What Eli Would Do

Eli had to write a story in school called "If I Was President". I got a kick out of this one so I had to share. I figured I would type it out here so you all could enjoy it too well and because I don't have a scanner!

If I Was President by Eli Trumbull

I will do my best for the people in America. As president I will lower taxes. Next I will keep the people in America safe that are at and not at war. I will also lower gas prices. And create new jobs. I will protect animals. Also I will create new businesses. That's what I would do if I were president.

Hmmm do you suppose the kid has been paying attention during this last campaign?! I didn't realize just how much he knew about current hot ticket items on the political agenda! And the cool thing is that he came up with this on his own! Very little of this would have been influenced by JR and I because some of these issues are not necessarily on the top of our lists!

44 Days

I learned earlier today (thank you Jerrie for your countdown widget) that we have only 44 days until Christmas! I don't know how that happened. My friend Valerie says it must be because we have had such nice weather. We really have. Up until this week it has been warmer than usual. As I said before, we didn't even have to wear jackets on Halloween! I obviously knew it was coming but I didn't realize just how quick! The funny thing was that a friend and I were just giving another friend a hard time for having her tree up already. Well geez, if I had realized just how close we were I wouldn't have said anything! I guess I better get busy......

Sad dog

The dog got in trouble the other day for doing what he does best.....eating cookies. Yep almost a whole batch of chocolate chocolate chip cookies that Kayla had made. He doesn't get sick from doing this which just blows my mind! But apparently he was mad at JR for busting him. So instead of trying to get luvin' from him, he had to come to me. Which, just for the record, I am not his "go-to" person for that. But check out these pictures and you can see what a baby he was being!

Yep he squeezed his butt up on the chair with me and hung on for dear life until I had to get up! And where is his face pointing? To JR! I think he was trying to rub it in his face!

Busy day

Man! Today ended up being a not so lazy Sunday for us. It did at least start out slow. But then we went to Eddie and Carla's house and had him cut Eli's hair and Kayla hung out with her friend Janae there. We also got the opportunity to visit with Rosie, who is the lady that babysat Kayla and Eli for 6 yrs! She unfortunately broke her back a few weeks ago so she is staying with them (he is her son). Her first comment when she saw Hailey was "She looks just like Eli"! No surprise there! The girl does look just like her brother! Anyways, Kayla stayed at their house to hang out for a bit. In the meantime, we went to lunch.

After lunch we came home and put Emma down for a nap. She only got to sleep for about an hour before we had to wake her up so that we could go pick Kayla up. We then had to go pick up her friend Kadejah so she could borrow our computer and printer to do her homework. While the girls were working, JR and Eli were grocery shopping. Then we had to take Kadejah back home so we could get home and finish up cooking dinner (pot of beans) and actually eat it! After all was said and done, I didn't actually get to sit and relax until about 9:45! Phew! I think we were all worn out and ready for bed! :)

Cereal

The Dr. gave us the go ahead to start feeding Hailey solids. So, as usual, we started with rice cereal. She doesn't get super excited about it but she seems to know what to do with it because very little ends up getting pushed back out of her mouth. Soon we will get to add the fun foods aka yellow/orange veggies. Those are the ones that my kids always loved!

NaBloPoMo Day 7

So is it bad that I am already pooping out on this plan?! Of course it is Friday and this is my tired day. It's the end of the work week. The week wears me out. I do good to stay awake past 9! So maybe that is why this is the best I am going to give you today! I hope I can be a bit more creative and/or inspired tomorrow. :)

Helmets and snowsuits

The guy across the street from us is in the process of doing a huge move and selling a ton of stuff in a garage sale. Yes people, it was that warm around here. There were garage sales happening last weekend! Anyways, he is a motorcyclist and must have had a spare helmet or two. Eli spent the entire weekend helping them with their garage sale and periodically came home with things they had given him. One of the things was a helmet. I walked into the living room to find him watching TV like this.......
And this is Hailey in her new winter coat/suit. I love putting babies in these things because they just look so darn cute in them! After I put it on her she kind of gave me this look like I was crazy for doing that to her.

It's a real life deer!

Yesterday after I picked Eli up and we headed to go get the girls, we took a slight detour down the street one block west of us. We saw a lady with a camera in her hand so naturally we had to look around to see if we could figure out what she was looking at. It was a deer! The poor thing must have wandered away from the bluffs that are about a half mile east of us or the bluffs that are a half mile north of us! But the best part was Eli's reaction. He says "It's a real live deer!". It is a rare siting smack in the middle of the city! Typically the closest we get to any sort of wildlife in this particular neighborhood is a fox! Unfortunately we didn't get to stick around to see where the deer went since we had to get Kayla from school. I do hope it got out of the neighborhood and back to where it was safe. Either direction towards the bluffs were picking up traffic because of rush hour!

And on to the big girl bed

We have figured out in Emma's short little life that she is one of those people that will do the job....once she is darn good and ready to do it. She won't warn you, tell you that she is ready to do the job. She will just do it. I decided this weekend that we needed to push this issue of getting Emma out of her crib because Hailey shouldn't be in her bassinet anymore because she is a chunky monkey. So the crib came down on Saturday. I let her take part. Though she wasn't really interested. But she did hang out in her room while Kayla and I took it all down. Saturday night, the girl cried for close to an hour. JR asked at one point how long I thought it would take her to figure out she could get out of the bed. But she never did! The girl stayed in her bed and cried. She fell asleep, and stayed that way until early Sunday morning (thank you stupid daylight savings time for coming to an end!) when she did get out of bed on her own. Sunday night, she went to bed just fine and did fine last night. When she wakes up in the morning, if you ask her where her crib is, she tells you it went bye-bye. We will leave it down for at least a month and let Hailey sleep in her pack-n-play. We haven't actually put Hailey in their room yet just to make sure Emma will continue to do good every night.

Potty training take 2

For the last week we have been working on potty training Emma again. And it has worked much better this time around! She obviously just wasn't ready a few months ago when we tried. She has done awesome! She did have a rough day on Fri and Sat but came out of that beautifully Sun and today. We do still put her in a diaper if we are leaving the house and for bedtime at night. She won't let us put one on her for her nap time though. Which is fine. She is really embracing the potty training and I think she likes being a big girl now! Yay Emma!

Leaves!

Today was yet another gorgeous day here in beautiful Colorado! According to my computer the high was 72. Remember, this is Nov 2nd! The only way you can even tell it's fall around here is because the yards and now streets are starting to fill up with leaves. So the kids decided to make the most of it and went outside to play in the leaves. I swear this is the only time of year you will find kids everywhere WILLING to do some yard work! The kids would rake the leaves into a pile and then jump into them or throw them at each other. I think I will be picking leaves out of Emma's hair days! And you should have seen the tub at bath time! I don't know where she was hiding them!

Kayla jumping in

Emma "jumping" in. She is a little too short to jump so it was more like a run.

Eli jumping in. I LOVE this picture. It shows his care-free nature and the smile on his face is priceless.

Eli, Cassidy (lives next door), Kailey (lives across the street and I'm not entirely sure I spelled her name right!), Emma, Kayla and Hailey. The were taking a candy break here!

While this nice weather was good for Halloween and this whole weekend....enough already! We need snow!

NaBloPoMo

So last year a fellow blogger friend of mine Crystal participated in Na(tional) Blo(g) Po(sting) Mo(nth) and I was interested in it, but not quite ready to play along. This year, I am going to do it! For the entire month of November, I have to do a post a day. This shouldn't be a problem considering I am now a family of 6! And yeah, I am using this one as my first post for Nov. But I know I have other stuff to post for tomorrow! :)

Anyone else wanna play along?