Into the West

In the spirit of the mini-series I have been watching, Into the West, I have decided to give Autumn a native american name. Here are a few to choose from, tell me your favorite:

Poops A Lot
Runs with Crayons
Eats with Hands
Plays with Food
Whiny Tiger Lily
Throws self on Floor
Cat tormentor
Princess Fuzzhead

Wal-mart Part 2

BOOOOOO HOOOOOO! They won.

Wal-Mart

I love shopping at Wal-Mart, but I don't want to live in it's backyard. Wal-Mart is trying to get a rezoning request so that they can build a new one right by our house. The vote comes down to 5 city council member votes. Everybody keep your fingers crossed. The vote is tonight.

Autumn the Negotiator

I think that Autumn has a future career as a CIA of FBI negotiator. She is really testing my patience these days. Her favorite phrase lately has been, "How 'bout?" Then she proceeds to try to talk me into ice cream for breakfast or "chocolate chips" (which are just regular chips) for dinner. Plus, she is very polite about it all. She always says please, which is something we wanted her to say. Try teaching a 2 year old to say please when you want something, but please does not always mean you will get it. She also tries to trick us by saying "in 2 minutes" if you say no right away. No one told me that the tricks I used would eventually backfire! This kid is smart. I have to constantly remind myself that I am the grownup and I am in charge. Autumn has other plans. She thinks she is the boss. I have no IDEA where she got that from :)!!!

VBS is Fun!

Last night was our 1st night of VBS (Vacation Bible School). Mike and I are "tour guides" for a 3rd grade group. It is our job to help them get to each station. Since I did not grow up going to VBS, I feel like I am experiencing it right along with the kids. It is really fun. Autumn will get to participate next year and I can't wait. This year, Autumn goes to a 2 year old class, but they stay in one class. She said it was fun and she got to play with "uncle Ryan", but she meant a little boy named Ryan. Apparently there was some smootching and hugging involved! Anyway, one little boy in our group was asking some BIG questions such as, Why do some people say the devil isn't real?, Why didn't the devil just stay an angel? and Can God do anything? It was so sweet to his his mind trying to take everything in. He was really keeping us on our toes. Can't wait to see what he asks tonight!

I'm 30!

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear meeeeeee, happy birthday to me! Oh, and happy birthday to Mike and my uncle Greg too!!!

Autumn loves to sing!

Autumn had me laughing in church yesterday. She has decided that it is about time she start to sing along with the hymns. However, she doesn't know the words. But she sings anyway. Whenever she hears me sing a word that she recognizes she just repeats it very loud and long. It is really cute. We sing songs together at night and she is getting better and better. I love her so much at this age.

Not as We Planned

Well, the weekend did not go as we had planned. We did get to see our friend Kevin, his wife Jenny and their daughter Lucy. We drove to Abilene on Saturday and it rained the entire way. We also saw a really bad accident on the Interstate on the way there. Unfortunately, I looked and saw some things that I did not want to. Needless to say, I spent the rest of the drive gripping the handle on the door. Saturday was fun catching up with Kevin. We had not seen him in 4 years! So, for the rest of the weekend we were going to have a zoo animals theme. Autumn has really been into all the zoo animals lately, so we thought we would take her to the zoo and to see the new movie Madagascar. But, Mike and Autumn caught a cold so the zoo did not seem like such a good idea. When Autumn is sick she is so different than normal. I just have to say she is BAD, really BAD. Which I don't blame her because she doesn't feel well, but it is exhausting. So Sunday was spent indoors relaxing. By Monday afternoon I thought we could all use some time out of the house so we went to the movies. Big mistake. We had to leave 30 minutes into the movie. It was really disappointing. Not the movie, but how Autumn acted in the movie. We had been to a movie once before and she loved it. Oh well, our zoo tickets are good until December. I guess there is always next weekend! Life with a 2 year old cannot be planned except to expect the unexpected!!!