Guess Which Hand

As I was sitting at the computer a few days ago, Blake came up to me with a ball in his hand and said "Guess which hand."  Harmless game.  I turned around and got so tickled.  Look at his sweet hands!

I laughed so hard.  Bet you can't guess which hand it is in?  HAHA!!!  Of course, I had to pick the obviously incorrect hand.  Oh, this boy makes me laugh so hard all the time.

Fall Fun Fest

Our town has an annual Fall Fun Fest every year in September.  This year it was the most perfect weekend I can ever remember for Fall Fun Fest.  It is usually still very hot, but we had a cool spell that week, and it made for a perfect weekend.  We usually go down town and eat barbecue on Friday night, but this year we decided to avoid the crowd and go eat barbecue at a local restaurant that we just love.  Then we headed downtown to let the kids play and get some sweets to eat.  The boys got balloon swords made and then Aaron, the boys and Aaron's mom at kettle corn (which I am not a fan of at all) and I ate fried oreos!!!  Can you say heavenly???  Oh, my.  I'm sure we'll have those in Heaven and not have to worry about the calories we've just eaten.  As we walked back to the car, I was listening to Connor and Nana talk.  They were eating Kettle Corn as they walked and Connor informed Nana that "I'm a big fan" of the kettle corn.  Not sure where he has heard that expression, but I got so tickled.

Saturday we went back downtown for kids day at Fall Fun Fest.  The kids, once again, got balloon swords (this time made a little better), went through a maze made out of hay, and Blake's most exciting part...pictures with Elmo!!!

Balloon swords

Finding his way through the maze

Waiting in line for Elmo

The time finally came!!!!  

 

Blake was definitely more excited to see Elmo than Connor was when Connor was around Blake's age.  Remember this???

Connor was NOT interested in getting in his lap.

Oh, my Word!

Seriously?  Has it been over a month since I posted?  I really don't know how this happened except that I've apparently been very busy.  But, I've sat down to get several blogs typed and scheduled to post.  These will probably be in no particular order because, quite frankly, I have no idea what order they should be placed in!  :)

So, I'll first start off with Connor's very first R.A. Race Car race.  Now that Connor is in 1st grade, he has graduated up from Mission Friends to R.A.'s at church on Wednesday nights.  He has been looking forward to this for some time.  Who am I kidding?  AARON has been looking forward to this for, as Aaron told our Sunday School class, "My entire life!"  Since our school system starts at the end of July, our new church "year" starts in August.  Well, most class curriculum for church starts in September, so our RA leaders had to change up things a bit.  So, they started this year off with RA Racers. 

Basically, the first time that RA's met this year, they decided what kind of car they wanted to build.  They sketched it out and someone from the church took it home and cut them out.  The next week the kids came back and sanded the cars and painted them.  The following week it was decorating time.  So, Aaron and Connor went to Hobby Lobby to pick out what decorations Aaron, humm, humm, I mean Connor wanted his car to be decorated with.   Connor picked out spiders!  Of all things???  But, it ended up looking very cute.  The following week the kids raced their cars.  It was very cute.  First, the cars were judged on looks.  Aaron and I were able to see the judges looking over the cars and were fairly sure they had picked Connor's as one of the winners.  But first, the races had to take place.

The group of RAs

Connor sitting on the side, waiting his turn to race



Sorry so dark, but this is Connor's car racing

Unforunately, Connor didn't place in the race, but he did get 2nd place in car design ...

The group of winning RAs

Connor had a great time.  Aaron and I were afraid that he'd be upset that he didn't win (he is in a serious phase of having to always be the winner), but he wasn't upset at all.  I asked what Grandaddy always tells Alex is the most important thing when doing a competition and he said "Have fun."  I asked him if he did have fun and he said "Yes!".