Pumpkin Carving

Well, after the horrid loss to Texas (it happens occasionally) we carved pumpkins. We sat out on the deck and carved away. A was NOT fond of gutting the pumpkins, and lost interest immediately after she was told to stick her hand in one and pull the innards out. NJ just dug in and we all had a blast. I even attempted to get A to help me by pulling the innards out, but no dice. A and I made a puppy while Chris and A made a "Jack" from "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Isaac and NJ made jack-o-lanterns, and a fun time was had by all. Here is a link of some of the fun pictures from the weekend. A lot of them are found on the previous two posts, but some of the pumpkin carving time are found on this site. :)

Today we had to say good-bye to NJ, and A went around the house looking for her. A was a bit cranky and very upset that NJ left. A did follow NJ around most of the weekend, so NJ was probably glad to leave since she is not used to being a "big sister." Yesterday when I took both girls to the store we were asked if they were sisters, and NJ declared them to be cousins. A then echoed her. It is interesting to see how they interact right now because A is undoubtedly the more dominant personality. However, since NJ is older, A chooses to do what NJ does and follow NJ. Chris and I imagine this will change once A grows a bit and has a sibling.

Anyway, it is time for me to take a shower so I'm going to go. Here is one picture of the carvings from yesterday though. :)

Pumpkin Patch

We went to a pumpkin patch today since it was beautiful outside! We also did the corn maze, which was surprisingly very good and long. It took us 20 or 30 minutes to get through it all and we didn't find half of the stuff they said was there. :)

Park Day in October

NJ and A moving beds inside

Hiding

Lately hiding has been a fun thing for A to do. We regularly have to find her in places. This morning while I was doing dishes,  A unpacked and repacked the bag with herself. It is fun to see exactly how small of a space she can take up.

Rainy Saturday

What do you do when there is nothing but rain forecasted and no OU game on? Well, we packed up the car with raingear and set out for Biltmore. We wandered around the gardens and A actually seemed kind of upset to not visit the house. We will hopefully go back in a few weeks and see the house decorated for Halloween, or at least once fall sets in and we have some pretty leaves to see. Here are some pictures from our wet Saturday.

A was uncertain about the topiary not eating her. We couldn't convince her to get any closer than this!

I do my homework!

This is what we regularly get told when asking A what she's doing. We have no idea where she learned the phrase, but are kind of disturbed by it. I mean, what 2 year old needs to do homework? She basically just sits at a computer and pretends to type or something along those lines, and it is really cute, but disturbing. I know that my work has recently instituted a "homework" policy, which I attempt to do, but let me tell you, I missed out by doing homework in school! I didn't realize that if you didn't do homework then you had time to do other things, you know this may be why I went to school forever.

I think that we are finally getting over our cold/allergies/sinus infection throughout the house. We are thinking it is more allergies, but because we can't get the load of gunk out of our sinuses it is turning into a sinus infection for each of us. We had a rather wet summer and so apparently the mold and ragweed count is astronomical. Who knew!?

Overall besides for working and attempting to keep a household together we haven't done much this month. We've been too drained on weekends to go many places. We also haven't really had the need, so we attempt to catch up on sleep. A even seems to go along with this plan often. Our other weekend activity has been watching football. A is quite intent on watching football and will often ask to starting about 9. As an OU ex-pat we were able to watch the OU/TU game last weekend on the internet. We should be able to get most of the games so we are excited.

Anyway, it is about dinner time so I need to go help Chris get that together. Hope all is well by you.

Why my daughter is dangerous

A has been pretty intent on fixing stuff lately. Last weekend Chris scraped a computer and she handed him the parts in correct order and told him where they went as she wasn't exactly happy to not put the computer back together. Today I was working on the tablet and turn around to find this. She has opened up her puppy to expose the battery box. She has also retrieved a set of micro drivers that Chris uses to take stuff a part. She find the correct Philips head for the puppy and starts trying to open up the battery compartment. I don't know why she wants the batteries out, but she seems quite determined to make it happen.

In other news, we had a 2.9 earthquake last Sunday. It was shortly before 4 pm and it sounded like an explosion. We got the house shaking, explosion sound and the concussive wave almost all simultaneously. Apparently we were less than 3 miles from the epicenter, so it makes sense. We didn't immediately think earthquake, but tried to think of what else could do that. Later it was all over the news, so fun fun. I love moving to all these places that aren't supposed to have earthquakes but actually do.

We also finally got some sun. The plants in the garden that haven't drowned or been eaten by slugs are starting to thrive. If I can get enough basil to make some pesto I'll be happy.

Chris found out this past week that his co-manager of the stockroom is leaving in a few weeks, which means Chris gets to work close to 55 hours a week until they bring in someone else. He had kind of worked out a schedule of noon to nine on Mondays and Tuesdays, but now he'll get to go in at eight. He isn't super happy about this and I'm left wondering why he has to pick up the slack because the uni won't replace the guy immediately. We will have to see how A does with this too. This past week when he worked until late she was not a happy girl. They described her as a holy terror at school in fact Tuesday and Wednesday, so we will see what this does to her (and to me as I'm exhausted from work and all).

Well, we are moving on to sewing pins so I should go tame A before she makes a real mess.