Happy Fall Y'all

The leaves are beautiful out now. The kids are enjoying being outside when the sun is shining. Emily had a field trip yesterday to "downtown Knoxville" visited the basketball arena, the sunsphere, the Tennessee theater and the river. She enjoyed it. The kids had their trunk-or-treat at the church yesterday.
I was sick over the weekend so we missed the girl scout campout. The girls set up their sleeping bags in the living room and had a campout of their own (while I camped out in the bathroom) Jake got a hint of what I had and threw up in the car (of course, my car) on the way home from church on Sunday. I missed the primary program too. But, I heard they all did a great job and Gene was in town to see it.

A few funny quotes

Yesterday Emily stayed home from school with a fever of 102. She threw up in the morning. It seems to be a short lived thing....she's running around now smacking Jacob with plastic tube (everyone's laughing).
But yesterday, she was sitting on my bed, and read a poem Gene wrote years ago. One of the lines says "When you go to bed, don't have a hot head". She came in my bathroom looking very sad and told me she was reading that poem. I told her I was proud she could read all those words by herself...then I asked "what's wrong?"
She said "It says not to have a "hot head" when you go to bed....and I have a hot head!" I explained that it meant being angry....not having a fever.

Later Tara was watching Snow White and the seven dwarfs. She started saying that she disagreed with the title. "It should just be called 'Snow White'. She is the main subject in the movie, not the dwarfs. Snow White is the subject and they are the predicates." Too funny.

It's autumn time..we love the leaves

Tara has asked to be outside after dinner each night and has collected most of the leaves under the two front trees. The weather has been perfect lately. We've been able to open up windows and not had the ac or the heat on for weeks. It is very refreshing. Tara is loving her girl scout troop. She painted a pumpkin last week for display at boo at the zoo. She's been struggling with the amount of homework that is required each night. It's been rough for everyone.
Last week we had "reading rocks" where UT football players, the local weather guy, the Smokies owner and mascot all came to read their favorite books. It was alot of fun. We also did the "walk to school"...a mile from the YMCA. It was really raining that morning, but the kids got button flashers and Tara won a bicycle helmet..and we all got breakfast and could be excused late to school.
Emily has made alot of friends in her class and is happy each day. She's always finding things on her own that need to be done.
Jacob is finally getting used to the kindergarten hours, and is happy with his routine. He's the first one up in the morning, but it takes him the least amount of time to get ready.
Gene is headed to Denver on Friday. He'll be gone for half of our fall break, but when he gets back we have some fun things planned. We could all use a break from school.