Happy Halloween!

From Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

My Hair Needs Mowing!

The glue & tape are holding!!!  

Wednesday was crazy hair day at the kids program at church.  We sprayed his hair green and bobby pinned some bugs & lizards for a over grown back yard on his head.  We kept teasing him that his daddy was going to mow it.  But he said that the lawn mower was too big.  Jerry is also sporting his new Cubbies vest.  He has passed his first level (memorizing 3 verses & motto) in Awanas (sort of Sunday School & Scouting combined).  We had a hard time with the first line to memorize - the Cubbies Motto:  Jesus love me.  
Just three words.  Seems simple enough...  

       Jerry can you say the Cubbies Motto:  Jesus loves me.

"Jesus loves YOU!"

No... Jesus loves ME

What's the Cubbies Motto?  Jesus...

"Jesus loves YOU!"

Not YOU.... ME.  Like the song

The Cubbies Motto is: Jesus Loves ME

Whats the Cubbies Motto?

"Jesus loves YOU, Mom!"

This went on for several days - but two days before Awanas he finally got it and quickly memorized his other verses.

Trip to the ER



Before



Before



After

Yesterday, Jerry tripped and hit is head on the edge of the table at school.   It took 4 nurses and his mother to hold him down (while he was papoosed in a blanket) to tape & glue his cut back together.  It was only a 3 1/2 hour wait at the ER - record timing last time we went it was nearly 8 hours.  He is in great spirits and was mainly concerned about his blankie which had gotten covered in blood.  I followed through with the promises(bribes) during the ordeal with McDonald's, Ice Cream and a trip to visit the animals at the pet store. The poor kid was starving eating 4 chicken nuggets, a double cheese burger, apple dippers, and fries.   We are asking for prayers that the steri-strips and derma bond hold; otherwise, we will have to go back to Driscoll Children's Hospital for him to be sedated and then stitched. 

Freshly Sharpened #2 Pencils and New Boxes of Crayons

Such excitement with the first day at school - you can just see it on their faces.   Jerry just about shoved us out the door as we dropped him off in his classroom with a quick & distracted "bye Mom, bye Dad."  Haddie was a little clingy but was excited to use the girls only bathroom.

They can bring their own pillow and blanket for nap time - .  I spent last evening sewing a pillow case and blanket for each of the kids.  Haddie had cupcakes and purple flowers on hers.   Big Jerry & I found US Navy fabric at the craft store for Little Jerry's - He was so excited- IT HAS BLUE ANGELS!!! 

He accidentally fell asleep trying it out.  His new blanket will never replace his old bankie.

Big Jerry  had a doctor's appointment that day as well so we took advantage the opportunity to spend the day together - had lunch, did a little shopping and went to the movies.  We saw The Help - so good!  I had bought the book on Saturday - about 1/2 through - so good!

Summer Update & Pics from my phone...

It has been an eventful summer - good and not so good.   Jerry's younger brother Fred passed away - for reasons really unexplainable.  The death of a long time family pet (Ouija kitty @ 19 years old) just days before prepared the kids to handle and somewhat understand the death of their uncle.  Jerry still prays for his Uncle Fred at dinner. Haddie conquered potty training!!!  I had to have surgery- not fun - but I got to stay home with my kids for almost 3 1/2 weeks - fun & a blessing.    We had two family reunions.  One was an amazing trip to San Antonio that was such a R&R time for our little family - the other turned into a more of a rememberance and celebration of Fred - sad - but full of faith.  It was nice to see some of Jerry's family that we haven't seen since before Haddie was born.   Kids have been out for most of the  summer staying with NaNa and making a trip to  duckville - talk about a quiet house - eerie quiet.  After this summer Big Jerry & I decided that we are looking forward to getting back to the normal "rut" of work-school-home.  

Jerry & Taylor's Preschool Graduation - Jerry played the Spoon in Hey Diddle Diddle



One of those moments when every thing is too quiet and you just know that there is trouble...Nope, a nice  big brother reading Wet Dog  to his sister.



Haddie's fashion sense - wings & a Mohawk hat.





On July 2nd Jerry & celebrated our 6th aniversary.  4th of July - Since it had been just a few days after my surgery, we watched the fireworks on PBS and the illegal ones flying through the neighborhood instead of the usual trip to the aquarium.  We put on crazy hats, cooked hotdogs & smores on the redneck fire pit and built forts in the living room.  If you haven't seen Big Jerry's redneck fire pit - well...  It is a truck rim on a gas fryer stand and he is very proud of it....all I can say is that it works.




This would be a picnic in the dining room.




Washing babies in the kitchen.   Jerry would just fall over laughing-his baby would "pee" every time he lifted it from the water.




Pretend "Popcorn" for the movie




Pippi's first braids - had to corner in the bathroom to get a picture.  Since she has been potty trained I have been after her to sit a little more modestly.  Not her usual sitting in her car seat holding on to her toes with her legs straightened out  over her head.  She is reminded to sit like a little lady.  Her reply  "I NOT A LADY  - I GURL!!!!!" screamed from the back seat.    This past weekend BJ and I were hanging towels on the clothes line.  Haddie got frustrated with us not rushing over to her to put on her shoes so  that she  could come "help n me".  So she improvised...she put puppets on her feet...a duck  and a frog.  Meme said "That's MY girl!!"



Hooks game - Haddie loves to "kack" peanuts - I have to love being fed the wet peanuts.  Haddie got a smooch from her daddy captured on the Hooks Kiss Cam featured on the scoreboard- to a loud studium response of  "Aawwwe".





San Antonio Zoo was soooo HOT! Red faced we stopped for a drink. 



Very tired kids after a day of playing, music, eating fish tongues (fried shrimp) and swimming at the family reunion.



Eggs on toast - a childhood favorite of mine - that has become very popular with Jerry - 1/2 a soft boiled egg squished up with butter, salt & pepper on toast then cut into  9  bite size squares.  His current record stands at 2 eggs and 4 pieces of toast.













Jerry and Haddie playing on the porch.  By the expression on his face -you would think he was up to no good - but actually that would be his sister.   She discovered she could run through the sprinkler and get all wet, then wipe out his side walk chalk "letters" by laying on them and wiggling around.  So he sprawled out on his "letters" to protect them from his sister. He is very proud that he can write his name.   A "thumbs up fist bump"  is the cool thing to do in the McQueen household - according Lil' Jerry.



Air Show 2011- NAS Corpus Christi

Haddie was ready for a day out in the sun

We trekked from the parking area to the air show in our ATW - all terrain wagon.  We needed the ATW too;  the parking area was a field of holes and sand.  Plus it was a long walk - saving little legs from getting tired and them having to be carried.

The Jerrys checked out the first plane we came to.

LJ was very excited to touch a blue angel.

Then we checked out the helicopters...

Haddie & LJ got in this one.

Then we all waited patiently to board the "flying gas station". - Don't even ask me the names of these things.

Then we looked for a place to settle in and watch the airshow. 

Haddie is "style-n'"her fashionable pink ear protection.

It was hard to catch the planes with the camera.  I either got just the front end or just the backs.  This was the Heritage flight.  Featuring what seems to be the Jerrys' favorite plane the F-16.

And some old plane - I don't keep up with the names of these things-I just remember them saying it was the Cadillac of the skies.

It was cool they flew in formation-the jet going as slow as it could and the prop going as fast as it could to try and keep pace with each other.

If you didn't see last years F-16 gawk - please go back to last years airshow blog and look.  But this years, beats last years. 

The 2011 F-16 Gawk!

 

And how did Haddie react to the noise?

Slept through the whole thing!

 LJ getting a better view of the Blue Angels starting up their engines and taxi-ing out.

As we skyped with Meme-Pappy tonight LJ could not remember this plane's name.  He told them - you know the big one, with propellers and it is the "friend of the Blue Angels". 

Meme guessed it first - It's "FAAAT ALBERT!!!"

Time for the Blue Angels!

"Did ya see'm do dis?"

"And this?"

It was a good day.  A really good day.

Cleaning Out the Pictures from My Phone

Just a few pictures from my phone...

Picture day at school - beach theme.  Haddie picked out her own "pretties" for her hair at Bealls - on sale too!

I had to work late, because of the museum ribbon cutting, so Na-Na picked up the kids from school and WORE THEM  OUT!  Thank you Na-Na!  Kids can sleep anywhere. Jerry is demonstrating the seat belt head hammock position.  He is clutching his Happy Meal car - slept with it too!

As he gets older - Jerry has been assigned house hold jobs.  His first job is taking the kitchen compost out to the compost bin outside.  His second job is taking the recycling out to the garage and sorting it - plastic, tin & paper/card board.  This has been a very popular job - even a competition between  Jerry & Haddie.  Once the baskets were full,  we made a trip to the Recycling Center.  Jerry found the huge 4 foot block of squished water bottles very interesting.

They are out of our bed!!!-for MOST of the night.  We set up a bunk bed in their room this weekend and they are sleeping through the night in their room.  First we tried side-by-side in a day bed - because they are used to sleeping with us - but they would wake each other up - they would come to our room about 11pm.  Then we tried toe-to-toe in the day bed - a little better - they would come to our bed about 3am.  After a talk with LJ about why he would wake up and come our bed crying - Toe-to-toe not a good sleeping position for him - got a couple of kicks to the man parts.  So bunk beds!  They didn't come to our bed until 5:30am!!!!  Of course I didn't sleep - worried about him climbing down the ladder - even though I put in two night lights and they have their Cloud B Turtles that project stars every where.