Chuck E. Cheese...In The Dark

My niece Kyra is staying with my parents for a week and we decided to take the kids to Chuck E. Cheese. Since my cousin Belinda and her family are visiting her parents, we asked them to go to. The girls had fun playing the games, earned lots of tickets(Kaitlyn is a great skeeball player)and received some nice prizes. Of course we adults had to help play the games too. I love that place! When the children were out of tokens, they decided to play in the tunnels. My parents, Aunt Vicki, Belinda and I sat and chatted. We were having a great discussion when...the lights went out! Did I mention they are expanding this store? Evidently the construction workers hit something they shouldn't have. The emergency lights came on so the children could still play. And everything was fine until...we had to use the restroom. It was completely dark and Karissa didn't want to go in there. We grabbed our cell phones (they make wonderful flashlights) and had enough light to take care of the job. This is one Chuck E. Cheese visit I'll never forget!

Dog Tags

Dave was in the Marines for 6 years and still has the "dog tags" he wore during that time. Ciara loves to get them out and play with them. I guess she finally figured out what they were...at least in her mind. I had told her to put daddy's dog tags away and she just looked at me for a minute. Then she proceeded to put them around our dog, Keisha's, neck. I had to laugh at her thought process! When Dave came home he took one look at Keisha and asked why she was wearing his tags. We both had a good laugh!

Keisha wearing Dave's dog tags

Swingset Fun

Earlier I had told you about the swingset we bought for Ciara. Dave had the tower put together and then it was damaged by the storm. He had to replace three boards. He was able to get the rest of it done and now he has a very happy little girl. Here are a few pictures of Ciara enjoying her swingset. She keeps telling mommy to get on it, but I don't think it's made for adults. Too bad, it looks like fun.


Ciara swinging


Here she comes head first.


"Don't take my picture mom".

Chat

It's been very busy here on the prairie the last two days. I was finally able to have some top soil delivered so I can finish my flower beds. The silly weather has been so erratic that it put me behind on my work. I can now say that part is done!!!I have an aching back and sore arms to prove it! Shoveling dirt is hard work and I'm so glad I don't have to do that often. Now I just have to hope and pray that everything grows and will be beautiful.

On a side note, I was mowing the yard the other day and I noticed tiny little frogs hopping in the grass. They were trying to get away from the mower. As I came around the flower bed, two were trying to hop over the retaining wall around the flower bed. One made it and the other made it to the first wall and tried hopping up to the top. He couldn't make it...and got so scared he wet on the wall. I laughed so hard and thought poor little thing. That's what some of us do when we get so scared. My nephew Connor will love this. He'll want to know why I didn't catch the frog for him. :)

Kids Say the Funniest Things

I thought I'd share some funny things Ciara said recently. You never know what will come out of that little mouth. I've been working with her on her manners. She's been told to say excuse me when she burps. The other day she "passed gass" and I gave her a look. She replied, with a cheeky grin, "My popo burped"! (popo mean bottom in German).

Then we were at Wal-Mart getting groceries the other day and she had her stuffed cat with her. The cashier asked her about the cat; Ciara told her the cat's name is Mitzy. She asked Ciara if the cat purred. Ciara looked at her seriously and replied, "The kitty-cat poops". Little too much info, huh? The cashier just laughed. She thought it was pretty funny.