I just love October!

Saturday Mollye and I headed to a pumpkin patch in Taft, TN. At first, I was a little weary of the long drive, but I will now tell everyone it was so worth it! We had so much fun! Mollye was a little angel in the car.  She is so fun to ride with now as she entertains herself with singing- usually Mary Had a Little Lamb! I just love her sweet voice! I hope it stays that way. I dread the day that she is asking for the dvd and video games to make it through car rides. 

Anyways, back to our fun trip! We enjoyed it all- bounce houses, big bounce slides, 20ft slide that my child had no fear of going down, playing trucks in the corn, petting zoo, corn maze, cow train ride, and of course picking our own pumpkin! She picked just the right pumpkin, but then as we were leaving demanded a little one like her.  We stopped in and bought a 75 cent pumpkin:) I was not able to get that great of shots due to it just being her and I, but here are some that will show you the fabulous time we had!

Yes, there was an outfit change during the day! Mommy may have forgot to watch the weather! Who knew it was going to be 90 degrees! ooops... atleast I had something in the car!

Happy October!

Way to go Uncle Brad!

What a busy but fun weekend!

Uncle Brad came in to run the Plunge Half Marathon. It was fun to be able to see him throughout the course as well as the finsih line! Mollye did great watching him as well.  The only problem we had was at the first stop.  She wasn't quite sure why Uncle Brad did not stop and stay with her.  She quickly forgot all about it when we made our way to bounce houses and popcorn!!! Here are some pictures of the race:

We are proud of you, Uncle Brad!!! Good luck next week in Chicago!!!

Relay Time!

Fine motor skills practice, anyone?  Mollye loved it!

The game- nothing hard; in fact I would say very simple- transfer water from one bucket to another.  The object- using only the sponge take the bucket full of water and make it empty.  The bucket which was empty will now be full.  Do all this while running as fast as you can! Mollye's favorite part was the running fast!

Love this shot!!!



Oh, Mollye dear, how I wish I could play these games with you everyday! No worries though. Mommy has lots of fun Fall activities planned.

Missing these two!!!

So several weeks ago we were able to keep our two sweet nephews! Everyone had a blast! I was the lucky one who got to go pick them up, and boy oh boy were they excited to come home with me! They laughed and talked the entire way back to our house! Mollye was right there with them! It actually made me think that one day I might like to have three of them permanently in my backseat, but then again there are days that I think I just need my one and only! Ha!

Adam and I decided to do as much as possible in the short time that we had them! Adam started our weekend off by building the boys a fire and letting them make their own smores.  They loved this! They even stayed outside with Uncle Adam and told ghost stories about the scary kitten while Mollye and I headed in for bath. 

The next day the boys, Mollye, and myself all went to the train museum.  This was only after we stopped off to let Uncle Adam by everyone new sunglasses! They loved that special treat! Check out the fun that these kids had playing and looking at the trains!

After that we headed home for lunch and nap because there was a huge surprise waiting for them that night.  The boys were so excited that they could hardly sleep. I might have even had to lay down the law about nap time in order for them to get some rest, but they happily obliged and went to sleep in hopes that night time/surprise time would arrive quicker. 

After nap, we did some fun playing in the yard before off the boys went with Uncle Adam and Grandma Harvey (long story on the name!). Where do you ask? No other redneck, boy place than that of the - TRACTOR PULL!!!

I would like to call this a very fun-filled weekend! I am ready for another weekend with these sweet boys and their mama! Meg, this must be planned soon!

Fall has offically arrived!!

So it does not really feel like Fall, but based on the calendar Fall is HERE!!! I just hope the weather starts agreeing soon.  We have decorations out, pumpkin smelled candles throughout the house, and even the Fall crafts have started! Now, if I could just get my husband to finish cutting out those pumpkins he promised! Oh well hopefully he will finish tonight. 

My new goal is three days a week to have some craft for Mollye to do when we get home.  This week we did two with the letter M, and one for Fall!! Nothing big.  We read  a book about leaves changing and simply painted leaves.  I made Mollye use the book to pick the colors for her leaves.  She was quick to grab orange, brown, and yellow.  As the painting continued she convinced me that we had to have red and green! I hesitated on green, but she is correct today the leaves are still mostly green.  In her words it went like this, "Momma, NO, GREEN! GREEN. Leaf green!! Look Momma, GREEN!" Hard to argue with the fact that she was smart enough to make me look outside at the leaves.  I gave in and we added green!

Notice our big girl panties... also something we are working on!!! So far we have stayed dry two afternoons, but yesterday we got Minnie wet.  As Mollye would say: Sorry Minnie.

Finished product. Mommy proudly hung it on the frig:

Hope everyone has a happy Fall! I know this family will! More crafts and fun times to come!

Back in the day!

I was adding photos from an old camera this morning.  So... I thought it would be a perfect day to give you a picture of Mollye "back in the day." Aka- last year!!!

She has grown lots! For one check out the hair!!! She may be bigger and louder, but her love for candy still remains the same!!!

OCD

I am worried! I ask is this normal behavior of a two year old? I feel Mollye is a little too OCD.  This is what she does with play dough.  She even commented on how there were not enough purple balls.  Just tonight she made me turn around because I was not facing the normal way during our bedtime songs.  Please tell me this is normal.  If not, tell me how to break the bad habit now! Off to ponder my OCD child... I have to excuse her as I know it is me from whom she gets this trait.