Fall is for Park Days

We'll venture to the park any day of the week when we know we can meet friends there;)

But there is something relaxing about being at the park on a beautiful fall afternoon... the comfortable temperature, the less intense sun and fewer bugs (usually).

Makes me wonder if fall is for park days... getting in all the outside time we want before the chill of winter sets in;)

I'm sharing my favorite pictures from our park day this week with some sweet friends!

{pretty}.... Nate's little girl twin:)

{happy}

{funny}... Chris my adventurous monkey!

{real}...  my baby sporting the boots on the playground!

The 1st one is for little somethings Fall Activity challenge! The 2nd is for  the happiness challenge at Leigh vs Laundry:) And the 3rd is for and then, she {snapped}.



Also linking up to I should be folding laundry's Cute theme....

The last picture is for here...

Sick Night turned into Game Night

All three kids have had cough/cold symptoms today. Lydia finally had to sleep with us last night because we weren't getting ANY sleep standing over her bed:) So when we talked about attending church this evening, we decided to keep the kids home... I'd hate to get any of the older people in our church sick!!

So we stayed home and tore into the new games Chris got from Aunt Jac and Uncle Carson!! First we tried was CandyLand... they did well, although I had to remind Chris many times to keep his little gingerbread man ON the gameboard and to only take the TOP card off of the pile!! But we "survived" one game:) Here are some of our CandyLand pics....

We also played HiHo Cheerio (another game from Aunt Jac)!! The kids really liked that one. It was a little easier for Chris to handle and the game went more quickly, better for a little guy with a SHORT attention span!!

I had fun with the kids!! Since I already had the kitchen tidy, I was able to just sit and PLAY with them:) It was a nice change of pace than me trying to get stuff done around them or rushing them around to complete chores.... maybe this is a good time to instill a GAME NIGHT!!??? Well see.... sounds like FUN to me:)

And if you are interested??? This is how Lydia entertained herself while we played. First she "chewed" on the extra playing piece. Then she rode/dragged the wooden horse around the house (no pic). Finally she decided to dress herself at 8pm!!

She fussed when I tried to remove her shoes at bedtime... I picked my battled and decided that THIS wasn't a big deal and I'd sneak in later to removed them:) But Daddy found the shoes first... LOL... I wonder what went through his mind as he took off his little girls shoes (put on the wrong feet) as she was sleeping???

Our Newest Singer

Singing is very "in" at our house lately. The kids will play "church"! Each will get a book (AKA a hymn book) and start to sing their little hearts out. I'm thinking this has become such a new game soo quickly b/c the kids have started sitting in Sunday evening service and sometimes part of Sunday morning with me:)

Ok, back to "playing church"! They each get a "hymnal" and sing. But they are never really singing any planned song it really comes out very strange:) Not really words, just sounds and notes,etc!

This morning i caught Lydia "practicing"..... ahahaaa... what have the older ones taught her???

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This has really, really encouraged me to start teaching them some kiddie songs and hymns.... it would be much more beautiful to have them actually singing songs that use real words and encourage our hearts :)