Father's Day 2010

Presents to Daddy courtesy of Gordon himself. That shirt says "I love you with all of my heart" and the heart is made of two of Gordon's hand prints. They didn't get to spend Father's Day together this year, we celebrated it the last time Daddy was home

Sometimes We Stay Home, Sweet Home...Our Fall Home Tour

Welcome!

This month has been full of activities, but we did stay home plenty of days and decorated for fall, and just enjoyed some "free" days with our (mostly) beautiful fall weather.We made some new "ghosties" this year - I love them! The first one below covers the candy corn dish that was vulnerable to sneak attacks from my little gremlin...now they are safe again.Some days we even stayed in our pj's all day.Some cluttered fall decor on top of the fridgeGordon loves to rearrange my pumpkins...a mix of real and fake ones, so I just let him, until they start disappearing and we go on a search for them in his room."Mommy, take my picture, I'm a chipmunk!"My autumn decorated mantel, this will take us through Thanksgiving so kept the "Halloween" out of it. Deb - do you recognize some of the florals? That beautiful arrangement you gave me was not "child friendly" so got put in the attic for a while, well that didn't go so well...but I ended up loving using the florals here. I hope that doesn't upset you that I re purposed it.Gordon's room...it is "evolving" from the nursery. It is crowded, but I put the other twin bed in there, he loves having the bed to roll around on, look at his books and toys. The decals on the wall (below the rail, the above part is the farm mural painted by my Dad) are part of our counting lessons - the train cars have a certain number of animals on each car, so we count and see the number to learn our numbers...plus they are cute.We are also learning to identify days of the week and the concept of months on a calendar. This also helps to show him "how long until..."Just because he loves his room, doesn't mean his stuff stays in it though...And just to spread the mess...we do our crafts in the dining room...A beautiful evening, the sun going down just lit up the colors.The bird feeder looks like it is glowing!Viburnum berries catch the sunlightPyracantha berries and burgandy dogwoods mix in to look like fallMy pumpkin lovin' boy...and the poor mums that have been chewed on by the bunnies.This giant gum tree (I think it is a gum?) hasn't turned yet, but there are some touches of yellow starting.

Happy fall y'all!

Finger Painting 101

Gordon had only one request on the way home from school today, he wanted to "fingerpaintlikewedidoutsideatthetableplease" (said all together in one word just like that). I remembered that the last time we did finger painting was this past summer, at the little table out on the deck. I'd never had him paint inside. Since he asked with a please at the end I couldn't refuse. After dinner, which he actually ate at record pace where normally it is a long drawn out affair, I put out a plastic cover on the table and got the stuff out, here's my boy relishing the joy of having squishy cold paints in between your fingers.