Every parent has to call Poison Control eventually, right?

Last week we were pretty busy.  Tuesday night the boys did a little reading on the floor.

Wednesday morning was beautiful so I called Brandi to see if she wanted to meet up at the park before it got too hot.  The kids had a lovely time running around on the play set and swinging.  Then they just did some running in the grass with a soccer ball.

Neely, Liam, and Colin

The Boys

Love this action shot

My little peanut

When we got home the boys needed some milk.  I am working on weaning Colin from his bottle and he has been drinking out of a sippy-cup but he still treats it as a bottle, Ha!   Liam requested a sippy-cup also.

I also pulled out all the Halloween stuff.  The boys tried on their costumes and they fit GREAT!  I am so excited for this little dragon and monkey to go trick or treating :)

Liam brought home some of his projects from the week at pre-school and I took a picture of them.  I decided I can't keep all of his stuff or I will have NO room in our house.

I am still letting Colin attempt to feed himself here and there.  He usually wears more than he eats!

Friday morning Colin and Liam dumped out all his books and later I found him quietly reading on a pile of books.

We made a trip to Wal-Mart for a few things and found these cute mini grapes that the boys are obsessed with right now.

After our trip to Wal-Mart the day became an exhausting whirl-wind.  I was picking grapes in the kitchen to get them all clean and nicely put in a Tupperware.  The boys were playing when all of a sudden I heard Colin scream/crying and Liam saying "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" in an angry tone.  I immediately went rushing into the laundry room.  I looked at Colin and he couldn't really open his eyes and the tears were just flowing.  I asked Liam what happened and he started crying and told me Colin hit his head.  As I pulled Colin closer I could smell something and he had a wet spot on top of his head.  I immediately got a wet wash cloth and asked Liam if he sprayed something.  He said he did.  So I was frantically looking around to see what he sprayed.  Nothing was obviously within his reach.  But, on top of the dryer was the Shout bottle, and I realized that had to be it and Liam confirmed it was.  He must have stood on his toy car to reach it.  I panicked and threw Colin in the bath and poured water on his head over and over to rinse his eyes.  I called Chris and he called poison control while I called my mom to get into the eye doctor.  Poison control called me and said that the pH of the Shout was not too harmful but the pressure of the spray could be harmful depending on how close Liam was to Colin's eyes.  She said to rinse his eyes good and that pouring over the head is exactly what they recommend, thank goodness!  My mom had already arrived at the house while I was talking with the nurse and the doc sent her over with some numbing drops and saline to give his eyes a good rinse.  We ended up holding off on the drops because he seemed okay and just took him in to see the doc.  The doc looked at Colin's eyes and said everything looked good but gave me some steroid drops just in case his eyes became red again, indicating there could have been some chemicals left in his eye.  Luckily he was okay and no permanent damage was done but at the time I was terrified. 

Deer Farm

Last weekend we went to Flagstaff.  I am helping out with the high school volleyball team and we had a tournament at Coconino High School.  We decided to go ahead and make a weekend trip out of it. Aunt Sandy was kind enough to let us stay with her.  Saturday I was at the tournament all day but the boys and Aunt Sandy went out to Elk camp and met up with Grandpa C. and various uncles.

Sunday when the boys woke up they did a little reading with Aunt Sandy.

They also had a blast playing in the toy box

They were happy campers.

We had plans on going to the deer farm and then driving home during nap time.  Liam was so cute and asked if Aunt Sandy could come with us.  I told him he need to ask her and see if she wanted to go.  He went running down the hall saying "Aunt Sandy, Aunt Sandy"  then he asked if she would go to the deer farm with us.  She joined us and it was great!

Boys at the front entrance

Pretending to ride on a tractor

Colin and Sandy checking out the goats

Once we entered the deer section we were attacked.  Liam wasn't too fond of the 10+ deer coming at him.

Colin on the other had was completely unphased by them.

Checking out a reindeer

Colin had a little obsession with all the signs and would stand and point at them.

As we continued down the trail, we were able to feed this deer some sweet potatoes

Colin attempted to take a bit for himself as he fed the deer also.

Liam checking out a deer

Colin looking at the camel

Deer

Family photo with Aunt Sandy

Family photo

My boys

Getting some corn for the deer.  Their ears perked right up when they heard quarter hit the machine.

They liked the corn

Liam and I had to throw it out for them so we could have a little breathing room.  When Liam was done feeding them he just pushed his way right through them. It was quite funny.

Liam warmed up to the deer towards the end.

Liam wanted to take some pictures

I love this one with him holding the camera

He even got this one of Chris and me.

Towards the end we ran into some of these little monkeys.  They were cute but super stinky!

The boys each got a little gift, Liam a firetruck (random I know) and Colin a little stuffed deer.  He was pretty fond of it.

We left the deer farm and ate lunch in Williams and a wood fire pizza place.  It was delicious.  Then we took the kids over to a park to let them burn whatever energy they had left.

Liam enjoyed climbing this wall

Colin just liked being up high

Daddy and Liam on the teeter totter.

We had a lovely weekend and thanks again Aunt Sandy for letting us stay with you!

Fair Disappointment

On Friday morning I decided to take the boys to the Mohave County Fair.  It was nice that there was going to be something going on in Kingman beyond the weekend and during the day for me to take the boys to.  I told Liam that we would get to check out some animals and ride some rides.  Basically, I set him up for disappointment.  When we got there we went to check out the animals first thing.  Liam enjoyed the loudness of the roosters and enjoyed seeing the animals. He even got to pet this little bunny.

Colin was loving this cow.  It was mooing and really got Colin's attention.  Liam, on the other hand, shied away from him.

Boys and some goats

Next we found a little petting farm area.  Liam decided he wanted to go in.  He fed a few of the animals

I let Colin down and he just put his head right into these goats.  Silly boy.

Liam was given a brush so he could brush the animals which he thought was neat.

Colin grabbed this duck's bill

Me and my boys.  That chicken behind us was all up in my hair.

This part of the fair was great with the boys.  We saw some pony rides but they didn't start until 3PM, then there was a little train ride but it was not in operation.  Then Liam wanted to ride some rides so we went that direction and found out the rides didn't open until 3PM.  I felt like the world's worst mom.  Here I told Liam we would get ride on some rides and now he couldn't!  It was my fault for not knowing this information but why on earth have a fair with no rides operating!  I was not the only one either.  There were kids by the rides that also had to turn around.  I am assuming from the Academy since they do not have school on Fridays.  So I apologized to Liam and told him we could get some cotton candy instead.  We went and looked by all the food vendors and I didn't notice anyone selling cotton candy.  I finally asked someone and she told me where to go and guess what, they were CLOSED until 3PM.  I was crushed and felt like they should have just opened the fair at 3PM. So I once again had to tell Liam we couldn't do something.  Luckily, he was easy going and we got ice cream which made him happy.

We left after we enjoyed some ice cream and the boys did enjoy themselves and that is what counts.  Oh and on our way out there was a little stand that had some cotton candy so we got some, although I didn't let Liam have any right away since we did just have ice cream.  Overall, they boys seemed to have a good time doing something we normally don't get to do, but it made me really miss living in Alexandria where there is plenty of things to do with my boys during the week.