A Night at the Farm "Camping Out"

For almost a year now Cameron and his dad have been working on renovating the camp house at the Tidmores' farm.  We are so glad that it is finally nearing completion... at least close enough for us to spend the night!  Cameron, Tucker, and Talon have already spent then night there once, but this was my first time.  Tucker was SO excited.  His favorite part: building a fire.  And throwing every thing in sight on the fire.

Haha...such a big boy :)

Tucker came in and informed Cameron that he went looking for deer tracks and didn't find any, but he did find some acorns (which deer apparently love)... he is learning fast!

Karsyn and Morrisa came out and roasted marshmallows with us, I don't know why I didn't get any pictures of them!  We had such a fun night, we were all exhausted.  Tucker had so much fun he slept until almost 9:00 the next morning!

Talon, of course, didn't sleep so late, but he had lots of fun, too, can't you tell?!

Cupcakes and Costumes

Since we can't all get together on Halloween, we decided to get together early so we could see each other's kids all dressed up and get pictures.  But before pictures we decorated (and ate) cupcakes.  The kids did a really good job, I was impressed!

Haha...this picture of Cooper is one of my favorites...

Here are the Moms' masterpieces...

After cupcakes everybody put on their costume and we headed outside for pictures.  I seriously think these kids are so cute they could be in a magazine (I'm a little biased, of course).

I love how these sweet girls are looking at Talon, they love having a "real life" baby to play with!

My other favorite picture...fairy legs...

We had so much fun!  I hope to make it a Halloween tradition!

Addy is TWO!

First of all let me say that I am in love with my friends' children.  I love them like I do my own.  And luckily two of my very best friends have girls... which makes it even more fun!  A couple of weeks ago Addy had her adorable Minnie Mouse Adventure at the Barnyard and we had lots of fun!

Umm, is this the cutest outfit ever?!

:) Happy to see each other!

Addy is not so sure about the boat ride thing...

Luckily, Mr. Wes let Tucker go with him and Cooper on the boat.

Then they fed the fish...

and fed the animals.

I love this picture, apparently something much more interesting is going on!

Precious.

Here are Tucker and Cooper holding baby chickens.  Tucker is usually gentle with the animals, but this time he almost squeezed the bird to death.

A little sweeter to the duck.

Feeding the baby goats a bottle...

And then it was time to ride the pony!

The party was so cute...my friends' parties always make me feel so inadequate!

Of course Lauren made these adorable Minnie and Mickey ears, so cute!

Addy knew exactly how to blow out the candles!

She was so proud!

We are excited to spend some more time with Cooper and Addy soon...I will post pictures of our Halloween fun. :)

9 Months

Sweet Baby Talon is nine months old.  His little personality is coming out and he has learned some new "tricks." He can now pull up and he makes a funny grunting noise all the time.  We lowered his bed (sniff) because he tried to jump out a couple times.  One night Tucker yelled for me, so I went running in to my bathroom to find Talon with the Comet that he shook all over him self and the bathroom floor (I know, bad momma).  His favorite toy is the door stoppers that are on the wall, he has broken two already.  Sweet Baby Talon is becoming a wild man, but we all LOVE him and his personality.

He loves to take a bath with Tucker.  But he does not like to play with baby toys... big boy super heros and cars only.

This is before church last Sunday.  I thought he looked so cute in this color.

Today he pulled up on the window to look outside... he loves to look for the dogs or the cat!

Clapping... he also kind of waves "bye bye."

8 Months

My little man is 8 months old.  And on the move!  He actually started crawling about 2 days after his 8 month birthday, but whatever.  Annnnd a couple days later, he started clapping!  Which I love.  He was already slapping his legs when we would say, "Yayyyyy!"  But now he is actually clapping his hands when we say "Yay!"... or for no reason at all.  He has had his first runny nose this week, which means I have a fussy baby, which I am not used to.  I have become accustomed to a sweet and easy baby, so this little cold/tooth whatever, has had this house in an uproar.  I will be happy when my sweet perfect baby is back!
Pictures were rather difficult this month.  First of all he did not want to be still and second of all, he hates the sticker on his shirt.  But I still got a few cute ones to share!

He wants to pull up so bad...but he hasn't quite figured that out...

I have heard him make the sound "ma ma" twice, but Cameron says I am crazy.  Right now we are working on waving bye-bye (which is so much easier than teaching somebody to right their name, by the way.)

"Homework"

You'll remember that I recently wrote about Tucker's impending high school graduation.  To which my sister replied: "chill out you have 13 years to go."  Thirteen years of homework, which stresses me out to even think about.  It has kind of begun this year, we have something to do together each week.  Which is fun for me, but my child already hates homework.  I thought surely that Cameron or Pappaw had made a comment about homework, but they both say they have not, so how do children know in preschool to hate homework?!

The first week we had to make a face that looks like Tucker.  We put yellow hair on him and a super hero mask.  The super hero mask totally being Tucker's idea, I know, we were all shocked about that one.  (I don't have a picture of the super hero face! Sad)

The second week of school we had to fill-in an "About Me" poster.  He had to answer questions like: Favorite Food- Popsicles; What I want to be when I grow up- Super Hero; My friends are: Dylan, Joe, Trayton, Brexton, Morrisa, Karsyn, Talon, Thatcher, and Britton; My favorite colors are: Red and Blue (Captain America, of course)

...see how happy Tucker is to be working on his "homework?!"

He got the "Super Star" student sticker this particular day because he was the teacher's helper.  He absolutely LOVES to be the teacher's helper and is devastated every day that he is not the teacher's helper.  We have discussed the fact that every one has to have their turn, but he is not interested in every one else.

Now, thankfully, he does have aspirations to be things other than super heroes.  He wants to be a scientist and discover things or learn about sharks and alligators.  But he did ask me if I would go ahead and find him a Captain America or Thor costume in a grown up size so he can be that when he is big (Lord help me).

Next, they were learning about the letter "O," so we had to look around the house for things that are oval shaped and draw pictures of them.  

Most recently they were learning about apples and the letter, "A."  So last Friday they were supposed to bring an "apple snack."  I decided on these apple cupcakes which turned out really cute and Tucker was really proud of them... which is all that matters!

Of course he doesn't mind the "homework" that involves licking the spoon.  

Since the beginning of the school year we have been working on writing his name.  He knows how to spell it, but writing it has been a challenge.  I will post some pictures of his name-writing practice soon.  Hopefully it won't always be such a challenge to get him to do homework, but I'm not getting my hopes up!