Pumpkins, Squash, and Cuties!

Its been an interesting week here to say the least. On Tuesday morning I went to put Levi in his crib for a nap and threw out my back in the process. I'll spare everyone the details, lets just say I've spent a lot of time lying on the floor, lying in bed, crawling around.....you get the idea! Aaron was my hero once again and has taken a couple days off work to take care of our babies, since mommy has been unable to do so. Today I feel much better and after being cooped up in the house almost unable to move it was nice to take advantage of this beautiful weather and take the kiddos to a nearby farm. I think it was more than enough movement for me, but a nice outing and Rebecca had so much fun picking pumpkins for out front stoop.

Bubby likes to play!

Here are some pics from this afternoon. Levi (a.k.a. bubby) likes playing with his snap together rings and baby gym.

Lesson Learned

Two lessons were learned this evening as I put the children to bed.

1) Do not let four year olds take glow sticks to bed as a cool night light.

2) Aforementioned glow sticks are filled with non toxic glowing liquid.

It was before nine and both the children were sleepy/asleep. Woohoo! Aaron tucked Rebecca into bed as I tiptoed Levi into his room and lay him down. Before I could tiptoe back out of his room I hear Rebecca... "Guys, come here!" I tried to hush her, but when I turned around I was surprised to see her coated in glowing green goop!!! I called for Aaron and began wiping her off with my hand, thinking this stuff was going to burn a hole in her skin, she begins crying as I try to wipe her tongue with a washcloth. I passed the clean up job to Aaron and ran to the kitchen to call poison control...Rebecca was complaining of it burning by this point. Thankfully, poison control assured me that although it stings, (she's not the first child obviously) it isn't harmful. Rebecca was pretty freaked out by her glowing clothes and bedding so everything had to be changed and to finish cleaning her up we had to wipe her down in the bathroom with the lights off (this stuff is invisible with the lights on), which got her even more upset, so Aaron had to hold a washcloth over her eyes, to keep her from seeing herself glowing and I was trying to wipe up all the glowing spots. LOL What a night! I was amazed at how it must have sprayed when she bit into it....glowing specks were everywhere on her bed, pjs, arms, face, etc.! All's well now and we will shortly be off to sleep ourselves. I feel sorry for Rebecca because this was the second traumatic event today. This afternoon she was stung twice by a yellow jacket hornet at the park when we attempted a picnic. Its just not been her day......