just got babe down for the night and thought I'd post and do some journaling in the kids written journals. 
had a good day, it was gorgeous out there again, clear blue skies! dh and Canaan mowed the yard for probably the last time this year. dh brought in all the kids clothes tubs for me and I went through everything. everything. wow. everything. 
I've got a whole huge pile of clothes that I'm going to let my neighbor go through and whatever she doesnt want, I'm taking to the homeschool meeting on tuesday night for a free for all on who wants it! 99% of course is the boys clothes. amazing that C has more clothes than I do! I made him pick 7 pair of jeans and 3 khakis to keep, the rest are being dished out elsewhere! took out everything 4T and under from the boys stuff (kept one pair of nice 3T pants for Garrett and of course the fleece footed sleepers they always pass down. so tired of holding on to stuff for years! ugh!! made a HUGE difference on what's being repacked too of the summer stuff!
Katlyn still has to go through the shelf that has all her pants/jeans on it cause she claims she has next to no pants/jeans that fit, so tomorrow we will see. 
there's a mighty big pile o' jeans on that there shelf for her to have 'none'!
so doing that took up pretty much ALL of my afternoon, not to mention I washed two loads of what we kept to make sure there were no critters in them. waiting for the 2nd load to dry now (got some overalls in there obviously cause its noisy!)
Garrett finished his pears happily tonight so I let him try some sweet taters.
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that was his reaction. 
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so I'll let him try a bit tomorrow to see if it goes over any better, if not, I'll be freezing what we have left for later. and get some more fruits.
I do think we're in the midst of teething grouchiness now. the tops of his lower gums are starting to push upwards. *sigh* he doesnt mind me looking around there at all either, strange kid LOL! he's got a white area that has consistently stayed where it is, but its over where his left canine/2nd incisor would be, so I'm guessing its nothing. though Gavin did get his top canines before his top 2nd incisors so he looked like a little vampire for a while. 
I'm thinking that Garrett's teeth wont erupt before 4 months though. his gums arent red yet. we'll see how much I've learned over the years. 
(thank goodness, the dryer shut off!)
Garrett was up once last night at 4:15 and back to bed by 5 (I almost fell asleep in the recliner LOL) then up just after 7. he was tired today and took a good nap by 3 this afternoon. I probably should have given him a teething tablet before putting him down....
thanks for all the pic love! I get cracked up at that pic of hunter. gosh that is SUCH a classic 'uh oh' look on him!! LOL!! I felt bad for him today after sunday school cause he was upset that he didnt get the quiet seat prize. 
I told him I was proud of him anyway and that he did a great job! (that helped but man...) and he's wearing one of daddy's hats too. he and gavin are on a 'I want to be just like daddy' kick, so he and gav both have a daddy hat to wear. 
(they were even sticking a pencil behind their ears yesterday while dh was working on the mailbox LOL!!)
G woke @ 3:15 this morning. had done gone from one end of the bed to the other and was smushed up in the corner. I knew he'd be ticked if I just moved him and tried to get him back to sleep, so I nursed him and he took both sides. @ half hour later I put him down, to which he started to fuss, but a bit of back patting and a paci and he was out cold...till almost 9 this morning! 
we got breakfast, dressed and stuff and headed out for some more yard sales while dh and C were in Nashville. 
found some more good stuff, children's place jeans for Garrett, a bunch of stuff to put back for Christmas (pokemon pillows, cards and movies, plushies, plus an Elmo doll and a care bear). found a skirt/shirt set for me, some tools for dh (funny me trying to explain what they looked like to him on the phone 
), and a few baby toys-one in particular for Landon that I dropped off cause it was a giraffe and tasha loves giraffes. 
met dh in town and he took the two young boys home with him and C so they'd stop being bored ( LOL) and after another sale, took K with me and Garrett to taco bell where we shared a combo and nachos (shhhhh! LOL) then stopped at my brothers to give them the toy, then on to home.
Garrett is down for a nap now and after he gets up and nurses the other side, I'll let him try some pears for a late lunch.
gotta get some laundry done and such (*yawn*) and C will be leaving in a while to go with my mom and Sdad to a singing in the next town. he loves going so he can help with the sound equipment.
dh is working on the mailbox 
he got a BIG one for me! yay!!
had a good day today! went yard saleing as usual and found a lot of good deals. to and including 5 new church shirts for the boys (.50 each), 2 new denim capri's for me (.50 and .25 and size 10's to boot! wee!!), about 5 new shirts for me (most .50, one GAP denim button down was $1), two new pair of shoes for K, a whole bag of new socks for Garrett at a nickel each, along with one 9-12m sleeper and a couple of onesies and a pull over bib (love those for feeding!) 3 pair of baby place jeans 9-12m, and I think a couple shirts for him- all .10 each, NWT nightgown for me $1, 4 honeycomb shades for the house (gosh, I love these and have wanted some forEVER) for $1.50 each (already have them put up! hehe!), a Donkey Kong stuffed animal .25 for the boys which will be saved for Christmas , new Dave Ramsey book (Financial Peace) that I've been wanting to get but not dish out $ for ( ) $1, pair of Limited Too denim overalls for K that'll be saved for Christmas- $1, pair of Bob the Builder pj's for the boys .50, some more clothes for Garrett 12-18m think I paid $1 for those which was less than what I was quoted 
, Beauty and the Beast magical Christmas (yes, it'll be saved for C-mas LOL) $1, and I know there is more, but that's all I can think of. LOL!
we also went ahead and signed on our new insurance for the house today! not that I'm tickled about plunking out a wad of cash like that for the first installment, but its a LOT less than it could have been! so that makes me happier about it.
dh is off work tomorrow and is going to go to nashville to get the stuff he needs to fix the mailbox. heh-heh-heh. the mailbox of steel... wonder if I should paint an "S" on the side like superman? it'd also go with our last name.
Garrett is sleeping on my chest right now. kid NEEDS a nap, dang if he's not been a grouch-o-potamus today! course that's in between all the giggles, he really does have a great personality.
took the kids in town, had to mail a package and wanted to rent Xmen 3, little mermaid, new scooby movie and some kids movies for the kids. been a while since we got new releases really. 
dh has been looking forward to Xmen (as have I), so we'll watch that tonight most likely if he gets in in time.
paid another $12 on goodyear and its now down to $59.95!!!! almost there, almost there!!!! even the staff at goodyear are rooting us on now. (they're old friends).
fixed a big honkin dinner tonight: meatloaf, mashed taters, mac & cheese (homemade, not boxed), cheese peas, biscuits and fried green tomatoes. 
love it when I feel like whipping up a real dinner. LOL!!
oh, some wonderful news today, I found a new house insurance carrier!! we had actually been with them before, but they stopped carrying policies on double wides, but they've started doing so again. I didnt know til today when I called, but something (God!) had been urging me to call and check. well, we can get our insurance almost $300 cheaper with them than anywhere else has been!!! such a blessing!!! as soon as we get that first payment together we'll be goign in to fill out the paperwork! awesome!!
Garrett has been consistant in his sleeping pattern. he even went to bed earlier last night, around 9:30 and still slept to almost 5 this morning. awesome! and it was a test of the 'put yourself back to sleep' cause he was restless when I put him back down. a couple of times of patting him softly on the back though and he was out again. yay garrett! still working on getting ME back to sleep afterwards though. sheesh!!
had a great time today!
the weather was wonderful, had a good service (though many people were out due to fall break at school), then took the kids to McDs after changing clothes before going to my Sis' new house for our first visit.
we stayed for like.... 8 hours! LOL!! the kids had a blast and I know all my kids will sleep great tonight!oh, someone ran over our mailbox during the night too. I do mean flattened like a pancake ran over it. wasn't intentional since the boxes sit off the road. they've just repaved our roads this past week and the shoulders are pretty low. I figure someone went off that and lost it, going right over our box. :P I've been wanting a new, bigger one anyway. now's the time to get one!
dh said he'd bring something home to put it on to where if anyone hit it, they'd still be sitting there in the morning. :) hehe!
I'm just waiting for him to start screeching and hollering for the heck of it!
he helps me "turn" the pages on the books (since I refuse to let him munch the magazines LOL), and the patterns on any shirt he's looking at quickly get grabbed so he can inspect it closer (aka: chew on it
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its the collectors edition w/ a special comic book included. whatever. I know dh would want it though so I got it (he better appreciate it