Friday, October 24, 2008

Fort Phillips
















Today we had to do a bunch of errands. The girls were screaming and Brayden was talking non-stop about very important stuff from the back of the van. I finally turned around at a stop sign to face them and lost it! I said something along the lines of, "You need to stop screaming (As I'm screaming) and be quiet and stop talking, so I can drive safely and not get into an accident." They are usually pretty good in the car, so this wasn't really typical behavior, plus I was lost trying to find a ticket box office. ANYWAY, I am an old lady and can't handle a ton of noise, I think because there is constant noise in my life now, so any additional puts me over the edge. I can barely stand to have music on in the house. So sad..... I have digressed. SO..... we are going down the Freya hill (which is huge) right after I had my breakdown. I told Brayden, "This is a HUGE WEEE hill!" He said very quietly, "Yeah, this is fun." Then when I was approaching some cars, he said under his breath, "Get out of the way, watch out cars!" I think he thought for sure, I was nuts and I was going to ram them. Who wants to contribute to his therapy bills??



But before we went on that fun adventure we made Fort Phillips, which Brayden was so excited about. We built it right when he got up and he got to eat breakfast under it and watch cartoons, "just like he did at Grandma Wagener's house." The girls were locked in their high chairs for their breakfast so the fort lasted for about 20 minutes. 20 seconds after the girls were unleashed, it was all over..... Brayden said, "I am very angry, lock them in their room!" (I have never locked them in their room, in case you're wondering.... although it has crossed my mind).

From that point on, the Fort was never quite the same.

Halloween Happiness

Last week Grandma Wagener sent us a Halloween package! There were stickers and window clings in the box! All of the kids loved the window clings and they worked together for 15 minutes to get them all up on the slider! It was the best gift ever!





At some point last week Brayden and I made our annual Halloween cookies! They turned out yummy!





Last weekend we attended the twins group Halloween party. We made a 15 minute appearance and then we had to be on our way. It wasn't a very good morning for any of the kids. Part of it may have had to do with the costumes. It took longer to get all the gear on than the amount of time they actually wore it.




The Phillips fam at the twin party.





Brayden "working" hard








Ellie decorating her treat bag.


Dani coloring her bag.
Now all we have left to do is carve all of those pumpkins (and trick-or-treat)! We had a sad morning last week when we woke up and B looked out into the driveway and saw two of our four pumpkins smashed! He was in tears and so upset, because he chose those at the pumpkin patch. He wanted to go back and get some more. I convinced him that we still had enough to carve (I wasn't going to go through that again) and he seemed ok with it. He's still telling everyone, "Mean people smashed our pumpkins on our driveway." It was so sad having to try to explain why someone would do that to a four year old. :(
One more week 'til the sugar rush!