Wanna come for dinner??

I'm feeling like such a Suzy Homemaker today. It's only a little after 2, and I have dinner made!! YAY!! Southwest white (chicken) chili in the crockpot, and honey oatmeal bread in the breadmaker. Perfect cool fall day meal, don't you think? We're headed off to a park playdate in an hour or so, which will get us home between 5 and 5:30, so if it wasn't going to be a last minute scramble, I had to think way ahead. YAY for actually doing that. Now if only the dishes were cleaned up...

So, E, Mr. Firstborn, really was never very mischievious. Just didn't get into that much trouble. He has his own 'issues', with arguing, even over very silly things like what time it is, etc. But G....well....he's different...here's some proof...

He apparently was in search of a piece of gum and thought it'd be good to rifle through my purse while I was upstairs finishing up school with E for the day and ran across some lipstick. Nice, huh? He also wrote all over E's bedroom walls the other day with a ballpoint pen. I'm pretty sure that the Magic Eraser is going to take care of it, as it for a sample spot, but I just haven't gotten to it yet. Once before he 'expressed his artistic self' on the wall with a washable marker, which came off pretty easy. E also never really went down the "I don't like you!!" road when he didn't like a decision...this one? Heads right on down that road on a fairly regular basis. Ugh.

So, other happenings since I last posted...

E officially turned 6. It was a nice day. Presents before Daddy went to work (Boom Blox for the Wii, pj/lounge pants, and a Pokemon sticker book from us and G, and another Leapster game from my folks. We did a modified school day -- spelling and math drill online instead of our regular routine -- and we went to McD's for lunch. I was right about him choosing Carlos O'Kelly's for dinner. That was fun, and he looked adorable in the hat just like G did:

Monday of this week was a busy day. My folks came to Des Moines on the way back from Iowa City, where they went to the football game on Saturday. We had a family dinner with them and my brother and his family to celebrate 4 different birthdays. Anyway, my parents were still here on Monday morning and hung out playing with the boys. Then we had a field trip for co-op to an apple orchard. We had a great time, and it was spectacular weather (has been pretty much all week).



After the orchard we continued on up to Ames to visit my mother-in-law, who was in the hospital following extensive back surgery. Then back home for dinner (which, by the way, I'd thought ahead and put in the crock pot that day too!!!), and E had soccer practice that night. I stayed home and got started on laundry and did some cleaning. BUSY day.

OH!!! Friday night I got to hang out with a great friend having dinner at a BRAND NEW restaurant here called Graze, and scrapbooking til pretty late. It was a great time. Now I think I have to leave the scrapbooking put away for a while. I'm working on a project for the above-mentioned friend and I'm on a mission to get it done.

School is still going great. We started on subtraction yesterday, and we've got about 10 books left in the stack for him to read, and at his current rate, that'll be only 2-3 weeks. Fortunately, a friend has loaned us the 'advanced level 2) readers from the same curriculum that we're using, so we'll just keep trucking on. E did great at his soccer game Saturday. We'll have another one this Saturday.

So, that's life here. Loving the spectacular fall weather!!! Keep it coming God!!! :)