Pink. Flamingos.

His favorite color is pink.

He has an obsession with Flamingos.

His favorite color is pink BECAUSE of his obsession with Flamingos...

Have I mentioned this before??

I'm not sure how it all got started. He saw them at the zoo, maybe? I know they talked about them at school one day. I bought him "Pinky" the beanie baby for $1 at the school craft fair.

Did you spot "Pinky" in the hospital photos below?

He had to come with us...

He comes with us just about everywhere.

He has to show me how they stand and sleep on a daily basis. "Mom, this is how a flamingo stands when he sleeps..see mom! Like this! One one foot!"

I probably contributed to his obsession by buying him the slippers....

But he really wanted them.

When he saw them in the Old Navy ad he asked me to buy them. Right now. He wanted them now. I told him I ordered them online (not that he knows what that means) and that the mailman would bring them...I lied. I just wanted him to stop asking me for them every 5 minutes..instead he asked me if the mailman was here yet...every five minutes. I broke down and sent Scott to the store for them. Hoping to wrap them and put them under the tree for Christmas.

I broke down again and gave them to him the next day...he had already asked if the Mailman was here for the 50th time.

Santa brought him "Splits" instead.

So did my sister after his surgery.

He didn't get to go to the hospital with us. Limit one flamingo per child at the hospital.

The day we went to see the ENT before surgery..we got put into a room with Flamingo pictures in it...

What are the odds?

He could barely control his excitement...

He loves Pink Flamingos and I love him!

If You Give a 4 Year Old Popcorn....

He will stick an unpopped seed in his year.

Or at least my kid will.

My poor little guy! :( After an unsuccessful trip to Urgent Care, then another unsuccessful trip to the ENT, we ended up scheduled for Outpatient Surgery at the Children's Hospital earlier this week.

Third times the charm.

He was a trooper and 'surgery' took all of about 20 minutes once he was asleep...that was the hardest part for me. :)

He was back to his old self by the time we left the hospital exactly an hour after they wheeled him away to the O.R.



Hopefully being "back to himself" doesn't mean he'll try this again...EVER! ;)


We think he learned his lesson.

Yellow Houses

Apparently it's the in thing now to own a Yellow House.... :)

My Sister and the love of her life recently bought and renovated an Old Yellow House...I mentioned that here.

Also, My BFF and her new hubs recently packed up their city lives and moved into an Old Yellow House in the country...they started chronicling their experiences here.

Our house is 'sorta' yellow.....but I think that's from fading....and dirt.

Lisa Leonard...how I love thee!

Do you know Lisa? :)

She make amazing handmade jewelry and I just love it all! And I love reading her blog. Its just so uplifting to me. I think she's such a beautiful person inside and out!!

I'm not sure how I came across her blog. (I say this about alot of blogs I find! I need to start keeping track of this!)

But I'm sure it was probably a post from another blogger about her jewelry that caught my eye...What I do know is that it was THIS necklace that made me fall in love with her jewelry! Have I posted about it before??

Oh, how I love it so!!

I've debated back and forth for months about just buying it for myself.

I asked for it for Christmas...twice. It wasn't in my stocking, though. :(

I've customized in several times...added it to my cart...haven't bought it yet. Need to do that.

The other day on one of my many trips over to her site to read the blog and to check out the goods, there was a new post about a new necklace that included a GIVEAWAY!!

Of course I entered...I always do...but I never win...

UNTIL THIS TIME!!

Hollar!

Isn't it the cutest!?!?

I love it! I feel so lucky to have won it!! And cannot wait to wear it!

You can check it out here! Have fun! I'm sure you'll find something to love there too!!

Christmas....

Two Six E For This House

My Sister has entered the blogosphere and I do believe that she and her "S.O." could give John and Sherry a run for their money here pretty soon.....


http://twosixe.blogspot.com/

Pumpkin Patches!

Both of the 'little guys' had fields trips this month to the Pumpkin Patch and I was lucky enough to have some vacation time saved up to be able to go with both of them and their classes on the field trips.

First up was Pooley's Pumpkin Patch with Noah's class:

Unfortunatly my camera died and I didn't have any more batteries charged up, so I didn't get very many pictures at all. :( But we still had a great time despite the very cold/rainy day that we had. Pooley's is a cute little place, especially for the little ones. They have alot of animals they can pet, and a little trike track where they could race around driving tricycles. There was a corn maze and a 'sandbox' that was actually full of corn instead of sand. We had a good time.

Next Up was Christian's field trip to Vala's:

Let me tell you, this is one serious Pumpkin Patch. I don't even think we saw half of what was going on there. Apparently they too have a corn maze, race track, and corn sand box...they also have train rides, hayrack rides, haunted houses, pig races, stage shows, a mechanical dragon that eats pumpkins, haunted forest, a billion little cut outs you can stick your head in and take your pictures and tons of little shoppes where you can buy anything from caramel apples to snow cones. Way too much to see in one day.

Needless to say we had alot of fun: