Fall Fun

Here is our pumpkin princess, unless you hear her speak.  Last weekend we went down to Thanksgiving Point for Cornbelly's Corn Maze.  I took a gamble in thinking the girls would be old enough to enjoy a corn maze.  I found some cheap tickets to help me make that gamble.  It paid off.  This place was more than just a corn maze and the kids loved it.  We met the Pumkin Princess and Kelsey sat in Cinderella's pumpkin carriage.  Macy cheered on a pig in the pig races.  Braden played in a water pump meant for racing rubber ducks.  They slid on slides and jumped on large bouncy things.  We even took them into a haunted house. We didn't realize what it was but thought it would be okay because the spooks that would fill it weren't coming until the next weekend.  The guy at the entrance said it was just a dark walk (we walked through after dark).  Well I was definitely a haunted house set up.  The first bit was so dark that you didn't know which way was up.  I held unto Macy and Kelsey's hand to try to help keep them brave and so I wouldn't lose them.  Macy must have been touching the wall because she led us into the next room complete with strobe light and maze like partitions.  At this point Kelsey is starting to cry and Macy is thinking this is neat.  Luckily we find an early exit because Braden was starting to whimper.  We get outside and Macy wants to come back when the ghouls are there.  I was praying the rest of the night the girls wouldn't wake up with nightmares. 

Brian and I could barely pull them away to actually do the corn maze.  Macy really enjoyed the corn maze.  Her drama came out along with the attitude "I know which way to go and you don't so you better follow".  When we would take a wrong turn she would say it was her fault.  We spent 40 minutes to an hour in the maze.  We cheated to get out mostly because it was about 8:30 and Kelsey was so tired she wasn't having fun and Braden was loopy because he needed sleep.

Check out the last entry.  I added a photo.

Join us for Dinner

I bet you are all dying to know what dinner is like at my house and wondering if dinner at my house is like dinner at yours.  Well I wanted to remember because the other night as I was eating I caught the hilarity of it all instead of being frustrated and ready for it to end.

Most of the time Brian is not home for dinner.  This in of itself can be bothersome.  Usually the kids finish right when I take my first bite and they are ready for seconds or in need of something that requires I get up.  I have decided to incorporate some manners into this household and no one is to eat until everyone has been served.  This requires a lot of patience to starving children who only had a snack an hour ago.  Braden is also a picky eater and throws most of his food on the floor.  I grumble most of the time I am on my hands and knees wiping up.

This particular night I ask Macy about her favorite thing today.  Kelsey pipes in "How come you always ask Macy first?"  Macy's favorite thing was her substitute teacher.  Usually it is the number of recesses she got that day.  Throughout dinner she eats 3 helpings and makes it to a fourth.  I ask Kelsey the same question and she says "going to the bathroom" and then laughs with her witch cackle.  She then continues yaking and adds the word "toilet" into her answer at least 3 or 4 times laughing the entire time.  She wants more punch and I have to tell her to eat more than one bite before I will do this.  Five minutes later and she still has only taken one bite.  Then in her wicked laugh she tells me to look because she ate it all.  She did not have seconds nor did she come close to finishing her first serving.  At one point I turn to Braden and he has taken to eating some of his food like a dog.  He is bent over with his face to his tray.  Another point I look at Braden (I think after Kelsey's potty talk) and he is sitting back all relaxed, ankles crossed and his finger up his nose.

Here is a picture of what happens when Braden eats like a dog.

Anyone want to join us for dinner?