Hamilton Happenings

Continuing on with November!  Cici came to visit!  I think Mckenzie and Cici look like twins in their sweaters and glasses.  Playing go fish of course. Mckenzie had a princess cookbook from the library and her and Cici were making the french bread recipe (I think). On another day they made parfaits. My mom learned to dress warm in my cold house. Chilly walk to the park. Mckenzie is modeling a new dress Cici bought her. One thing I love about fall time is getting lots of apples from the Crawford's tree and making applesauce! Isaac still wishing it was Halloween. In the month of November Channing has three weeks off of school (he's on a year round schedule).  A few moms took turns having some of the 1st graders get together for different activities. We played minute to win it games. Don't worry, Jett is still around. He's very loved by all the family. Chocolate smoothie stache. Can't forget the phases ...

A few weeks ago we did a family garage sale.  On the second day of the garage sale the kids got to sell cookies, cupcakes, and lemonade.  I made about 50 cookies.  (More than that actually but a few didn't make it to the bake sale.  Mmm yum.)  It took a couple of hours before people really started buy any of Channing's cookies.  A few tears were shed.  But eventually he realized that people wanted his cookies!  The kids did amazing at marketing their sale.  "Come and get your cookies!"  "The world's best cookies here!"  It was hilarious.  Most people were so generous and made the kids feel great.  Mckenzie also surprised us all by sitting and waiting patiently to sell her lemonade.  I assumed she'd be done with that after an hour.  But she latest almost the whole day!  I love that at the end of the sale they all just wanted to eat the inventory.  And that was okay with me! Isaac, a toddl...

This fall we discovered that Jett might like rolling in the leaves just as much as the kids.  Make a pile of leaves and you can expect the kids to enjoy it for a while.  I loved watching Isaac plop down on a pile of leaves and lean back into it while splashing leaves all around.   Can you see Jett between the two kids?  He never missed out on a good pile of leaves.  Pictured below is what half our yard looked like before we started attacking it with rakes and leaf blowers.  This year we paid Ryan and his neighbor Spencer to rake up our backyard.  That was $20 well spent!  It made clean up much easier having so much help.    Working hard! That evening we reached about 30 bags of leaves.  Pictured below is what our yard looked like a few days after raking.  See all the leaves blowing in the air?  Isaac was by the fence yelling with excitement at all the leaves flying around. Channing has been...

Last week I was having some bad moments with the kids.  You know how it goes.  Some days I feel like I put out fire after fire.  On one particular day it felt like Isaac's job was to pull everything out of the cabinets, climb everything in sight, and hit Mckenzie.  At one point in the day I was feeling over overwhelmed and honestly just plain pissed off.  While muttering negative things under my breath and picking something off the floor I turned around to find Isaac sitting in Jett's water bowl.  Just sitting contently in a bowl of water.  I had to changed his pants and diaper.  Oh, and Isaac was so proud and happy to be sitting in water.  I love you so much Isaac! Please stop making me crazy! Mckenzie asks me at least once a day to take a picture of her and Jett.  Jett looks like he's saying, "Yup, she's sitting on me again."  Channing = most adorable kindergartener.  Went to parent teacher conferences last week...