Carson's First Tractor Ride

Was this past weekend not beautiful or what?  I know it was short lived since the high's are suppose to stay in the 40's this week (blah), but I think the good Lord kinda threw us a bone and said "Enough of the frigid weather, here's a taste of what's to come in the near months".  Even though it was a bit of a tease I will thank Him nonetheless.

Since the weather was cooperating I thought it would be the perfect time to let Carson enjoy some country living at its finest.  We drove out to the "farm" and showed him all the "livestock" (horses, goats, chickens, cats, dogs, etc.) and he loved it!  He was a little leary at first standing face to face with the horses considering his whole body is nearly as big as their face but he opened up to them well and started patting their noses.  Too sweet.

Papa then decided Carson should take his first ride on the tractor so he sat him in his lap and off they went up through the pasture and down the driveway.  He enjoyed it so much I don't think he wanted to get off.  Come to think of it, I don't know who enjoyed it more, him or Papa : )

Trying to eat the gravel

Couldn't you just kiss that face to pieces

Landon is trying to make Carson look at the camera to take a picture, brotherly love at its best

Thanks Papa and Nana for letting us come spend the day with you.  We love you!!!!

President Hayden?

Hayden is learning a few things in history this semester and apparently they have been talking about the first president of the United States.  This was our conversation on the way to school this morning...

Hayden:  Is it George Washington?
Me:  What?
Hayden:  George Washington, is that his name?
Me:  Yes, and who is George Washington?
Hayden:  He's a really big statue and was the greatest guy EVER!
Me:  Well, ok?  He was also the very first president of the United States.
Hayden:  OH,.......was I the second?
Me:  Ummmm, no

Too funny! Who knows, maybe he will be president one day and fix some of the problems that face us today. ; )

BASAGNA!

Wednesday night I asked Hayden what he wanted for dinner and he replied with "I don't know, I'm not real hungry", which was rather weird since this child usually can eat more than I can.  Landon pipes up and says "Oooh mama, ask me what I want".

OK, Landon what do you want?

Standing there rummaging through the pantry he says
Umm, I think my take.....BAZAGNA!

I don't have all the stuff to make lasagna tonight, how about tomorrow night?

Ok

So yesterday evening I made a pitstop to the grocery store and got all the ingredients I needed.  I decided to make an extra special lasagna by using fresh garlic, basil, tomatoes, etc.  I usually just make it from canned spaghetti sauce, which is just as good and way easier but I was feeling a little daring last night and decided to try something different.

I get home around 4:45 and get to cooking, chopping my garlic, onion, bell pepper, herbs, etc.  I finally get the lasagna in the oven an hour later.  Who knew it would take so long to make "extra special lasagna"?  It took a lot longer than I expected for it to cook through considering I doubled my recipe.  I bet I heard Landon say a dozen times..."Is my basagna done yet?"  I kept reassuring him that it was almost ready.

When we finally sat down for dinner it was nearly 7:30 so I knew he would be starving by then.  I got his plate ready and sat id down on the table in front of him and he looks at it and says "I don't want this, I want a peanut butter sammich."

My eyes began to twitch uncontrollably at this point. 

Eugene leans over to him and says "Do you remember what the rule is about dinner?"

The rule is that mama cooks one meal a night, not 3 or 4 different meals in order to please everyone's cravings, so you can either eat what's on the table do without, please don't judge me.  I know it's  a very hard rule to make a 3 year old understand but he's getting there.

So after what seemed like hours he finanlly finished most of his dinner and all was good at the Stancil house.

Happy Birthday Eugene!

We celebrated Eugene's 30th birthday this past weekend, although he keeps reminding me that he won't officially be 30 until thursday, but whatever.  My how the time flies by.  The first birthday I celebrated with Eugene was his 18th birthday.  It literally seems like yesterday that he was 18 again (although he still acts like it sometimes ; > ).  We've been through a lot these past 12 years and I look forward to spending many more birthdays with him.  Happy Birthday Honey!  I love you more than you will ever know!

For more photos of the cake check it our here

Sick Kiddos

Sorry it's been a while since I've posted, we've been super busy lately.  Between me having surgery (everything went great by the way, thanks for the prayers), Hayden having homework every night, and just the all around mama work  that has to be done I've not had much time to do any blogging.  So it's time to play catch up. : )

We celebrated Eugene's 30th birthday this past weekend, although he keeps reminding me that he won't officially be 30 until this thursday.  Our plans were to have all our parents and siblings meet us for dinner Saturday night but all that changed when Landon woke up saturday morning with a nasty looking rash from head to toe.  Since I was busy making the birthday cake Eugene took little man to urgent care.  I was trying to think of everything that he'd eaten the past 24 hours that could have caused this, nothing came to mind. 

Diagnosis:  Strep throat

I was really confused that strep was the diagnosis since he wasn't runny a fever or complaining of his throat hurting, but low and behold the test came back positive.  Dr Oliver said that a rash is a sure fire sign of strep, weird huh?  So needless to say he wasn't going to the party and infect everyone else so my mom graciously volunteered to keep the boys so we wouldn't have to change our plans (Thanks mom, you're the best).  So Saturday night Hayden woke up around midnight wanting something to drink and complaining that his throat hurt.  GREAT!  I checked his temp and it was 101.2.  Poor guy.  All day Sunday he stayed on the couch wrapped up ina blanket.  He never ate a thing all day Sunday and only got off the couch to go to the bathroom.  So yesterday I stayed home with them and took him and Carson to the doctor.  Surprisingly neither of them had strep but they gave them both a antibiotic and decongestant anyway.  They are feeling much better this morning and I couldn't be happier. 

Was my face red?

Every Friday is library day for Hayden's class,  so this past Friday Hayden picked out a new book entitled "PIGS".  So Tuesday was the first night I had read the book to them ( I know, I'm behind).  The book talks about the many different kinds of pigs and where they orginated from, how big they can grow to, things that are made from pigs (which let me tell you right now was NOT a good thing to put in a children's book, I don't think Landon will eat bacon again and everytime Hayden picks up his football he looks at me with a pitiful look on his face, points to the ball and says "This is a pig?"), and then the book talked a little bit about how pigs feed their young.  Have you figured out where I'm going with this yet?

So as soon as I begin reading about how pigs feed their babies Hayden pipes up and says

"Oh, I know the answer to this"

"You do?", I asked

"Yep", he leans up toward me and mashes his hand againt my chest and says "They feed their babies with these just like you did Carson"

"That's right!",  I said as I tried not to make a big discussion about it.  He then proceeds to tell me this...

"Yep, that's what I told them when Mrs. Williams read us the book today"

"What? You told who?", I asked

"My class", he said "I told them that pigs feed their babies like you fed Carson, you know, with your boobies"



Blank stare, crickets are chirpping



I'm surprised there wasn't a letter sent home form his techer.  Even though I wasn't there to witness this educational speech my son made to his ENTIRE class, my face turned every shade of red that there is.  So Sarah if you need someone to assist you on your consultations with new moms, I know just the right person to help ; )