Pumpkins!

Joe, Cezanne and I carved some pumpkins this weekend in preparation of Halloween festivities! Mine is the pic up above- I love carving pumpkins!! Cezanne is still working on hers and insisted I wait to post her picture. It should be a wonderful weekend full of action packed craziness and sugar.

Check it out!!!

Cezanne brought home her first report card yesterday- straight A's!!!! We are so proud of her and all of her hard work this year. She is doing beautifully.

I couldn't help but take her picture with her report card for posterity. She's so happy! Woo Hoo! I'm a proud mama.

D is for Dinosaur!

Cezanne decided to feed the T-Rex. Keep your palms flat Cezanne so he doesn't nibble your fingers off!

Cezanne made a beautiful dino mask at the Zilker Park Botanical Gardens! It was so much fun! She's showing off her artwork here.

Elliot decided he was a dino and wouldn't take his mask off. Isn't he cute?

The Singing Robot

While working the Makers Fair this weekend at the Travis County Expo center with my BFF Becka- She revealed her fantastic line of mom /kids wear Babybolt, it was awesome and such a blast- BUT behind our booth, a giant robot played the 1987 Rick Astley hit 'Never Gonna Give you Up' over and over and over and over and over and over and over... you get the point. For two days straight. I can't get it out of my head now! In between the song- it would shoot ping pong balls into swarms of eager screaming children. I never liked that song. I think it's permanently imprinted into my brain chemistry at this point- it's awful!! DAMN YOU ROBOT!

Cezanne and Elliot

Elliot has been spending some afternoons with us while Becka and Jeremy prepare for the superfantastic Bizare Bizare this Saturday and Sunday.

When I picked him up yesterday he asked where 'Silly Joe' was. I told him he went on an airplane. His little face sunk 'aww, I want silly Joe'

We picked up Cz from school, she started crying in the car because she didn't get all 4's on her report card, she got one 3+. The world was over. Elliot was looking at her with concern and patted her on the head lovingly and handed her his napkin for her eyes. Sweet boy.

Cz and Elliot requested a trip to the park afterwards, to which I obliged. We walked to the park a few blocks away and not 15 minutes afer we arrived Cezanne announced she had to go potty. There were no bathrooms close by... which meant we had to walk all the way back to the house, Elliot did not want to leave the park. He wanted me to carry him the entire way back to the house- 'carry Elliot' I huffed and puffed my way behind Cezanne who was heading full tilt to the house screaming behind her that she couldn't hold it. It was a comical moment and a preview of what it is going to be like when Cezanne has her own brother or sister. I love watching Cezanne and Elliot play together- they care so much for one another and are two peas in a pod.

The Biggest Boo Boo

My poor girlie!! Ouch! She was climbing on a wall at school and slipped off and landed face first. She got a big knot on her forehead and a bloody nose. Her school called to let me know she was ok, but with so many boo boos I know she was going to feel shaken and upset. A wonderful woman, Mendy, I work with offered to cover my class for an hour so I could drive to Cz's school and check on her. I stopped and Walgreens and bought the most sparkly band aids I could find, some neosporin, tylenol and some halloween stickers, then dashed to her school.

She was sitting at her desk with an ice pack on her forehead. I called her name and when she spotted me her eyes started to well. Poor kiddo! I slathered her face in neosporin, gave her the tylenol and covered her with neon sparkly band aids. She felt better and was off to work again.

When we got home she sat in my lap and just wanted to be held for a while, even at 8, sometimes you just need your mom. For some reason I started to sing Hey Jude by the Beetles. It's not a particular favorite of mine and I've never been prone to singing it, yet it popped into my head. Cezanne started to sing right along with me! I asked her where she learned that song and she said she's learning it in school. Very strange, I told her maybe I was reading her mind. At least it made her giggle.

Our Livingroom and Kitchen! It really belongs to us- the bank says so.

The Party

For our Luau I made sun bathing teddy grams on a lifesaver raft complete with umbrellas-and for appropriate censorship, I added bathing suits. It's not hippie hollow after all!

To complete the experience I carved a wavy watermelon! It was so much fun to make!

Our Little Family

We took Joe for his first train ride at Zilker park this last weekend! For all the time we spend there, it's time we took him on the train.