Exciting Day

Today I took the girls to Detering Orchards to pick apples. I have been wanting to go there for some time now (2+ years), but haven't made it out there until now! And I am so glad I did. It was wonderful. Rows of apple trees of different varieties and being out in the country. All I can say is ahhhh. The girls enjoyed themselves emensly and we got to visit some friends from church. They have remarkable prices, I thought I was going to be spening about $10 easy considering the prices at other farms and the Farmers Market. Boy was I wrong, try $5 for about 20 apples, and some the size of 2 fists. It was neat to meet the farm dogs, a couple of 10 year old yellow labs. Can't wait to go back for their Apple Daze next month! Looking forward to fresh warm cider at the farms.....yummy! Oh don't forget the warm apple cider doughnuts.

Well earlier tonight Frank helped Zoe pick some corn from the garden. They brought them in and both started to shed the husks. Frank warned Zoe she might see a bug while doing this. While I am in the other room I hear two blood curdling screams , the second longer than the first. It was attack of the pincher bug part 2. Only this time it just fell to the floor and got squashed. She got scared after that and didn't want to help with the corn anymore.
Goodness she is turning into such a girlie girl so fast. Well that Zoe for ya I guess.

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What's new and new Family member

Friday 9-14-07

Meet Cody, (9-17: Her name has changed to Tiger now) as Zoe has so named her. She showed up on our porch Tuesday and has decided to stay. Not sure how old she is, around 3 months is my guess. She gets along great with everyone (except Bubba). Her and Smokey like to play quite a bit, it's fun to watch the old man play again.

Well no new Zoe anticks today, sorry. But I thought I would share a Zoe-ism.

~She calls grilled cheese sandwiches girl cheese~

Our garden has been doing really well. We planted tomatoes again, corn and pumpkins. Trying to keep things simple until we get more experience in the garden. The raspberries did really well this year and we got a few concord grape bunches this year. Hopefully next year the grapes will better. I poorly composted some pumkins from last year and got a variety of smaller pumkins from white to orange to gourds! I also planted some large pumkin seeds recently, we'll see if planted in time. The corn did better than I expected, I will definately be planting it again. Oh my the tomatoes.... so many! But the snails have been getting to them >:(

Well I am going to try to get a job at the hospital, despite the fact that I haven't been able to get into the class I wanted to take in coralation with the job. I just couldn't get the time slot scheduled I needed for the placement testing. Hopefully I can still get the job with the intention of taking the class next spring. That is all the is new here pretty much. Have a great weekend all!

New Word

8/20/07 So as Lily grows, so does the things she learns. She typically gets 1/2 a banana with breakfast, after all she is a monkey, climbing up everything. So this morning when grandma gave her the banana, without saying what it was, she says "manana" over and over.

Now with her new found word in her vocabulary, she will walk all over the house saying manana.

Birds and the Bees

8-16-07 So Zoe has been taking swim classes and she just started her 2nd session this week. She enjoys it alot and the kids in her class. So today (Wed) after swim class, just like every other time, I take her into the girls locker room to "shower" and change. I get her in the shower to wash her hair and we head across the room to an empty bench to get her dressed.

On the way over to the other side of the room she sees the little boy from her class, nekked (naked). As we are walking she says," Mom that's the boy from my swim class. What does that boy have?" Of course we all know what she is refering to.

I get her to the bench and gently explain that that is just what boys have. It's part of what makes a boy a boy. "Oh", she says. "Well can we go see it again?" (ahhh ) Oh my, can you believe she asked that?! Well as a 4 year old goes, and her being Zoe, yes of course I can. But I don't know who else might have heard.

Anyway, I tell her "No, we can not. It's not nice to look at other people that way and it's rude to stare." Oh my, don't think I was ready for that one. Guess I better start.

She is just too much!!

Only Zoe

7-15-07 Gotta love that Zoe. Her latest anctic is, getting stuck! So in the laundry room/bathroom, it's pretty small and tight fitting. If the dryer door is open the bathroom door will not close or open completely. Yup, you guessed it, somehow she got her head her stuck in the door, from the outside of the bathroom. Now mom has a hanging door rack on the inside of the door as a space saver. Well the dryer door was getting caught up on that and not closing so she could not move the bathroom door. I shoulda grabbed my camera, instead I got Frank and my mom. Hahaha.

I thought she was hangin out with Frank, but when I noticed she wasn't with him, I figured she was up to no good. I could see a sliver of the bathroom light shining on the wall and knew she was in the laundry room. As I got closer I could see her foot hanging out the door. No idea how long she was there and she never got upset or asked for help in any way. Hehehe.
So when she was finally freed, she says, " Whew, that was close". Thank goodness I have started a journal of these events and all the past ones I can remember, she is gonna love these when she gets older.

Ouch

On July 5th Frank and I went out to run some errands and the girls stayed home with grandma. The 3 of them went outside and Zoe was playing with the water octopus toy and started screaming. Apparently she was sucking on one of the hose tenticles and ended with a pincher bug in her mouth that pinched her tongue. What a riot.