Please excuse the shakiness of the camera and the loud music in the background. I was using my iphone and we were in the car rocking it out.

Ben got his iphone 4 this week. I am insanely jealous because his phone takes much better pictures then mine.  Here Boo and Chicken posing so Daddy could get a good picture for his iphone wallpaper.

Chicken wanted Ben to take a picture of his light saber..

And here is Chicken showing his fierce Jedi fighting stance.

Later that week Chicken told me that this is what they do in China. I have no idea where he got this from only that he has seen Kung Fu Panda.

And of course the highlight of Ben’s week. The much awaiting opening of Greenville’s Apple store. We did not stand in line to get in but just looked longingly through the front windows.

And the rest of our week was taken up with preparing for VBS at Lifepoint our church.  The theme this year is pirates and Ben worked long and hard on this ship that is in the church.  Of course the Chickens had to test it out after he was done. Chicken trying his hand at steering.

Boo not so happy here. Maybe she was afraid Chicken would make her walk the plank. But we finally got a smile out of her.

So untwisting them seems to be the hard part.

See the concentration that is needed for this delicate task.

Wow it takes a lot longer to untwist these then I thought it would.

Mason and I sang Happy Birthday to Boo the morning of her actual birthday and yes we had birthday cake for breakfast.

So Kyra turned two this past Monday…and if you ask her how old she is she will say “two.”  But now she thinks everyone is “two”. So we had this interesting conversation at breakfast the other day….

I asked her how old she was and she said, “two.” Then I asked her how old is daddy and she said “two”.. This is when Mason chimed in, ” No, Kyra, Daddy is not two he is three.” He said this with confidence.  I told him that Daddy wasn’t three so Mason questioned, ” Is he four mommy? Or is he five?”

Ah to be young again… =-)

Well this year we took  Batman and a Princess trick or treating.  It was quite exciting this year we got caught in the rain.  It had cleared up nicely when we set out but a little half way through it started to rain and I don’t mean a drizzle. But the kids were troopers and did not seem to mind… the need for candy was a huge driving force.  Even Boo had no interest in riding in the car with daddy as he followed us around from house to house.  He opened the tail gate on the jeep and let all the cousins pile in between stops.  The saying must be true “the more the merrier”  because we sure had fun with all the cousins that were able to come. There were six in all Reed, Abbi, Madison, Ansley, Hallah and Katie.  I know the Chickens greatly enjoyed the company.

The Cousins

The process of picking out costumes this year was a little bit of an adventure too. First Mason was going to be a Fireman he already had the costume from a dress up birthday party he had been invited to, but then he got it into his head that he was definitely going to be Batman. We spent quite a bit of time trying to convince him of the coolness factor of a fireman but firemen don’t wear capes and I think that was a big factor playing in his desire to be Batman. So of course being the spoiled chicken that he is we began our search for a Batman costume. This must of been a very popular costume this year  because every store we looked in did not have it in his size.  But we finally found one after much searching at Walmart and it was the last one. After we got home and tried it on it was a bit big so I had to practically take it apart and then put it back together again just to make it fit properly… ah the things we do for our kids.  I remember my mom spending hours on one costume when I was little and now I especially appreciate the time she put into it.  But the end result looked great and he was so excited and that made it all worth it.  And besides Batman has been more then generous with his Halloween loot!

It really does not help that I am in the middle of potty training a 21 month old. I know what was I thinking?  We have had some  success but since she is running around completely naked you have to make sure there are no accidents on the floor.

On another note Mason is obsessed with watching the “The Wizard of Oz” and playing with Lego’s. He wants to watch the movie at least once a day  and drags his Lego’s out which he dumps all over the floor to play with while he watches ” the Wizard of Boz”.  So now I have “We’re off to see the wizard” stuck in my head as I trip on Lego’s those suckers can really hurt your feet.

So that is what my days have been filled with lately Lego’s, naked biscuits and the need to pack looming over me all to the sound track of ” We’re off to see the Wizard the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!” Now if  I could click my heals and be packed just like that. =-)

I love my Chickens……especially when they are both asleep. =-)

Ah she looks so innocent right? Or rather she looks like she knows what she is doing right? Well I have probably bitten off more then I can chew. I am trying to potty train Kyboo it seemed like a good idea. We are moving in about three weeks and where we are moving to the wooden floors have just been refinished and I did not relish the thought of potty training Boo on those pretty wooden floors. I let em run around naked when they potty train so accidents do happen.

Where we currently live we have all concrete floors which makes clean up really easy.  But the real kicker is Kyboo is only 21 months old.  So she could be to young.  I know other toddlers have been potty trained this young and girls are “supposed” to be easier to potty train. I just don’t know how it will go with Boo we are only on day two.  She has not done to bad so far. The first day she peed in the potty once and tried to poop once and only had three accidents.  But she has not started  to really to run to the potty by herself and pee. I plan on holing up in the house for four or five days and see what progress she makes.  If she is not getting it we can always go back to diapers but I hope we don’t have too.

This is Kyboo eating supper last night she was being really quite and I went to check on her she was painting her arm with the sourcream!

Boo on the computer.

So I was going to let Kyboo do this post for me today. I have been so tired, we have been really busy with Bible School at our church.  Chicken has really enjoyed VBS but it’s just been a lot of work.  I have had little time to post so when Kyboo said she would post something for me I  jumped at her offer. After all who doesn’t want to hear what a 20 month old has to say.  But come to find out Kyboo had an ulterior motive for getting on the computer.  When I came back to check on her I found her on Tweetdeck an application for Twitter. She even sent me a Direct Message  here it is: Leprakans: Hjjiiiilÿÿÿimnnkipnm

Not really sure what it means yet I am still trying to decipher it. Maybe it is some unknown language that only toddlers know.  Anyway she never got around to posting anything maybe next time she won’t spend so much time on Twitter.  Sigh oh well like mother like daughter.