Out of the mouth of babes

So this morning Jackson was quite intrigued by the white stuff on the ground. He thought it was snow and I proceded to tell him that we called that frost. He asked (imagine this) "Why?" I told him that the grass had water on it and it got really cold during the night. So he sat on that for a while. We again started talking and I told him that Daddy would be coming home in a few days. He said, "Mommy, he's not daddy, he's Ken for you." How they learn this is amazing. As we pulled into our sitter he said, "Mamma, look Mrs. Dawn has frosting on her house too." And sure enough, her roof was as white as the frosting on a cake. I didn't even correct him. I just had to giggle and tell him he was right and wasn't it pretty. It actually was a beautiful fall morning with frost on the ground and the sun shining. It sure didn't end up that way, as it is 34 and rainy now. Ugh

Fun Fall Day

Well we had a crazy start to November. Ken left for another 2 weeks in South Carolina so we were off to the airport at 5:20 am. He was thinking of reasons not to go and we really didn't want him to leave. So after not really being able to enjoy my favorite morning of the year (the end of daylight savings time and an extra hour of sleep) I decided to enjoy the day outside with the kids. They had been wanting to go to the zoo to see Zero. Zero is our polar bear that fell into the moat. She was there for 9 days before finally crawling onto a lift and being brought back up to where she is supposed to be. She is fine and doing well, but the kids wanted to see her. So off to the zoo we went. I drove the kids nuts taking pictures, but they seemed to handle it pretty well. We had a blast at the zoo, not too many people so the kids ran everywhere, jumped in leaves, walked on the rocks, had front row views to everything and enjoyed the fall day. Jackson also figured out how to ride his "big boy bike" with his training wheels--and of course he had to have Jake's baseball helmet on. The view of the pond in our backyard was absolutely beautiful. A day with laughing and smiling kids doesn't get much better....It would have been a perfect day if Ken had been with us.