Children's Museum in Walla Walla

I have never been to the museum in Walla Walla.  It is a kids museum that has one free day a month.  I took the little kids there to spend the day with grandma and their cousin, Annabelle.

The favorite part of the whole museum was the water table and the dirt table.

Hannah loves anything that gets her messy.

Do you think she wanted to taste a little bit of the dirt?

This was a station where you could make a track for balls and watch them go.  The kids liked this.  I think all the adults liked this more.  No child was bonked during this demonstration.

Hannah liked the rock wall.  But thankfully too young to try to climb it.

She did try to climb the slide.  Thankfully, she didn't get far up that one either.

Adam in the light up peg room.

There were a lot of make believe areas.  Adam and I played cook for awhile.

He also made a good veterinarian. So the museum was fun.  Maybe I will try and go again this summer when the older kids can come.

And one more picture of Hannah.  It is almost her birthday.  She has been walking for about a month and has become really good at it.

Haunted Halloween

We had a great Halloween here in Hermiston.  Lots of fun and candy and more candy!

We went to the pumpkin patch for Family Home Evening.  The kids had fun picking one.  They have to be able to carry the one they pick.

Then we brought home all those pumpkins and spent a lot of time deseeding, carving, and then roasting the seeds.

Adam was proud of his Paw Patrol pumpkin.  He loves Paw Patrol even though he has only seen it a few times.

To honor the evening I decided to make pumpkin muffins for dinner.  I have never made pumpkin anything and wasn't sure how they would turn out.  They were not such a hit by my kids.  Hannah seemed to like hers though.

We decided to have a Halloween party at home and invite a few friends over.  Here is the mummy relay.  Poor Megan ended up completely covered with just one eye to see.

We also had a costume parade with judging and awards.

Decorating sugar cookies with Halloween frosting and candy.  It was a fun, simple party.

I took the kids to trunk or treat in Umatilla.  We thought this car was cute.

One of the Umatilla businesses did a haunted house theme.

And here we are dressed up for our ward's Halloween party.  Hannah was the lion.  It was hard to keep those ears on.

Adam is the munchkin.  Isn't he adorable?

Megan got to be the star of the movie - Dorothy.

Rachel was our scarecrow.

And Whitney got to be the tin man.

I wanted to be the good witch, but who has a dress like that laying around?  So I was the wicked witch. 

And Will was the Great Wizard of Oz.

We ate soup and then played the games.  This cupcake walk was fun. But one of our kids could not seem to get a cupcake.  I eventually just stole one after we had been there for like 20 minutes.

Trying to throw a ball to land into the cup and earn a prize.

Then here we are actually trick or treating.  Will stayed home with Hannah and passed out candy.  I took the other ones out around our neighborhood.  We got a lot of candy.

And for your pleasure I had to show you Hannah's halloween shirt.  "Don't Scare Me   I poop easily!"  We loved Halloween.  I hope everyone else enjoyed the holidays.

Harvest Festival

We went to our traditional Harvest Festival at The Living Room Church in the Tri-Cities.  It was fun.  And the kids love getting all the candy.

We started off playing the carnival games.  Adam kept coming back to this one.  I think he just really likes playing with water.

Hannah deciding if she wants to put her hand in the beans/grain.

We arrived right as the festival was beginning so we didn't have a long wait time for any of the games.  That was nice.

Hannah got to go on her very first pony ride.  She didn't cry but she didn't look super impressed either.

The kids all got their face painted.  Whitney's was the most elaborate. 

They had straw you could use to feed the goats.  Everyone thought that was really fun.

Getting lost in the straw maze.

They had a ton of little pumpkins.  Each kid got to pick one and then decorate it.  We let Hannah pick one (the first one she put her mouth on).

There is a little playground on the church grounds that the kids played on for like five minutes before one of the workers said we shouldn't play on it.

And we got an adorable family picture.  Hooray for Rocktober 2018!

Butter

You remember those commercials "I can't believe it's not butter"?   It is butter and it is terrible.

So here is the story.  It was a normal morning.  We had gotten the older girls off to school and I decided to make some breakfast for Adam and I.  Something like buttered toast or bagels, whatever.  Anyway, I needed to use the bathroom right after breakfast was over.  And I admit that I had not cleaned up yet.  I was only gone for a couple of minutes, everything was silent downstairs.  Which is when I should have worried but didn't.  When I came down there was butter everywhere.  Adam had got the tub from off the counter and put it on the floor and apparently he and Hannah dug in it.  Then they wandered around getting butter all over the floor and cupboards and dishwasher and themselves.  And butter does not come off easily.  So the moral of the story is - don't go to the bathroom if you are a mom.  At least, that is what I learned.

Catching Up

So I noticed a little while ago that I was a bit behind in updating the blog.  Blame it on the mom brain.  Here are a few pictures of what we have been doing these last several weeks.

Hannah has gotten big enough to demand more 'people' food and less of the gross baby stuff we have been giving her.  This was her first cookie (although by now the picture is like seven weeks old and she has had many cookies since then).

What cookie?  It was gone very quickly.

Adam is really onto Paw Patrol lately.  He calls himself Ryder and I get different names of the dogs on different days.  Lately I have been Everest.  He also has a couple little Paw Patrol dogs which get to come with us everywhere.

This is our first year allowing a kid to do sports.  Whitney loves to run and she has been asking to play soccer.  AYSO is a nice organization for kids soccer. 

Whitney's team is called The Lightening Strikes and they are super good.  Out of about 15 games they have won 13, tied 1, and lost 1.  The organization does not actually keep score.  But the kids always know, of course.

Whitney usually plays defense.  She has done goalie a couple of times and I have to prevent myself from yelling "Be careful".  It has been fun watching her play with a team.  Whitney already said she wants to do it next year.  We'll see. 

Megan turned five.  She just made the cut off for school.

And ready for her first school day.  You can't see but she earned the cool unicorn backpack by passing swimming lessons.  I guess she is just getting bigger all around.

Rocky Heights Elementary had an awards ceremony.  I guess they try to make sure each student gets some kind of award at least once during the year.  Megan was awarded for academics.

Rachel was awarded for being like an all around good person.  So it was a proud mom moment.  I am sure soon there will be an award for Whitney and I will be going to another ceremony.

And to finish off with how big Hannah is getting.  This is a 9 month sleeper so it should technically fit but no.  As soon as she took off crawling all the snaps kept coming undone.  Like the Hulk breaking out of his clothes.  Time for a bigger size baby.

So now we are more caught up.  I will have to put up some Harvest Festival pictures soon.