blair and maisy: Birthdays

September 29, 2011

Birthdays

Guess who turned 7 and 5...

Xander's party at our house.

Complete with a cotton candy machine.

Do you like the spongebob pinata I made?

Guess where Will requested for his birthday party to be?

Good old Chuck E.

There have been a lot of festivals going on right around the base, and this was one a few weeks back:

facepainting, crafts, ice cream cups, games...

and don't forget the pony rides.

As for the rest of this month, it's been pretty annoying having Blair gone up to Jackson (over 3 hours away) with only one day off a week. Each month changes, so he's back in October luckily. We decided to go up two of the weekends, and visit him. One of them happened to be over that weekend when there was a big tropical storm down here, so that was nice to be gone for it. We went to the Museum of Natural Science up in Jackson with Blair:

Playing with a turtle.

They had a big frog exhibit, which was fun to see so many different kinds.

This frog had fun flashing us. He's in between a tadpole and a frog still, as he's in water. It was the funniest thing, because he'd swim all fast looking for a hiding place, and then just freeze right in front of us for like 5 minutes. He wasn't even touching the glass, just standing perfectly still like 3 inches away from it. he did it twice!

Claire's favorite thing right now: birds. Her voice gets all high pitched with excitement and she points and says "buh, buh!" whenever she sees one.

They had some good aquariums there.

...and fun hiking trails.

...until I looked up and saw this HUGE SCARY spider like a foot above out heads, and noticed them all over the place!

So tropical storm Lee left it's mark up in Jackson too. A whole bunch of the trails were still closed a week later.

The funnies

Will 12/14 " Mom can you please pour the milk for me because it’s almost full, and there’s a 65% chance that I’ll spill it."

11/14 Me: Why did you dump out all the toys?

Claire: Because I was trying to find something to play with

Me: What did you find?

Claire: The glow in the dark dinosaur

Me: Then why didn’t you put the other toys back?

Claire: Because I had to use the bathroom, so I just runned.

Claire 11/14 "Mom I can’t find any of my jammies, so should I bring you the sew kit so you can sew me some?"

Claire 11/14 "What do these constructions say?"

11/14 Claire: Mom Can I have this?

Me: Sure

Claire: Yes!!! Mom, thanks for asking me!

Claire 11/14 "Oh my Geez"

Claire 11/14 "I had a great dream last night. I got to see Dixie, and eat shrimp!"

Claire 11/14 "Our scarecrow fell over, but we’ll still be able to find our house because you know the numbers!"

Will 11/14 "The only good thing that happened to me today, was that Kord gave me a penny. But then I lost it."

Claire 9/13 "I love polka-dot butterflies."

Claire 9/13 " This pencil needs to get sharpt. Can I sharpt this pencil in myself?"

Claire 9/13 after pulling a piece of tape off of something successfully, "I am a great job."

Claire 8/13 "One time a dog pooped on the grass."

Me, "Why are you telling me that?"

Claire, "Because it was weally gross, PU!"

Claire 8/13 I walked in and exclaimed what a mess it was. "I didn't got that out," said Claire pointing at one little thing.

Claire 10/12 "Ehhhhh he he, ehhh he he."

Gaurd at the Airforce gate, "That sounds like a fake cry."

Me, "Yep."

Claire, "Ehhh he he, ehhh he he. It NOT a fake cwy."

Will 10/12 "Mom, could I miss school on Wednesday, because they're going to learn something really hard like minus?"

Me, "Well what would you do the next day when they were still learning more about that?"

Will, "No mom, we don't have to make up the homework when we miss."

Claire 10/12 "You not funny Will."

Claire 10/12 (almost in tears with the saddest little voice because she wanted all of the toys) "Mommy, brothers not sharing a me."

Claire 10/12 chasing her brothers around slowly with her arms outstretched says, "Bwains, bwains, bwains!" just like a real zombie.

Will 10/12 "Xander is white, and I'm white, and mom's white and Claire is white and dad's a little white."

Will 3/12 "Dad and I are getting gooder at disc golf."

Xander 3/12 seeing frozen peas in his drink that had spilled into the icebox, "Mom, there are green cotton balls in my drink."

Will 12/11 "I know something that's not a word: spit-buggar."

Claire 12/11 "Ha ha, fuh-ee (funny)"

Will 12/11 after he broke a plastic fork, "I would like to put it in recycling because that saves the world."

Will 11/11 as he rubs the carpet, "I like this house because it's hairier than the other one."

Will 9/11 "Mom, could you call my nickname 'shark' please?"

Will 9/11 in a prayer while Blair was away for a month, "Bless that we would ever see dad again, and if we drive there it wouldn't be too long."

Will 3/11 after I asked him how primary was, he said, "I was the 1st kid in class. I thought I was going to have to taught myself."

Will 3/11 "Mom, is today fast Sunday."

Me "What is fast Sunday Will?"

Will, "When we eat really fast."

Will 3/11 "Xander is saying mean things, like that I'm not the leader."

Blair told Will to go to the bathroom with him while we were out somewhere and he was doing the potty dance 3/11, "Hey I had to go to the bathroom too!"