Last night Alexa was having a moment of snottiness. When I went in the bathroom to talk to her about it, she said,"sometimes, since I am already 5 years old I feel like a grown up and just want to do whatever I want, whenever I want to. I am really working on this Mom" I had a hard time not laughing, but oh goodness, what we have to look forward to!!

Excitement at Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful time with family up at my folks house in Conifer. It turned out to be a beautiful day and we were even able to hang outside on the deck. Which turned out to be a good thing. Kathy is standing on the deck and notices that her Suburban is slowing backing up. I see Eric take off, then Jeff take off and I figured there were only 2 kids (at the time) here and both were mine, so I took off too. There is Milo in the drivers seat starting to roll down the drive way. We tried to open the door, but it was locked. Jeff pushed from the rear so it wouldn't go down the driveway and we got the spare key and were able to get Milo out. He was SCARED. I imagine more from seeing all of us running toward him and trying frantically to open the door then anything else. Even though it was lunch time, he wanted his blanket and to bed he went :) Like someone there said, it was a lesson learned without terrible consequences, as it could have been pretty bad if the vehicle had been further back in the driveway. Praise God!



Lots to be thankful for. I think about this everyday, we have so much and are so blessed.

Funny Things

I keep thinking I need to remember the funny things that Lexa said, and then I forget. As my Mom told me the other day it is CRS (Can't remember shit) haha. So here are a few things I have written down and not misplaced.

Lexa and I were having a conversation about her being mean to her brother.

Lexa ,"sometimes, I am having so much fun, my brain forgets and then I cause disasters and am mean"

Jeff and Lexa out to dinner:

Lexa,"how much dinner do I have to eat to get ice cream"

Jeff "all your chicken"

Lexa"well I don't have enough room"

Jeff "if you don't have enough room for chicken, then you don't have room for ice cream"

Lexa leans forward and puts her hand on her back "I have room right here in my back"

Got some pheasant from our neighbor and I found the wish bone. Told Lexa that she holds once side and I hold the other, each make a wish and pull and whoever gets the bigger side gets their wish. Lexa closes her eyes and says "I wish to be a fairy" :) She did get the bigger piece so we will see :)

Alexa and I were in Milo's room and she wanted to do something and I said no. She was fine, so I said "thank you for not freaking out that you didn't get to do that, that was great self control"

Lexa "well I just took a deep breath like you told me to. It is just that sometimes I forget to take a deep breath and then I freak out"

Lexa told Brooke last year ,"I'm just breathing through the attitude"

Milo on the other hand doesn't say anything funny yet. Although he thinks he is funny a lot. The other day I was working in the basement and I heard his little feet upstairs, I was on the phone so couldn't run up right away, a few minutes later I went upstairs and he was outside in his socks shoveling snow on the front porch. He loves to shovel!

Yes, I did put boots and a hat on. I'm on top of it!

Milo is here below, signing his favorite thing, CANDY!!

Halloween

I felt like Alexa got in her costume a lot, between Treatsylvania at the Farm, dressing up for the school parade and for Halloween, it was crazy! Bubbe had bought Milo a tool belt complete with tools. Lexa put it on and I told her she could wear that for halloween, she told me she wanted to be a fairy, I said she could be a worker fairy like tinkerbell. She decided that would be a good idea.

Brooke had asked if she could make Milo a costume. (why yes, what else would I say )They looked on the internet to decide on what he wanted to be. After lots of choices Milo decided he wanted to be a spider, so Brooke made him a costume. Milo was SCARED of it and would put his fists in front of his face and shake it was pretty sad, a little funny too. He would NOT put it on. I had to bribe him with candy, which of course, worked!
This picture above is of Milo signing spider. He loved to tell people what he was going to be.

Lexa had picked a little too skimpy outfit for me to wear, so.... I picked something in my closet 5 min before we left. We had a great time. Milo got pretty scared at some of the houses that had motion detection creepy stuff, so he decided not to go to the scary ones, worked for me.