Logan injury

I got up this morning & asked Logan to get the newspaper. Silly kid didn't put any shoes/socks on. He stepped on one of the trees seeds (or sticky balls as we call them). Sweetgum tree is the name of the tree. Once he stepped barefoot on it he fell, caught himself with his hands, but managed to scrape the end of his big toe.
As I was trying to put a band-aid on it I asked him how he managed to get all the hard to bandage injuries. He had nothing for me. **update, Monday he wore his shoes to school, but rubbed the scab off & wore flip flops for a couple hours. Tuesday he opted for flip flops all day at school, someone at lunch accidently kicked it & caused more pain. I think he's thankful for the Thanksgiving break. Photo from day 2.

No glasses

The kids annual eye exam was yesterday. Stephanie decided to try out contacts. When I got up this morning (early to wake her up so she'd have time to get her contacts in) she was already up & in the living room. Sitting on the couch with the table in front of her & the full length mirror from her room propped up against that. I asked her what she was doing. She told me the left contact went in first try, but that she got tired of standing up. The right one proved to be a bit tricky. She finally got them both in.

"I'm to old"

Logan's reading teacher does a fun thing each Friday called Fun Friday & the kids get to buy items from the Kirksey Kash they've earned for being/doing good through out the week. So Logan came home with this face mask a couple weeks ago. I snapped this funny picture & now I am having to use it for the Halloween post because Logan informed me he is to old to go trick or treating. Stephanie hasn't been into trick or treating for a couple years now.

Changing Colors

This is a tree just down our street & every afternoon on the way home from picking Logan up from school for the last couple days I've noticed how pretty it is. It has all the fall colors, which normally I don't care much for. Maybe my tastes are changin'.

Before and After

School Conferences were tonight. A teacher asked Logan to step out in the hall so she could ask Chris some CSI questions for an upcoming segement in her class. While out in the hall Steph decided to "Steph-a-fy" Logan's locker. She did a good job I think.
BEFORE

AFTER

:05 minute clean

I believe I started this "5 Minute Clean" when I got into the Fly Lady site, but soon got out because I just couldn't keep up, lol. She says to clean in :15 minute spans & not to drag out more than you can get put back in a :15 minute span. I do like that idea. Since :15 minutes is a lot to young kids (at the time I started this) I shortnend the time to :05 minutes. When the timer goes off we stop. They know that I mean a :05 minute clean is really :05 minutes & they don't complain (to much). Some days like today takes a little longer than :05. So we did a few of them today & the house is looking much better. And thanks Steph for doing all your spans at one time & getting the kitchen looking good!!

McDonalds Monopoly!

Chris is determined to win the big prize playing the McDonalds Monopoly game. So far he has lots of duplicate pieces & has instant won food prizes, Red Box Rental, & 20 Snapfish prints. I enter the codes online & have won a lot of My Coke Reward points, a Red Box Rental, & Snapfish prints as well. A lot of places are running out of the game pieces since it's nearing the end. Even the Huntsville McDonalds had no pieces on their medium soda cups. Where this photo was taken yesterday.