It is finally starting to feel like Fall in the Lone Star State. We’ve actually needed light jackets the past few days! We almost turned the heater on tonight but decided to settle for warm jammies and blankets.
Somehow the “cold” weather is having varied effects on our family. All I want to do is snuggle up and sleep, but the kids have been popping up before dawn. I had both kids clinging to me and demanding things before six this morning. I have a rule now that I don’t make breakfast before the sun comes up.
I’m grateful for my husband’s job, but his early shift on Sundays is getting old. I get so frazzled trying to get the kids and I ready for church by myself. I try to trap E in the living room so I can take a shower but K knocks down the gate for her. They do their best brother/sister collaboration when they storm the bathroom to find mommy.
A cup of coffee with my mom, wonderful worship music, and helping my dad with Children’s Church all soothed my mom soul. Andy met us and we ate lunch with a sweet lady from church who opened her home to several of the young families. We are blessed.
Tonight we attended our church’s Fall Festival. This year was a western theme. They had games, candy, a hay ride, a bounce house, hot dogs, ponies, and even two boa constrictors to pet. (Having a former museum curator as an elder can have its perks!)
Here is our little Minnie Mouse:
Construction Worker K:
My father-in-law found a real carpenter kit for $10 and I found the vest at Dollar Tree for $1. He was super cute and now has all the gear to help with remodeling the Old House.
Our dear friends came and here is Thor J with Construction Worker K:
My friend Nicole has a great blog about raising J. He is an amazingly smart kiddo and a sweetie but has seizures and other special needs.
E decided she was just going to sit for a minute:
Andy shaved his beard into a mustache and dressed up as his dad. I wore one of my homemade bows.
Here we are at my dad’s booth:
We got home and K asked if he could use all the glow sticks he got in the bath. Of course I said yes! Glow sticks are a great sensory bath activity. You can just throw them in the bath or put them inside water balloons to make glowing orbs. We wash them really quickly with the lights on and then turn them off and let them play.
It is hard to capture a glow stick bath on camera…
Well, I hope everyone had a great weekend! I’m beat. I’m actually looking forward to tomorrow being Monday!
Mama Miller Parenting 
Like the pics… & Minnie mouse and construction worker are so cute… 🙂 did you have any difficulties getting them out of their bath after playing with their glow sticks?
Not too bad. E loves water for a while and then she is ready to move on. K would stay in the bath all day. He stayed in a little longer than E. I stayed with him while Daddy got E dressed. They were both pretty tired!
I let him use the glow sticks on his shelf as a night light. That helped too. 🙂