Trick or Treating 2014

It's Halloween Time Again at Gardner Village! 2014

It's that time again...
Where we look for Halloween themed things to do with our children..
We gave Gardner Village a shot again after last years fiasco. While their activities greatly improved,
here are a few things you ought to know.

1. All the little skits are gone that we once were entertained by.
2. It's now basically a giant playground for the kids.
3. It's $6 dollars a head. Even for the parents to go in and chaperone their kids in a playground and keep them out of mischief. Yup! While it's a kid base activity, they charge the adults to go in with them. Long gone are the days of the witches and the little skits they'd act out.

On the other hand. Kids have a completely excited blast in the play area. Especially on the new jump pillow. Adults can jump too, but Mom the photographer was taking pics....
They have a hay maze, several slide and a candy corn box to play in (dried corn to play in like a sandbox). There is a dance area as well.

The pony ride are back again this year! You have the option of putting them on the pony carousel (that will never happen for my boy as long as they have the other one) and the Pony ride around Garner Village.
The Pony Ride around the village is the ride of choice for most. If you're luck enough to get the owner of 'The Farm at Gardner Village' you're in for a treat! He's entertaining and fun. He's charming with the children and crack many a joke. He says hi to everyone as he passes and teacher the girls to wave as they go by and the boys to tip a cowboy hat at the ladies!

Enough of my talking, how about a few photos courtesy of Tashee Photography..

Let sleeping Witches Lay

Showing a Little girl how to pet the pony.

Gil the owner becoming a pony ride for a little girl.

Gil trying to get my son to blow kisses to the girls.

My son thoroughly enjoyed the ride if you couldn't tell.

Playing Video Games

So one of the boys I used to babysit when I was a teenager is a grown man with kids himself... This was his post the other day......

"My son is in the other room playing video games. We here him say the f word and Shana tells him to watch his potty mouth. What he said next makes me proud to have a quick witted son. He told her she needs to bring him a mirror!"

 

Need I say more?

Can I have a picture?

Can I have a picture? A question my son hears a lot. He agreed easily for once.
I must admit, what I got want what I expected, but was fantastic!

Showering with your baby-toddler

So my nieces boy just turned a year. And like any parent you throw your son in the shower with dad to get him a supervised shower....
So My niece hears her boyfriend yelling for her to come get the boy in desperate tones.
She races in there only to find her boyfriend back into a corner trying to cover his man parts with their son reaching up trying to grab it.
She started laughing uncontrollably with him yelling "take him!"
She said no through uncontrollable laughter because one it was funny and two the kid needed a bath.
Yup, now you men have some sort of idea of what us poor women deal with with curious young children.

Bunny Prints

So the Easter Bunny Prints were a HUGE Success.
I guess he woke up in the night, started walking out of his room and ray saw him turn his head straight to the floor and asked "Did you see these?" Ray said "Yes, Mom set an Easter Bunny Trap to see if he was here."
So the next morning Ray Ray woke up Earlier than normal and started showing us the footprints he found the night before. I asked if he followed them? He said "no" So the two of us started following the bunny footprints back and forth to the living room and eventually all around the house to the kitchen where the Easter Bunny Left his basket on a kitchen chair before hurriedly jumping out our window. I pointed out that he was on his chair too. Ray Ray say's "IT'S OK!" With Bright wide eyes. He' talked about it for about an hour and a half and then finally started playing with his toys. LOL! LOVE IT!

Bunny Print Template

 I used Carpet deodorizer by Armon Hammer to make the prints. I figured I had to vacuum anyway...
This left a night pleasant smell in the house to boot!
I just placed the template and sprinkled. Move the templates to a new place and repeated.
You can use any powder, Baby powder,  chalk (for colors), corn starch etc etc.. You get the point.

Rascally Rabbit leaving Prints Everywhere!

Happy Child = Happy Easter

Home made bath Fizzies or Bath bombs could be fun...

Home made bath Fizzies.. Click HERE

Bath Bombs

Spring Break at Hogle Zoo 3-28-2014

So my son is off for spring break.
We grabbed his cousins and Ran off to the Zoo...
What makes them smile, makes us smile....

I put a Spell on You

Minion Cake 2014

The cake I made for my son's 6th birthday.

Teasing

So my other half (my son's father) likes to tease him. Calls him Patunia and other such things.  For which I constantly tell him "Your his father not his BULLY.'
Well lately he keeps doing the 'I see London, I see France, I see someone's underpants'. And calling my sons underwear girl underwear...
So I had just gone out and bought my son pants, shirts, socks & underwear. At the same time I bought a package of underwear for myself. They were all in the same bag and my other hald was handing my son things to put away in his room. He pulled out my underwear, not realizing it was  mine, and handed it to my son and said "Go put away your girly underwear."
My son "They're Mommies!"
"My other half said "Well how am I supposed to know? They were in with your stuff."

"I'm not the one who wears girls underwear. YOU ARE! You're the one one who's always going up their butt crack!" My son blurted out...
I started laughing. I kept telling my other half that if he kept teasing him he was going to get even someday. Sure enough, he had and didn't even know it till I started laughing.
I simply said 'You better keep your underwear out of your ass crack. He makes it out like your wearing a woman's thong!" To which I started laughing again.

Kids say and do the darndest things.......: Battle of Wits

Kids say and do the darndest things.......: Battle of Wits: My son was having an attitude ... along with his dad.... one morning. My boy, five years old, has hit this stage where it has to be his way....

Battle of Wits

My son was having an attitude ... along with his dad.... one morning. My boy, five years old, has hit this stage where it has to be his way. He's in between sizes in clothes, so he doesn't like the fact that they don't fit and are a little too big. He's managed to ruin his new shoes and won't wear them.

He was told to pick up his room yesterday morning and he's already had a tantrum about his clothes. He was refusing to wear them cause they were too big. Then he reused to pick up the toys he threw in the hallway. Well his dad told him to go to his and and not to come out till  he picked up his toys.
My son, quick as a wink said "How can I pick up my toys if I can't come out of my ROOM!?"

I'm really not sure who should  get the crown though.... My son eventually got the hockey stick to get the toys from the hallway.... He didn't leave his room to do it.

If this stage would only last forever...

He volunteered for this.....

Pooped his Pants

So my son comes running out of his room saying "Dad Smells Nasty!"
I asked "Why?
My son said with out hesitation "He probably pooped his pants!"
Obviously the man farted...

Tug O War

Never play Tug O War when your balls are at stake....