Monday, November 28, 2011

Happy Birthday Tanner!


You are 4 years old today!

The things you love each day seem to vary but mostly consist of Mater, construction trucks of any kind, cars, tools and your Leapster.

You told me your favorite color today was blue.

You have a super fun imagination. You tell me hilarious stories all the time. Sometimes I wonder if you think they are real because you tell it with such enthusiasm. You also love to embellish events that actually happened and try to convince us that the said event really did happen that way.

You love your blue "Mi-mi" blanket but you are not so attached that you HAVE to have it ALL the time but you sure love to snuggle with it especially after I've washed it. I'm not sure where the name "mi-mi" came from, you just started calling it that one day.

You love to play with Lana all the time and miss her on the days she goes to school and you don't. Most of the time you play well together. You two currently argue over who sits in the coveted seat on the gray table (the seat where you can see the t.v. the best).

You are most likely to go with dad to run an errand when me and Lana want to stay home. You are a good shopping companion except when we walk past the toy isle. I try to avoid walking past there when you are with me.

You have recently started learning sight words. We started you so early mostly because you want to do homework just like Lana. You can read 30 sight words so far. You are such a smarty pants.

You love preschool and your current teacher Ms. Melanie. You have lots of fun each day and always come home happy and eager to share something about what you learned.

We are so happy to have you in our lives, happy birthday Tanner-manner!

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Mississippi Autumn

One of the few things I love about Mississippi is its fall season. (Except apparently "Fly Season" happens around the same time, putting a slight damper on my happiness.) The weather has finally cooled off, the humidity is low and my windows and doors are open most days (which means I have a TON of flies to kill) and the kids spend lots of time outside playing with friends. The few hardwood trees we have around here change color, making me miss our South Carolina home and the beautiful Smokey Mountains.

I looked in our backyard and noticed the blanket of leaves. So we broke out the rake (while Paul broke out the leaf blower) and made a pile of leaves for the kids. They LOVED it.




We also noticed the massive amounts of pecans lying in our grass. The harvest last year was late and small so we really didn't pick up any. Our neighbors have a massive Pecan tree in their yard which drops pecans in our yard but this year we discovered that two of our own pecan trees bore nuts! So my new time-out punishment? Go pick up 25 pecans. The kids HATE it. I LOVE it!






Happy Fall!

Flies - 0
Michelle - 37