Guardian Angels

Angels were definitely guarding over my little sugarCane a couple of days ago. During naptime I layed him in his crib still a little awake. I heard him fussing in his room and was waiting on him to fall asleep. For some reason when he is in there fussing, I can't do anything but sit and listen for him to go to sleep. I was going to give him five more minutes to see if he would drift off on his own and then go in to get him, but he got quiet. Normally, I would assume that he had fell asleep, but today I felt urged to go in and check on him.

He was sitting on TOP of his dresser that was beside the crib! This dresser is at least 5 ft. tall!! I gasped and rushed over to pull him down to safety. Usually when he is up to no good and I come toward him, he giggles and tries to get away (He loves to be chased), but today he just smiled and sat perfectly still until I reached him.

Oh, the things that could have happened.

1. I had a stack of clothes on top of it that needed to be stored away that he had knocked into the floor. Thank goodness he didn't slip off with them.

2. He sleeps with a fan on that was sitting on top of his dresser. He had it overturned and could have stuck his little fingers in it.

3. This dresser is in front of a window. He could have tumbled that direction or got tangled in the blinds.

Let's just say there could have been a number of catastrophes.

Needless to say, that dresser is now placed clear across the room, nowhere near his crib, and his crib mattress has been lowered as low as it will go.

I truly believe that God had him surrounded with guardian angels and that He was the "urge" that I had to go in and check on him.

Pumpkin Patch USA

This year we visited a real pumpkin patch with fields of them just waiting to be picked. It was such a fun adventure. We all had a really good time. Last year it was just Levi, Jeffery and myself, but this year little brother was old enough to come with us and so did Michi and Papa. They had just got in the night before from their getaway in Vegas, so the boys were very excited to have them come with us.

We took a hayride out to the patch.



Jeffery picked his out the first minute we were out there so he decided to have a seat.

Cane was going crazy jabbering to all the pumpkins and trying to pick them up.

More pics to come but I must share computer time for now.

I Have A Gripe

Me, griping, NO, I try not to, but I am frustrated and deserve a good gripe. So here goes, I must warn you it is very trivial. I really wanted to start this blogging business, but have not done very much at all with it. Not because I haven't tried mind you. I have spent precious time trying to figure out how to get a cute little background and theme, but can't figure it all out. Plus the lingo on blogging is a bit confusing at times. It didn't take this much effort to make a pretty myspace page and thank goodness facebook doesn't require backgrounds and frills. Plus, I have seen where people pay good money to customize blog backgrounds, I don't understand, I guess unless it is your businesses blog.

Now, the reason I am so frustrated is because I would like to get my blogging underway, and only have few chances in a day (when kids go to bed and husband is not on the computer playing his cursed World of Warcraft)to accomplish this. So, instead of searching aimlessly on how to beautify my page, I would rather be typing.

One more thing that doesn't pertain to this specific gripe. I keep two other handwritten journals, one for Jeff and one for Cane, so most of the time I don't write stories on here because it would be so redundant since I have already written them elsewhere. I would do a couples journal for my life with Levi but feel that would be too personal for me to do. My thoughts now are what are some things I could continually write on here that I don't in my other journals. Ideas are welcome.

While I am at it, I forgot how mad I get when trying to upload pictures on here as well. It only lets me do one at a time and is slow to boot. Or am I just doing it wrong. I am probably my own worst enemy here.

Zoo Day

On Thursday, my family of four went to the Tulsa Zoo. It was so refreshing to get out on such a nice day and spend it with my favorite people at a fun place. I couldn't have asked for a more go with the flow day. I had a blast and am already trying to plan another trip sometime in October.




Now, normally when we go to places like this, I like to have a plan. "Ok, first we will go here then we will do this and then it will be time to go over here...." and so forth. Which is totally ridiculous, I know. So I mentally told myself before we went, "It's ok if we don't see everything there is to see, and I am just going to follow Jeffery and we will do whatever he wants to do". I only say Jeffery because Cane isn't old enough to make such decisions yet. I want to be a fair mom as much as possible.



Well, that is exactly what we did. When we first walked in and did our pottying and what not a kind Zoo Lady told us about the hands on exhibit for the kids, so we did that first. Then I figured we could do the carousel, then the train. So we get there and I told Jeff my plan and he said "NOOO, I want to ride the train first!" I was about to start telling him about how if we did the carousel then the train it would work out better because of how I had it mapped out, BUT I didn't. We rode the train. And guess what everything was still just perfect.


Sooooo, "I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way" ha ha ha. No, seriously though, letting them lead day was a blast because I kind of felt like I was viewing the zoo through his eyes in a way and kids need that afterall, a day now and then where they call all the shots. Within reason, that is.

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Jeffery has become quite the big boy and is now beginning to spend the night with his Michi and Papa. He used to "spend the night", which involved him packing his bag and going over to spend the evening and then return home when it was bedtime.

But now he stays the entire night. Yea!!

Okay, back to the story at hand. He spent the night with them last night. He did his little nightly routine when he stays there: bath, story, call mom and dad to say goodnight, then lay in bed with Michi and drift off to sleep. Well my mom told me today that while they were lying in bed, Jeffery kept rubbing his eyes (he has had a bit of allergies here lately) and she told him "Stop rubbing your eye buddy, you are going to irritate it." To which he replied, " Meech, it's not "earitated", It's "eyeitated"."

I thought that was just too cute!! I love how little children hear things so literally and they just really give you a brand new perspective on things that you never would have thought. He was dead serious when he said this, so my mother didn't laugh, she just agreed that he was right (but she was really laughing hard inside). It's funny how their precious little ears hear things.

New at This

I am new at this blogging business, and am still trying to figure out how to arrange my page and pictures and what not. I don't know how loyal I will be to blogging because I already have three pen and paper journals that I try to keep regularly. After updating all three the other night, I had major hand cramps and wondered if I should just do one journal that covered everybody in the family together instead of separately.

This is where my new blog page comes in. So, we will just see how often I get the chance to write in here. Hopefully it will go well!

And hopefully people care to be my followers!!!