Something cool?!

There I was relaxing in my bathtub full of hot water, when the door flings open and in comes Corbin. I started to tell him to head on back out, but he shut me down with a loud yell, "I gotta go potty Mom, don't tell me to go back out. Tell me to go potty." So, I pulled the curtain and went back to reading my book. After a few minutes, Corbin pipes up "Hey Mom, wanna see something cool? Come look and then I will flush and it will go away."

"Corbin, I don't want to look at your poop okay, just go ahead and flush it."

"But Mom, that's why it's cool. I put the white on top and now you can't see the poop! Come see!"

"Corbin, I really don't want to, but thanks for wanting to share."

"Okay Mom, but you'll be sorry, it's really something cool."

Flush.

And there went my opportunity to see "something cool".

We had fun today...

 

 

 

 

 

 

And today I added "Kitchen-Aid" to our grateful tree, because it is soooo incredibly easy to make cookies! Ohhhh, let the baking season begin!

Grateful Tree

We got this idea from Aunt Bess. I cut out the tree and then we cut out a whole bunch of leaves so that we can add to them throughout the month. We just write something that we are grateful for on a leaf and then place the leaf on the tree. Corbin had a hard time with it because he thought he should just write his name and then put the leaf on the tree and to continue to do just that until the tree had enough leaves. That's why his first leaf said "letters". Mia's was "Music and Singing", Karli "Cheerios", Chase's "Mom", Dad "Family" and mine talked about having a worthy priesthood holder in the home to give blessings when needed. I still can't stop being grateful that Denver was here and able to give me a blessing on Halloween when I was so sick. I didn't think I could take it for another second and when he came in the bedroom to ask if I needed anything I knew exactly what I needed. Without that blessing, I'm not sure what I would have done, but the comfort and relief that it brought me was instantaneous. We are so truly blessed to have the Gospel in our lives and the power of the priesthood restored to us here on Earth in these times. Our Heavenly Father loves us so much and has so much to give us if we would only let Him. I know that The Dalton Grateful Tree has already reminded me of how blessed I am personally, and I hope to keep up with it this month and help my kids to see how blessed they are as well. So thank you Aunt Bess for being so smart and sharing such great ideas with the rest of us. Maybe you should swing by and see our tree in person...

Happy Halloween

I love Halloween. My kids are just getting to the age where they really get into it. We've had a ton of fun making decorations and getting ready and even making the costumes. Since the littles are still young enough to be open to suggestion when it comes to picking a costume-we had a themed costume for the whole family. Welcome to Dalton Zoo!

You can't see our name tags, but mine says Head Zookeeper and Denver's says Assistant Zookeeper.



The elephant.

A tiger princess and a zebra.

A Mac Daddy Zebra. One that makes stripes look cool...

Another zebra? Oh wait, just mommy messing around with Daddy and snapping pictures while he's too busy to protest.

"Rrrrrroooaaaaaalll"

We went to our ward's trunk-or-treat and I have to say that Mia's costume was a huuuuge hit. It's either that or the precocious little way she'd walk up to a car, tilt her head, put on her most bewitching smile, and then politely say, "Trick-or-Treat". People just couldn't resist and kept giving her candy. On the way home, we were considering taking the kids to a few houses around the neighborhood but then I got sick. Quite sick. And it was before I'd even eaten a piece of candy. Still, the kids had a ton of fun and Corbin loved handing out candy to the few trick-or-treaters that we had. Can't wait for next year!