Baby wearing

Clara is all set for motherhood and wearing her babies. She had triplets in there. Slow down girl!

A precious moment

Sharing a donut while looking out at the yard thinking about the jobs that need done.

Insomnia

All the kids were "in bed" so Craig tried to finish a home improvement job he had started. At approximately 10 pm Landon came down and said he couldn't sleep. He took one look at what Craig was doing and was there and helping. If he helped no one would notice his presence right? He had a huge smile on his face knowing exactly how to dupe his patents from sleeping.

Entertaining Ollie

One day recently, ok it was about a month ago, we dropped Landon off at school and there it was, a sensory table filled with shaving cream. Now imagine my struggle to get/drag/manhandle Ollie out of that classroom and back to the car without touching the shaving cream. A promise to go immediately to the store and buy shaving cream worked. We succeeded on our trip to the store and managed not to do more shopping while at the store. We got home and set off for the bathtub. Slightly filled with water, shaving cream designed on the walls, a naked Ollie. He was loving life that day but more importantly he had a giant smile on his face.

Trees

A few weeks ago we had three dead ash trees cut down. The trees had succumbed to the Emerald Ash Bore before we moved in and one of them was in between the power and telephone line. Not a DIY project for us. We watched 'man' whom had to be part flying squirrel because of the way he scurried up the trees and then leaped from tree to tree. With a chainsaw.
The boys were eager to pick up the logs left for us as firewood and stack them. Clara was excited the wagon was out and she could hitch a free ride. She did however end up helping with the extra small logs and tried to stack them.
All three helping. It was a strange day for sure!

Busy Bees

This past weekend, Craig had Monday off from class for Veteran's Day. We drove down to North Carolina to visit Craig's brother and family. Joel, his brother, and family are packing up and moving to England for the next few years for his job. A crazy move considering they are about to have their third child any day now. Joel was kind enough to sell some workshop tools to Craig and also let him borrow some while they will be out of the country. We rented a moving truck and the boys loaded it up with the contents of Joel's garage. Susan, his wife was ecstatic to be able to park her van in the garage now. Susan and I sat around and watched the kids play and have fun since it was a beautiful weekend of sunshine! Something we had been lacking in Ohio since Superstorm Sandy. Plus they took us to an awesome ice cream joint, my waffle cone was filled with half mocha chip and half caramel swirl, Landon was less eager to try something new and got chocolate, Oliver got sugar cookie flavor, and Craig got peanut butter fudge. Yum, yum!
It was a short visit but nice to spend time with them before the move across the ocean.

Ollie

At the beginning of this week Ollie hit me in the face with a baby. Yes it was intentional. Yes he was mad at me. My glasses were in two pieces. The leg broke off and there is a hairline crack in the lens. It hurt.
Fast forward a few days. The rest of the week pretty similar just no more broken things. I decided Ollie and I needed to go on a date. I gave him two choices ice cream or pie. He replied that he did not want chicken pot pie, we had just had that for dinner the night before. He wanted ice cream.

On the way home I asked him if he had fun with just mommy and Ollie.
His response, no, I had fun with the other girl
What girl?
The other girl in a dress.
(There was a table of three college girls sitting behind us eating ice cream. One of them was wearing a dress.)
Ollie needs to learn date etiquette.
Thanks for a fun date Ollie! Even if you had more fun with the other girl.