You're too Young for Boys

This morning, Lauren was laying in bed with me and so I started to have a conversation with her. It went something like this...

Mom: Did you sleep good last night?
Lauren: Yes
Mom: Did you have good dreams?
Lauren: Yes
Mom: What did you dream about?
Lauren: Boys
Mom: Did you dream about boys (since I wasn't really sure that is what she said)?
Lauren: Yes

I sure do hope the boys she was dreaming about were her brothers because she is too young to dream about any other boys. ;-)

My New Camera

Just before Halloween, my camera disappeared. I have looked all over for the past couple of weeks to find it and it is nowhere to be found. I don't think I had realized how much I had come to like my camera because I have truly missed it the past 2 1/2 weeks. I finally told Tim I needed to buy a new camera today, so he said, "Merry Christmas. I hope you enjoy your early Christmas present." Of course once I got home with my new camera, I had to try it out. The camera is a Canon Powershot SD980 IS 12MP digital camera with 5x ultra wide angle optical image stabilized zoom and 3 inch LCD touch screen. So far I am happy with this little camera and it is easy to operate. (My past two cameras have also been Canon Powershots so that might help a little.) Here are a few of the pictures I took with it while learning what it could do this afternoon.

No, that is not facial hair around his mouth. I think it was leftovers from breakfast or lunch.

Petting farm and Pumpkins

To pick out our pumpkins this year we went to a local farm. We got to see lots of animals including some rabbits, pigs, ducks, horses, and brand new (hatching as we were watching) chicks. After seeing all the animals, we got to feed chickens, hens and turkeys. It was a lot of fun. Then we picked out our pumpkins in the pumpkin patch. It was a fun adventure.

Petting a pygmie goat

Petting a bunny rabbit

Jordan's, Lauren's and Colin's pumpkins

Halloween

For Halloween we went to Grandma and Grandpa McKee's house for dinner and then to go trick-or-treating. Our cousins Abby and Jonny were here from Moses Lake as well. The weather was a little wet, but trick-or-treating was fun anyway.

. Colin the turtle.

Jonny and Jordan the chicken.

Lauren the rabbit.

Going through the loot after trick or treating.

Overall it was a fun day and fun time with family.

September 2009

As we are nearing the end of September, I thought I would just post a bunch of pictures to capture our month. It has been a good month with school starting and lots of sunshine.

The Orange

Lauren was playing with an orange. Pretty soon I could smell it so I decided I better check on her. When I noticed all the little holes in the skin, I asked her if she ate it. (She had spent most of the afternoon grazing in the kitchen and putting things in her mouth that didn't belong in her mouth.) She said, "yes". I decided to look and see if I could find the missing pieces and luckily she had not eaten it all. I found the little pieces all over the living room couch.

It's a Frog

Colin has figured out a way to make a really weird sound from his throat...kind of like a burp, but kind of a croak. We were in the car this afternoon and he made this burp-like sound and quickly said, "That wasn't a burp. It was a frog. The little frog is trying to find its mom and dad." Then he continues to explain that the mom and dad are not outside, but they are in his tummy.

Boy, I sure hope he hasn't really swallowed a frog family and that the little one didn't get stuck in his throat looking for the mom and dad. ;-)