Saturday, October 30, 2010

A Monkey Leash Was Needed


Pops (Trey’s dad) is a man on the go.  He can’t sit still and my husband gets it honestly.  Last night us 3 plus Puddin and Pops went to Elaine Arkansas to visit one of Pops’s high school friends and his family.  Elaine is a small town, not somewhere that I would ever want to live.  It’s way too rural for me… it makes Mayberry look like big city life.  Well, we went to the Cannon’s “lodge” if you will for the evening.  If this is roughing it I could get used to this. 


 The kids playing


The sweet little kids in the picture above have a pet deer.  On the way home we stopped by to see their little friend.  Ford loved him.



We ventured to Oxford today with Ford once again.  This time I decided just to do the social scene and let Trey go to the game.  Good thinking too because he needed one of those child leashes.  I have never been so hot or worn out from chasing the little man.  I put him to bed at 6:30.


BoomPa, my dad, was in the grove today and was confused by Ford’s monogram on his outfit!!!  Got to love that.  No, we didn’t steal someone’s outfit.  Those really are his initials.

Tomorrow is Halloween.  What a big day!  It’s time for me to go and rest up myself.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Little Nerd

Look at my little nerd!!!!

It has been a while, longer than normal, since I was able to entertain you all.  The reason behind that is that Ford got the stomach bug in the middle of last week and then I got it at the end of the week.  I can honestly say that I have never been so sick in my life.  I managed to lose 6 pounds in less than 24 hours.  I think I have successfully gained it all back now.  No worries my friends! 

 What I would do for those eyelashes!!!!!

There is a maintenance, handy-man, who works for our school. He is a practical jokester and he and I have had a large time this year playing jokes on one another. I walked in my room one day and there was a dead fox (stuffed of course under my desk). Another day I opened my door and he had attached a long black tube to the door so that when I opened it the thing slung down and almost whacked me in the head. Well, I had enough. I asked the cafeteria lady for some mayonnaise. I decided I would mayonnaise his door handle to the school van he drives. To my great surprise the day I went to spruce up his van he had left it UNLOCKED and the keys INSIDE!!!!! I cranked that puppy up and drove it down the street. I then proceeded to mayonnaise the ignition and then the door handle of course. I ran like the wind back to the school and thanked the counselor for watching my class while I played the prank. His van was missing for 30 minutes until someone told him where it was. So you get my point. It’s an ongoing battle and many more pranks have been played.



This week is red ribbon week at school and Tuesday was career day. I dressed up as my buddy, Mr. Larry!!!!! (I have on the blue polo).  As you can see several others joined in on the fun as well!!! 




Tonight we decided to carve our pumpkins.  I had been telling Ford all afternoon that when Daddy came home we would carve the pumpkins.  He would squeal and try to copy what I was saying.  I just laughed and told him he had no idea what he was so excited about.  Here we are tonight carving the pumpkin… 


And here is a recap from last year….









And the finished product…



And here is a recap from last year….


It makes me sad how much my baby has grown.  I am soooo excited about Halloween.  Puddin made Ford’s costume and he is going to look adorable.  You will have to stay tuned for that fun. 

Until next time… And I hope my dress up pictures made you laugh.  I do stuff like that for the laughs you know!!!  And my kids at school LOVED IT!!!

Monday, October 18, 2010

Experimental Hair Doo

Well, on Saturday I left Senatobia headed south to Hattiesburg for a baby shower.  Anyone who knows me well knows that I like to be at home and spending the night out is not my cup of tea.  With that being said I decided I would go to the shower and come home in the same day.  Yes, that would be a total of 8 hours traveling, but I knew I could do it.
Ford got haircut number 8.  She cut too much.  He looks like he is 4 and not 17 months.

Trey and Ford did not come.  Trey was in a wedding.  Yes, this would be like wedding number 15 since we have been married.  Ohhh if I just had all that money back from the tuxes I could go on a mini vacay.  But on with the story… So Trey had a wedding and Ford needed a sitter.  That is where the grandparents come in handy.  Gran and BoomPa offered to keep Ford.  I left little to no instructions so I guess that was my fault.  Disaster did strike while I was away.


I guess Ford has spent a lot of time watching me get ready in the bathroom.  If you remember from a previous post I said I was the president of the bad hair club and therefore I require many products in my hair on a daily basis.  Apparently, Ford thought he needed to spruce up his hair because when Gran put him down for his nap he smeared VASELINE all in his hair.  Do you know how thick that stuff is?  It’s not meant to be put in the hair under any circumstance so I have learned.  He was a greased up little monkey.

These two pictures were taken after his hair had been shampooed. 
In a mode of panic Trey and I washed with Dawn, baking soda, Dawn again, and shampooed 2 more time before going to church. He was slicked down still.

Sunday night we decided to try laundry detergent mixed with baking soda.  I was a little nervous to rub all of this on Ford’s head, but we were in a desperate situation and didn’t want to shave his hair off.






We thought it worked pretty well.





So after all was said and done he had been washed in…
And like I said… I was at a baby shower.  Here are some pictures from my day.





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Ford LOVES shredded cheese.  He also likes to dump it on my table.




Playing one night while we were out to eat.


Before bed tonight in his Elmo pajamas. 




Sorry for any typos.  I have a headache from smelling vinegar today at school and do not feel like proof reading.  Why vinegar?  We erupted 9 volcanoes as science experiments and my head is pounding.  I am off to bed.

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