkins. I, on the other hand, don't do much more than a plain old jack-o-lantern. Davin liked helping me cut the teeth out of the other pumpkin. When we were done he asked what the pumpkin's name was and I mentioned Jack. He said, "No way, I think it is spiderman!" Everything is either Spiderman or Batman!
I love his face here! This totally captures his feelings about the insides of the pumpkins!!!
Davin and all of his pumpkins: Spiderman (AKA Jack-o-lantern), Batman, and his painted ones!
Davin and all of his pumpkins: Spiderman (AKA Jack-o-lantern), Batman, and his painted ones!
Bend-A-Whoos, Bend-A-Roos!
In case you have not seen the commercial, Bend-A-Roos are little wax strings that can be bent into any shape. Well, Davin has been eyeing these for months and Grandma Sheckler sent him a set in a Halloween package this last week. Davin had a great time playing with his wax strings and he kept repeating over and over, "Bend-A-Whoos, Bend-A-Roos!" the entire time he was playing and pretty soon I had 500 Bend-A-Roos around my living room (I am not exaggerating when I say 500-there were that many in the package and Davin had them ALL out)!
LEAVES!
Yes sir! It is that time of year again! I have a love/hate relationship with these beautiful, shady, yet messy little things! Davin, on the other hand, LOVES them! We spent a whole Saturday working and working to pick up leaves, only to have a big wind that night that put us back to about where we began.
Nicc was using the leaf blower to blow as many of the leaves into the creek as possible and Davin would just run through the blowing leaves and laugh like crazy! He loves to look for unique leaves and point out how pretty they are!
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So, after working for an entire Saturday Davin and I went out and raked the leaves into piles. I raked and Davin jumped--we were quite the team! The bigger the pile, the better! Davin just kept saying, "Thanks for putting my leaves into a big pile for me, Mom." I love this kid!!! It was a good thing he made raking those leaves so much fun!
Nicc was using the leaf blower to blow as many of the leaves into the creek as possible and Davin would just run through the blowing leaves and laugh like crazy! He loves to look for unique leaves and point out how pretty they are!
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So, after working for an entire Saturday Davin and I went out and raked the leaves into piles. I raked and Davin jumped--we were quite the team! The bigger the pile, the better! Davin just kept saying, "Thanks for putting my leaves into a big pile for me, Mom." I love this kid!!! It was a good thing he made raking those leaves so much fun!
Monday, October 26, 2009
Something funny at 2 am!?!?
Last night I was walking around with Kyson (we have had to do this alot lately. His reflux kills him when he eats then falls asleep--about an hour later he just screams). He had just fallen asleep, or was more in a semi-sleep state when he let out a true giggle and got the biggest grin. Then a few minutes later I got another big giggle. Then I got a third one that was a full blown laugh. I wish I knew what was so funny at 2 AM! I saw nothing very funny--I bet he was thinking, look at this sucker that will walk me around until I fall asleep!
Maybe this needs more work!
One day last week we went to get in the car to run some errands and the battery was dead. Immediately Davin said, "We need to say a prayer, Mom." But it didn't end there. A boy who usually asks everyone else to say the prayer immediately began praying the most appropriate prayer (usually his prayers are about anything and everything). He asked that the car would be not broken and that we could run errands. After he was done I tried to start the car again with no success. Davin, just about as if it were a matter of fact said, "Well, that didn't work." I guess we need to talk about the fact that some prayers are not answered immediately.
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