Friday, November 22, 2013

Wizard of Oz

As I've mentioned before, Hannah loves all things Wizard of Oz at the moment.  We're reading the book together.  Several Mom's & I traded the Oz figures from McDonald's Happy Meals like they were baseball cards.  I found her a Dorothy costume for $10 after Halloween. 

So when the Seneca library posted that they would be having a Wizard of Oz party we just had to go!  It really was a cute party.  We made hot air balloon crafts and enjoyed cake & other refreshments.  I didn't take a lot of pictures because I was pretty busy trying to keep Amos from eating all of the cookies & lollipops...






Saturday, November 16, 2013

Amos James








Amos actually says a lot more than I've listed but I didn't have room.  Those are his newest words.  And I completely forgot that he loves to read books.  His favorites are The Very Busy Spider and he can now make the sounds for a goat, cow and pig.  If we're busy and can't read to him, he'll just sit and look through his books by himself.

He can also say monkey and his favorite stuffed animal is a sock money.  I ended up buying it for him because he was trying to climb out of his stroller while yelling, "MONKEY!" and pointing to the display.  I had to pry it out of his chubby little hands so I could pay for it.
Amos is such a ham and will position himself in front of a camera or phone and yell, "Cheese!" so you can take his picture.  It's so sweet and sometimes I just follow him around with the camera just to see him smile and say 'cheese.'


Three posts in one day...impressive I know.  The fact is, my beloved laptop is going haywire on me.  I can't get the screen to come on when I open it so I either have to hook it up to the television with a ridiculous mass of cords or shine a flashlight on the screen while I work (interesting fore sure but it works!)  Hopefully we'll be able to fix it without having to cut off any of our limbs but we'll see.  I'm getting the hang of working with a flashlight propped on my shoulder!

Stumphouse Falls

Last Saturday we meet up with a few friends at the Stumphouse Tunnel.  We didn't actually go in the tunnel, that's an adventure for a hot summer day.  Instead we had a picnic lunch by the stream, let the kids play in the leaves and then the Dad's took all the kids to see the waterfall while the Mom's took a break.  It was so chilly that day but the kids did not mind at all. 

They've been begging to go back.  I had fun too so I believe we'll return soon for one of Sammy's Exploration Days for school.




Marathon

Once again Bobby ran the marathon in the Spinx Runfest in Greenville.  Bless him, it was a freezing cold morning when the kids & I got there at 10am so I can't even imagine being there at 7am.

I completely forgot to make signs this year but no big deal.  The kids were just excited to cheer for Bobby (and the other runners) as he finished.



When Bobby finished we let the kids slide down the hill a few times before heading to lunch.  This may have been their favorite part of the marathon!

The Clark's Next Big Adventure

So much for keeping the blog updated this year 😂  The Clark family is embarking on another adventure though and it's too big not to doc...