10 1/2 months old...getting scary!!! Too close to ONE!

So here we have another post. Some days I feel I have no clue what to say until I start labeling the pictures....in no particular order.....


First, we'll start off with Miss Kaitlyn! Here are a couple pictures of her with Lacy "her" horse for riding lessons. We (I) were/was very blessed to carpool with another mom last month to the pumpkin patch for Kimberlyn's class field trip. Something came up about her daughter riding and I said "horses??" She said yes! So, these are some pictures from her second lesson, silly Mom forgot to bring the camera to her first lesson. Kaitlyn loves Miss DeeDee and Robby hit it off with her son. Kimberlyn played shy to her daughters (she has 5- one of which is 5 days older than Tommy), but certainly was in hog heaven with the kittens! DeeDee is amazing, she must be the best riding instructor a girl could have! We are so blessed to have found her!


Before leaving to the lesson (a 45-50 minute drive) I was frantically looking for my cell phone, I was starting to feel sick! I may misplace something, but with in an hour, or a few hours I recall where I left it. WELL....I asked Miss Stinker -AKA Kimberlyn- if she saw my phone, if she played with it, if she touched it....no, no and no she told me. Larry forgot his cell phone at home, so I took his just in case. He got home and called his number looking for his phone and got ME! I explained how concerned I was. I finally quit worrying and thought we'll cancel it and i can buy a more simple phone (not a fan of mine). It was still on vibrate from church the day before. Larry kept calling it and hearing the vibrations ALL through the house- in the basement, in the hall, by the computer, upstairs ---he felt like a crazy man...I think he figured out he spent 30-45 minutes searching for my phone...

THIS is where he found it. SLIPPED into this cassette tape slipcover, UNDER Kimberlyn's dollhouse IN her bedroom UPSTAIRS! After getting the news, I question Kimberlyn again. Still no, no and no to all my questions. FINALLY she says "Mom I wasn't playing with it" Mom says did you touch it? she says "I didn't touch it, it was on the floor"....we had a NICE LONG talk about telling the truth and NOT LYING! She is one piece of work....and we love her to pieces!


Here are some pictures from our overnight trip to Indianapolis....we went to the Children's Museum. WOW!! We had a blast! We got in just after dinner, checked in, changed and hit the water park! Yes, WATER PARK-- INDOORS too! It was a huge Holiday Inn with an attached water park. Man...was great! Kimberlyn was sick, but still managed to have a good time. The kids had looked forward to this trip, neither of us had the heart to cancel! Robby and Dad were die-hard and stayed until 10pm-- Mom, Tommy and the girls pooped out just before 9pm!
Daddy doing the traditional "dunking" for the first time with Tommy...my poor baby!
Tommy LOVED lying back and he practically floated alone! He just loved this. OH, I should add this is the hot spa...the pool was chilly and Mom's a wimp!
Dad playing paparazzi snapping pictures instead of grabbing Tommy to help me...
Robby having fun in the water fall in the hot spa...
Kaitlyn giving it a try too!
Mom and kids...
Tommy just got blasted in the kiddie area...it was a neat water park!

The next day we met my friend Katie (with her mom nad son) at the museum....and the kids were amused every minute. We left at 4:45 just 15 minutes before it closed AND we about had to drag the kids OUT! We knew we needed to find dinner FAST before the kids crashed. After a late night before and a long playing day...they were beat.

We used "Betty Lou" (our GPS) to help us find dinner. We chose Steak n' Shake since it was just 3.1 miles away! That darn GPS took us deeper and deeper into downtown Indy...I finally said, she's lost and BOOM right on a corner was Steak n' Shake. Larry's not the downtown type so I said keep going we'll find somewhere else, at the same time he said "look for parking signs".... WOOHOO, we parked, felt lost but came above and right out the doors of the parking garage with Steak n' Shake in plain sight! It was great! Eating dinner and watching the horses go by pulling carriages....ah, I miss NYC!

We also used "Betty Lou" to take us to a church across twon from our house...it should have been a 25 minute drive....BUT "she" took us about 5 1/2 miles the wrong way on the street. We had to call the church and ended up being about 25 minutes LATE to see my cousin Trevor's show. Late is better than never....it was fun and we all enjoyed the show. Afterwards we went to Perkins to get a bite to eat and visit.

http://www.trevorthomasdramaministries.com/start.htm

Lastly-- here's a picture of Robby, Kaitlyn, Kimberlyn and Tommy's cousin holding their newest cousin! Brice is finally a BIG BROTHER!

Patrick William was born on Nov 7th. My brother and his wife adopted him and welcomed him home right from the hospital just 2 days later! What a blessing! So far they say he's a good baby and barely ever cries! He's just waiting to let them get settled in I bet!