Poetry and Dreams

Today Carter came out of his room and told me that during quiet time he had thought up some poems.  He started to tell me one about Batman and then said "Mom can you write them down?"

So I ran and got paper/pencils and he once again told me the same Batman poem again, word for word.  I was pretty surprised that he put enough thought into his poems that he was able to repeat them verbatim a second time.  Anyways, here are my little boy's poems:

Christmas

Man, what do you want for christmas?

It is snowy out tonight.

I want a snow sheep and a snow eagle.

Santa, that man down from heaven wants a snow sheep and a snow eagle.

The End Good Bye

Batman

Batman have you found bad guys?

Yes, I have.

Can I come too?

No you can't Robin.

Good Bye Good night.

Lobster

Lobster, do you live in a house?

"No, I don't" said the Lobster

I live in the ocean and the sand.

Good Bye Good Night.

I don't know, I think I'm partial to the Christmas poem!  Any chance we could make some money on five year old poetry?  Haha!  I'll just let the blog preserve it for future Carter.

In other news......

This weekend while Meme was visiting she shared a room with Carter and Ava.    Apparently Ava woke up crying in the middle of the night.  Meme went to comfort her and heard all about her dream.  In Ava's dream there was a wolf that ate Meme.  Meme told her "don't worry, it was just a bad dream."  

And Ava through her tears told her, "No Meme, it was a good dream."  

Trick or Treat!

Trick or Treat!

This year Carter wanted to be Batman, and Ava wanted to be Super Girl.  She was very happy with her costume of a tutu, leggings, batman shirt and a Mommy crafted cape.

We were very lucky to have a full house of Grandparents:  Grandma, Bo, Meme, and Nana.

All of the trick or treaters, although Meme choose to drink or treat.  Not too surprising, though.

Dawson in his hand me down Elmo costume.

Although it was chilly and rainy, the kids made it a lot longer than I thought they would.  Dawson yelled "MORE MORE" after each house.  

At one point Meme asked Ava "Do you want me to hold your hand?"  

Ava said "No, that's ok, it's just freezing."

Then everyone came home, ate three pieces of candy and passed out.  

Mission Accomplished!

Beautiful Day

Today was an absolutely beautiful day, I believe it was supposed to be close to eighty degrees.  So I decided to take the kids to the zoo, and I'm so glad that we did.  I had fun hanging out with my kiddos, and I know I say this all the time, but do I have the best job ever or what?  I wasn't locked inside a building, stuck at a desk but out enjoying three of the four most important people in my life.  

But anyways, the zoo.....

The Lions were very active today, we saw them running, wrestling and roaring at each other.

We took a train ride, here are Carter and Ava on the caboose.

Carter took this picture of me holding Doc.  Dawson ADORES trains right now. He was scared to get on the train but had a great time and didn't want to get off.  

After we got off the train, we had to watch the train and wave to everyone on it for a long time.

At home this evening all the kids were excitedly trying to tell Mike what they saw at the zoo.  Dawson refused to let us talk about anything else but the train ride.  Ava would start talking about the flamingos or penguins but Dawson would start yelling "CHOO CHOO, WHEELS, PEOPLE, BABY JUICE, WAVE PEOPLE ALL ABOARD."  

Then Carter would start telling about the lions or tigers and Dawson would yell "CHOO CHOO, WAVE, WHEELS, ALL ABOARD!"  I took a video of our dinner time conversation, and I hope that I can figure out a way to upload it.  This is the first time our third child had commandeered the conversation away from big brother and big sister.  LOVES trains.

As soon as I asked Ava this morning what she wanted to wear, she immediately replied "My Flamingo outfit."

It was a fun, wonderful, busy day.

Thank you!

Thank you Uncle Jason and Aunt Tiffany {slinky and Andrew too!} for the Halloween goodies.  

{And yes, Ava has been wearing this spiderman costume for two days straight.  Thank you 50% off sale at the kids consignment shop!}

My Lunch Date and Heard around the House

My Lunch Date with Spiderman, Optimus Prime and Dawson

Heard around the House:

Carter in a singsong voice:  Ava, Ava you are my little love

Ava in a singsong voice:  I love you too, my love

Carter out of the blue while we are driving in the car:  I just want to be a soccer player so I can run as fast as a motorcycle or race car.

Fall Fun

During Andrew's baby shower we spent some time playing in the leaves.

Mike said he felt like an Eddie Bauer model.

Princess dresses play in the leaves as well.

Happy Dirty Birthday!

Today my very best friend turns 30!

Happy Birthday Aunt Margie!

I'm so proud of all the hard work you are doing in school and in raising two great kids.  

We love you guys so much, and only wished that you lived closer.

I know that you were studying today, but hopefully you'll have some fun too.