Gabe wondering when we will go in the caboose.

Mabry turning the caboose around.

pretending she is a model on the caboose.

Mabry and her cousin Ethan at her Chuck E. Cheese party.

We went for a walk earlier this week and stopped at our local coffee shop, the Main Attraction. I had an awesome pumpkin latte and the kids had some great cookies. On the way home, we decided to stop at the Casey Jones museum. Believe it or not, the kids loved it. There isn't a lot of stuff, but Mabry learned a lot--like the fact that cabooses are made so they don't have to be turned. They just flipped the seat backs around.

Mabry is 8!!!!

And we are going to Chuck E. Cheese tonight! More pics later!

Gabe is two!

This was my son when he was four days old.

This is my boy a couple of weeks ago in his school picture.

This is my boy and his sister exactly a year ago, right before Goddaddy Matt's wedding!

Time has flown by! New things Gabe does:

1. washes his hands when he gets anything on them

2. brushes his teeth

3. asks for a cup of milk or juice by name

4. shouts "school bus!" whenever we see one, and since we drop Mabry off at school every morning and drive by the other school on the way to daycare, this can be a very frequent shout at 7 in the morning.

5. still call his sister Bebe

6. look at books quietly for about ten minutes

7. put together wooden puzzles quickly and repeatedly

8. create one straight line of cars

9. launch said cars off his slide (or playground according to him)

10. give good hugs

11. He actually said "I love you" once, but won't repeat that one. Disappointing, but special

12. still insists Daddy's name is Guy-gui, just like his sister

Halloween and more

Sorry it is sideways, but this is Mabry dressed as Dorothy. Her friend, Tristan, gave her the bunny ears.

My awesome across the hall neighbor at work decorated our entire hall in orange ribbons in honor of my mother's day of surgery.

Of course, the kids asked what the orange was for. I explained it to them and they stole my orange sharpie from my desk and decorated themselves for the day in honor of mom. Sometimes, just sometimes, teenagers can be human too!