Luke's Arm

We had quite a scare last night. Apparently, Tayson pushed Luke off the slide in the basement and Luke landed on his right arm. We were pretty sure it was broken from his 15 minutes of straight screaming and the fact that he would move his fingers or anything. We decided to take him to instacare around 8:00 pm - just as the pumpkin carving was coming to an end. Luke missed the lighting of the pumpkins because he was screaming so hard. So Todd and David gave him a blessing and he finally calmed down and we took him in - he fell asleep on the 15 minute drive and was perfect the whole time we were there. They took 2 x-rays and luckily he didn't have a break or fracture, just a bad sprain.

He still won't use his right arm and we are icing it and doing Motrin for the pain. This morning he came in to the room with his right hand over his head and said "look mommy I can do it" then Tayson said "I think he should get a special prize" and tried talking me into giving them one of Luke's special prizes set aside for when he decides to finally potty train. I didn't fall for it though.

4th Annual Pumpkin Carving

Last night we had our annual pumpkin carving FHE. It started 4 years ago with Jeannie, Trent, Todd, Tayson and I and has grown every year. This year was by far the biggest.



Grandpa was in charge of Lexie's pumpkin - and she wanted one with 2 bats. As you can see one of the bats came off from a few wrong cuts with the knife. Good thing grandpa is so good with toothpicks. Don't worry we can barely see them when it's dark.



The kids had a blast carving, eating and playing. I think Tayson ate 8 pumpkin bars last night!!! Claire didn't do anything but walk around and pretend to shoot us with her gun.



Some sweet shots of everyone working hard on their pumpkins. I took lots of pictures because Luke and I won for the fastest pumpkin - his was very simple and easy. :)



And the final product. Thank goodness most of these will not be on my porch for the rest of the week. What would I do with all those pumpkins!!!

Claire

Yes she is our princess. Baby #3 and a girl. What can I say I spoil her rotten and I love buying her clothes, shoes and jewerly. She is a big fan of jewerly too - she would only crawl for the "bling" - when Timmy would take off his big shiny watch she would crawl across the room. Otherwise she didn't bother to move much at first.


Of course growing up with 2 big brothers hasn't always been easy for her, especially with Luke only 20 months older than her. She had sippy cups and books thrown at her from the day she got home from the hospital. Now she is tough and can hold her own. I have seen her push Tayson down when he bothers her and she walks around the house making gun sounds and shooting spider webs out of her hands saying "pssss" just like the boys. It's time for me to buy her a doll I think.



Claire turns 18 months old in a few weeks and still only has her 2 bottom teeth. I can feel one of the top ones starting to poke through, but she is a little behind the times. As you can see at one she didn't have any teeth yet.

Luke

Luke is the opposite of Tayson - he looks like a Schultz and acts just like Todd. He says the funniest things and still can't say his "L", "R" and "CH" sounds. Which means he calls Claire "Cway" and church "titch" and all words that end in the "r" sound come out like an "e". The other day he slammed the door of our closet and said to Todd "see you later suckeee". He's a crazy kid with too much energy and he beats up Tayson and Claire all the time.



What can I say....Luke is 3 and most of his sweetness left with his 3rd birthday. David and Kami were telling him not to smile in this picture - and he is doing his best to stay grouchy.



Luke was a total binky baby - it was a huge task task to get rid of it. Which didn't happen until he was 2 1/2.


And just like his older brother Luke LOVES the computer. The best story of Luke and the computer was when he was 2 1/2 and we were up at my parent's house and he was playing computer. David thought he would be funny and was shooting these nerf balls across the room at him. They were wizzing past his head and a couple even hit the monitor. Luke didn't move, he just kept playing his game until one hit him in the head - the he turned and gave David a very dirty look and went right back to playing his game.

Tayson

I thought I would write a few of my favorite things about each one of the kids and include some of my very favorite pictures that tell it all. Tayson looks just like his daddy and acts just like his mom. Needless to say, he makes me crazy because he's too similar to me.


Tayson had the hugest pot belly when he was little and to top that off he has a totally swayed back like me so it stuck out even further. (This is his 2nd birthday party at Seven Peaks with his cousin Lexie).


Tayson loves to play computer - a skill he got from hanging out with his Dad and uncles too much. This is Tayson with his cousins - Ryan, Adam and Lexie.

As you can see he started playing computer at a very young age. Todd is stitting on the bouncy ball instead of a chair because that was the only way to keep him happy.


And like his uncle Danny he finds clothing to be optional most of the time.

Happy 1st Birthday Talon

Happy Birthday to sweet little Talon. Jeannie and Trent had his party at Chuck E. Cheese which made my kids very happy! I let the kids pick out their own presents for him....which was quite a fiasco. I don't know why I thought I could take all 3 kids to Toys R Us and still be in a good mood by the time I got to Chuck E. Cheese. It was a first for me though to leave without any toys for the kids - I let them each get a book but that was it. I'm one of those bad mom's who just buys them useless things to keep them happy. I am getting better though - and this trip was proof.

I think this picture of Talon is precious and shows how cute and sweet he is. We are excited to see if baby #2 coming up this spring looks the same.

Shouldn't leave the house

I couldn't pass this picture up. I was at the post office yesterday and I saw this man and realized he really shouldn't have left the house looking like he did - especially in 60 degree weather. His bright blue underwear are peaking out of his way too short cut off jean shorts and his thread bare shirt was even worse from the front. His left nipple was completely visible thought a huge hole. Now I'm not sure if he simply doesn't have the money to get some new clothes or if he thinks this looks sexy but it almost made me laugh out loud in the middle of the not-so-funny post office. I hope you can all appreciate the insanity of this man's outfit - I know you aren't getting the whole picture ... because trust me on this one the front was so much worse.